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Could the trans madness have crested and begun to recede? At very least, that may be starting to happen on Twitter. When Elon Musk took over that platform, he promised to restore the freedom of speech. While his fulfillment of that promise has not been as comprehensive as many patriots hoped it would be, the social media giant took an enormous step toward freedom and sanity Monday when it quietly dropped its rule against calling a man a man if he thinks he’s a woman.
The rule against “misgendering” and “deadnaming” people who are “transgender” was one of the most sinister and Orwellian aspects of woke culture, and of course similar rules are still in place among the other Big Tech corporations. Nothing more vividly recalled the passage in 1984 where the hapless dissident, Winston Smith, is forced to agree that if the party says that two plus two equals five, then it equals five. We were forced to agree that if a man or a woman became dominated by delusions and fantasies, we couldn’t speak out for sanity, but instead had to play along with the elaborate charade.
To be sure, “misgendering” and “deadnaming” are two quite different phenomena. One of them is insane, and the other is simply rude (under certain circumstances). “Misgendering” refers to calling a male a man and a female a woman even if they insist they are of the opposite sex. While that may seem harsh to hypersensitive woke Leftists, it’s actually a supreme act of charity to try to bring such people back to a sane and realistic understanding of themselves and the world around them.
“Deadnaming,” that is, using the name that such a person has discarded in favor of one that reinforces his delusions, is quite a different matter. If Bruce Jenner wants to call himself Caitlyn, that’s no problem; Evelyn Waugh was a guy, too. “Deadnaming” can be an attempt to shake a “transgender” person out of his fantasies, but it may also be simply rude. There is generally little reason not to call people what they wish to be called. And that’s not to say that “deadnaming” is in any respect a serious offense.
Twitter, however, along with the other social media giants, declared that both constituted “hate speech,” and would get you banned from their platforms. Twitter temporarily suspended PJM’s Matt Margolis for an article entitled “Rachel Levine Is Not the ‘First Female Four-Star Admiral’ … Because He’s a Male,” and then suspended him permanently for saying that transgender people “have a mental disorder.” Well, yeah.
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Phil Copson says
Let’s be exact here; referring to Bruce “Caitlin” Jenner and Richard “Rachel” Levine – (or any other misogynist who demeans and bullies women by pretending to be a woman himself) – as “men” is NOT “mis-gendering” – it is correctly gendering.
The claims that “people can change their gender” / “I can’t define what a woman is” etc, are simple straightforward lies intended to exert dominance by bullying others into acquiescence, and hence – submission.
They are no different from the Chinese forcing people to stare at a white wall and repeat “I see a black wall” until they believe it.
Kesselman says
! Perhaps some deluded liberals aren’t aware of the similarities between “woke” culture and proto-fascism. For hard-core Leftists it doesn’t matter, their minds are already wired in that direction in the first place.—For Millenials and others, it seems that they eat it up; doesn’t have the intellectual remedies to see what it’s all about.
tgusa says
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for he she it to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.