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One reason Gender Ideologues hijacked our institutions is that woke activists don't understand how *LEGITIMACY* works
I'll explain:
The woke think legitimacy is a matter of power and authority: A thing is legitimate when people with power and authority say it's legitimate...
One reason Gender Ideologues hijacked our institutions is that woke activists don't understand how *LEGITIMACY* works
I'll explain:
The woke think legitimacy is a matter of power and authority: A thing is legitimate when people with power and authority say it's legitimate...
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As such, they think that the legitimacy of various types of medical interventions (IE: puberty blockers, mastectomies, and cross sex hormones for 15 year olds) depends entirely on whether or not the people with the power and authority in the medical system say it is.
Now...
As such, they think that the legitimacy of various types of medical interventions (IE: puberty blockers, mastectomies, and cross sex hormones for 15 year olds) depends entirely on whether or not the people with the power and authority in the medical system say it is.
Now...
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Most of us believe that the legitimacy of medical treatments rest on a foundation of objective truth, objective standards of quality, rigorous criteria for safety, attention to detail, and careful application of sturdy medical ethics.
The woke reject all of that. Here's why:
Most of us believe that the legitimacy of medical treatments rest on a foundation of objective truth, objective standards of quality, rigorous criteria for safety, attention to detail, and careful application of sturdy medical ethics.
The woke reject all of that. Here's why:
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The woke think all the standards and criteria for Truth, safety, health, morality, and so fourth are "socially constructed," and therefore they are merely the expressions of the values and interests of a particular group of people in a particular culture.
Read that again.
The woke think all the standards and criteria for Truth, safety, health, morality, and so fourth are "socially constructed," and therefore they are merely the expressions of the values and interests of a particular group of people in a particular culture.
Read that again.
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For this reason the woke deny that the standards of western medicine are objective. They think the standards of care, rigor, safety, and truth used in western medicine are merely a mask for the values and interests of a white, racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, culture.
For this reason the woke deny that the standards of western medicine are objective. They think the standards of care, rigor, safety, and truth used in western medicine are merely a mask for the values and interests of a white, racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, culture.
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On this view the medical institutions which oversee standards of care are not actually trying to do what is best for everyone, they use their medical power and authority to further their own interests at the expense of trans people, gay people, black people, etc.
So...
On this view the medical institutions which oversee standards of care are not actually trying to do what is best for everyone, they use their medical power and authority to further their own interests at the expense of trans people, gay people, black people, etc.
So...
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This means Gender Activists don't think the western medical standards for health, appropriateness, rigor, care, and safety, are built on a foundation of objective truth.
Gender activists deny that western medicine is tied to an objective understanding of how the world works.
This means Gender Activists don't think the western medical standards for health, appropriateness, rigor, care, and safety, are built on a foundation of objective truth.
Gender activists deny that western medicine is tied to an objective understanding of how the world works.
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They think western medical standards, and in fact ALL standards ( including standards of truth, justice, morality,safety, democracy, rationality, and any other standard you can think of) are really just expressions of the values and interests of the people who invented them.
They think western medical standards, and in fact ALL standards ( including standards of truth, justice, morality,safety, democracy, rationality, and any other standard you can think of) are really just expressions of the values and interests of the people who invented them.
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Because woke activists think whoever has the power gets to decide what is legitimate, they took over our institutions in order to re-write the standards
Then they changed the rules to say that it is totally legitimate to give mastectomies to 15 year olds confused about gender
Because woke activists think whoever has the power gets to decide what is legitimate, they took over our institutions in order to re-write the standards
Then they changed the rules to say that it is totally legitimate to give mastectomies to 15 year olds confused about gender
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The woke think all legitimacy about social power and authority. They also think the only proper use of power is in the service of advancing wokeness. So they think the only way a standard is "legitimate" is if implementing it advances woke ideas (like gender ideology).
The woke think all legitimacy about social power and authority. They also think the only proper use of power is in the service of advancing wokeness. So they think the only way a standard is "legitimate" is if implementing it advances woke ideas (like gender ideology).
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This means the gender activists think the only way a standard is legitimate is if it advances Gender ideology.
They cannot comprehend the idea that legitimacy is matter of objective truth and rigorous standards and people ideologies, interests, and agenda's don't matter.
This means the gender activists think the only way a standard is legitimate is if it advances Gender ideology.
They cannot comprehend the idea that legitimacy is matter of objective truth and rigorous standards and people ideologies, interests, and agenda's don't matter.
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The standards of western medicine are supposed to be grounded in objective truth, rigorous scientific standards, attention to detail, and sturdy medical ethics.
It is not grounded in whose self-interests are served, whose ideology is advanced, or who selfishly benefits.
The standards of western medicine are supposed to be grounded in objective truth, rigorous scientific standards, attention to detail, and sturdy medical ethics.
It is not grounded in whose self-interests are served, whose ideology is advanced, or who selfishly benefits.
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The thing that make the standards of care of western medicine legitimate is their well grounded connection to objective truth, objective facts, rigorous methods, and sturdy medical ethics.
Everyone benefits (unselfishly) when we ground legitimacy in objective standards....
The thing that make the standards of care of western medicine legitimate is their well grounded connection to objective truth, objective facts, rigorous methods, and sturdy medical ethics.
Everyone benefits (unselfishly) when we ground legitimacy in objective standards....
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We must reject the absurd and nihilistic standard of legitimacy that was cooked up by Gender activists who claim that masectomies, puberty blockers, and cross sex hormones for 15 year olds are "legitimate."
Because this is what happens if don't:
We must reject the absurd and nihilistic standard of legitimacy that was cooked up by Gender activists who claim that masectomies, puberty blockers, and cross sex hormones for 15 year olds are "legitimate."
Because this is what happens if don't:
https://x.com/ChoooCole/status/1822776494189662461
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