No doubt my readers have noticed the wonderful ability of some of our ‘thought leaders’ to brainwash the young, gullible and ill-educated by lying to them. They have become so brazen that they will now use a term to mean the exact opposite of what it truly means.
One example of this misuse of language is the term “diversity”. When our thought leaders use this word and claim they want diversity, they mean they don’t want me or other conservatives who have different opinions to them to speak or have a platform anywhere. Another example is the phrase marriage equality. Marriage was always equally open to any man or woman who could find someone who wanted to marry them. Marriage equality was about destroying the definition of marriage. A third example is the word ‘anti-racist’. To be anti-racist, you must support policies that actively discriminate based on race in order to lead to equal outcomes. So an anti-racist is a racist. Of course, let us not forget the chestnut “economic justice” which sounds so beautiful, but has nothing to do with justice, but is about stealing from some to give to another group, which when you think of it doesn’t sound very just at all.
A current example of deceitful speech of our thought leaders is the term conversion therapy. A friend of mine recently shared this thought experiment with me. Let’s imagine you went back to the time when your grandparents were young, and you asked them which of the following was conversion therapy, and which was gender affirmation therapy: 1) Telling a person that they need to live in accordance with their male or female sexed body. 2) Assisting a person live as the gender they consider themselves to be in their minds. This may involve removing parts of the body and injecting the body with hormones from. I think most of our forebears would imagine that gender affirmation therapy would be described by number 1, and conversion therapy would be number 2, which in actual fact is the opposite of how the elites define these things.
There’s a great video which I’ve posted before which brilliantly points out this stupidity. Watch it before our tolerant and inclusive elites decide it’s dangerous.
Now some readers might be saying to themselves, sex and gender aren’t the same. You, dear reader, have been brainwashed well. What is this idea of gender? It seems it is something you define yourself according to the whims of your feelings. How can you scientifically investigate a thing like that?
I leave you with a brilliant quote from Anthony Esolen’s book Defending Marriage: Twelve Arguments For Sanity. ‘I do not use the word gender, except to refer to the grammatical category. I’m quite aware of the non-sensical idea that sex is one thing, referring only to a minor bit of plumbing in the nether regions, and gender another, referring to everything else about men and women, all of it supposedly “socially constructed” and arbitrary. Yes, I’ve heard it all my academic life, and the more we actually learn about biological maleness and femaleness, the more absurd this line becomes. Every cell of my body is marked as masculine. My adrenal system is different from my wife’s – it is primed for sudden attack and just as sudden calm; an adrenal system for all-out fighting, followed or preceded by cold strategy. Hers is not that way. I doubt anyone caring for small children ought to be that way. My heart-lung capacity at age fifty is that of a woman at her peak, at age twenty. I will possess more brute strength (by far) than my daughter until I am very old, or in the last stages of a terminal disease. My wife sees things I do not see; she makes connections with people I would not make; she has the touch.