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How Much More Trans Madness Can You Tolerate?
Six years ago I posted an article on this site about the excesses of the LGBTQ+ movement and what we might expect in the future if we passively stood by and just tolerated anything they dished up, no matter how outrageous. The very first “conservative” commenter of my post said: “This is one of the most deranged articles the site has ever had. Own it.”
Okay, I own it! I owned it then and I own it now. And so, here we are now, a mere six years later, and we are being told by raving maniacs that being against the chemical and surgical transitioning of children is tantamount to trans genocide. (I have to admit, I never saw this coming.) And it’s not only the crazed trannies themselves telling us this, but also supposedly rational people occupying positions of power in various government bodies.
So yesterday, a Christian school in Nashville was shot up and six innocent people were senselessly killed. Afterward, we found out that the shooter, who was also killed, was a trans man, which is a mentally ill woman who thinks she is and pretends to be a man. And it came out that the murderer had written a manifesto – the details of which have not yet been released – that revealed meticulous planning and presumably the motive. And we know that Tennessee recently outlawed the transitioning of children. So do the math.
And then we found out that radical trans activists were trying, along with Antifa, to organize a “Trans Day of Vengeance” on April 1 outside the Supreme Court in order to fight what they see as trans genocide.
And for several years now, every institution in our country has been promoting the insane and destructive LGBTQ agenda, with the “T” part occupying special prominence. And they all seem to sincerely believe they are virtuous for doing so. And they all seem to sincerely believe that any pushback on any element of the extreme, crazy LGBTQ agenda constitutes fascism and potential genocide.
Hello? Is anybody there? We are in the midst of an all-out civilizational emergency. The lunatics are literally running the asylum. Civilization simply cannot survive the total loss of rationality and the giving over to the most crazed narcissism imaginable. The only pushback we’ve seen so far is the part about transing children, and only in some states. Other states have declared themselves havens for the transing of kids. If all we do is delay children’s transitions until their 18th birthday, in some states, is that enough?
No, I agree with Matt Walsh who said – and I’m paraphrasing – the transgender ideology needs to be burned to the ground and the ashes danced around. Nothing less will suffice. Otherwise, no child will be safe and trans terrorism will be a new normal in our postmodern, post-Christian country.
Or is this post deranged, like the one six years ago?
Published in General
The effort to suppress social conservatism in the GOP has been a spectacular failure.
Or was it a spectacular success, in that it was accomplished?
Two good posts!
I get your point, but I meant for those who bought into it and were promised it would grow the party and guarantee small government. In reality, it crippled us and allowed the left to keep pushing the overton window.
While I generally agree that all the things listed above are very bad, the human race has been here before.
Young women have been taken into harems, young men have been made into eunuchs, and humans have been abusing each other with extreme cruelty throughout history .
This is not to excuse current behavior, but deviant, cruel and selfish behavior has always occurred whenever those in power chose to do it. Or allow it.
Romans 1:
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth [m]in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known about God is evident [n]within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, being understood by what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21 For even though they knew God, they did not [o]honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasonings, and their senseless hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and they exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible mankind, of birds, four-footed animals, and [p]crawling creatures.
24 Therefore God gave them up to vile impurity in the lusts of their hearts, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 For they exchanged the truth of God for [q]falsehood, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed [r]forever. Amen.
You are absolutely correct.
How Much More Trans Madness Can You Tolerate? None.
Will We All Soon Become LGBTs?
In 2017 people said, “That’s crazy. They are such a small part of the population. You have nothing to fear.”
Today . . .
Greg, good post.
Sorry that I didn’t comment on your post 6 years ago. I’ve come to believe that your attitude, at the time, was far too tolerant of homosexuality. I don’t think that it was a good thing to have tolerated that perversion, either. This is an area in which my own views changed over time, and I don’t recall what I was thinking six years ago. I do recall that I opposed even “civil unions” for homosexuals in the early 2000s.
I think that we’ve seen a slippery slope in operation for all sorts of sexual immorality, starting with heterosexual activities. This has been going on for a very long time, at least since the 1960s, and probably well before that. I understand that the “slippery slope” is a logical fallacy, in the sense that granting one concession does not necessarily imply that the next must be granted. As a practical matter, this has occurred in the area of sexuality in our culture, in my view.
I’ve also come to think that promoting tolerance as a virtue has been a mistake, in general. This seems to have led, inevitably, to increase in deviant behavior, not only in matters of sexuality.
Yup. I’m all toleranced out. The answer is no. I don’t even care what the question is.
I wonder if the shooter had recently been introduced to testosterone.
Of course, that only feeds the “testosterone bad!” attitude we find on the left, among those who want men soft and pliable and hard to tell apart from women.
I’m still alittle confused by various accounts. Was the shooter a man pretending to be a woman or a woman pretending to be a man?
A woman pretending to be a man.
And the top concern of trans activists today is ensuring that her chosen pronouns be used in news reports.
Also the top concern of the media, themselves.
Yes.
I am baffled by the crowds of sexually-normal-looking people who show up to attack some author or speaker who is not thrilled with child mutilation or trans adoration. Of all the available causes to rally for… why this?
They want to feel like allies to the most progressive cause du jour?
Just remember Scarecrow’s Rule for Clarity:
“Trans” means “pretend”.
”Cis” means “actual”.
I usually don’t like I-told-you-so; it can be petty. This one isn’t and is warranted.
And as for “tolerance;” the problem is the term has been re-defined. It used to mean, “I will refrain from punishing those behaviors that bother me, but aren’t actively harmful to others.” It now means, “you must approve.” Well, I don’t.
Edit: incidentally, I had a history professor in the mid-80s who predicted precisely what happened with the term “tolerance.” I wasn’t sure what he meant, at the time.
IOW, tolerance without either standards or bounds.
Who’s up for a conspiracy theory? This article in the Thinker points to circumstantial evidence that the FIB actively hides the critical factor common to many mass shooters: they’re on drugs and their minds have been damaged by “treatment.”
The public health establishment is responsible for worse things than the Covid vaccines and lockdowns. If we could, for instance, get suburban moms off of benzos, then the Donks might lose an important constituency.
Unlike Greg back in ’17, I don’t have time to write a detailed inventory of the medical establishments sins and crimes, but this audience is sharper now than it was then – I doubt it’s necessary.
Will check out the article. The “shooter-meds” connection is well established, IMHO.
Greg, I joined Ricochet one month to the day after you posted your March 28, 2017 post, so I never saw that post. I just read it and think it quite good, if a little overwrought.
I spend a lot of time criticizing the idiocy of the gender-identity/gender-diversity/gender-mutability movement, but I don’t think it’s an existential threat to western civilization. I think it’s too stupid to persist, and that the whole “trans” thing is going to fail pretty spectacularly in the near future. Its advocates have both arrogance and foolishness on their side, and that’s a self-destructive combination. I don’t believe Americans will long tolerate their children mutilating themselves for a fad, their daughters being defeated by boys in athletics, their wives and daughters being forced to share private spaces with emotionally unbalanced men, nor the endless torture of the language to accommodate a handful of fruitcakes.
You might be right about it failing in the near future. I saw some memes in my Twitter timeline last night pushing for the separation of everything to right of LGB in all of the alphabet soup combinations. I’m sure that they weren’t generated yesterday and are probably working their way out of an LGB corner of the world.
I hope you’re correct about this being too stupid to persist, but it was too stupid to have ever gotten off the ground to start with and yet, here we are. Even if the most radical elements of this (i.e., transing children) are reined in, we’re still left with the rest of the LGBTQIA+blah,blah,etc. agenda which encourages extreme self-indulgence and hedonism at the expense of procreation and the generational transference of values that could healthily sustain Western civilization. So even if the transgender thing disappears tomorrow, all the rest of it will still be promoted by our institutions and we’ll still be drowning in depravity.
I’ve been kicking around a theory of sexuality, as follows-
There are three kinds of sexuality: normal (heterosexual), disordered (rare), and kink. It’s the kink that’s ascendant in the alphabet “communities,” and there is no limiting principle. The slipperiest of slippery slopes.