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To: enumerated
Today’s speech is filled with made up words and fallacial thought processes that intentionally avoid clarity.

I agree, there is a lot of that. Legal documents seem written deliberately to confuse and obfuscate. Try reading any sociological treatise, and it quickly descends into pure nonsense.

Another trend is that the language leftists use to describe events is selected to subtly change the perception of events. For example, ten years ago, no one would have even thought of allowing men to enter women's restrooms under any circumstance. Then someone, somewhere got the brilliant idea of making this into a "human right" and the leftist media picked this up as the newest cause célèbre. Once the activists started pushing to allow men to use women's restrooms, normal people responded by passing laws against the practice. And the left immediately changed their strategy, presenting the issue as if men have ALWAYS been using women's restrooms, and decrying those bigoted "cis-gendered homophobes" for trying to deny them their right by passing laws against it.

These trends, of course, feed into the Trump phenomenon. Ordinary people are tired of seeing the culture perverted by outlandish agendas.

45 posted on 07/24/2016 4:50:11 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom

The way I see that men’s room ladies room thing is - it’s simply a convention, much like the convention of driving on the right (or left) side of the road. It’s not a matter of right and wrong, it doesn’t matter which side, but by agreeing, driving is possible.

Similarly, 99.99% of people agreeing to be comfortable with sharing a bathroom with people of their own sex makes it possible to accommodate hundreds of students, shoppers or employees with just a few bathrooms.

The savings in infrastructure, class time, shopping time or work time is immeasurable when compared to the unthinkable alternative of sending everyone home or having hundreds of private facilities.

I really think it’s a socio-economic convention that has more to do with practical efficiency than it has to do with morals or right to privacy. The left stirs up these false conflicts as political wedges with no regard for their economic consequences.


46 posted on 07/24/2016 10:43:52 PM PDT by enumerated
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