25 Mar 15
For those who might object to the use of the word 'deviant' to describe a transgender, the term is used in its strict philosophical sense of that which deviates from the norm, as the norm for a male is to be a male. It also serves as a poison pill.
Wednesday was a really, really bad day for the local newspaper.
RE: Transgendered woman barred from HSR bathroom, left in
tears.
RE: Rob Ford’s legacy of fear.
These stories seem to depict ‘the gradual victory of
delirium over reason and of passion over truth.’
It occurred to no one at the transgendered press conference
to ask about the rights of actual women for privacy, and for their right to use
a “woman’s” bathroom without a deviant male being present. The crying jag
was a nice touch and probably deflected attention from the real issue, which
was why should a security guard accept the word of a self-interested deviant
male about human rights?
The author of the trash piece on Rob Ford did not seem
especially fearful in light of the legacy of fear that the cancer-stricken
former mayor allegedly left behind. But Ford is a Conservative and the
Toronto Star is a Liberal paper, and Liberals never let anything as
implausible as truth get in the way of whacking a Conservative. Liberal
writers like those which type for the Star justify themselves upon ‘the
Greater Cosmic Truth that exists independent of objective truth.’ That
Greater Cosmic Truth holds that anything conservative is evil and deserves to
be destroyed.
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With thanks a a hat tip to Charles C.W. Cooke of National Review for some fine turns of phrase.
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