Wondering if this piece is the first and only appearance of the term "Luigi Left" in the mainstream media?

It ran two days ago, was criticized by some as the ramblings of someone Too Online, but now it seems pretty timely.

https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1965044329392787599

The Luigi Left

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1965863921463779676

1.) These are statistically rare events. There were 428 black-on-white stranger-on-stranger killings in 2019 -- 3 percent of all murders.

2.) They are far more common than the police killings of unarmed black men that became a national obsession in the 2010's. There were 12 killings of unarmed black men in 2019 as the Black Lives Matter movement ramped up to its crescendo.

A narrative can easily be fashioned online by exploiting the "availability heuristic" that causes the subconscious mind to confound the vividness and memorability of events for their incidence. That is what right wing accounts focusing on the black-on-white stranger killings are doing.

Which is of course what the whole of the media did from 2015-2020 for police killings of unarmed black men, culminating in a nationwide freakout that put American cities in flames and resulted in the deaths of 30 people.

This created a pent up interest in re-establishing the salience of 2.), the goal of which is not a nationwide street freakout but simply the changing of prosecutorial polices that allow the catch and release of repeat violent offenders.


Yes, 30 deaths directly attributed to violence in the riots and the largest two year spike in murder deaths in American history resulting in thousands of excess deaths above the prior baseline as law enforcement was delegitimized for several years

https://x.com/dfkodsi/status/1965130341204762684

"When you get to the issues around sports, trans issues, that's now no longer about celebrating your rights. It's about denying other people theirs." -- Gavin Newsom

Newsom articulates what will in the end prove to be the decisive fact about the trans rights movement: that trans rights and women's rights are zero sum -- to give to the former group is to take from the latter group.

"Marriage equality was about everyone's rights. Your marriage was not diminished because a couple that had been together 30 years got married and happened to be the same sex, but your child may not have that same opportunity to get on the podium if a trans athlete is competing for that limited spot."

Tremendous effort has been expended by the trans rights movement to deny this fundamental antagonism and keep it out of public circulation.

Newsom just put it out there. "When you get to the issues around sports, trans issues, that's now no longer about celebrating your rights. It's about denying other people theirs." -- Gavin Newsom

After the 2023 mass shooting at a Christian school by a trans-identified female in Nashville, transgender protesters rallied in the legislature and held up seven fingers to refer to seven victims -- the six gunned down by the mass shooter, and the shooter herself, killed by police at the scene of her shooting.

Three days later, the White House spokeswoman president said "LGBTQI+ kids are resilient. They are fierce. They fight back. They’re not going anywhere. And we have their back. This administration has their back."

So it's no surprise that soon after yet another mass murder of children by a trans-identified shooter, the movement are acting like they are the victims while also marking the site of a mass killing perpetrated by one of their own with their flag. There's a reason that this movement doesn't resemble prior civil rights movements -- why it behaves so differently than prior such movements while still claiming to inherit the legacy of those prior movements. That is to say that it is something other than it claims to be -- it is not what it identifies as.

Rowling invited arrest by calling a male murderer a man the day a Scottish hate crime late went into effect. She dared the Scottish state to arrest her. She promised to retweet the speech of anyone prosecuted for calling a man a man, thus obliging the state to add her to the docket as s co-defendant of any such trial.

The state knows that any such retweet would result in thousands of others volunteering to be co-defendants. The state has judged it prudent to hold itself back from direct confrontation with Rowling, who represents both opportunity and threat.

Opportunity because if she can be brought to heel by the coercive power of the state, anyone can. Threat because if she can galvanize the supermajority of the public that agrees with her to become as impassioned about defending reality as the state is about imposing delusional falsehoods as the only truth by law, she can injure or even shatter their democratic legitimacy. We know that on this issue they do not care about the will of the people, but we know that at least for now they are constrained to behave as if they do. And so they bide their time.

The historical figure she resembles in all this is Martin Luther -- the individual voice of conscience confronting the institutional order with nothing but truth in a contest over whether individual conscience can withstand an inquisition. Anyone who watched her tweet on that day knows that her decision to assume this role was entirely spontaneous, that she was coming to understand what she confronted in the very act of confronting it.

The transgender movement is global and unitary and seeks the same things everywhere it obtains the power to impose them. Its ultimate aim is to deploy state power to make it illegal to deny the movement’s dogmas. It is an assault on the freedoms of speech, conscience, religion, and association that will imprison people for saying that men aren’t women, that human beings cannot change sex, that there has never been an evidence base for transgender medicine, that children are never born in the wrong body, that women need their own private spaces from which men are excluded, that letting men compete against women in sports is deeply unfair because trans women are men, that sex is binary and immutable, that Rachel Levine is a deeply corrupt man who abused his power to advance the aims of a cult of medicalized self-harm that brainwashes quirky kids to yearn to be chemically castrated and dismembered, and that all of it is in the service of a mad imperative to make a false claim true. These are three tweets from which Linehan was arrested

Why did Riley Gaines stop using preferred pronouns?

I suspect that when she was assaulted and held hostage for three hours, with ransom demands issued for her safe departure from the building by a mob of male trans activists at SCSU, none of whom were disciplined in any way by SCSU administration, which issued a statement in solidarity with her captors, had an effect on her understanding of what she was up against.

I think during those hours, the exhibition made inescapably clear that the people she was up against were narcissistic and violent men determined to destroy her right to speak, that imposing a presumption that falsifying reality is required of everyone was how they won in the past, and that breaking that presumption was fundamental to resolving this issue. I'm not a fan of every statement Gaines has made on subjects other than men in women's sports -- but on that particular subject she is 100 percent right, her conduct has been 100 percent righteous and courageous, and her detractors are useful idiots for with one of the most toxic social movements in American history

The first clause of this sentence is locked in competition with a very crowded field, but is surely in the running for the single most nakedly Orwellian sentence clause to appear in a major newspaper in the recent memory.

https://twitter.com/CaitlinPacific/status/1961307359302836651

Who first spread the rumor that the 6'4" male was trans??

All this Calvinball over whether he was or wasn't "really" trans, whether the press should hide his trans identification to dissociate an act of mass murder from a "marginalized minority" group, insist on honoring his preferred pronouns, or disclaim him as a "detransitioner" -- just underscores the point that there is no "real" trans with a stable, coherent referent to counterpose against the moral and mental chaos that has been reified in rhetoric rather than reality into "trans identity."

All it ever was in this or any other case is a maladaptive coping mechanism for the serious mental health comorbidities that virtually always accompany and/or give rise to trans ideation in teenagers who've been made impossible promises by ideologized adults, teachers, politicians, unscrupulous quack doctors, and cultists who have infiltrated the American professional class and reap a rich bounty in money and clout by brainwashing confused teenagers into yearning to be chemically castrated and dismembered.

There is of course no stable, coherent definition of "trans" other than "possessed of a false belief that can never be true that a boy is really a girl or "vice versa," and all the Chinese fire drills over how to refer to this person in the press just underscore this reality. That in the midst of all this reified moral and mental chaos kids who are already troubled and unstable become even more troubled and unstable as their actual problems go undiagnosed and their mental and emotional energy is siphoned into a quixotic crusade to make an absurd falsehood into reality is just one of the many wrongs of this mania.

The operative logic is clear here: the more they kill others, they more they are imperiled by phantom counter-violence, and thus the more we must defend them, and all the more so on the days that they kill.

And thus we must excuse the calls to rape and violence that are pervasive in their online messaging and in the messaging they bring to protests and marches where they assert that they have a right to commandeer women's spaces if they say they are women and any woman who tries to draw boundary between herself and them is a Nazi who can be treated the way Nazis deserve to be treated.

And thus we must redouble our efforts to ensure that state power does their bidding and executes their will, and punishes those who resist their incursions, lest they further imperil themselves by killing others.

https://x.com/wesyang/status/1775959455047295390

The reason that suicides and murders by trans-identified youth will become increasingly common is that anyone can identity into a trans identity and all troubled and disturbed (as well as merely quirky or benignly misfit) young people are being encouraged and incentivized to do

https://twitter.com/ReduxxMag/status/1960746683035275595

Looks like the trans-identified male mass shooter targeted the church where his trans-affirming mother who signed off on his legal name change while he was still a minor worked for five years

https://x.com/againstgrmrs/status/1960756096420995285

Biden didn’t talk this way while campaigning. He won the Presidency and handed over complete control of federal agencies to the people who would.

This will be true of any Democrat apart from one who explicitly champions bans on boys in girls sports and spaces, bans of transing children, an end to gender propaganda in schools, and a guarantee that gender speech cannot be compelled.

Nothing short of explicit support for these actions will signal any change of policy at all.

https://x.com/wesyang/status/1732207284850143237

I used to tweet periodically about how I'm not really courageous and only take on fights where I'm 100 percent certain to win.

The gender issue has been great in this regard because people are more afraid of it than they are of anything else despite it being the purest, clearest, most self-evident case of the institutional embrace of mass delusion in American history. I want people to understand the meaning of this signal: if I am taking a strong position, it's because the issue is an absolute bloodbath that cannot be lost in any sane world

How we know gender identity is fake
1.) Germany passed a self-ID law that lets people change their gender identity every year and sue people for misgendering them. A Neo-Nazi convict who identified as a woman and is heading to a woman's prison is suing the media for doubting his self-identification.
2.) WPATH, the medical trade association that issues "standards of care" for transgender procedures that includes "eunuch identity" as a valid gender identity that creates grounds to castrate someone in order to align their bodies with their eunuch identity.
3.) Chase Strangio, ACLU's lead litigator on trans rights issue, a woman who doesn't identify as a man but merely as "trans" told the Supreme Court that trans identity is not immutable but can change.
4.) Colorado passed a law allowing people to change their gender self-ID up to three times and another law requiring insurers to pay for a range of cosmetic surgeries include nose jobs, electrolysis, and mandibular reconstruction, so long as the procedure is intended to make a man look like a woman or a woman look like a man.

This is why Amy Coney Barrett has expressed skepticism that the transgender population is 1.) a distinct class of person onto whom protected status can be conferred at all or 2.) a minority group that suffers from historical discrimination requiring redress. It is of course neither.

What is being adduced as "anti-trans discrimination" will inevitably just be some facet of a world designed to accommodate sexual difference, which sometimes requires separation of the sexes for the safety, privacy, and protection of women, which Ruth Bader Ginsberg declared a legitimate purpose of the law, and which no trans activist has ever provided a compelling reason to undo.

It only gets more ridiculous from here. But this small handful of examples should be sufficient to disabuse anyone of the notion that there was ever everything remotely real to discuss here. It's time to shut this mania down for good. There is no attempt to make any of this remotely coherent by those wielding the power to inflict this on the world. There have thus been nothing but one reductio ad absurdum to the next that someone keeps marching through institutions undeterred.

Amy Coney Barrett realized this, sought confirmation of it from the ACLU's lead trans rights litigator, and received it: "sex is a concrete, biological, and observable phenomenon in nature," while "gender identity is a subjective belief" that has "no measurable or quantifiable qualities that can classify into a protected class," while "protected classes are established to defend immutable characteristics that can't be identified in and out of such as age and sex." Anyone can confirm this by asking a trans activist or ally to provide _non-circular_ definition of a woman

There's many problems with this tweet, but above all that it isn't true.

The Holocaust ended because Germany was militarily defeated by the Soviets in East, for whom ending the Holocaust was not a military objective. The Germans fled from the Soviet advance while still attempting to complete their plan to kill every last Jew, diverting resources from defense to ensure the killing continued.

Other problems with the tweet: supreme confidence with which an untruth is declared, anachronistic application of "white" vs "brown" framing onto the great European encounter with the perennial Other whose long coexistence in Europe ended in a meticulous plan to eradicate every last member of that community within living memory that was substantially executed; the desperate indignation at white usurpers appropriating victimhood points rightly belonging to brown folx.

One sees this exasperation everywhere these days, this zeal to unseat the Jew from the claim to victimhood and to pay him back for his monopolization of it by making him into the new Nazi.

But also, this: if the state of the Jews is committing genocide, then what slur against them by Farrakhan or anyone else (Hitler, even?) hasn't been vindicated?

Insofar as this belief is axiomatic in the regions of Brooklyn where St. Felix inhabits, the tweets no longer offend anyone. They may be historically inaccurate but the sentiment they deploy is prescient. To write out one's critique of the tweet is to feel its diminished and diminishing power.

What actually happened no longer matters -- what matters is what 35 year old scribblers in Brooklyn think. And this is what they think. They tweeted it out a decade ago. She's just so delighted with her repetition of delusional racist nonsense, with the verve and style and attitude with which she carried off -- and everyone loved it, the guys at the New Yorker, her professors at Brown. They all found it, and her, wonderful.

We can all see the outlines of what's to come: The 1945 Project

The gender inquisitors seeking to destroy the livelihood of a nurse for saying "human beings cannot change sex" are carrying out the defining goal of the trans rights movement

https://twitter.com/preta_6/status/1957272685983272994

If you think you support trans rights but are not celebrating this decision, you don't actually understand trans rights and don't actually support them.

If you aren't celebrating this decision, you oppose trans rights.

The person Esper is referring to as having been "pulled into the fever swamp" is @jk_rowling. The reason Esper thinks Rowling has been pulled into the fever swamp is that she referred to the man in these photos as "a man."

Esper thinks it's 1.) it's ok to oppose the inclusion of this man, who calls himself a woman, in women's sports. But he also thinks 2.) it's monstrously cruel and indecent and bigoted and hateful, to the point of paranoid insanity, to call this person "a man." He thinks calling the man in the photos below "a man" is evidence of having "gone too far."

He thinks that Rowling and others who oppose the inclusion of this man in women's sports are 3.) just like the people who resisted the integration of the Jim Crow South because they called this hulking 6'2" man "a man" and he tells them that 4.) someday in the future they will think back to calling men like this "men" and be ashamed.

I disagree. @jk_rowling

https://x.com/dfkodsi/status/1957067037529751871

Should a nurse be forced to pay a $100k fine for saying “men are not women” and “humans can’t change sex?”

https://twitter.com/salltweets/status/1956451296522956818

“Trans rights” means “the right for other people to see you as you see yourself,” which also means “punishing people who don’t see you as you see yourself if you are a man who sees yourself as a woman.”

She opposes transgender women in women's sports because transgender women are men. If they were women, her opposition wouldn't make any sense. It only makes sense because they are men.

https://twitter.com/dilanesper/status/1956454506595840425

Strangio put it best:

88 percent of college students have pretended to hold woke views to succeed socially or academically.

The article looks at the psychic injuries inflicted on a generation of students by this mandated fakery.

Don't forget about the ethical dimension. The mindless loyalty tests pervasive on college campuses have crippled the moral and intellectual integrity of a generation of future leaders. thehill.com/opinion/educat…