To recap the previous discussion, tens of thousands of people on the Left actually celebrated the horrific murder of Charlie Kirk in front of his family. Many more liked and shared such messages on social media. This sadistic glee by so many has probably never before been seen in this country and perhaps anywhere in the world. Clearly Satan has gained a following among the hearts of some people in this country.
Charlie Kirk represented the way that political dialogue should take place. Charlie was respectful and attempted to use facts to allow reality to gain a foothold in the minds and hearts of the younger generation. At this Charlie was successful. Did he convert everyone he talked with? No, of course not. However, many among our younger generations are quite capable of thinking for themselves and some of them saw the light.
The real question is are there issues where the differences are irreconcilable and how do we move forward when only one ideation is possible?
Kevin Dolan:
We can start with the trans issue, since that appears to be the assassin’s motive.
As of 2022, 38 percent of Americans claimed to believe that a person’s gender can differ from their assigned sex at birth. Many of these people are conformists who have not thought deeply about the question, but a huge number of Americans have made costly and irrevocable decisions on the basis of this belief, they consistently talk about it among themselves, they’ve developed a complex body of theory around it.
Point being: whether they exactly “believe” in it factually, they definitely mean it, in a moral sense.
If their view of the world is right, then failing to intervene medically with a “trans child” prior to puberty is to consign that child to a lifetime of alienation and suffering. And of course, if this view of the world is not true, the opposite — children must be protected from this kind of ideation, and especially prevented from acting upon it, at all costs.
The stakes for the child in question are existential and irreversible in either direction.
So what facts can be debated here?
This is the crux of the matter. Facts. Much of what we hear on any topic today is emotion-laden rhetoric. No facts. Trump is Hitler. Republicans are Nazis. Kirk is a racist. Etc. Where are the facts?
Kevin Dolan:
Transness is empirically invisible — it has no etiology, no coherent body of symptoms. There is nothing that tells you a trans-identifying male is “actually” a woman except for his assertion. As a consequence of intersectional feminist commitments, queer theorists can’t even admit any broad categories of “femininity” that indicate (or, critically, contra-indicate) a person’s trans identity.
Whether you believe trans identity is invisible-and-real or invisible-and-fake, it exists outside the purview of rational inquiry. You can “debate” about it in the sense that Matt Walsh did with “What is a Woman,” by pointing out that trans identity is evidence-less and circular, but that’s all there is to say about it.
And what modus vivendi is possible here?
Let’s let that sink in for a moment. There are no biological markers that demonstrate that an individual is trans. There is no way to make a medical diagnosis that this is true. The “condition” is unverifiable.
Kevin Dolan:
You cannot give trans mommies the right to castrate their children without abolishing child abuse as a concept. There is almost nothing a parent could do to a child that is more damaging than to wrongfully and intentionally castrate them, sterilize them, and permanently derange a perfectly normal and healthy endocrine system.
If parents are legally allowed to do that to their children (again, with zero falsifiable evidence of medical justification), there is no coherent basis to restrict any parental prerogative, no matter how obviously insane or sadistic or self-serving.
Unfortunately for Spencer Cox of Disagree Better fame., you also can’t ban childhood transition without the trans mommies accusing you (consistently, from within their perspective) of withholding life-saving medical care from children.
There is no middle way.
There is a growing body of evidence showing just what a disaster the whole trans scam is. And a scam it is. Big Pharma makes oodles of money off of people who transition. Drugs will be needed for the rest of their lives.
The mental illness side of this issue is scary. How the drugs that are prescribed play into this is not known at the moment. However, some 40% of “trans” people will attempt suicide. The growing number of mass shootings in recent years attributed to trans people is another indicator of the unstable mental condition of many trans people. The most recent school shooting in Minneapolis is a prime example of this.
Unmoored from a civilization that their parents, their educators, their entertainers and their journalists refuse to defend, when able, these people lash out at those who they perceive to be against them. They look for the most vulnerable so that they can achieve some catharsis from their acts.
As Kevin Dolan noted, there is no middle ground here.
Kevin Dolan:
You can find analogues in all the issues for which leftists are currently howling about Charlie Kirk.
Things like “systemic racism” and “the gender pay gap” are fake and imaginary. It takes about 15 minutes to “debate” what facts there are to debate.
As with trans identity, we are attempting to disprove the existence of a spook — an evil miasma that is the cause of all manner of social ills, but one that is beyond all powers of human empirical detection, and can only be proven tautologically….
A society cannot be organized with both of these perspectives in view. People who hold the one set of beliefs cannot tolerate being governed by the other.
We can only be ruled together by force from one side or the other. We have arrived at the limits of dialogue.
This is where the Democrats have brought us. These issues are not reconcilable. The Democrats have adopted a strategy whose logical conclusion is a civil war of good vs evil.
Where do we go from here?