American Innovation In The Age Of The Corona Virus

     Even in the state of blackjack and hookers, i.e. Nevada, “non-essential” services have been shut down, with casinos shutting down and only essential services remaining, such as pharmacies, groceries, gas stations, and…

     Marijuana…

     And drive thru strippers!

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Against The Sex Deniers

     In this day and age where we have near infinite “genders”, which are somehow separate and distinct from biological sex, not even biological sex is supposed to be “binary” but rather a “spectrum” of “infinite diversity”. After all, isn’t that the new “scientific consensus”?

“Idjits…”

     This, of course, is bulls**t.

     Two actual scientists, explain why it is bulls**t”

“The argument is that because some people are intersex—they have developmental conditions resulting in ambiguous sex characteristics—the categories male and female exist on a ‘spectrum,’ and are therefore no more than ‘social constructs.’ If male and female are merely arbitrary groupings, it follows that everyone, regardless of genetics or anatomy should be free to choose to identify as male or female, or to reject sex entirely in favor of a new bespoke ‘gender identity.’

“To characterize this line of reasoning as having no basis in reality would be an egregious understatement. It is false at every conceivable scale of resolution.

“In humans, as in most animals or plants, an organism’s biological sex corresponds to one of two distinct types of reproductive anatomy that develop for the production of small or large sex cells—sperm and eggs, respectively—and associated biological functions in sexual reproduction. In humans, reproductive anatomy is unambiguously male or female at birth more than 99.98% of the time. The evolutionary function of these two anatomies is to aid in reproduction via the fusion of sperm and ova. No third type of sex cell exists in humans, and therefore there is no sex ‘spectrum’ or additional sexes beyond male and female. Sex is binary.”

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Who Teaches The Teachers?

     Children at younger and younger ages are taught the bigoted and hateful ways of wokeness. But whence does it come? One does not need a Stonecutter-level conspirasy. There are plenty of non-profit think tanks and “charitable” organizations that not only contribute directly to this miseducation, but strengthen such ideology in the law, businesses, and entertainment. However, before all that, the root lies with those who teach such things at increasingly more vulnerable ages, which begs the question: Who teaches the teachers?

     The Pedagogy that aspiring teaching much blindly follow (or somehow pretend to successfully), is a result of higher education, but specifically the pseudo-scienes and proctors of pedagogy. As an example, aspiring teachers, in some cases, must explicitly argue that “whiteness is a construct of privilege”.

“Students studying to become teachers at Texas State University who take the course ‘Public Education in a Multicultural Society’ are required to complete a series of assignments on ‘whiteness.’

“The class, Culture and Instruction 3310: Public Education in a Multicultural Society, is ‘designed to give students an overview of public schooling in America in terms of multicultural, historical, legal and political contexts,’ according to the course description.

“‘Prospective teachers will examine the concepts of professionalism, effective teaching, educational philosophy, curriculum, school organization and legal issues of teaching in a culturally diverse world.’

“According to the course syllabus, the online class is taught by senior lecturer Julia Meritt and features three graded assignments centered on whiteness and privilege.

“The College Fix obtained screenshots of two of the assignments, which instructs students to ‘analyze the construct of whiteness and its relationship to privilege and equity for students.’”

     But this is hardly a surprise, as any reader of your humble author could attest.

     University after university have required diversity statements from faculty who must pledge themselves to this dishonestly named ideology.

     All this is reinforced with struggle sessions conferences wherein the correctness of Far Left ideology is drilled into the teachers of teachers.

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News of the Week (March 16th, 2020)

 

News of the Week for Mar. 16th, 2020


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The Ides of March

Caesar:
Who is it in the press that calls on me?
I hear a tongue shriller than all the music
Cry “Caesar!” Speak, Caesar is turn’d to hear.

Soothsayer:
Beware the ides of March.

Caesar:
What man is that?

Brutus:
A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.

     A little mood music:

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Happy Pi Day!

     Happy π Day everyone!

     Demonstrating that reality and proposed laws quite often are orthogonal to each other:

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Firing Line Friday: Democratic Culture

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.

     The question of Democracy being a political method or beyond that to cultural and social phenomena has been a core question raised for some time now. Let us look upon this over-a-quarter-of-a-century ago discussion over whether we are, or ought to be, a “democratic culture”.

     Until next Friday.

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Quick Takes – Transgender Tyranny: Manipulating Victims; Coping With Victimhood; Transgender Guidelines From Shadow Organizations

     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: They’re coming for your young.

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     One of the tropes of transgender children is that they somehow know, beyond any possible doubt, that they need to be put on puberty blockers, injected with hormones, and be surgically mutilated… until they realize that they’ve been manipulated.

“When Marcus Fitz started ejaculating blood it finally occurred to him that just maybe the medical professionals he trusted had been misleading him.

“For several years, he said, the doctors he saw enticed him with gender transition surgery and led him to believe that being castrated was a beneficial option that would improve his overall health and well-being.

“Fitz, 41, is originally from the Midwest and now resides in California. He is among the rising number of people known as ‘detransitioners,’ having identified as transgender for over a decade. Fitz lived a “mostly stealth” life and frequently lied to coworkers, neighbors and new friends about his biological sex.

“Now suffering from a host of medical complications as a result of years of hormone treatment, including phantom pain in his groin and bouts of severe depression, he is five years into his detransition journey and is reintegrating with his anatomically male body.”

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Double Standard For Bodily Autonomy

     Adults, ages 18—20, are not considered mature enough to control their bodies when it comes to tobacco or alcohol, or to defend the same via firearms. The argument goes that even though we trust these pseudo-adults with the right to vote, their their brains are “still developing” and a beer or fine cigar would irreparably affect their life, which they are not mature enough to understand.

     In contrast, toddlers are now declared to have perfectly developed brains capable to intrinsically knowing their “gender identity” and to consent to hormone blockers, other drugs, and even permanently alter their genitalia. Yet this hypocritical double standard only underscores that beneath this double standard is a single standard that those pushing both these contradictory views hold: Denormalize, dissuade, make difficult, restrict, and even outright ban if possible things they don’t like (or at least pretend to) while normalizing, encouraging, making easy, subsidize, and even mandate the things that they do like. And there is no better target than an impressionable child.

     But where is the pushback against not only allowing, but encouraging and shielding from critical voices a child who is tricked into declaring themselves transgender? Oh, there are measures that have been introduced, but it shows just how much society has been fundamentally transformed with the fundamental precepts reconfigured, if not outright replaced, to make transgenderism a default position, when not even a state like North Dakota could pass a bill to stop these surgeries and “treatments” to little kids without parental permission.

“Legislation aimed at stopping South Dakota physicians from providing puberty blockers and gender confirmation surgery to transgender children under 16 failed to get enough support Monday in a Senate committee.

“A Republican-dominated Senate committee voted 5-2 to kill the proposal, likely ensuring the issue won’t be considered by the Legislature again this year.

“Proponents already had amended the bill to get rid of criminal charges for doctors who provide gender confirmation treatments, including puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgery. But it would have allowed children to sue if they later regretted the treatments.”

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All The Cops Are Criminals, All The Sinners Saints

     For some time now the value of citizenship, and the pride that goes therewith, has been increasingly diminished, with the push for noncitizen voting, non-citizen lawyers, and non-citizen juries. But eliminating the difference between citizens and non-citizens isn’t the goal; elevating non-citizens above citizens is.

     For example, the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, will not arrest illegal immigrants who drive without a license, while continuing to punish both citizens and legal immigrants for doing the same.

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