Posted on 11/18/2020 5:34:02 AM PST by Kaslin
This week, Abigail Shrier, author of the new book "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters," found herself at the center of a firestorm. Her great crime: writing an assessment of the psychological phenomenon known as rapid onset gender dysphoria, where groups of psychologically vulnerable young girls begin to self-diagnose as transgender after one member of a peer group does so. The book is sober and evenhanded. Nonetheless, all hell broke loose after one person on Twitter -- one! -- tweeted at Target, prompting the retailer to pledge not to make Shrier's book available (a decision it later reversed).
This wasn't Shrier's first turn in the barrel. When the book first came out some months back, Amazon quickly moved to prevent her from advertising it, although books openly stumping for hormone treatment for minors suffering from gender dysphoria have met no such ban. This time, however, the publicity began to rage out of control. A transgender Berkeley professor called for burning the book, arguing, "all you're doing is removing a commodity from circulation -- much as one might destroy a contaminated crop." Chase Strangio, deputy director for transgender justice at the American Civil Liberties Union, decided to abandon any pretense about defending civil liberties, tweeting, "stopping circulation of this book and these ideas is 100% a hill I will die on."
Meanwhile, the email service Mailchimp, which handles mass emails on behalf of organizations, announced it would no longer work with the Northern Virginia Tea Party, stating that it was promoting "potential ... misinformation" by holding a rally calling for a vote recount. Similarly, Facebook has reportedly been suppressing all information related to the possibility of voter fraud; so has Twitter.
Such niceties aren't reserved for the political right. Matthew Yglesias, co-founder of Vox, left his own publication this week for Substack after explaining that there was a "damaging trend in the media" toward treating "disagreement as a source of harm or personal safety." That trend, Yglesias stated, made it "very challenging to do good work."
Those who refuse to abide by prevailing leftist norms often find alternative outlets. But such avenues of escape are then attacked as well. This week, the Columbia Journalism Review ran a piece targeting Substack for the great sin of hosting material that might be deemed unworthy among leftist thinkers. It questioned whether Substack would "replicate the patterns of marginalization found across the media industry," condemning the company's founders for their view that many viewpoints ought to be given access to the system. And CNN found time to attack Parler, a conservative answer to Twitter, with Brian Stelter lamenting that "people are going more and more into their own echo chambers." Which is somewhat ironic, given the enormous echo chamber CNN represents.
The goal here isn't a freer discussion. It's precisely the reverse. Conservatives have known this for a long time, which is why they've had to operate using unconventional media such as talk radio and podcasting and startup websites. But the future of the country rests largely on a simple question: Will traditional liberals go along with the left, which seeks to silence, in order to achieve their favored policy prescriptions? Or will they walk away from the left and choose instead to engage in open conversation with conservatives, preserving freedom of thought and discussion but risking the possibility that their favorite policies will become more difficult to achieve?
That question remains unanswered for now. But time to answer it is running out. If we hope to have a country together moving forward, we'd better have an open conversation now.
Ben didn’t slip in a slam against President Trump. How odd. He usually feels compelled to virtue signal.
We’ve grown so accustomed to modern communications that we didn’t notice how we’ve been painted into a corner.
I find it very interesting that a HAM radio distribution list membership in my organization has ballooned in the last month. I believe the herd knows better than the individual.
The media is lying to us, and the social Big Tech proprietors are shutting down dissent. This is a modern day Bolshevik movement.
It happened at my daughter’s middle school, the entire theater department “came out” on the same day. Dumb girls.
I am afraid you are mistaking him with Guy Benson who is a Never Trumper, but Ben Shapiro is not
It rapid onset gender dysphoria is fiction. Gender dysphoria is fiction. It is not a psychological problem. It is a soul problem. It is a lack of God problem. It is a parenting problem.
Enough with this psycho-babble. Enough with the Political Correctness. The majority of Americans understand the truth but they are too cowardly to stand up to left and speak the truth.
It is time to act like we are the majority, because we are the majority.
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Ben is half-in and half-out, in my opinion. He “supports” Trump but never seems to miss an opportunity to criticize the President’s rudeness, over-use of Twitter, and general “divisive” approach to politics. I do not care for Ben Shapiro.
Um, yeah.
They’ve been shutting us up all over: Political correctness, protesting and shouting down college speakers, trashing info tables at colleges, lefty relatives shouting down others, creating “hate speech”, shushing and down-grading pubic school students, editing interviews out of context, banning certain speech at work, pulling out/destroying election signs and flags, banning certain speech on social media, TV news cutting away from events...
Truth is their enemy and must be silenced. They are evil, Minions Of Lucifer (MOLs).
Ben Shapiro s often: “I like Trump, but.........”
Corporations are willingly censoring thoughts that violate the new MandatedRightThink rules. Problem is, these rules are not written down anywhere, so it is impossible to know if a word, a look, a raising of the eyebrows, a “tut tut”, runs afoul of the new fascist reality.
At the very least, they could publish a book telling us what we Must Not Think, so we can avoid getting fired or blackballed and walk around pretending to be Conforming to the New Total Mind Control Reality.
Re together moving forward:
Those days are gone.
One side or the other will prevail; either us, or the Left.
By any means necessary it must be us.
They started this, we didn’t.
We cannot coexist with these psychopaths, and it is delusional to think so after watching them in action these last four years.
I believe they will make it nearly impossible to function without the internet..and without cash.
Some would probably say we are already there.
The framework and basic plan is there ...but it has not been fully implemented.
Part of the overall plan is to slowly push conservatives off the internet (which they are trying to do now).
And like i said..if they make it almost impossible to function without the internet..conservatives will stick out like a sore thumb ...and will be easily targeted.
Wrong. My child has NCCAH, an incurable endocrine disorder. One of the effects of her condition is gender dysphoria, something we spent years and thousands of dollars on specialists to try to mitigate. She is not some special snowflake looking for attention, she is an accomplished student, artist, and animal lover who was the sweetest kid you will ever meet. She would not wish this on her worst enemy.
Maybe the women of America should have come to realize that NOW was founded by a certifiably crazy dyke named Kate Millett who sought to destroy the family forever and promote promiscuity, prostitution, pornography, and perversion. She advocated for sex between adult women and girls.
NOW was and is anti-woman. No surprise that they would seek to destroy everything that is “woman”. Take male hormones. Cut off your breasts. “grow a penis”.
Their mantra is the same it has been for over 50 years and it is led by the same voices/actors/players still saying them.
The problem is when 20+% of girls in a school are saying that they are really boys.
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Understood.
But there is a lot of misinformation going around about the causes of gender dysphonia, and it smears kids who are truly suffering with the same ugly brush.
My child was not abused, was raised in an intact, loving Christian household, is extremely intelligent, and never gave me a moment of worry until that horrible day years ago when she wept through a confession detailing what she had been experiencing. She needs compassion and prayers, not scorn and slander, but definitely prayers most of all. Only God can fix what ails here, because doctors cannot.
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