“Lewis & Clark enlisted a Portland-based ‘social justice activism’ group to run a mandatory orientation workshop Aug. 29 where, in the name of providing ‘safe spaces’ for discussion, students were required to choose whether they most identified as one of three options: ‘Black,’ ‘Indigenous, Person of Color,’ or ‘White.’ Students were then divided by race into different virtual Zoom breakout rooms for separate educational experiences, unlawfully limiting their ability within the program to engage with students of different races.”
“Though the two executive orders signed by [South Dakota Governor Kristi] Noem do not explicitly mention transgender athletes, they reference the supposed harms of the participation of ‘males’ in women’s athletics — an echo of the transphobic claim, cited in other similar legislative initiatives, that transgender women are not women. The orders also reference ‘biological sex,’ a disputed term that refers to the sex as listed on students’ original birth certificates.
“It’s not possible to know a person’s gender identity at birth, and for some people, the sex listed on their original birth certificate is a misleading way of describing the body they have.
“While sex is a category that refers broadly to physiology, a person’s gender is an innate sense of identity. The factors that go into determining the sex listed on a person’s birth certificate may include anatomy, genetics and hormones, and there is broad natural variation in each of these categories. For this reason, the language of ‘biological sex,’ as used in this legislation, can be overly simplistic and misleading.”
Many have taken to scufaw at CNN for denying that biological sex is real but at best only disputed. It is crazy they say, to deny the obvious. But increasingly, across businesses, schools, and even scientific journals, the accouterments of science are being used to, in a mix of truth and lies, force science through the ideological lens of “gender”.
But when this sentiment has gone mainstream, it is important to review objective biological reality and understand the gaslighting, deception, and obfuscation of the truth going on.
This is like saying “What are birds? We just don’t know”.
Even vaunted scientificjournals are declaring that biological sex is so complex that it is all an intricate spectrum, with near infinite varieties such that we should not even try to categorize people according to sex, but rather use “gender identity” that is both an essential aspect and a social construct concomitantly.
It is obvious to anyone not indoctrinated to notice that we are a biologically dimorphic species with physical and actual physiological differences that are both acute and so statistically noticeable to become manifest to anyone who does not filter reality through a gender-ideological lens. But under the guise of “science” this ideology distorts and obfuscates reality—deconstructing it and then reconstructing it like it was some magical spell.
They insist that there are a plethora of metrics concerning biological sex and it is a result of intersectional axes of various aspects such as genitalia, chromosomal sex, hormonal sex, neurological sex, behavioral sex, &c.—all of which are on its own “spectrum”—and how not all of these always line up into a manichean perfect binary. They present it as if there is no correlation between of of this; that “spectrum” of near infinite seeming combinations is a dishonest characterization and a “false dilemma” fallacy.
The truth of the matter is that humans develop into two basic forms: Male and female. Even with bonafide medical conditions, including intersex individuals, these two forms are the default functional norm. That these separate axes of sex are strongly correlated suggests causation, which is born out by objective scientific inquiry and consistent with what humans understood at the onset of our species, and which all sexually dimorphic species in the animal kingdom instinctively act upon as well.
Declaring “racism” to be a public health crisis, with “racism” as a “disease” to be cured by “woke medicine” seemed at best to be rhetorical flourish. It has already been noted earlier that the pseudo-logic of this would require racial discrimination in healthcare including denying the vaccine to people of the “incorrect” race in order to priorities those of “correct” races; thisisnowactually happening under the Republican Governor of Vermont:
If you or anyone in your household identifies as Black, Indigenous, or a person of color (BIPOC), including anyone with Abenaki or other First Nations heritage, all household members who are 16 years or older can sign up to get a vaccine! Get yours at ⤵️ https://t.co/hVgb9rzQPn
Prioritizing people based on race per se, and not even a medical need that may correlate with one race or another, is repugnant to equality under the law. But this is the logical outcome of “social justice” as applied to medicine: Everyone has a “right” to medicine, but some will have more of a “right” than others.
More and morestates are introducing legislation to ban Critical Race Theory indoctrination. Now, a bill has been introduced in Texas to ban it as well. The key passage in HB 4093 reads as follows:
(5) No teacher, administrator, or other employee in any state agency, school district, campus, open-enrollment charter school, or school administration shall be required to engage in training, orientation, or therapy that presents any form of race or sex stereotyping or blame on the basis of race or sex.
(6) No teacher, administrator, or other employee in any state agency, school district, campus, open-enrollment charter school, or school administration shall shall require, or make part of a course the following concepts: (1) one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex; (2) an individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously; (3) an individual should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment solely or partly because of his or her race or sex; (4) members of one race or sex cannot and should not attempt to treat others without respect to race or sex; (5) an individual’s moral character is necessarily determined by his or her race or sex; (6) an individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, bears responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex; (7) any individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex; or (8) meritocracy or traits such as a hard work ethic are racist or sexist, or were created by a members of a particular race to oppress members of another race.
There is no greater continuing example of the failure of public schooling than the San Francisco School Board. They’ve already denied people a spot on a parent advisory committee because of their race and sex (which is illegal), fighting “racist” acronyms, declare Abraham Lincoln to be an oppressor of Blacks, and incompetently rename schools based on idiocy and ignorance.
Now, the San Francisco School Board ended merit-based admissions of lack of diversity. Why, because meritocracy is considered to be racist. However, this lack of diversity isn’t due to too many White students, but of too many students who are racially Asian. Apparently the only way students of Asian decent can “get ahead” in a “racist system” is to use “White Supremacist thinking” and presumably using their “White adjacent” status. Board member Alison Collins was caught saying the quite part out-load in a series of old tweets (which of course includes her pronouns), demonstrating her prejudiced bias.
In fact many Asian American Ts, Ss, and Ps actively promote these myths. They use white supremacist thinking to assimilate and "get ahead".
Yes, even in the South, Critical Race Theory rears its ugly head, now in North Carolina’s largest school district. Again, the veritable Christopher Rufo has primary documents of the indoctrination, including the call for teachers to “subvert parents”.
SCOOP: North Carolina’s largest school district launches a campaign against "whiteness in educational spaces"—and encourages teachers to subvert parents and push the ideology of "antiracism" directly onto students without consent.
Here's the story.👇
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) March 18, 2021
Last year, the Wake County Public School System, which serves the greater Raleigh, North Carolina area, held a teachers' conference with lessons on "whiteness," "toxic masculinity," "microaggressions," "trauma-informed yoga," and "applied critical race theory." pic.twitter.com/3gvR5luxRc
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) March 18, 2021
The conference began with a "land acknowledgement," a ritual recognition suggesting that white North Carolinians are colonizers on stolen Native American land. The conference leaders encouraged educators to form "equity teams" in schools and push the new party line: "antiracism." pic.twitter.com/DpJ6isTMrR
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) March 18, 2021
School administrators claimed that "(white) cultural values" include "denial," "fear," "blame," "control," "punishment," "scarcity," and "one-dimensional thinking." They told white teachers they must "challenge the dominant ideology" of "whiteness" and "disrupt" white culture. pic.twitter.com/rVQnx2BJxE
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) March 18, 2021
The Left is fond of playing “Humpty Dumpty” with words, including appropriating words used to describe one thing and applying it to another and then exploiting that ambiguity. In general, such ambiguity can allow for a “Motte & Bailey” fallacy to trick people during discussions or debates. And sometimes, two plus two must equal either three or five, or sometimes both at the same time; this is the case when they use the term “transgender child”.
“Sometimes, this term refers to a child who does not conform to sex-based stereotypes. Instead of leaving said child alone to experiment with toys and outfits as is only natural for children to do, the users of this term prefer to project an adult ideology onto him or her, then confuse him or her by saying that he or she really is the opposite sex.
“Other times, ‘transgender child’ refers to a gender-dysphoric young person — that is, a child who has clinically significant feelings of distress associated with his or her sexed body. In that case, instead of loving and accepting that child as he or she truly is, and providing him or her with safe and ethical psychological and emotional support, the users of this term prefer to set him or her on a pathway to irreversible harm at an age when he or she cannot possibly consent to permanent medical and surgical changes.”
Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.
The focus this time: No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
The Left in Nevada do not believe that the law should apply equally without preference or discrimination based on immutable characteristics like race or sex; they believe in equality of results, with a firm basis on “equity” on those and other categories including “gender identity”. SJR8* adds Sec. 24 to Article I of the Nevada Constitution to read as follows:
“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by this State or any of its political subdivisions on account of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, ancestry or national origin.”
It superficially sounds nice, but it ignores physical and actual physiological differences between the sexes, including in regards to sports and even locker rooms for minors, while also enshrining “gender identity” as a protected class. This measure will be on the 2022 General Election ballot and become part of the Nevada Constitution if Passed.
Due to Corona-chan, the Nevada Democrats held a special session of the legislature in 2020 to allow for ballot harvesting, absentee ballots being shot-gunned out, ballots accepted after the election, &c. The vague explanation as written in the official title for AB231:
“AN ACT relating to elections; establishing procedures for the use of mail ballots in every election; establishing various requirements relating to mail ballots; revising the requirements for signature verification of mail ballots; revising the deadline to submit a request for the establishment of a polling place within an Indian reservation or Indian colony for an election; revising the personal data that may be requested if a voter’s signature is challenged at the polls; requiring the Secretary of State to enter into a cooperative agreement with the State Registrar of Vital Statistics to obtain certain information relating to the statewide voter registration list; authorizing a county clerk, city clerk or registrar of voters and deputies thereof charged with powers and duties relating to elections to request certain personal information be maintained in a confidential manner; repealing provisions related to absent ballots, mailing ballots and affected elections; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.”
Nevada, thankfully, has no personal income tax. Nevada also has limitations on real property taxes; Nevada Democrats want to hike those taxes on property owners by removing the increase in property taxes to the lower of inflation or 3% by eliminating the inflation limitation. SB10 would, according to the bill’s digest:
“Existing law provides for a partial abatement of property taxes, which has the effect of establishing an annual cap on increases of property taxes. The formula for calculating the partial abatement provides that the property taxes on properties other than certain single-family residences or certain residential rental dwellings may not increase by more than a percentage that is the lesser of: (1) the average percentage of change in the assessed valuation of property in the county over the last 10 years, twice the average percentage of increase in the Consumer Price Index for the previous year or zero, whichever is greater; or (2) 8 percent. If the application of this formula results in a cap on increases of property taxes for a fiscal year that is less than 3 percent, the property taxes imposed on certain single-family residences and certain residential rental dwellings may not increase by more than the percentage cap calculated under that formula. However, if the application of the formula results in a cap on increases of property taxes for a fiscal year that is 3 percent or more, the property taxes on those single-family residences and residential rental properties may not increase by more than 3 percent. (NRS 361.4722-361.4724) This bill revises the formula for calculating the partial abatement so that the annual cap on increases of the property taxes on certain single-family residences and residential rental property is 3 percent. Under this bill, the annual cap on increases of property taxes on any other property cannot be less than 3 percent or more than 8 percent.”
Gideon Tucker was right: “No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”
Bills to combat the teaching and implementation of Critical Race Theory have been introduced on the state level including in Iowa, New Hampshire, and West Virginia. Now, a bill has been introduced on the Federal level by Tom Cotton (R – AR).
“The premise of Senator Cotton’s legislation is that the military should encourage its members to ‘love the United States,’ defend the ‘founding principles of the United States,’ and maintain policies that treat people as ‘human beings with equal dignity and protection under the law.’ Critical race theory, according to the findings in the bill, undermines these three goals by presenting the United States as a racist, oppressive nation and by encouraging racial division under the guise of ‘social justice.’
“Cotton’s legislation would put an end to this. […] The bill would prohibit the armed forces from directly promoting the core tenets of critical race theory: that ‘the United States of America is a fundamentally racist Nation;’ that ‘an individual, by virtue of his or her race, is inherently racist or oppressive;’ and that ‘an individual, because of his or her race, bears responsibility for the actions committed by other members of his or her race.’ The bill also includes a provision against segregating members of the armed forces by race, which has become common practice in many CRT training programs.”
The key passage of the bill reads:
SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON PROMOTION OF ANTI-AMERICAN AND RACIST THEORIES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The United States Armed Forces and academic institutions operated or controlled by the Department of Defense shall not promote the following anti-American and racist theories:
(1) Any race is inherently superior or inferior to any other race.
(2) The United States of America is a fundamentally racist country.
(3) The Declaration of Independence or the United States Constitution are fundamentally racist documents.
(4) An individual’s moral character or worth is determined by his or her race.
(5) An individual, by virtue of his or her race, is inherently racist or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously.
(6) An individual, because of his or her race, bears responsibility for the actions committed by other members of his or her race.
