Intersectional Reflections
Coleman Hughes writes:
Perhaps the most pernicious consequence of intersectionality, however, is its effect on the culture of elite college campuses. … It operates as a master formula by which social status is doled out. Being black and queer is better than just being black or queer, being Muslim and gender non-binary is better than being either one on its own, and so forth. By “better,” I mean that people are more excited to meet you, you’re spoken of more highly behind your back, and your friends enjoy an elevated social status for being associated with you. …
At the same time, elite campus culture is overcorrecting for more traditional forms of identity-based oppression by giving cis-straight-white students—or at least those among them who are embedded in the intersectionalist subculture—a choice between being honest with themselves and being held in high esteem by their peers. Ultimately, we should want to create a culture that does not provide strong incentives for people to be anything other than who and what they are.
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Buttigieg, Faith and Abortion
Timothy P. Carney writes:
Democrats such as Buttigieg could reach socially conservative Christian voters, argues Kathy Winter, chairwoman of the Osceola County Democratic Party, by preaching “kindness, compassion, and caring about all of your friends and neighbors — to the born as well as the unborn too.”
Such a message “could reach a lot of conservative voters here,” Arnett argued. Pro-lifers could come to term with pro-choice Democrats who pursue policies that curb abortion while not banning the procedure. “Saying, ‘Hey, I’m just as committed as you are. Just we have different policies.’”
But no national Democrats push that line. No national Democrat will preach “compassion and caring about … the unborn,” as Winter puts it. Buttigieg doesn’t want abortion curtailed. In his stump speech, Buttigieg describes abortion as “reproductive healthcare” and refers to legal abortion as a crucial “freedom.”
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‘The Most Comprehensive and Vicious Gay Conversion Program in History’
Chadwick Moore writers:
Masculine lesbians, like feminine gays, are disappearing, now being convinced by the trans lobby that they are actually men despite having no clear signs of gender dysphoria whatsoever. …
Old school lesbian and author Cynthia Yockey told me she’s noticed this as well. ‘Dykes of all ages are disappearing into testosterone disguises now that male privilege comes in a bottle. And just when it is safer to be a butch lesbian than at any time in history, teen lesbians are being seduced by social media and coerced by trans activists into believing puberty blockers, mastectomies, and testosterone are their get-out-of-gay-free card’, she said.
‘But the flaming queen boys and butch little girls nearly all grow up to be gay if they have not been socially and medically transitioned. This is the most comprehensive and vicious gay conversion program conducted in history’.
Silicon Valley is eager to help. The crowdfunding site GoFundMe brags that this year alone dozens of users as young as 18 have raised over $100,000 to pay for gender reassignment surgery.
This is brilliant. ‘But the T is slowly devouring not just the Gs but the Ls, beginning in childhood, and bulldykes, like tomboys, appear to be going completely extinct’. https://t.co/arnPvx1yBx
— Lily Maynard (@LilyLilyMaynard) January 9, 2020
They don’t even bother to hide the fact that hey don’t give a toss about gay rights any more. Homosexuality is still punishable with imprisonment in Pakistan, yet clap clap. https://t.co/I3QZAuuPvq
— Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) January 12, 2020
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Lest We Forget
True to form:
Dear #Iran, The USA has disrespected your country, your flag, your people. 52% of us humbly apologize. We want peace with your nation. We are being held hostage by a terrorist regime. We do not know how to escape. Please do not kill us. #Soleimani pic.twitter.com/YE54CqGCdr
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) January 3, 2020
Soleimani was a bad guy. Your hatred of @realDonaldTrump is literally forcing you to advocate for keeping a terrorist alive. https://t.co/26pg8nbB59
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) January 7, 2020
The Democrats literally ran a candidate who chortled "we came, we saw, he died" about Qaddafi and cheered a president who engaged in a wide-ranging drone war, and now we're hearing the media and Democrats lament Trump as an assassin for killing Soleimani?
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 7, 2020
“The guy who threatened another Holocaust of our people, and who had the means to try to carry it out, is gone. I hope that’s ok with you kids.” pic.twitter.com/0Wg2W2DLiU
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) January 7, 2020
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Onboard the Nonbinary Bandwagon
As lesbians, gays and bisexuals we applaud @BoyGeorge for saying what many people think and few say. At the #lgballiance we don’t “have” pronouns. Telling people “your pronouns” is telling them how they have to see you. https://t.co/8YudKbYa8a
— LGB Alliance (@AllianceLGB) January 7, 2020
Rebecca Reilly-Cooper writes (Aeon article below):
“And here we have an irony about some people insisting that they and a handful of their fellow gender revolutionaries are non-binary: in doing so, they create a false binary between those who conform to the gender norms associated with their sex, and those who do not. In reality, everybody is non-binary. We all actively participate in some gender norms, passively acquiesce with others, and positively rail against others still. So to call oneself non-binary is in fact to create a new false binary. It also often seems to involve, at least implicitly, placing oneself on the more complex and interesting side of that binary, enabling the non-binary person to claim to be both misunderstood and politically oppressed by the binary cisgender people.”
This piece by @boodleoops had a profound influence on the way I think about "gender" nearly 3 years ago. It's an extremely important essay, and it grows more and more relevant with each passing day. I can't recommend it more highly. https://t.co/udrgGk9YCW
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) January 11, 2020
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What Is a Woman?
A lesbian couple had a baby through artificial insemination. https://t.co/gRQGasyjtL
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) December 28, 2019
Every minute women give birth to 250 babies. Congratulations to every one of them! https://t.co/o2qsU7elFb
— LGB Alliance (@AllianceLGB) December 29, 2019
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Two Realities
I was in the room at the UN when @RichardGrenell and @USAmbUN held a key panel on this exact thing. Where was @BuzzFeedLGBT? Not there. This is the fakest of fake news. https://t.co/NNURqd2WH3
— dave mcculloch (@dtmcculloch) December 28, 2019
It’s almost like the gay press would rather 1/3 of the countries on the globe continue to criminalize homosexuality than give @realDonaldTrump an ounce of credit for doing some good on this issue. Shame on @BuzzfeedLGBT for completely distorting the truth. https://t.co/QCqpPdn6DZ
— LogCabinRepublicans (@LogCabinGOP) December 29, 2019
And similarly:
He took action on antisemitism last week and Democrats said he was literally Hitler (and Stalin) for it.
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) December 29, 2019
What the hell is happening at WaPo and why can’t an adult show up and make it stop. https://t.co/9kgItbDyhu