Those preventing history from being taught intend to repeat it
Those preventing history from being taught intend to repeat it
"“If [transgenderism] is false, then for the good of society, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely – the whole preposterous ideology,” he said. "
Mr Knowles has said in the past that his rhetoric isn’t genocidal because he doesn’t believe trans people exist, Jezebel noted.
“There can’t be a genocide,” he said on his programme last week, adding that “it’s not a legitimate category of being. They’re labouring under a delusion. And so we need to correct that delusion”.
The exact same thing could be said for the 'my sky fairy is the true real one' ideologies. Monotheism is a brain disease.
I'd argue even organized theism and even seemingly banal exercises of worship like heralding political leaders are a brain disease. "Strong men" are almost always bad men.
A lesser brain disease than monotheism for sure, but they are all fruit from the same poisoned tree.
Belief(*) in and of itself is detrimental to a persons perception of reality. It doesn't matter if it's Christianity, some other monotheism, budhism, the belief in Karma, rebirth, homeopathy, essential oils, nationalism, political tribalism or flat earth.
All these things exist as memes, as mind-viruses that can be transmitted and change, they are subject to evolution (survival of the most convincing/rememberable) and to competition. They all have another thing in common: they weaken your immune system (your critical thinking skills) and make you more susceptible to other infections.
(*)Belief: The state of being convinced of something that has been proven not to be in accordance to objective reality.
Just wanted to point out that gender dysphoria isn't an ideology, it is a recognized condition and its treatment is the current state of medical practice.
Saying "transgenderism is an ideology" is as nonsensical as saying "depressionism is an ideology".
But right wing folks like to spout any nonsense so long as it seems to support their hatred and hurt the target thereof.
I think religious belief qualifies as ideology and I would argue that the abrahamic religions have been shown to lend themselves to regressive, hateful thinking time and again.
I personally think religion is simply an artifact, maybe even a side effect, of our evolutionary adaptations. One that is not too well adapted to life following the neolithic era and especially poorly suited to modern global existence.
Addendum: one does not need to experience gender dysphoria to be transgender/anywhere outside the gender binary. Cisgender people can experience it too, like if you look in the mirror and feel that your body doesn't match your gender as much as you internally feel it should
PS: the quote I was responding to is from the Conservative Political Action Conference. Which was full of similar hate...
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They are too ignorant to have intent. If they knew what they were doing, they’d realize the futility in doing it.
“Why commit yourself to a war you know you’re going to lose?”
Because their blind hate and stupidity compels them, not intentions.
Plus, you know... money. It's always about money.
No, do not do their work for them. Republicans have been leaking their plan to do a whole lot more worse things if Trump wins. The followers might be dumb, but the leaders ARE NOT dumb and DO have a plan to take power and do terrible things with that power.
In other places, China has been slowly buying up Africa and other developing nations with loans they can never pay back. Christofascists are creating little fiefdoms in Africa, too. Russia is still a world power with intent on building a new empire.
They don't have to have a perfect plan that cannot be defeated before they'll try to do it.
Enacting their own will is THE ENTIRE POINT. They don't care if people push back.
Right-wing ideology is neither blind nor stupid.
It exists to protect the status quo. That is it's only reason for existing. And the people at the top is perfectly conscious of what it is they are spouting.
If [transgenderism] is false
The way these self-confident charlatans talk, you'd think they believe every thing they don't like must be its own ideology, complete with ivory-tower academics dispensing it from a great height.
I'm seeing a bit of this kind of referential language elsewhere too, decrying such bugbears as 'evolutionism' and 'abortionism'- which, when you think about it, seems contrived to give people who read the title and don't read content the impression that there are whole fields of study, replete with cult followings, devoted to these things.
Rhetoric of this kind has a way of getting people to file away contingent-possible notions (that is, it might or might not be a thing but I don't have time to understand it now so I'm filing a placeholder in my head for later) Having those things filed away in your head has a way of putting you on the fence about whether they're true or real or not (they're neither true nor false, just contingent)- and when you're on the fence, partisanship can readily decide the matter without having to supply any evidence.
The purpose of rhetoric like this is not to inform, but to flood its audience with contingent-possible bullshit, to exhaust their critical capacity and render them receptive to even the most counterfactual nonsense you can contrive.
So, about the Crusades....
Just curious where this was?
I think it might be in Allendale /s