When Nancy Pelosi threatens to destroy your chance of victory through escalating public assertions of your unfitness for office and you succumb because you judge her threats to be credible — you have definitely not put America first or sacrificed for a higher cause Everyone claiming otherwise in unison knows this.

JK Rowling's publisher told junior employees demanding the severing of ties with the world's highest-grossing author that they would not comply with their demands and that they were welcome to seek employment elsewhere if they couldn't deal with this refusal. An easy decision.

A harder decision for another publisher -- Bloomsbury in this case -- would have been to stand by a first-time author with an exhaustively researched book about systematic malfeasance at Britain's only pediatric gender clinic. Of course they caved.

https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1796961209922592775

The rubber is hitting the road all across the United States and the Anglosphere.

Everything that they insisted was a scare story 18 months ago while working feverishly to make it mandatory and pervasive is rapidly scaling up and will soon be pervasive.

The time to exercise your right to dissent is now, while you still have it, as the powers that be conspire to wrest it from you forever.

The public is beginning to realize this.

https://x.com/wesyang/status/1792739941182746936

No one has a right to compel any other person to participate in their make believe, regardless of how intensely they believe or merely insist their well-being depends on it.

All are permitted to judge for themselves which beliefs they choose to affirm or not affirm.

Any infringement on this right by state power is totalitarian.

Any movement that urges people to malign and threaten those exercising their rights as they see fit must be seen and treated as unwelcome in a pluralistic society. All those participating in such judgments should be seen and treated as fanatics attacking the foundations of a pluralistic, liberal society.

All those attacking the foundations of a pluralistic, liberal society should be shunned.

https://x.com/wesyang/status/1792742934468509843

There are many people who will in all earnestness be shocked and horrified by those making the self-evidently true observation that this is not a man who found his authentic self by dosing himself with exogenous hormones but instead a very troubled woman caught up in a viral contagion of medicalized self-harm that she is helping to spread. Those people have been propagandized out of reality.

There are many powerful institutions that will restrict the right to speak and even attack the right to transact on their platforms for asserting this self-evident truth. Those institutions have been captured by those propagandized out of reality.

There has never been an eruption of such blatant absurdity and state sponsored falsehood in any of our lifetimes. It is a practical and moral imperative to assert our right to say the self-evident truth by saying it. It's the only way to dispel the veil of mystification and repression foundational to the sustenance of a movement built on reality denial that has gone further than any other such movement in capturing the institutions that control what we can say and think. She writes about it in her memoir -- sexual exploitation of the kind that is pervasive in that setting.

Many turn to a variety of cult-like practices and institutions to cope. (Scientology, the Reverend Moon, etc.) We don't ban them for those old enough to consent and bear the consequences. And many of those cults do in fact help people by giving them a sense of purpose and a community in exchange for much of their wealth.

But this cult is different: it has captured the state and civil society and its demand that everyone accept or merely pay continual verbal tribute to its tenets. It's a demand that is incompatible with a pluralistic, liberal society where freedom of speech, belief, and unbelief are all enshrined in its founding principles.

It's a demand that this society must refuse.

https://x.com/j__l__t__f/status/1788170087486410865

Transgenderists demand that you pay verbal tribute to their beliefs by affirming them in the course of daily life and seek to make the state compel such tribute by punishing unbelievers -- the Biden Administration just made such belief compulsory in all American schools

https://twitter.com/garylfrancione/status/1784922307837788329

Believers are free to try to peer pressure or coerce unbelievers into acquiescing to such tribute ("I am asking you to be kind"; "it costs you nothing to comply," "what are you some kind of far right fascist?" etc.) -- but everyone has a right to unbelief that no one can infringe

If you knew nothing else about the transgender movement but this text, you would instantly see from the plangent, seething, furiously buttonholing register that its rhetoric somehow sustains in every sentence and punctuation mark, that something was deeply awry

actioncanadashr.org/news/2021-05-0… The incredible list of signatories is a roll call of moral abdication

Thread provides helpful background on one of the main sources of viral misinformation dominating coverage of trans issues in the US. These are the people being cited by US media on the Cass Report.

This is the sort of info that would have been banned from Twitter under its prior leadership. But I get it -- I'm the weirdo with a disturbing obsession for wanting to understand why we've been inducting thousands of confused children into a cult of medicalized self-harm on the basis of zero evidence to support its safety and efficacy

Corinna's appeal is poignant because it's so human and humane, premised on the capacity for rationality and empathy in a person devoid of these qualities and consumed entirely by partisan rancor, blind self-righteousness, and smug self-assuredness in the rightness of second-hand opinions he has no ability or willingness to question no matter how much evidence piles up to contest it Corinna wants to safeguard children like himself from the grievous harms he suffered -- but Will doesn't want to hear about any of it. He was given his marching orders by the party and he will smear and defame anyone who deviates from the party line.

I don't think many people would have considered this thinkable before it happened. But those with the wherewithal to do it knew in advance that not one person whose opinion they cared about would be willing to criticize it in any way.

https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1746279320060854687

They did it, received zero pushback, and reformatted expectations at a new equilibrium

The woman from whom Gay copied her acknowledgment, Jennifer Hochschild, is a colleague in the same department writing on adjacent topics.

Worth looking at her list of publications as a reference for the expected degree of productivity of scholars tenured at America's leading university.

Hochschild has been publishing since 1979, so I began counting in 2000. (Gay finished her PhD at Harvard in 1998.) She has published 87 papers in that time. Has authored five books to Gay's zero over her career.

Gay switched over to administration, so you wouldn't expect the same degree of productivity as a full-time scholar. But with eleven papers to her name, Gay was tenured at Stanford and poached by Harvard.

It just doesn't work that way for anyone else. Not even close.

scholar.harvard.edu/jlhochschild/p… Affirmative action was initially sold as institutions exercising their discretion to provide a "tip" in the direction of an otherwise equivalently qualified candidate in the interest of diversity. That lasted about five minutes in practice.

Everyone involved has known it and self-consciously chosen to lie about it for five decades.

The same year that SCOTUS struck down racial preferences in college admissions, we see the actual scope of the preferences -- the overwhelming favoritism -- at the very pinnacle of the system.

"I am personally aware of more than a billion dollars of terminated donations from a small group of Harvard’s most generous Jewish and non-Jewish alumni."

To my knowledge, the Wall Street shareholder-activist model of hostile takeover has never before been deployed against US NGO's and universities.

Just as junior employee activism became a new star in the political firmament in the 2010's, driving the Great Awokening, fund managers are suddenly intervening in the governance of major US institutions. It is a fascinating development.

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court ruled that racial preferences in college admissions were unconstitutional, only to be greeted by open avowals by universities, including Harvard, to find ways to persist in the granting of such preferences that could evade detection or enforcement.

The new donor activists propose themselves as a privatized enforcement arm of a SCOTUS decision that elite consensus would have happily thwarted.

We will see whether these new activists have the wherewithal and persistence to carry out this mission. Many high net-worth Jewish individuals who are major donors to universities saw the world erupt into ecstasy at seeing Jews massacred -- including students and faculty at the very institutions that have been mainlining money from them for decades.

To the woke, the Nazis aren't bad because they made a list accounting for every Jew in Europe with plans to eliminate each and every one and came very close to succeeding through murder squads and death camps. The Nazis are bad because they rounded up Communists and banned trans surgery.

https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1619579570935693312

Tonight is the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, "the night of broken glass," a nationwide pogrom led by the paramilitary wing of the Nazi party in which hundreds of synagogues and thousands of businesses were destroyed in mob violence.

Pro-Palestinian students have distributed posters calling for a National Day of Shutdown featuring images of broken glass on this day on the McGill campus in Montreal.
McGill's principal writes that he concludes that the flyers are anti-semitic, announces an increase in security and calls on "every one of us to work together to foster and environment of compassion, inclusivity, and respect."

For most subjects, there are scholars who actually know things using normative methods of truth seeking.

Ideological succession has meant replacing them with activists who seek to impose manufactured constructs onto the world by translating slogans and thought terminating cliches into a parody of scholarship bearing the imprimatur of the thing itself Our institutions have failed to keep out the cascade of pseudo-knowledge that was inflicted upon it through entryist methods of bullying and blackmailing.

This ideological infection metastasized beyond academia to capture medicine, law, culture and education.

A few thousand unsolved murders and disappearances of native women in Canada over decades, was called a genocide

Disproprotionate rates of death by tuberculosis or accidents in Canadian residential schools and the conversion of many native children to Catholicism was called genocide by the Pope

Low double-digit annual murder rates + other "systemic discrimination" has been called a "transgender genocide"

https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/1717742038844879209

Residential school genocide:
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Trans genocide:

Native women murdered genocide: cbc.ca/news/indigenou…
pbs.org/newshour/natio…
pbs.org/newshour/natio…

Any reasonable person who peruses the history of the conflict eventually notices that the Palestinian national cause is driven by the rage of a people at their incapacity to win the wars they keep starting and commit the genocide they seek This doesn’t mean that the Israelis are blameless or that the conflict is devoid of moral ambiguities. It is a long and complicated history. But the main driver is fundamentally this dynamic.

People like to mock Queers for Palestine etc noting that Hamas would throw them off buildings, which is of course true, but they overlook what both groups share in common: a manufactured identity that relies on signaling by NGO’s to constitute and sustain them.

https://twitter.com/GadSaad/status/1713310046757453901

Both groups exist by, for, through and in the service of donor funded quasi-governmental social welfare and rights protection agencies comprising the “international community” and the US and global civil and human rights apparatus — they are artifacts of the Borg

IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE
NO SETTLER IS A CIVILIAN
THE LAND BELONGS TO THE PENULTIMATE CONQUERORS
SCIENCE IS A EUROCENTRIC MYTHOLOGY WITH NO STRONGER CLAIM TO TRUTH THAN INDIGENOUS WAYS OF KNOWING
THE SEXUAL DESIRES OF MALE FETISHISTS OVERRIDE ALL OVER RIGHTS
MASS MURDER CAN BRING ABOUT A BETTER WORLD Every statement is much too long for a sign but w/e

Ibram X Kendi's implosion was inevitable. It is illustrative of the nature of the mediocre ideas he promulgated and the mediocre, disordered people who champion them.

But the ideas have metastasized far beyond any single institution -- they are endemic in our K-12 schools. The successor ideology produces division and meltdowns in which the “left eats itself” — while somehow continuing to eat everything else unimpeded

The reason women like @jk_rowling @Martina who begin by politely musing aloud about the most minor heterodoxies on the trans issue (Uh, maybe don't let men crush women in sports? Hmm, maybe don't fire anyone who doesn't agree that men can be women?) become much more intransigent is that their minor heterodoxies expose them to the true face of the movement:






What these lifetime progressives, feminists, LGB supporters/ pioneering activists who have always supported trans individuals learn is that “surely we can reach a reasonable compromise that doesn’t sacrifice the interests of women to their own spaces and competitions” just…isn’t true.

The movement demands inclusion of men into women’s intimate spaces and competitions on the basis of a man’s self declaration that he is a woman as an absolute right and unless you agree to support or keep your dissent silent, they will try to destroy you in any way they can — and they have managed to convince most the ruling institutions of the world to join them.