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Mar 31, 2023 9 tweets 5 min read Read on X
Our fearless leader @POTUS is certainly busy today with all these proclamations, statements, fact sheets, and round tables!

A short 🧵on the government efforts to make this the best #TransDayOfVisibility ever!

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“Today, to hear directly about the joys, hopes, and challenges that transgender children are experiencing, the White House will host a Roundtable on Affirming Transgender Kids”

No information so far on who will be sitting at the roundtable. Feel free to guess.

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A massive White House Fact Sheet, including fun new ways to obfuscate sex on government documents, courtesy of @DHSgov.

whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

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A statement from Joe Biden on #TransDayOfVisibility emphasizing (once again) suicide rates unsupported by data while perpetuating the myth that criticizing gender theology means you are hateful MAGA-hat-wearer:

whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

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A 5-page document from the Office of Personnel Management laying out “Guidance Regarding Gender Identity and Inclusion in the Federal Workplace”

opm.gov/policy-data-ov…

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A handy graphic from the Department of State to help you request an X gender marker on your passport. No documentation required!

travel.state.gov/content/travel…

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If that isn’t enough, in addition to #TransDayOfVisibility, proclamations were signed for

Care Workers Month
National Sexual Assault Awareness & Prevention Month
National Donate Life Month
National Cancer Control Month
National Public Health Week
Second Chance Month

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Proclamations, cont’d:

National Child Abuse Prevention Month
World Autism Awareness Day
Education and Sharing Day
Arab American Heritage Month

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Finally, here’s the short proclamation following the Nashville shooting.

Not that I’m hinting at any imbalance.

whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

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Mar 2
One thing the Executive Order Designating English as the Official Language of the US just did…

It made me glad I’m no longer a linguist, nor an academic, nor a member of the Linguistic Society of America!

Ready for some eye-roll-inducing wokeness?

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Why am I turning an important thing like an EO into a conversation about an academic society in a fringe field?

Easy. Because the academy is the REAL PROBLEM.

1. There’s nothing new about government efforts to establish an official language—in the US or elsewhere.

2. Yesterday’s Exec Order seems pretty lightweight:

It states English is the official language of the US, but doesn’t seem to define what that means.

It repeals a Clinton EO from 1980.

It doesn’t require agencies to do anything about existing documents in other languages.

But what the Linguistic Society of America is doing to its faculty and students? 👇

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In 1987, the Linguistic Society of America issued a resolution against ‘English Only’ policies.

Anyone reading it at the time would have thought…

‼️ Wokeness Alert ‼️

Except we didn’t have wokeness in the 80s. We had political correctness. So…

‼️ PC Alert ‼️

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Mar 1
Of all the horror stories in Douglas Murray’s THE STRANGE DEATH OF EUROPE, this was the most horrifying:

A victim of sexual assault lied about the ethnicity of her attackers because she—get this—didn’t want citizens to view the men who attacked her “as the problem.”

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Imagine the poor self image of a woman who would lie to the police to protect the public image of three men who assaulted her.

But it gets worse. Much worse. 👇

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In a nightmarish manifestation of Stockholm Syndrome, the woman says in her open letter:

“You’re not the problem. You’re usually a wonderful human being”

Tip: wonderful human beings don’t force women to perform sex acts on them.

And there’s still more…

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Feb 28
Speaking of shifting positions, We the Undersigned, & leftist GC feminists…

A few thoughts on left-shift, derangement syndrome, cafeteria free speech, & misperceptions

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Did the ‘Left’ shift position (i.e., move further left)?

Generally speaking, yes.

With respect to the more specific group of left-leaning GC feminists in the UK, I don’t think so. Rather, the Southport riots and Farage’s growing popularity seem to have served as timely catalysts that stimulated an already-left-leaning group to start speaking out against perceived ‘islamophobia.’

In other words, they would have spoken out before, but there wasn’t much reason to.

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Did Trump Derangement Syndrome migrate eastward?

I suspect it did. And it’s still TDS, it’s just Tommy Robinson Derangement Syndrome.

No, I’m not a hardcore Trump supporter (I am a Trump *administration* supporter). And I hadn’t heard of Tommy Robinson until late summer 2024 (strange thing, considering I’m one of those far-right people). But the behaviour patterns induced by TDS are strikingly similar:

Do not, under any circumstances, agree with a policy—no matter how sound—that is supported by [name of right wing person] lest you be associated with [name of right wing person]

What’s interesting is that the UK GC crowd failed to recognize this is EXACTLY why there are so few US-based critics of genderism within the Democrat community (Kara Dansky is the notable exception). Say something negative about TQIA+ ideology in the States? Poof—you’re a Trump supporter. Abracadabra—you’re far-right.

How far a leap is it to see that any criticism of Islam in the UK might be seen as tantamount to supporting Tommy Robinson?

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Feb 28
Hurray for multiculturalism!

May we have some more, please, Sir?

If you aren’t familiar with this recent manifestation of self-hoisting-by-petard à la française, Lionel Shriver wrote a column about it shortly after the squatters—er, invited guests—took over.

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“theatre Gaité Lyrique staged a free conference on ‘reinventing the refugee welcome in France’. The organisers literally invited their own downfall: 200 West African migrants who apparently felt very welcome indeed and refused to leave”

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spectator.co.uk/article/immigr…
The theatre is owned by the council—which we can assume means it’s funded by residents.

It had to cancel its events (meaning no income), continue to pay its 60 employees (meaning expenses).

Then there were the 350 invited guests all sharing a pair of restrooms. No showers.

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Feb 27
Hi to all my ‘anti-racist’ friends who value free speech when it comes to saying men can’t be women, but not so much when it comes to saying anything hurty about Islam.

I’ve two words for you:

ENJOY THEOCRACY

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From Sainsbury ads to posh Belgravia hair salons to Harrod’s menus—

Ramadan is—apparently—all around us.

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Diwali—not so much. 🤷‍♀️

In other words, let’s cater to 6% of the population, but not 2%.

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Feb 22
More thoughts on Douglas Murray’s STRANGE DEATH OF EUROPE.

Putting aside the myriad problems with unchecked immigration & the equally myriad arguments in support of such, let’s focus the second main facilitator in Europe’s demise:

🚫 ✝️ The abandonment of faith ✝️ 🚫

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😊 Full disclosure:
I am an atheist. Likely more of an anti-theist, to be perfectly clear. I do, however, have a strong background in Catholicism, and a broad education in theology (not limited to Christianity).

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⛪️ The argument for religion:
The more I hear Murray say that the West’s turning away from Christianity is a major factor in the power gain of another religion, the more distressed I am.

When Ayaan Hirsi Ali said she was a Christian, I was shocked. Not now. Now I get it.

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