Thread by @PnictogenHorses

let's talk about the GC cult for a bit, and the nature of their logical fallacies. for their "gender criticism" is in fact illogical, no matter how many times @Docstockk or @bindelj or @FondOfBeetles (or, heaven help us, "biology expert" @jk_rowling) blither about science.

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https://twitter.com/bindelj/status/1619754730040983552

"gender criticism" coexists with all other forms of bigotry, because all forms of bigotry are essentially _the same_: they all depend on the same crucial fallacy.

the fallacy is that a human being has no individual identity beyond a *mere classification of their traits*.

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@bindelj, @HJoyceGender, and all the rest of the GC cult leaders sneer at the notions of identity and self-identification because they are fascısts, and they wish to erase individuality from the human population. they want human beings to be regards as parts of a machine.

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#capitalism is to blame, as usual, for multiple reasons. I've already mentioned one: capitalism *requires* rigid social stratification, because it requires the sharp division between the capitalist *owners* (who collect #profit) and the *toilers* (who ideally get nothing.)

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hence to embrace #capitalism is to embrace, fundamentally, the absurd notion that there's two completely distinct types of human being—never the twain shall meet.

this insistence upon rigid separation of owner and toiler cascades downward through all aspects of humanity.

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once you've accepted that human beings ought to permanently divided along some arbitrary line, then dividing human beings along MORE arbitrary lines is the natural outcome—and that's how bıgots like @bindelj and @EPoe187 function. they're *sorters* of human beings.

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the rigid and simplistic values of mainstream #Christianity have aided in this process immensely, because Christians already habitually divide humanity up into the saved and the damned, and they preserve the mediaeval European Christian fixation on "the chain of being".

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that is to say, the mediaeval Christian mind was habituated to viewing all entities in the world, including human beings of course, as items in a rigid and fixed and *eternal* hierarchy, with some items always and forever regarded as "better" or "worse" than others.

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this is exactly how a bigot thinks. to the bigot, as to the mediaeval Christian, all things in the Cosmos and all human beings on Earth have *rankings*. they have a place in the "chain of being". dedicated bigots like @francesweetman and @MattWalshBlog LOVE to rank things.

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it's a daily staple of their conversation about *everything*—remember, bigots like @bindelj and @realchrisrufo aren't just bigots about sex or race or religions, they're bigots about *everything*. food, music, art, sunsets...EVERYTHING to them is "better" or "worse".

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for one thing, it's one of the easiest ways for bigoted dunces like @Docstockk or @mtracey to *feel like they're smart*: they proclaim that they _hate_ things, especially anything that's currently popular, and hint that they have subtle and nuanced reasons for the hatred.

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it's all lies, of course—it's all a social pose. these people may have *cleverness* in abundance but none of them is very smart, for in order to preserve their bigotries, @bindelj and @elonmusk and @mtaibbi and other habitual bigots are forced to _exclude knowledge_.

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this is spectacularly obvious with the "gender critical" ideology, which centers on a fallacy—the fallacy of *scientism*, which is the assignment of _metaphysical_ meanings to scientific concepts. @bindelj &c. have metaphysical feelings about penises, not scientific ones.

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masculinity and femininity are philosophical qualities, not *scientific* ones. the "gender critics" like @HJoyceGender and @AbigailShrier, not to mention their allies in fascıst politics like @elonmusk and @mtaibbi (and the @GOP and @Conservatives), keep this a muddle.

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they try to pretend that phenotypic sex—i.e. the "sex" that a biologist would assign to an organism in their laboratory notebook, after an inspection of the organism's morphology—obeys the strictly binary rules of their *metaphysical* belief in only two "sexes".

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but *phenotypic sex*—the nearest thing in real life #biology and #science to what the "gender critics" like @bindelj call "biological sex", even though they're not biologists and are merely abusing the language of biology—is not solely M or F.

the GC bigots don't care.

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ultimately the GC project must be backed up by coercion and violence—thus have the "gender critics" like @bindelj and @jk_rowling and @helenstaniland all appealed to fascıst politics. the only reliable political allies of the GC cult are violently bigoted reactionaries.

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their answer to the massive *hole* in their "theories"—i.e. the fact that human beings have more than two phenotypic sexes, in real life—is to create a world in which all humans are *forcibly reconfigured*. the @bindelj cause *requires* surgical mutilation of infants.

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the only way to make *all* human beings fit into their rigid M or F boxes is via surgical alteration.

the GC crowd of @Docstockk and @jk_rowling blither constantly, as deceitfully as possible, about how consensual surgery is "mutilation—because they support mutilation.

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there's not a scrap of intellectual validity or substance in the "gender critical" cause. @Docstockk and @bindelj and @HJoyceGender and the rest of these frauds are not legitimate scientists, but fascıst partisans. their greatest champion, @jk_rowling, is a failed writer.

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honestly, @jk_rowling is rather typical of right-wing bigots in this regard. we saw this pattern frequently in the United States, when the @GOP installed the senile puppet @RonaldReagan into the White House in 1980, and they filled the Reagan cabinet with petty crooks.

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right-wing causes, *bigoted* causes like "gender criticism", are rather attractive to third-rate human beings, people who have immense worldly ambitions without the talent (or the honesty) to achieve the success they crave.

"it's all POLITICS" is a defence mechanism.

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to put it bluntly: @jk_rowling is a bad writer whose career was on its downslope. she could see that her (mostly stolen and appropriated) magic had lost its lustre, so she *politicized* herself. she tried to *lead a cause*—and picked the worst possible one.

~Mona Drafter

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