At the start of her article, she says:
"As an environmental activist who was deplatformed from a speaking venue by transactivists, in 2013 I developed curiosity about the power of this group to force this development. A year later, when Time magazine announced a transgender tipping point on its cover, I had already begun to examine the money behind the transgender project.
I have watched as all-women’s safe spaces, universities, and sports opened their doors to any man who chose to identify as a woman. Whereas men who identify as transwomen are at the forefront of this project, women who identify as transmen seem silent and invisible. I was astonished that such a huge cultural change as the opening of sex-protected spaces was happening at such a meteoric pace and without consideration for women and girls’ safety, deliberation, or public debate.
Concurrent with these rapid changes, I witnessed an overhaul in the English language with new pronouns and a near-tyrannical assault on those who did not use them. Laws mandating new speech were passed. Laws overriding biological sex with the amorphous concept of gender identity are being instituted now. People who speak openly about these changes can find themselves, their families, and their livelihoods threatened.
These elements, along with media saturation of the issue, had me wondering: Is this really a civil rights issue for a tiny part of the population with body dysphoria, or is there a bigger agenda with moneyed interests that we are not seeing? This article can only begin to graze the surface of this question, but considering transgenderism has basically exploded in the middle of capitalism, which is notorious for subsuming social justice movements, there is value in beginning this examination."
Give a look at this article, and I think you will find yourself not only agreeing with her, but with a better understanding of some of the occurrences we have seen recently that we were not able to explain before reading her study.
The video doesn't specifically address the points you raised above, but it does give a good rebuttal to the transgender "mindset", and it's also an excellent overview on how some are pushing back.
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Shapiro is amazing. He is able to cut through the BS quickly, easily, and most importantly, logically. His patience in explaining to the young woman the reality of transgenderism - not simply that it is a mental disorder with a suicide rate of 40% - but that it _demands_ that the rest of us pretend that a man is a woman or woman is a man, which most of us are unwilling to do, and won't be ordered to do so, here in America, at least.
DeleteEngland is already lost, as when their police recently arrested a woman in front of her young children because she called a man a "man", when he was pretending to be a woman. In England normal speech that has never before been deemed rude or nasty let alone "hate speech" suddenly is a criminal offense. In California they recently passed a law making using the wrong pronoun a criminal, arrestable offense too, but California is no longer a part of America, although some people are still pretending it is. They no longer adhere to our Constitution, having removed the First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments from the part of the Bill of Rights they formerly accepted, respected, and lived by.
That we are faced with all of these various attacks on our culture, our legal system, and even our religious beliefs is an indication that the Left has shifted into a higher gear, and are breaking cover as they do more and more damage to our country and society.
Our children are no longer taught about Western Civilization, American history, the entire Constitution, the whole Bill of Rights, and they are being indoctrinated by socialist, communist, educators with a system - "Common Core" - that was developed by the current crop of Fabians who infest our teacher's colleges and our classrooms across the entire country. My wife's adult children (late forties now who were raised in California, in state-run schools) believe we stole the Southwest from the Mexicans, the rest of the country from people of the "First Nations" - people who are not even appreciated as "native Americans" because Americans of any strip are land-thieving imperialists who deliberately killed off the majority of the people of the "First Nations" with Hudson Bay blankets somehow infected with smallpox (how they got the cultures to stay alive on a woolen blanket, let alone kept from infecting themselves, baffles anyone with any education in biology).
Anyway, thanks for that video. Shapiro - in spite of the speed at which he talks - is always a pleasure to listen to, andI always learn something from his discussions and debates.
I forgot to mention earlier, the video is from 2017.
ReplyDeleteGood morning, Reg, you still with us?
ReplyDeleteHere's an interesting but unexpected news story, unexpected on the basis that some of us knew this was the case all along.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/03/clapper-sings-former-director-of-national-intelligence-james-clapper-tells-cnn-obama-ordered-the-trump-russia-spying-operation-video/
Hey, Grog. Just a bit more than 12 hours later, butstill the same day, ay least. That has to be a record for me, even when I use to spend s lot more time here. I'm trying to get more "regular", but you know how difficult that becomes as we get older ;-) I haven't watched the video yet, but I will. Thanks for the URL.
DeleteI have been using farcebook for most of my political commentary these days, simply because a few more people read me there. My best friend back in high school who has remained my best friend (although another HS friend - a lady - and her husband - are right up there with him) had been after me to join for years, so about a year or so ago I did. A number of other former classmates, along with some friends I have made since I moved to Montana, look in from time to time, which I think has quadrupled the number of folks who look at what I write. I do a little social stuff - mostly dogs and cats - along with some jokes/puns/weird humor.
Someone somewhere (on a blog, I think) nailed it. He or she said this was all an attempt to FRAME Trump. I cannot argue with that at all. It seemed blindingly obvious once I thought of the whole debacle in that way. That however does not go far enough, because this was a "two-fer": the frame, AND serious distraction from Hillary's blatant collusion with Russia on Uranium 1 (along with other Russian involvement with Hillary _and_ Obama ("I'll be a lot more flexible after the election.")
The Left has certain identifying characteristics that are undeniable: Lying, hypocrisy, and projection are the main ones. They simply can't stop accusing conservatives of doing what _they_ actually do. It's in their DNA. I don't doubt for a minute that Obama and Hillary cooked it up together to attempt to frame Trump and to keep everyone's eyes on the the wrong hand.
Clapper seemed to me to be the weaker of the two, when including Brennan. I'm surprised he copped to being Obama's lapdog, although I would have guessed it would be this way.
Good morning, good to see your words.
DeleteThe blog person is correct, paragraph three is the kicker and the foundation for all of this, and the frame job started before he was actually elected and sworn in. The uranium sale, the 1 Billion in cash to the iranians, the Benghazi murders that shrillary allowed to happen by not sending any support to them, the list is very long of the crimes that obozo and her, and a host of other people, committed.
The question now is, will anyone go to prison, with the 6,000 sealed indictments that are soon to be acted on. I'd like to think so, but I'm not optimistic.
Hey, Grog. It's also good to have someone who thinks enough of what I write to follow and comment.
ReplyDeleteBetween Obama giving America away in job lots to Iran and the so-called "palestinians", and Hillary using the office of Sec State to enrich herself - selling America's resources, her _strategic_ resources that should never have gone to an entity that may well become our antagonist in a future war - should suffer consequences for those actions. If she is above being punished for her felonious behavior, then the rule of law is indeed gone, worthless. The same for Obama. But I fear that Hillary has so much dirt on major players in government and finance that she will skate. I can easily see Trump being talked out of running her through the legal system, under the knowledge that our government would be exposed as completely corrupt, irredeemably evil and traitorous.
If, at the very least, enough of the middle players such as Rice, Holder, Comey, Strzok, Brennan, Clapper, etc. could be charged and tried in a real, open court, rather than a toothless Congressional "investigation", it would help. If enough people, especially the Deep State bureaucrats like those with SES status (Matt Bracken did a good article on the SES), got hammered hard enough that future staff of corrupt politicians, and staff assisting the bureaucrats in various agencies would refuse to aid and abet their schemes, it might reduce the amount and depth of the corruption we see in our government today.
But I'm sufficiently cynical to doubt anything substantial will come of it, too. When Hillary can admit, right out in the open, that she committed serious felonies by her misuse of private email for classified information, as well as erasing her servers, hard drives, and cloud accounts, without even being charged with the crimes for which she confessed, then I doubt that anyone has the balls to send agents to arrest her and hold her in custody until she could be made to appear in court.
Good morning, Reg, I appreciate that your typing is coherent, chuckling.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, though, I don't know how long I've been reading your blog, it's been a few years, but to my view you present what you think clearly and don't use a lot of fluffy bullshit wording in outlining your thoughts on current events.
I agree with your comments on hillary, that she has dirt on most of deecee and this is why she won't be arrested or investigated. But the people you mentioned would be a good start, yes.
Unfortunately, or not, we will have to wait for Pres. Trump to do what he decides to do, what-ever that may be, and be ready for anything.
Yes, the President can sure exceed our expectations. I don't agree with all he does, or who he picks, but I don't have any doubt that he is doing the best he can for America. If he succeeds in removing some of the nastiest trash in the Swamp, I will be surprised, but I'll also be part of the national standing ovation he deserves and gets.
ReplyDeleteI was _not_ surprised to read that McConnell is trying to hold back from repealing Obamacare during Trump's first term, but I _am_ surprised he is not supporting closing the southern border. When 96,000 illegals, most trying to claim asylum (because the rules make it easier for them to disappear into the countryside) are let loose in America during the first few months of 2019, I don't understand how McConnell can claim it is not possible to close the border without "creating economic chaos". Is he getting paid by the head for all the illegals crossing the border, either over the fences or presenting at the legal border crossings?
I'm sure, if Trump decides to close the border, that commercial trucking could be allowed through (with proper inspection, of course - no semi-trailers loaded with MS-13 bangers or other riff-raff), and I can't see how the little bit of tourism that will be stopped from coming north could harm us financially. Either I'm missing something, or McConnell is making excuses. Perhaps he made a deal with someone (Dems or RINOs) to keep the border open, as well as a deal to slow up the repeal of Obamacare in the hopes of the Dems making big gains in Congress, perhaps even putting a Democrat in the White House.
He was as bad as Boehner and Ryan during the Obama administration debacle, giving the Dems and Obama damn near everything they wanted, so I don't trust him at all, but I thought he was starting to see which side his bread was buttered on, and was making nice with Trump. It doesn't look that way now.
McConnell looks like a chicken neck, but my thought is he can be more vindictive than some people think, he has a look to him that says he is comfortable with the level of political influence he has, which is considerable in the current system. And his overrding priority is to perpetuate the system, just like the dems.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I guess McConnell is able to engage in corruption on both sides of the aisle. I wonder if he is putting impediments between Trump and protecting our borders in order to show just how much influence he controls? As far as Obamacare, he may simply be demonstrating that _he_ can call the tune, not Trump. Or maybe it is even simpler, that he found a way to profit financially from Obamacare.
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