Posted on 03/01/2024 9:28:52 AM PST by george76
Is it possible to speak obvious truths without being chastised?
It depends entirely on whether that truth supports The Narrative™ or challenges it.
The most powerful tool to enforce compliance with the dominant Elite ideology is the requirement that the language we use be chosen and defined by that Elite.
Legally and common sensically everybody knows that men do not belong in women's sports and women's spaces. So for those who want to make that happen the answer is to redefine the word "women" to include everyone who wants to be one. Hollow out words and pour in whatever meaning you want and you can create any reality you want.
This is happening everywhere, but one good example was provided by the BBC recently, which chastised one of its presenters for explaining a controversial issue by defining the word "trans woman" as "male."
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BBC upholds complaint against Today's Justin Webb for saying "trans women are male"
This is absolutely nuts.
The very first step in being able to understand this issue is to work out "trans woman" and "trans man" mean.
"trans women" are male
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Scientifically speaking, trans women are male. That is an indisputable fact, as "male" is not a mushy term with a malleable meaning. It describes biological sex. It just is what it is.
And if you want to get your viewers up to speed on a controversy, you have to spell out what that controversy is: some males are participating in women's sports by claiming to be transgender. That is the controversy: should "trans" women be considered women for the purpose of including them in female competitions and female spaces?
The BBC has decided that explaining the controversy is wrong. Simply use the terms the Left wants to use, as they get to define the meaning of everything.
The BBC has upheld a complaint against Today presenter Justin Webb after he said “trans women, in other words males”.
Webb made the comment during a discussion about new International Chess Federation (FIDE) guidelines on 22 August last year regarding whether being biologically male can give players an advantage in the game.
A listener complained that the comment amounted to Webb giving his personal view on a controversial matter in breach of the BBC’s requirements on impartiality.
The BBC‘s executive complaints unit said, in a ruling published on Thursday, that it was not in a position to determine Webb’s personal opinion on the issue but that it was not necessary to do so in order to judge whether he had breached impartiality rules.
It said: “The ECU understood Mr Webb’s intention in using the phrase ‘trans women, in other words males’ was to underline the question arising from the FIDE guidelines but noted a press line issued at the time included an acknowledgement that his phrasing did not convey an entirely accurate impression.
Ironically, the problem was not that his "phrasing did not convey and entirely accurate impression." The problem was the opposite: he stated things accurately, and when one does that, the controversy evaporates.
Everybody knows men don't belong in women's sports. It is a settled issue both in public opinion and in the law.
That's not the answer that the people in power want, so they change the plain meaning of the words. It is Calvinball--the rules are simply made up and have no meaning.
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This is the key strategy of "critical theory," which is little more than a Marxist strategy to redefine language to remake society. The words "women" and "men" are inconveniently defined? Change the meaning!
"Woman" means what I say it does and nothing else. And if you disagree, you will be punished.
What Justin Webb said was not controversial in any reasonable meaning of the term; it was a statement of fact, in the same way as saying that human beings are a carbon-based life form, or that diamonds are made of carbon, or that water's chemical formula is H2O.
It is just. The controversy is about whether certain males can compete in female sports. The audience can't understand the controversy without knowing that fact. Hence, Webb was not only stating a truth, but one necessary to understanding the story itself.
This sort of manipulation happens every day. We are not being told the whole story. When people try, they are punished. The truth is dying before our eyes.
This is all a distraction. They are literally destroying the world and we are fretting about fags playing dress-up.
I used to have trouble understanding the newspeak of the left. Then, I figured out that trans = fake.
Because the group consensus of the woke editorial staff of a british news corporation is the final arbiter of truth.
There is no such thing as a “trans woman”. It exists only in the mind, therefore imaginary.
Exactly. There are no transgenders, only mentally challenged males and females pretending to be the opposite sex.
That’s right.
A transgender state senator stormed out of the chamber after [he/she/it/???] was incorrectly [sic] referred to as “sir” by the lieutenant governor.
Delusion Will Never Defeat Biology
Torrance Stephens Phd on Substack ^ | February 25, 2024 |
Torrance Stephens
Posted on 2/25/2024, 7:58:45 AM by Wuli
When a person has or maintains a false belief or judgment about overt and objective external reality, and holds such views in defiance despite unquestionable authentication to the contrary, clinicians and therapists appropriately describe this as delusion and reflective of some form of mental disorder.
Delusions are beliefs that are plainly untrue and that indicate an abnormality in the affected person’s content of thought.
More problematic is these individuals are positively assured that the delusion is real.
(Excerpt) Read more at torrancestephensphd.substack.com …
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It is completely delusional and madness to teach that a man can become a woman, and that a woman can become a man!
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Forcing you/us/me to affirmatively participate in someone else’s delusion will not cure their mental illness.
Hey BBC, a Yugo is also a Rolls-Royce. Just following your silly-*ssed example. After all, if we can pretend with something as complex as humans, we can certainly do it with automobiles.
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. . . . The process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there’s no reason or excuse for committing thought-crime. It’s merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won’t be any need even for that. . . . Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?”
― George Orwell
This isn’t a hard topic to understand>
Only crazies confuse common sense!
Unless they have figured out how to change that Y chromosome to an X...
They are just a mentally ill man trying to mutilate his body to pretend he is something he isn’t...
Yep, and the presenter probably wearing pink tights under his BBC formal trousers.
Hopefully if the creeps ever figure out how to do that, the original Inventor will humble them eternally for divine copyright infringement.
So it's OK for the pervs to give their personal views on controversial matters, but it's verboten for sane people to give their personal views on the same controversial matters.
The world is acting more and more like Nazi Germany every day.
Neither a biological female who thinks of herself as female nor a biological male who thinks of himself as male is transgender. They are simply male and female, man and woman.
By adding the “transgender” adjective to man, woman, boy, girl, etc. the person using it is signaling that there is something different about this individual from others who are male or female.
Is a transgender female a female?
For the left it appears to mean “she” is a particular type of female.
For the rest of us, transgender female simply means FAKE female. Impostor. A transgender female is a biological male who wants, for whatever reason, for others to think of him as female.
A transgender is a person who imagines himself or herself to be the opposite sex of his or her own body. And the left is insisting that we all must agree with this psychosis.
Robert Frost, in his poem “To a Louse” penned this famous line: To see ourselves as others see us! It speaks to the virtue of humility and the value of taking into account what others think in our self-assessment.
Modern liberalism replaces this idea with something far less self-reflecting and much more ominous: Oh, to force others to see us as we wish to be seen!
Trans-females are MENTALLY ILL Males. Is that better, BBC? 🤓
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