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The Fallacy of the Real Me
Taki's Magazine ^ | March 04, 2022 | Theodore Dalrymple

Posted on 03/04/2022 9:47:18 AM PST by Salman

According to a Gallup poll, the percentage of the American population that now “identifies” as LGBTQ+ has doubled by comparison with ten years ago, and now stands at 7.1 percent. Among the youngest cohort polled, it was over 20 percent.

There is no more weaselly expression in the modern lexicon than “identifies as,” which inherently emphasizes feelings over facts. I can identify as a nice person, but that does not mean that I am a nice person. Indeed, if most people who meet me abominate me, my self-identification as a nice person means nothing except (if I truly believe it) that I am deluded.

Asking people what they identify as is the natural consequence of what might be called the psychology and philosophy of the real me. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at takimag.com ...


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KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda
FWIW, by a former prison psychiatrist.
1 posted on 03/04/2022 9:47:18 AM PST by Salman
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To: Salman

“LGBTQ+ has doubled by comparison with ten years ago, and now stands at 7.1 percent”

The way schools are working overtime to groom kids into this straight out of hell lifestyle I’m surprised it’s not more.


2 posted on 03/04/2022 9:54:04 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Salman
Under the influence of this school of thought, everyone has become a relativist, except when criticizing the behavior of others, when suddenly an objective moral standard returns. When he is criticized, he defends himself by means of relativism; but when he disapproves of something, he becomes as rigid as any puritan.

That is why licentiousness and puritanism coexist in our societies, not so much in equilibrium as in a violently seesawing manner. We reprobate pedophilia and sexualize children from an early age. We demand that everyone watches his tongue while the vilest abuse is the common language of discussion and dispute. I demand the freedom to express myself, but that you shut up if what you say offends me

3 posted on 03/04/2022 9:54:32 AM PST by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: Salman

LGBTQ-OU812-EIEIO


4 posted on 03/04/2022 9:57:00 AM PST by MercyFlush (DANGER: You are being conditioned to view your freedom as selfish)
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To: V_TWIN

Times have never been better for the chickenhawks.

Me, I’m looking into millstone futures.


5 posted on 03/04/2022 9:57:42 AM PST by skeeter
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To: Salman
In all this, we see the baleful cultural effect of the spread of psychotherapy, the search for the inner essence of a person and the explanation based on past trauma of his bad behavior and his current miseries. Once the buried psychological treasure is found, all will be well.

It takes a very honest psychiatrist to say such a thing.

6 posted on 03/04/2022 9:59:12 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Ukraine is not a good country and does not deserve active US support.)
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To: Salman

Its WYSIWYG for normal adult grown ups

Its COSPLAY/LARP’ing for the snowflake safe spacer infants


7 posted on 03/04/2022 10:00:12 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Salman

LGBTQ+ itself is stupidity.

The Ls and the Gs are completely different. The Ts hate the Ls because of all the TERFs, while the existence of Bs disprove all the other made-up genders. The Qs are just too agnostic to acknowledge their own fetishes, and most Bs are females that go straight when they marry.

They’re not a cohesive community. At least black, latino, etc., minorities, you can tell that people either do or don’t belong there.

Teens join LGBTQ because they want to belong. Most of them are just reticent virgins.


8 posted on 03/04/2022 10:00:35 AM PST by struggle
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To: Salman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y1c3xllo8c


9 posted on 03/04/2022 10:01:53 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Salman

Ted Bundy identified as a pretty nice guy. His victims thought otherwise.


10 posted on 03/04/2022 10:03:44 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: Salman

I will say it again: we never had any problems in modern times with the mooselimbs when Ozzie and Harriet and Father Knows Best was on American television. Once the infiltration of the Feminazi/Gynocracy into our institutions in the sixties took place, with special rights for grievance groups to follow shortly thereafter, the mooselimbs decided to attack the degradation of the western world.


11 posted on 03/04/2022 10:13:43 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: V_TWIN

“Among the youngest cohort polled, it was over 20 percent.” Yay!


12 posted on 03/04/2022 10:44:40 AM PST by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: Salman

so the whole damn country of 390 plus million folks, are supposed to bow down to governmental policies dictating how the people are supposed to treat a mere 7% of the population??.

im gonna say it ....
should some fellow countrymen go berserk,have a huge garden party for just them, put something dastardly in a food item, and the results are found only posthumously .... send them flowers.


13 posted on 03/04/2022 10:55:09 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Salman

It all comes down to the fact”your a homo!”


14 posted on 03/04/2022 11:03:22 AM PST by 2nd Amendment
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To: 2nd Amendment
It all comes down to the fact”your a homo!”

Are you a homo? by John Weidman. From the July 1971 issue of the National Lampoon
15 posted on 03/04/2022 11:56:28 AM PST by Impala64ssa (If a liar's pants really did catch on fire CBC, ABC, CNN and MSNBC would be more fun to watch)
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To: struggle

I identify as LGB-FJB.


16 posted on 03/04/2022 12:43:10 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Impala64ssa

The article homo looks transgender. OMG,the whole shebang is part of the homosexual agenda. Homosexuals are so glaad they’ve convinced all those ROGD girls to amputate their breasts.


17 posted on 03/05/2022 12:05:40 AM PST by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: Salman

Dalrymple is published somewhere everyday. I subscribe to his email alerts. He’s a pleasure to read.


18 posted on 03/05/2022 12:56:54 AM PST by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the gov out of medicine, education and forest!)
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