In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
Elections and politics have always been an exercise in selling wise ideas at best, and carnival barking at worst. This was also the case over half-a-century ago, as explored by William F. Buckley, Jr. and guest Joe McGinnis who explored the selling of the president back in 1968.
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.
focus this time: So Sayeth Justin Trudeau: KILL THEM KILL THEM ALL.
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
Do you know how you run a socialized health system that doesn’t drain a country’s entire treasury? Easy! Just kill all the people who might need long term medical help!
“The horror stories from Canada about pressure for “assisted suicide” choices on the disabled and those with profoundly-chronic illness rarely make news in American media outlets. That makes this report from the Associated Press eye-popping indeed. Disability advocates in Canada have leveled accusations that Canada’s nationalized health-care system has used the legalized assisted-suicide system as a vehicle for euthanasia and cost savings”
< !--more-->Are you a soldier suffering from PTSD? Congratulations if you are Canadian, because now you can be euthanized for free!!1!
“A Canadian armed forces veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and a traumatic brain injury was offered medical assistance in dying by an employee of Veterans Affairs Canada.
“The VAC released a statement last week admitting to an incident ‘where medical assistance in dying was discussed inappropriately’ with the veteran. The department pledged that ‘appropriate administrative action will be taken’ after the veteran expressed outrage at the suggestion, according to a report in Global News.
“According to the report, the veteran called VAC seeking support for PTSD when the employee brought up medical assistance in dying, or euthanasia, unprompted. The veteran was reportedly shocked by the suggestion. His family told Global News that the soldier had been making positive progress in his physical and mental rehabilitation and that he felt betrayed by an agency that is tasked with assisting veterans.”
Can you hear me now? If not, Canada wants you do die!
“Alan Nichols had a history of depression and other medical issues, but none were life-threatening. When the 61-year-old Canadian was hospitalized in June 2019 over fears he might be suicidal, he asked his brother to “bust him out” as soon as possible.
“Within a month, Nichols submitted a request to be euthanized and he was killed, despite concerns raised by his family and a nurse practitioner.
“His application for euthanasia listed only one health condition as the reason for his request to die: hearing loss.”
TTFN.
The magical thinking of the Left includes the magical power of the spoken and written word. Call a man a woman, and if everyone says it and believes it, then it becomes true. But the opposite is also believed: If you deny something a word to describe it, then it ceases to exist, objective reality be damned. This is why the Left are so hell bent on denying the existence of “critical race theory”, “cultural Marxism”, an even the word “woke”. What these words describe exists, even if people don’t have a firm definition, for things that exist and affect people will practically command a word come about to describe them.
Hence, why you are not supposed to say “woke”.
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It isn't "Woke"
It isn't "Critical Race Theory"
It isn't "Socialism"
It isn't "Critical Social Justice"
It isn't "Neo-marxism"
It isn't "Cultural Marxism"
It isn't "political correctness"Why you aren't allowed to give *IT* a name,
A thread 🧵https://t.co/5gVlF1bTSj
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 4, 2022
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We are not allowed to call *it* anything.*It* of course, is wokeness. Now before @BenjaminSWatson (tagging for honesty) says I can't define it, let me go ahead and define it and then explain the game that is being played when we are told that we cannot define "woke."
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 4, 2022
Tribalism and “us vs. them” sentiment of the nationalist global ideology seems resurgent these days, but let us not forget the miracle that elevated an individual as more than a tool of the elitists.
There isn’t some false dilemma fallacy of “collective submission” vs. “anarchic libertarian greed”. It is a triumph of the common over subjugation of the many.
Lurie Children’s Hospital has joined in with the transgender craze. Unsurprisingly these days, they invoke intersectionality—that is, the Kyriarchy—by declaring that White people invented the “gender binary” as a tool of systemic oppression. And their way of fighting this “oppressive system” is through “gender affirming gear” and… bondage gear like bed restraints, kink kits, and harnesses.
SCOOP: Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago has created a partnership with local public school districts to promote radical gender theory, “kink,” “BDSM,” artificial penis “packers,” “trans masc pump[s],” and “trans-friendly [sex] toys” for children.
Here's the story.🧵
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 31, 2022
According to a whistleblower, gender activists at Lurie Children’s Hospital and school administrators in at least four Chicago-area public school systems—Districts 75, 120, 181, and 204—have circulated a training document titled “Beyond Binary: Gender in Schools.” pic.twitter.com/kBVn5KZuR9
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 31, 2022
And then comes the “intersectionality”.
The training follows the basic narrative of academic queer theory: white, Western society has created an oppressive gender binary, falsely dividing the world into the categories of man and woman, that has resulted in “transphobia,” “cissexism,” and “systemic discrimination.” pic.twitter.com/VkyVAgBE47
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 31, 2022
The presentation encourages public schools to support “gender diversity” in their districts, automatically “affirm” students who announce sexual transitions, and disrupt the “entrenched norms in western society” in order to create to a more “gender creative” world. pic.twitter.com/OdFuoETxik
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 31, 2022
In a version of the presentation circulated to middle school and high school teachers and staff in District 75 and 120, Lurie Children's Hospital promoted a “Binder Exchange Program” to assist teenage girls in binding their breasts. pic.twitter.com/VWsqU6qT8w
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 31, 2022
In a version of the presentation circulated to middle school and high school teachers and staff in District 75 and 120, Lurie Children's Hospital promoted a “Binder Exchange Program” to assist teenage girls in binding their breasts. pic.twitter.com/VWsqU6qT8w
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 31, 2022
Next, Lurie Children's Hospital promoted a “kid friendly website for gender affirming gear,” which sells items such as artificial penis “packers,” female-to-male “trans masc pump[s],” and “stand to pee devices” for minors. pic.twitter.com/ImU7UBOqCS
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 31, 2022
Next, Lurie Children’s Hospital promoted an “LGBTQ friendly sex shop for teens” that sells a range of “dildos,” “vibrators,” “harnesses,” “anal toys,” “trans-friendly toys,” and “kink & BDSM” equipment. The site includes graphic descriptions of sadomasochism and bondage. pic.twitter.com/Kb4yUKWtBZ
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 31, 2022
Finally, Lurie Children’s Hospital published a school policy guide, encouraging districts to adopt a “gender-affirming approach” to the curriculum and to allow students sleep in bunks during overnight school trips in accordance with their “gender identity,” rather than their sex. pic.twitter.com/5AuBpFByOT
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 31, 2022
The full report can be read here.
Oh, they also tried to cover their tracks when they were uncovered by Christopher Rufo. The internet, though, is forever.
UPDATE: After I reported on the district's radical gender theory training program, administrators at Chicago-area District 181 have wiped the document from their servers.
But it's too late. They can't hide. I always keep receipts: https://t.co/uDJ3hRyAiY pic.twitter.com/XdmQ44pxyj
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) September 1, 2022
The document can also be viewed here or below:
Gender in Schools – Beyond … by ThePoliticalHat
News of the Week for Sept. 11th, 2022
Twenty-one years ago today, America was attacked. Instead of focusing in on America leaving Afghanistan, let us focus in on why we went there to begin with. Never forget the victims who died, and those who fought back.
In Pace, Requiescat.
In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
Older generations have always complained about “The Young” and fret over what has become of younger generations. What better man to address this than the author of A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, who discussed this question with William F. Buckley, Jr. and other guests Diana Armenakis, Richard, Tilton, and Ahmed Bulbulia.
Until next Friday.
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: You shall be required to choose wokeness.
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
Can’t rely on students to tear down society unless they are forced to declare the Constitution to be evil… or else.
“A Vanderbilt University assignment asked students whether the U.S. Constitution was ‘designed to perpetuate white supremacy,’ and the ‘correct’ answer to that question was ‘true.’
“According to screenshots obtained by Young America’s Foundation, students were asked, ‘Was the Constitution designed to perpetuate white supremacy and protect the institution of slavery?’ According to YAF, one student in the class lost points after answering ‘false.’
“The screenshot of the online assignment shows that the correct answer was ‘true.’
“A Vanderbilt student who is currently enrolled in the course and asked to remain anonymous told Campus Reform that the questions and answers came from a recorded lecture.
“‘All of the quiz’s answers would come directly from a recorded lecture…the questions were exact quotes from the lecture,’ the student said.”
Purportedly, “marriage equality” would make both opposite sex and same sex union equal by raising same sex marriage to the lofty centrality of opposite sex marriage. But without the myriad unique elements that traditional marriage brought by the combination of the two sexes, with all their physical and actual physiological differences, “equality” could only be achieved by making the opposite happen, with this once central society denigrated to all irrelevancy beyond virtue signaling.
“One of the arguments made by proponents of same-sex marriage was that making the institutions of marriage inclusive of same-sex couples would ‘strengthen’ marriage in the culture generally. It’s not hard to find voices like Jonathan Rauch saying that same-sex marriage was a ‘socially conservative’ movement about protecting children.
“Andrew Sullivan often reminds us that when he started arguing for legal recognition of gay marriage, he was opposed by the majority of the gay community who wanted no part of a patriarchal institution. Even as late as 2000, the argument that homosexuals should be in the radical vanguard of disrupting and dismantling marriage could be published in the Nation.
“Proponents of same-sex marriage like Sullivan and Rauch won in the courts, and in a thin slice of the elite. But it looks more like the anti-marriage radicals won the future in the culture.
“Marriage is in steady and steep decline, as the rise in unmarried and never-married adults and in the share of out-of-wedlock births continues.
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“America is retreating from marriage. Of course the radicals imagined that what would replace marriage would be better. But by and large, Americans are replacing it with nothing. Resigning the married life and having fewer children means more people will live without dense networks of kin. They will live atomized lives marked by more and longer periods of intense loneliness and despair.”
This was inevitable. Oh, marriage as an institution was under attack—same sex marriage was but the final nail in the coffin.
There used to be a compelling reason for marriage, especially with legal enforcement. What two (or more) people feel towards each other and decide to do together because of that, however, isn’t a compelling reason for marriage to even exist. It doesn’t serve the same societal function. If anything, it minimized to nothing the actual social value and purpose of marriage. At this point, “marriage” is just a civil partnership wearing the corpse marriage like a skinsuit while demanding respect.
“But that doesn’t affect your marriage or anyone else”, the cry is espoused! But when the breakdown of marriage as an institution becomes widespread, it does have bearing on others, and not just others’ marriages. I doesn’t affect you… but it does.
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