It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am cancelling my subscription to your newsletter. When you founded Common Sense following your resignation from the New York Times, I eagerly joined other like-minded citizens, who were sick of right and left wing extremes in a mass media that long ago became unhinged from reali…
It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am cancelling my subscription to your newsletter. When you founded Common Sense following your resignation from the New York Times, I eagerly joined other like-minded citizens, who were sick of right and left wing extremes in a mass media that long ago became unhinged from reality. We joined you with “optimism and gratitude” at the birth of your offspring–a new medium that we could trust to tell us the truth.
Much to my disappointment, however, I have discovered, as Voltaire put it, that “common sense is not so common.” In your resignation letter to the New York Times you lamented how a “new consensus has emerged in the press...that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.”
Some truths are a “process of discovery” and hard work. Other truths are as plain and simple as the nose on your face–well established facts that we all know are true, correct, and right. You could and should have begun the March 6, 2022 “Honestly“ podcast episode (and your Common Sense newsletter article), “Watching Lia Thomas,” with the truth. Instead, you incredulously chose to state an outrageous lie: “Lia Thomas is a transgender woman, who is now the star of the women’s swim team at Penn…”
I know that you know what everyone else–the whole world–knows: Lia Thomas is not a woman. Lia Thomas is a man. A male (equipped with a penis, to boot, which he likes to swing around the women’s locker room, according to his teammates). Saying that Lia Thomas is a “transgender woman” is both a false statement and an asinine one, becaus the word “transgender” has no coherent meaning.
“Transgender” does not denote some extra category of humans for whom sex is irrelevant. The word “transgender” is gibberish. It’s meaningless genderjargon, made out of whole cloth and used to justify all manner of monstrosities and injustices. According to Webster, “transgender” means “relating to, or being a person whose gender identity differs from the sex the person had or was identified as having at birth.” Webster further confirms that “gender identity” is meaningless, describing it as a “person's internal sense of being male, female, some combination of male and female, or neither male nor female.” In other words: nothing. No one has ever described what an “internal sense of sex”–or not sex–is like, because it cannot be described. I can’t describe what “female” feels like, because I don’t know what female feels like. I just am a female.
Why would you lead your podcast story with a sentence containing both an outright lie and incoherent poppycock? Why would you tell a blatant lie? Were you trying to be “nice” to someone? Many people claim to use the neologisms, the non sequiturs and pas prequiturs of gender religion, to be polite or “kind.” “I’m just trying to be respectful. Why can’t you?” This response, one of many cognitotoxic byproducts of gender ideology, is akin to Stockholm Syndrome, in which victims/hostages develop a positive, psychological bond with their abusers/captors while developing negative feelings toward anyone trying to set them free.
Words matter. Although you can’t give someone a shiner with a sentence, as aspiring victims claim, “words are weapons for all causes, good or bad.” An ideology based on lies that forces and manipulates others to tell lies is dangerous and evil. Spouting nonsensical poppycock you know to be false is not only harmful; it’s insulting. Why would you treat your subscribers and audience with such disrespect? Do you think we don’t know that Lia Thomas is a man? Do you think we are stupid? Do you think we signed up for this when we left the NYT and NPR monoculture for you?
Most Americans do not understand the real threat that the neo-religious “gender identity” ideology poses to all of us—especially women and girls. We’ve been told that "transgender" rights are a battle for civil rights, the “new gay rights battle.” That is another lie. There’s a big difference between asking people to accept you for who you are and demanding they accept you for who you are not. The average American has no civil rights that “trans” identified people don’t have. In fact, according to my definition of “trans,” I’m the one holding the short stick: “Trans” is a deluxe class citizenship that entitles you to unlimited taxpayer-funded cosmetic surgery, to force your neologisms on lesser-class citizens and to have them punished for insults, real or imagined, to your hallowed trans feelings.
All of our civic institutions—government, law, media, academia, arts, and business—have been completely captured by the the pernicious cult of “gender identity” and a very wealthy and powerful “gender industry” which seeks to abolish sex from life as we know it. Most Americans* are completely ignorant of how firmly the tentacles of the gender cult have suckered in U.S. society and law, because the mainstream media are engaged in a calculated and coordinated effort to hide that fact from us. We–and especially you, Bari–should all be asking why.
*PS: If you believe that “the most vulnerable people on the planet” aka the “transgender population” can have big business, academia, medicine, law, and government crawling on all fours doing its bidding, you have been suckered.
If you want to BE heard, you need to extend the same courtesy to others - particularly to those with whom you disagree. All I look for here is an honest opinion, and whether I agree with it or not, THAT we certainly have.
Dear Bari
It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am cancelling my subscription to your newsletter. When you founded Common Sense following your resignation from the New York Times, I eagerly joined other like-minded citizens, who were sick of right and left wing extremes in a mass media that long ago became unhinged from reality. We joined you with “optimism and gratitude” at the birth of your offspring–a new medium that we could trust to tell us the truth.
Much to my disappointment, however, I have discovered, as Voltaire put it, that “common sense is not so common.” In your resignation letter to the New York Times you lamented how a “new consensus has emerged in the press...that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.”
Some truths are a “process of discovery” and hard work. Other truths are as plain and simple as the nose on your face–well established facts that we all know are true, correct, and right. You could and should have begun the March 6, 2022 “Honestly“ podcast episode (and your Common Sense newsletter article), “Watching Lia Thomas,” with the truth. Instead, you incredulously chose to state an outrageous lie: “Lia Thomas is a transgender woman, who is now the star of the women’s swim team at Penn…”
I know that you know what everyone else–the whole world–knows: Lia Thomas is not a woman. Lia Thomas is a man. A male (equipped with a penis, to boot, which he likes to swing around the women’s locker room, according to his teammates). Saying that Lia Thomas is a “transgender woman” is both a false statement and an asinine one, becaus the word “transgender” has no coherent meaning.
“Transgender” does not denote some extra category of humans for whom sex is irrelevant. The word “transgender” is gibberish. It’s meaningless genderjargon, made out of whole cloth and used to justify all manner of monstrosities and injustices. According to Webster, “transgender” means “relating to, or being a person whose gender identity differs from the sex the person had or was identified as having at birth.” Webster further confirms that “gender identity” is meaningless, describing it as a “person's internal sense of being male, female, some combination of male and female, or neither male nor female.” In other words: nothing. No one has ever described what an “internal sense of sex”–or not sex–is like, because it cannot be described. I can’t describe what “female” feels like, because I don’t know what female feels like. I just am a female.
Why would you lead your podcast story with a sentence containing both an outright lie and incoherent poppycock? Why would you tell a blatant lie? Were you trying to be “nice” to someone? Many people claim to use the neologisms, the non sequiturs and pas prequiturs of gender religion, to be polite or “kind.” “I’m just trying to be respectful. Why can’t you?” This response, one of many cognitotoxic byproducts of gender ideology, is akin to Stockholm Syndrome, in which victims/hostages develop a positive, psychological bond with their abusers/captors while developing negative feelings toward anyone trying to set them free.
Words matter. Although you can’t give someone a shiner with a sentence, as aspiring victims claim, “words are weapons for all causes, good or bad.” An ideology based on lies that forces and manipulates others to tell lies is dangerous and evil. Spouting nonsensical poppycock you know to be false is not only harmful; it’s insulting. Why would you treat your subscribers and audience with such disrespect? Do you think we don’t know that Lia Thomas is a man? Do you think we are stupid? Do you think we signed up for this when we left the NYT and NPR monoculture for you?
Most Americans do not understand the real threat that the neo-religious “gender identity” ideology poses to all of us—especially women and girls. We’ve been told that "transgender" rights are a battle for civil rights, the “new gay rights battle.” That is another lie. There’s a big difference between asking people to accept you for who you are and demanding they accept you for who you are not. The average American has no civil rights that “trans” identified people don’t have. In fact, according to my definition of “trans,” I’m the one holding the short stick: “Trans” is a deluxe class citizenship that entitles you to unlimited taxpayer-funded cosmetic surgery, to force your neologisms on lesser-class citizens and to have them punished for insults, real or imagined, to your hallowed trans feelings.
All of our civic institutions—government, law, media, academia, arts, and business—have been completely captured by the the pernicious cult of “gender identity” and a very wealthy and powerful “gender industry” which seeks to abolish sex from life as we know it. Most Americans* are completely ignorant of how firmly the tentacles of the gender cult have suckered in U.S. society and law, because the mainstream media are engaged in a calculated and coordinated effort to hide that fact from us. We–and especially you, Bari–should all be asking why.
*PS: If you believe that “the most vulnerable people on the planet” aka the “transgender population” can have big business, academia, medicine, law, and government crawling on all fours doing its bidding, you have been suckered.
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If you want to BE heard, you need to extend the same courtesy to others - particularly to those with whom you disagree. All I look for here is an honest opinion, and whether I agree with it or not, THAT we certainly have.