“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
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.
Don’t know much about Ramanswamy outside of him doing very well in verbal exchanges.
I’d vote for this guy 100 times out of 100 if it were just between him and Mr. Drama Queen.
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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Yes, this was wonderful. Too bad Vivek Ramaswamy buys into the homosexual myth of ‘born that way.’ He seems so smart here, but agreeing with a myth that’s been scientifically proven wrong, too bad about his supposed high IQ.
This guy is very impressive
Pansexuals are bisexuals, period. Well, why the term pansexuals then? Because remember, the Left wants you to think people can choose to be man, woman, something in between, a kitchen stove, non-binary, two spirit, blah, blah, blah. So, pansexual is the new leftist way of saying you will bang both chicks and dudes, but in a way that denies the biological reality that people are pretty much just chicks and dudes.