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.

Differential justice by race is here:

A mentally disabled father in Nova Scotia began having sex with his mentally disabled daughter when she was 19 or 20. At 23, she gave birth to his severely developmentally delayed child

The court sentenced the father to 2 years of house arrest rather than the 4 to 6 years imprisonment listed in its guidelines.

An appeals court rejected the Crown's bid for a longer sentence, citing his race as grounds for leniency:

"“The moral culpability of an African Nova Scotian offender has to be assessed in the context of historic factors and systemic racism, as was done in this case..." the judge, writing for the majority, said.


This has happened before Nova Scotia -- judge justifies giving black man suspended sentence for five firearms violations with reference to "race and culture assessment" and "testimony about the availability of Afrocentric services in prisons and jails"
globalnews.ca/news/7728851/c…

Wokeness is the terminal stage of the emancipatory project -- it is what ensues when we have reached a zero sum equilibrium of universal recognition at the End of History and attempts to extract further "progress" yield diminishing marginal returns and generate uncontrollable feedback effects as manufactured oppressions proliferate and the zombified corpses of older oppressions are propped up rhetorically to justify the cannibalization of the rights of all by fetishists and other vanguardists redefining health, competency, and the reality principle itself as functions of oppression Vonnegut's short stories Harrison Bergeron and the Ethical Suicide Parlor are highly predictive of the present conjuncture

Today's Year Zero podcast is a long interview with @heterodorx about why he spent the spring and summer urging state legislatures to impose age restrictions on the practice of pediatric gender medicine wesleyyang.substack.com/p/heres-the-bo…
@heterodorx wesleyyang.substack.com/p/heres-the-bo…

The truck is a running exhibition of the fact that GLAAD's efforts to control NYT coverage of this issue from within failed when it turned out that their dogmas were not evidence based and could not withstand reasoned scrutiny

https://twitter.com/glaad/status/1694691993639587995

Especially after the NYT simply batted aside its prior attempt to coerce them with an open letter, the resumption of the truck is a frank confession of an organization in disarray.

Time for the NYT to start investigating them.

"Let us take note: if the greengrocer had been instructed to display the slogan "I am afraid and therefore unquestioningly obedient;' he would not be nearly as indifferent to its semantics, even though the statement would reflect the truth. The greengrocer would be embarrassed and ashamed to put such an unequivocal statement of his own degradation in the shop window, and quite naturally so, for he is a human being and thus has a sense of his own dignity. To overcome this complication, his expression of loyalty must take the form of a sign which, at least on its textual surface, indicates a level of disinterested conviction. It must allow the greengrocer to say, "What's wrong with the workers of the world uniting?" Thus the sign helps the greengrocer to conceal from himself the low foundations of his obedience, at the same time concealing the low foundations of power. It hides them behind the facade of something high. And that something is ideology."

https://twitter.com/no_men_as_women/status/1693220180057346328?s=20

Universal daycare has been proven to damage the children who have been through it. It may well be at the root of an ongoing child mental health care crisis.

wesleyyang.substack.com/p/universal-ea… Quantifying the childhood mental crisis: https://t.co/bgJ9O5uzxAwesleyyang.substack.com/p/universal-ea…

When a mother reported that a man wearing a wig tried to look under a stall where her daughter was changing at a pool in BC, Canada, the staff told her that she could be arrested herself for having confronted the man, who claimed to have a human right to be present in the women's… https://t.co/YSR5uEfRD3twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Every few weeks Reduxx reports on a face-melting scandal involving institutional depravity of u speakable proportions that has become routine in Western nations and that is subject to a total media blackout outside of the Daily Mail and a few US conservative outlets