Posted on 08/14/2023 9:39:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Vivek Ramaswamy was right on target.
The businessman turned politician, currently polling a distant third in the Republican primary field, according to RealClearPolitics, was pressing the flesh at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on Sunday when a self-described “pansexual” woman tried to corner him with a question clearly aimed at throwing him off his pace.
But Ramaswamy took it in stride — and delivered a lesson while he was at it.
Check out the interaction here, in a video posted to Ramaswamy’s Facebook page.
The initial, actual quote is hard to make out, but it’s clear the unidentified woman opened the questioning with a string of initials describing sexual lifestyles and asked Ramaswamy’s opinion on the “community.”
“I don’t think it’s one community,” he answered. “How could it be? Just mashed-together alphabet soup … What’s your opinion?”
That wasn’t the answer the woman expected, clearly, so she tried another tack:
“I, personally, am pansexual, so I was just wondering what your views on same-sex couples were.”
The question itself begs to be dismissed — if only on the grounds that it’s the kind of trap leftists love to spring on Republicans. A careless answer could turn into a social media firestorm for liberals; a slip of the tongue from the other direction could fuel suspicion on the right.
Ramaswamy didn’t dismiss it, though. He answered the question directly with the kind of logic that’s sadly missing in most of the establishment media today that the left and right should have no problem accepting.
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“I don’t have a negative view of same-sex couples,” he said. “But I do have a negative view of the tyranny of the minority.
“I think, in the name of protecting against the tyranny of the majority — and there are times in this country’s history where we have had a tyranny of the majority — we have now … created a new tyranny of the minority. And I think that that’s wrong …
“I don’t think somebody who is a woman who has worked really hard for her achievements should be forced to compete against a biological man in a swim competition.
“I don’t think that somebody who’s a woman that respects her bodily autonomy and dignity should be forced to change clothes in a locker room with a man. That’s not freedom, that’s oppression.”
That is such a truly self-evident statement. There was a time not too long ago when any American passing on the street would have agreed with this.
The idea that men who are middling in athletics could change into champions simply by claiming they were women (a la the honorable Lia Thomas), or that high school girls would have to share locker rooms with boys claiming to be girls, would have been grounds for involuntary committal barely a generation ago (outside of, say, San Francisco).
Now that same lunacy is a key part of the Democratic Party’s progressive agenda.
Ramaswamy then took the discussion to a broader level:
“I believe that we live in a country where free adults should be free to dress how they want, behave how they want, and that’s fine. But you don’t oppress, you don’t become oppressive, by forcing that on others — and that especially includes kids, because kids aren’t the same as adults.
“Adults are free to make whatever choices they want, but do not force that ideology onto children, before children are in a position, as adults, to make decisions for themselves.
“I think a lot of the frustration in the country, and if I’m being really honest, that I also share, comes from that new culture of oppression, where saying those things can actually get somebody punished.
“And in my case, it’s part of why it’s my responsibility to say them.”
Ramaswamy closed the discussion by thanking the woman for being civil — a considerable upgrade from the shrieking insanity that characterizes too much leftist political talk — and demonstrated just how possible it is to have an exchange of ideas without resorting to tantrums.
But he also made his point.
RE: The businessman turned politician, currently polling a distant third in the Republican primary field, according to RealClearPolitics
This most recent post at FR shows Vivek now OVERTAKING Ron DeSantis for Second Place:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4175074/posts
Lest anyone think that Vivek is correct in his views about queer sex, then read this.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4174581/posts
Is there any scientific consensus on how a person can be attracted to someone of his/her own sex?
She says she is “pansexual”, but weird how she does not specify stainless, aluminum, non-stick, copper-clad
His responses were excellent. Clear and concise.
He didn’t have to get melodramatic, rejecting the audience member with a “Begone, you DEMON!” attack of a spiritual warrior. There are times for that, but this wasn’t one of them.
I would also give kudos to this “pansexual” ( I’m still trying to understand what the heck this is ). But She actually TOOK TIME to listen to his response and (unlike some moderators and interviewers at CNN ) DID NOT INTERRUPT Vivek midway as he was explaining his views.
They even parted ways shaking hands.
America would be a better place if disagreements can be resolved this way!
Why do most pansexuals look like people who don’t get asked out?
Homosexuality is both a mental disorder and a spiritual sin.
Every medical association, and all the medical journals clearly identified same-sex attraction was a mental disorder. It was settled science. Until it wasn’t.
But God’s word, which never changes, has always identified homosexuality as a deviant sin.
Don’t know much about Ramanswamy outside of him doing very well in verbal exchanges.
Ha. They’re bs.
Absolutely. It would be a better America.
It’s not impossible to get there again, but it won’t be over night. People lead by example. This was such an example.
Read up on him... I think he is a pump and dump stock con man. I want to like him though. But I have major doubts.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2015/09/09/the-30-year-old-ceo-conjuring-drug-companies-from-thin-air/?sh=88981944f392
Seems to me that is kind of a self answering question, LOL.
From what I’ve seen by way of the media, most “Pan-sexuals” are in essence Gay or Bi-sexuals who have not yet set limits on what group they would or would not accept sex from.
They claim not to have the definitive guardrails of behavior that most adults do.
Pan = Any = Anything goes.
I’d vote for this guy 100 times out of 100 if it were just between him and Mr. Drama Queen.
I think pansexual is the new term for trisexual. They’ll try anything.
That was an excellent answer from someone trying to trap this Presidential candidate.
I agree with him. I don’t know about some being homosexual from birth. That’s above my pay grade.
Biological men pretending to be women are clearly mentally ill with much bigger issues than just being homosexual or as some countries now call it, a sexual deviant.
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If the US had a parliament, he certainly would have had a reputation by this point. Being talented at verbal exchanges is a very big deal there. He seems to me to be a Benjamin Disraeli type.
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