The Soft Bigotry Of Low Expectations.
Shutting down conversations or opinions on the behalf of others is a kind of prejudice that treats trans people as 'delicate' and lacking the fortitude for debate.
This man is incredibly polite, understanding, and thought-provoking
Why did they talk about not being put into a box with only two genders, yet they put these people “assigned male” into a box, identifying them as white males?
The university faculty should explain to their students how to accept the sign the man displayed as someone else’s truth. Isn’t that what they teach?
Why do these social workers feel trans people need to have an 'emotional support professional' with them if they enter into a conversation about who they are?
What are your thoughts?
Clayton is the founder and publisher of the social and political commentary newsletter Think Things Through and the host of the Think Things Through Podcast.
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I did try and watch the video, honest. But I have at least two permanent bigotries that will probably never be cured, one toward Germans and the horrid grating sound of their language, and the other toward up-talking white middle-class feminists with 'concerns.' I'll leave it to others to decide which of the two is actually more a threat to civilization, but for me a Nazi is a Nazi, and when it comes to really anyone who would actually attend a 'school of social work', all I'm seeing is Nazis in training.
The whole concept of 'social work' (aside from the term itself being impossibly oxymoronic) is predicated on a powerful state apparatus continually issuing funding and police/vigilante powers to whoever is able to convince the state that their 'concerns' are worth their being paid for. Those issued such powers must then only be committed to continually pretending to care about these made-up 'concerns', while they take their funding and their powers and create little personal fiefdoms for themselves and their predictable networks of cronies. The federal grants economy is a swamp of such hypocrites and role-players, and they are dangerous. I've seen more than enough of the harms they do.
Nobody in their right mind actually believes any of this 'gender' nonsense, but damned if there ain't a lot of money to be collected without lifting a finger for pretending they do. Of course there are two and only two sexes, and of course anyone who ever left the house knows this.
It's the rank insincerity of it all that is both so offensive and so very dangerous. Now they are going after young children with these packaged delusions, all in a quest for easy funding for their no-work careers as professional do-gooder saboteurs, and that is unforgivable. So that well-fed white lady can take her 'concerns' and stick them you know where. I only wish more people had the courage to stand up to these nanny-state fascists and call them, to their faces, the liars and opportunists they are.