Posted on 05/12/2018 6:42:44 AM PDT by davikkm
The devolution of the Never Trump publication National Review took another move to the left with the publication of a column calling for conservatives to surrender on the issue of transgenderism. Columnist J.J. McCullough is not only calling for conservatives to cave to a ruinous lie, he is smearing conservatives as nasty bigots.
[I]t feels were still in the immature, demagogic phase. In some quarters, it remains fashionable to act theatrically repulsed by transgender people emphasize their weirdness, and make populist appeals to the preposterousness of women asking to be called him or surgeons amputating penises and so forth, he writes.
Not done with us bigots, from on high he writes that, Part one of the compromise will be borne by cultural conservatives and traditionalists. It asks for broad tolerance for the reality that transgender men and women exist, and are entitled to basic human dignity, just like everyone else.
McCulloughs Orwellian demand is, if so requested, we blithely agree to identify biological men as woman and vice versa.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Yes, the NR has been awful x years.
“Yes, the NR has been awful x years.”
William F. Buckley is turning over in his grave with Rich Lowry running what he built.
The author of the National Review piece: J.J. McCullogh, a gay, vegetarian millennial which explains a lot.
Oops, misread the headline...
It was silly. I misread the headline. And perhaps my memory of Nolte is faulty. Ill pay more attention to Nolte and attack him if necessary.
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