Quick Takes – Transing Labels: Gender Badges; Ally Badges; Trans Puppets

Posted on February 7, 2019 by The Political Hat

     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: Cis-hetero people get yellow stars to wear.

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     Because you will not be trusted to politely ask others what their “gender pronouns” are, Edinburgh University is handing out “gender badges” to tell you what you must say in order to avoid being hit with a “H8 crime”.

“A guide to pronouns released by the university students’ union last week said that those who make assumptions based on appearance risk ‘singling out trans people who want to clarify their pronouns’.

“It said: ‘Many people assume that the pronouns they should use for an individual are obvious.

“‘People who look like men should be referred to using he/him, and people who look like women should be referred to as she/her.

“‘However, these assumptions based on appearance can be frustrating and harmful, particularly for trans folks who might challenge people’s perceptions of what a man or woman looks like, and those who might use gender-neutral pronouns.’

“The guide added that gender is ‘fluid’, so even if someone has used a particular pronoun in the past, they may no longer feel it is correct.”

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Belgian Euthanasia Advocates Channel Monty Python

Posted on February 6, 2019 by The Political Hat

     In “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”, there is one scene where a man being carried over to be taken away as dead expresses that he is quite alive…

     Belgium, in order to dispel the notion that the Dutch could outdo them, have gone full in on killing depressed people who are seeking actual help.

“This week, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg agreed to hear the case lodged by the Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of Tom Mortier, after Belgian courts refused to allow him to seek justice for the death of his mother.

“Robert Clarke, one of Mr Mortier’s lawyers, said there were some ‘deeply worrying’ details about the case. ‘This was a woman who was under the care of a psychiatrist and according to medical definition was a vulnerable person,’ Mr Clarke said. ‘The state had a duty of care to protect her and it failed.’

“In April 2012, Godelieva De Troyer, who was 64 and in good physical health, but had a history of severe mental health problems, was killed by lethal injection by Wim Distelmans, Belgium’s leading euthanasia proponent and provider. Her son Tom Mortier was only informed when ‘hospital officials asked him to come to the morgue to fill out the paperwork necessary for turning over his mother’s remains to the department of experimental anatomy, per her request.'”

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Volonté Générale: The Coming Dawn of the Hive Mind?

Posted on February 5, 2019 by The Political Hat

     Since the days of Rousseau, the Left have pined away for their secular god, the Volonté Générale (i.e. the “General Will“) which exists as a singular will arising Borg-like from the masses. Such a “general will” of a populace is a fiction used as a fig-leaf of legitimacy by the worst of tyrants. Now, however, it seems that a unified hive-mind may be scientifically plausible:

“Neuroscientists have successfully hooked up a three-way brain connection to allow three people to share their thoughts – and in this case, play a Tetris-style game.

“The team thinks this wild experiment could be scaled up to connect whole networks of people, and yes, it’s as weird as it sounds.

“…

“In the experiment set up by the scientists, two ‘senders’ were connected to EEG electrodes and asked to play a Tetris-style game involving falling blocks. They had to decide whether each block needed rotating or not.

“To do this, they were asked to stare at one of two flashing LEDs at either side of the screen – one flashing at 15 Hz and the other at 17 Hz – which produced different signals in the brain that the EEG could pick up on.

“These choices were then relayed to a single ‘receiver’ through a TMS cap that could generate phantom flashes of light in the receiver’s mind, known as phosphenes.

“The receiver couldn’t see the whole game area, but had to rotate the falling block if a light flash signal was sent.”

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Who Runs Venezuela?

Posted on February 4, 2019 by The Political Hat

     The world is dividing between those few countries (primarily Russia, Cuba, Iran, South Africa, China, Turkey, and Bolivia) who support Maduro and much of Latin America, Europe, and the United States of America who are either recognizing opposition leader Juan Guaido or are calling for new and fair elections.

Recognition map of Venezuelan head of state.

     While the suffering of the Venezuelan people continues, including economic woes involving inflation and the potential bankruptcy of the oil company Citgo, Maduro’s disaster is increasingly affecting other countries very negatively.

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News of the Week (February 3rd, 2019)

Posted on February 3, 2019 by The Political Hat

 

News of the Week for Feb. 3rd, 2019


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Nonconsensual Puberty

Posted on February 1, 2019 by The Political Hat

     The disparity between reality and what it takes to buy the “transgender” ideology has rarely had such a striking and facepalm inducing example:

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Quick Takes – Purging the Pledge of Allegiance: In NYC; In San Francisco; In College

Posted on January 31, 2019 by The Political Hat

     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 salute.

     First, a little pledge explanation:

     Carrying on…

     Unsurprisingly, the educational establishment in San Fransisco isn’t fond of the Pledge of Allegiance.

“For the first time in memory, the San Francisco school board bypassed the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of its meeting Tuesday night, a purposeful omission by the board’s new president.

“Stevon Cook, presiding over his first meeting, said he had been mulling over the idea of replacing the recitation of the pledge after he was elected to lead the board following the departure of former President Hydra Mendoza two weeks ago.

“He told only a few board members prior to Tuesday’s meeting, and instead of asking people to stand and recite the pledge, he read a quote from poet Maya Angelou: ‘When you learn, teach. When you get, give.'”

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New York Poised To Deny Thought Criminals Their Second Amendment Rights

Posted on January 30, 2019 by The Political Hat

     Before graciously permitting you to exercise your inalienable rights, the State of New York is considering a proposed law that would allow them to deny a person’s 2nd Amendment right for expressing thoughtcrime. Specifically, it would require the state to review one’s Facebook, Youtube, Gab, Twitter or Instagram accounts to see if they contain “excessive discriminatory content; or … content that is likely to incite or produce a violent action in or towards others”.

     In other words, one’s exercise of their 1st Amendment right in a way that the State of New York does not like will result in the surrender of your 2nd Amendment rights.

     As Eugene Volokh, a respected 2nd Amendment legal scholar, notes:

“‘Discriminatory content’ isn’t defined, here or elsewhere, but presumably refers to speech that expresses negative views about various groups (or what else would it mean?). Presumably more than 100 posts in 3 years that criticize Muslims, or oppose bans on discrimination based on transgender status, or contain sexist jokes would qualify. What about “discriminatory content” towards Republicans? Towards Israel? Not clear.

“It’s also not clear what qualifies as ‘content that is likely to incite or produce a violent action in or towards others’ (for which there’s no 100-post ‘excessiveness’ standard). Does this have to be a 51% likelihood, a threshold which would almost never be satisfied? Some possibility, which could be satisfied for a vast range of rhetoric? Again, not clear.

“It is clear, of course, that such speech is generally constitutionally protected, whether it’s ‘discriminatory content’ (‘excessive’ or not) or speech that is ‘likely to incite’ ‘violent action’; recall that the very narrow incitement exception to the First Amendment is satisfied only if the speech is (1) intended to produce (2) imminent illegal conduct, and (3) likely to produce such imminent legal conduct — item (ii) above doesn’t include the intent or imminence requirements.”

     Considering the call for banning “H8 speech”, this is the camels nose in the tent of liberty that the anti-liberty Left will use to eviscerate the Bill of Rights.

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Cancer Does Not Care About Your Gender Identity

Posted on January 29, 2019 by The Political Hat

     Many cancers and other ailments are more likely to occur in one biological sex far more often than the other, if not exclusively, due to human beings being a sexually dimorphic species with physical differences between the sexes. For example, though it is possible for a male to have breast cancer, it is very rare compared to breast cancer rates in females, while it is impossible for a male to have ovarian cancer due to not having ovaries.

     However, the “quality” socialist medicine of the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) seem to believe that whether or not you should be invited to have a breast exam or cervical exam is dependent not on your biological sex but your gender identity, as out lined in their pamphlet “Information for trans people” for “NHS Screening Programmes”.

Death, Rx

     That’s correct: The NHS seems to think that someone without a cervix ought to be invited for a cervical exam while someone with a cervix ought not to be invited to have one, because not doing this would hurt a “trans person’s” human rights by not pretending that a female who calls herself a male is still a female or that a male who calls himself a female is still a male.

     This is of particular note because the pamphlet explicitly mentions “males” and “females” rather than men and women, the former being an indicator for biological sex, while the later is used for one’s “gender identity”. We were told that gender is something separate and distinct from biological sex, but as has been noted before, once the words such as “man” or “her” were appropriated for use as it pertains to “gender identity”, the biological reality of sex would be denied and rejected.

     The problem with denying biological sex and instead relying on “gender identity” is that cancer and other diseases don’t care what “gender” you think you are, and any medical doctor who doesn’t also disregard such nonsense to instead focus in on biological reality is a quack.

     Sadly, it seems that the quacks are running the NHS.

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Banning Unwoke Pronouns in California

Posted on January 28, 2019 by The Political Hat

     California state Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson has decided that her state Senate Judiciary Committee shall replace “he” and “she” with the gender-neutral “they” because California now recognizes “non-binary” as a gender option.

     Note that she then goes on to use masculine and feminine pronouns, particularly when talking about Roe v. Wade.

     Still, this new pronoun rule of not using “he” or “she”, while not easy for Sen. Jackson, may be easier for woker generations, despite the irony that it is those same woker generations that insist on being asked what their “gender pronouns” (including the invented ones) with the expectation that those pronouns will be used.

     Or perhaps Sen. Jackson’s lack of wokeness will have her declared sooner or later yet another “H8r” and oppressor…

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