I’m happy to see you refer to the “good faith debate” the podcast has sparked, because so far, the trans agenda has been advanced by the opposite of good faith. Its primary means of advancement has been the use of emotional blackmail. “You must accept (indeed, you must celebrate!) every single radical position we throw out there or else …
I’m happy to see you refer to the “good faith debate” the podcast has sparked, because so far, the trans agenda has been advanced by the opposite of good faith. Its primary means of advancement has been the use of emotional blackmail. “You must accept (indeed, you must celebrate!) every single radical position we throw out there or else children will kill themselves!!”
Another subtler tactic - but one also characterized by bad faith - is what the writer Rod Dreher refers to as the Law of Inverse Pathological Enthusiasm. Dreher notes that to a left-wing social justice advocate, discussing social justice issues incessantly from a progressive point of view demonstrates that person’s virtue and commitment to justice, “but talking about them at all from a dissenting point of view is evidence of an insane obsession with the topic.”
Paraphrasing Dreher:
Progressive: "Trans trans trans trans trans!"
Conservative: "Trans?"
Progressive: "Why are you so obsessed with someone’s gender, you bigoted lunatic?!”
Beyond the emotional blackmail and the use of Dreher’s law, the trans movement has perverted the language with their pronoun madness, all the while insisting that everyone else must also pervert the language in exactly their prescribed fashion. They have proselytized and groomed children in schools, all the while counseling them to hide these conversations from parents. They have utterly corrupted science and medicine by dragooning practitioners and writers in these fields into supporting the cause (dragooning made easier by the money now sloshing through the system for conversion drugs and surgeries). And of course, they have employed the sinister power of the mob to stage attacks on social media designed to destroy the livelihoods of people who dissent from their agenda.
Frankly, if the trans movement hadn’t behaved in such an aggressively bad faith manner to this point, there would be no “witch trials” to talk about and very little if any interest in a podcast on this subject. I am seeing signs that the tide may be turning, and if your podcast is either a cause or an effect of this tide turning, then good on ya!
Excellent comment!! You put into words the nagging in my head of how can they speak lies and successfully get some people to believe they speak truth?? I'm so outraged by the whole thing that I can barely stand it. It's like they're endorsing pedophilia.
I’m happy to see you refer to the “good faith debate” the podcast has sparked, because so far, the trans agenda has been advanced by the opposite of good faith. Its primary means of advancement has been the use of emotional blackmail. “You must accept (indeed, you must celebrate!) every single radical position we throw out there or else children will kill themselves!!”
Another subtler tactic - but one also characterized by bad faith - is what the writer Rod Dreher refers to as the Law of Inverse Pathological Enthusiasm. Dreher notes that to a left-wing social justice advocate, discussing social justice issues incessantly from a progressive point of view demonstrates that person’s virtue and commitment to justice, “but talking about them at all from a dissenting point of view is evidence of an insane obsession with the topic.”
Paraphrasing Dreher:
Progressive: "Trans trans trans trans trans!"
Conservative: "Trans?"
Progressive: "Why are you so obsessed with someone’s gender, you bigoted lunatic?!”
Beyond the emotional blackmail and the use of Dreher’s law, the trans movement has perverted the language with their pronoun madness, all the while insisting that everyone else must also pervert the language in exactly their prescribed fashion. They have proselytized and groomed children in schools, all the while counseling them to hide these conversations from parents. They have utterly corrupted science and medicine by dragooning practitioners and writers in these fields into supporting the cause (dragooning made easier by the money now sloshing through the system for conversion drugs and surgeries). And of course, they have employed the sinister power of the mob to stage attacks on social media designed to destroy the livelihoods of people who dissent from their agenda.
Frankly, if the trans movement hadn’t behaved in such an aggressively bad faith manner to this point, there would be no “witch trials” to talk about and very little if any interest in a podcast on this subject. I am seeing signs that the tide may be turning, and if your podcast is either a cause or an effect of this tide turning, then good on ya!
Excellent comment!! You put into words the nagging in my head of how can they speak lies and successfully get some people to believe they speak truth?? I'm so outraged by the whole thing that I can barely stand it. It's like they're endorsing pedophilia.