Trans eligibility rules for girls sports.

From Leighton Woodhouse of Public News

Pride Month is upon us. Once upon a time, that meant celebrating the struggle of an oppressed minority group whose civil rights the government was arbitrarily violating. Then, eight years ago, the Supreme Court upheld marriage equality, and gays and lesbians became legally equal — a momentous advance for American democracy.

So what does Pride Month stand for now that equality of sexual orientation has been achieved? The obvious answer is that it stands for the ongoing struggle for the equality of trans people, whose rights have yet to be won.

But that answer only begs the question. What exactly are these unfulfilled rights? Trans people are already legally equal. It’s against the law to discriminate against trans people in employment, housing, marriage, or anything else other people are entitled to.

So what is it, precisely, that the LGBTQIA2S+ movement is fighting for?

Judging by its rhetoric, that movement today demands much more than equal rights for people who identify as transgender — rights they already possess. It insists on privileges that other groups don’t necessarily enjoy. These are, in fact, not “rights” at all but demands on other people. They include the demand that everyone else adjust their everyday speech to adopt new words and grammar, sometimes on pain of material penalties, like job loss or fines. They include changes to long-standing rules governing public spaces — changes that infringe on what were hitherto perceived as the rights, sometimes hard-won, of women. And they include forfeiting profound parental authority and responsibilities over our own children.

No other civil rights movement has ever even asked for changes such as these, let alone won them. And there’s a reason for that: they are not the entitlements of a democratic society. They are the opposite.

Naturally, many people are resistant to these demands. Even people who are open to being persuaded, as they were over gay marriage, are resentful at being told not just how to act but what to believe. In a normal democratic context, we would bargain over these competing prerogatives through the prosaic mechanisms of elections and legislation. But today’s LGBT movement has ceased relying on persuasion as the means to achieve its goals, as it so brilliantly did in the fight for marriage equality. It has replaced persuasion with moral bullying.

The LGBT movement today makes demands, and you’re called upon to comply. If you don’t, you’re called a bigot, loudly and publicly. It’s really as crude and simple as that. Anyone who doesn’t enthusiastically comply with whatever the movement demands at any given moment, we’re told, must be motivated by hate. Social ostracism is the just dessert for these moral heretics.

Like most blunt instruments of authoritarianism, to a point, it works. People tend to obey, if only out of fear.

But there will always be those who refuse to bend the knee, and when activists smear them publicly as bigots, extremists and MAGA white supremacists, they fight back harder. That’s what’s happening in places like Glendale, California, and Montgomery County, Maryland. People are questioning the demands of this movement, particularly when it comes to their children. And they’re being met with force. Those clashes are now erupting in violence.

There was a time when one would have expected politicians to play a de-escalatory role when these conflicts broke out, especially when the vying camps were among their own constituents. But today, political leaders are instead rushing to take sides.

The change represents an erosion that has occurred in American politics. Politicians now govern through division because conflict yields political dividends that consensus does not. Moral grandstanding has become a new status marker for the educated and affluent, supplanting luxury European cars and Stanford alumni bumper stickers. Thirsty to appeal to these high-propensity voters of the donor class, elected officials, most of whom belong to the same social tier themselves, pander to their sensibilities. Thus, instead of acting to reconcile these ruptures, they pounce on them, eager to showcase their leadership of the moral elite.

The politicians, the NGOs, the activists, the corporations, the media — the incentives align for all of them to stoke these flames and amass the moral capital that comes with being perceived as being on the right side. With this grandstanding comes votes, donations, brand loyalty, and subscriptions. Social conflict, like war, is big business.

So that’s what Pride Month means today: endless Culture War. Don’t mistake it for what it once was. The moral posturing, the victimization, the radical chic — it’s all part of the marketing.

—LW
 
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Yeah... wealthy, Ivy League graduate, hot wife and Commander In Chief. He's a real fuckup compared to you, bitchboy.

I'll bet he doesn't even have multiple profiles on SoCal Soccer Forum.

Sounds like you and Trump should get a room, except Trump wants nothing to do with you other than to part you from your paltry savings. So how much are you loving your trump digital trading cards?
 
From Leighton Woodhouse of Public News

Pride Month is upon us. Once upon a time, that meant celebrating the struggle of an oppressed minority group whose civil rights the government was arbitrarily violating. Then, eight years ago, the Supreme Court upheld marriage equality, and gays and lesbians became legally equal — a momentous advance for American democracy.

So what does Pride Month stand for now that equality of sexual orientation has been achieved? The obvious answer is that it stands for the ongoing struggle for the equality of trans people, whose rights have yet to be won.

But that answer only begs the question. What exactly are these unfulfilled rights? Trans people are already legally equal. It’s against the law to discriminate against trans people in employment, housing, marriage, or anything else other people are entitled to.

So what is it, precisely, that the LGBTQIA2S+ movement is fighting for?

Judging by its rhetoric, that movement today demands much more than equal rights for people who identify as transgender — rights they already possess. It insists on privileges that other groups don’t necessarily enjoy. These are, in fact, not “rights” at all but demands on other people. They include the demand that everyone else adjust their everyday speech to adopt new words and grammar, sometimes on pain of material penalties, like job loss or fines. They include changes to long-standing rules governing public spaces — changes that infringe on what were hitherto perceived as the rights, sometimes hard-won, of women. And they include forfeiting profound parental authority and responsibilities over our own children.

No other civil rights movement has ever even asked for changes such as these, let alone won them. And there’s a reason for that: they are not the entitlements of a democratic society. They are the opposite.

Naturally, many people are resistant to these demands. Even people who are open to being persuaded, as they were over gay marriage, are resentful at being told not just how to act but what to believe. In a normal democratic context, we would bargain over these competing prerogatives through the prosaic mechanisms of elections and legislation. But today’s LGBT movement has ceased relying on persuasion as the means to achieve its goals, as it so brilliantly did in the fight for marriage equality. It has replaced persuasion with moral bullying.

The LGBT movement today makes demands, and you’re called upon to comply. If you don’t, you’re called a bigot, loudly and publicly. It’s really as crude and simple as that. Anyone who doesn’t enthusiastically comply with whatever the movement demands at any given moment, we’re told, must be motivated by hate. Social ostracism is the just dessert for these moral heretics.

Like most blunt instruments of authoritarianism, to a point, it works. People tend to obey, if only out of fear.

But there will always be those who refuse to bend the knee, and when activists smear them publicly as bigots, extremists and MAGA white supremacists, they fight back harder. That’s what’s happening in places like Glendale, California, and Montgomery County, Maryland. People are questioning the demands of this movement, particularly when it comes to their children. And they’re being met with force. Those clashes are now erupting in violence.

There was a time when one would have expected politicians to play a de-escalatory role when these conflicts broke out, especially when the vying camps were among their own constituents. But today, political leaders are instead rushing to take sides.

The change represents an erosion that has occurred in American politics. Politicians now govern through division because conflict yields political dividends that consensus does not. Moral grandstanding has become a new status marker for the educated and affluent, supplanting luxury European cars and Stanford alumni bumper stickers. Thirsty to appeal to these high-propensity voters of the donor class, elected officials, most of whom belong to the same social tier themselves, pander to their sensibilities. Thus, instead of acting to reconcile these ruptures, they pounce on them, eager to showcase their leadership of the moral elite.

The politicians, the NGOs, the activists, the corporations, the media — the incentives align for all of them to stoke these flames and amass the moral capital that comes with being perceived as being on the right side. With this grandstanding comes votes, donations, brand loyalty, and subscriptions. Social conflict, like war, is big business.

So that’s what Pride Month means today: endless Culture War. Don’t mistake it for what it once was. The moral posturing, the victimization, the radical chic — it’s all part of the marketing.

—LW

A bigoty manifesto! Awesome! Now that Pat Robertson is dead, I guess someone had to pick up the torch.
 
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Sounds like you and Trump should get a room, except Trump wants nothing to do with you other than to part you from your paltry savings. So how much are you loving your trump digital trading cards?

Well, Biden certainly wouldn't want me... I'm not 8 years old.

I remember having more money on Trump's watch. In fact, everyone did. You probably made a fortune filing bullshit documents with a secretary so small business owners had to struggle. Such a hero.

P.S. - Trump's digital trading cards sold out and doubled in value in a single day. Not a bad investment. Did you miss out?
 
Well, Biden certainly wouldn't want me... I'm not 8 years old.

I remember having more money on Trump's watch. In fact, everyone did. You probably made a fortune filing bullshit documents with a secretary so small business owners had to struggle. Such a hero.

P.S. - Trump's digital trading cards sold out and doubled in value in a single day. Not a bad investment. Did you miss out?

I’m so sorry you aren’t doing well financially. Probably all the trading cards, which collapsed financially because of course they did. You probably bought my pillows as an “investment” also.
 
Well, Biden certainly wouldn't want me... I'm not 8 years old.

I remember having more money on Trump's watch. In fact, everyone did. You probably made a fortune filing bullshit documents with a secretary so small business owners had to struggle. Such a hero.

P.S. - Trump's digital trading cards sold out and doubled in value in a single day. Not a bad investment. Did you miss out?

Of course you’re struggling financially given how much you put into Truth Social stock. That crap is floundering even worse than Budweiser stock. It’s gonna be worthless within 12 months. IMG_2358.jpeg
 
I’m so sorry you aren’t doing well financially. Probably all the trading cards, which collapsed financially because of course they did. You probably bought my pillows as an “investment” also.

Collapsed like a tranny's plastic vagina! Nah... full disclosure... I didn't buy any of those cards.

So you think there's more to pillows than biting? You really are making progress.
 
You mean like all of our “militias”, including the oath keepers and proud boys? Although the main difference between the nazi ukrainian militias and our nazi militias is that ours would probably use a foreign invasion as an opportunity to shoot black people and hang Mike Pence instead of at least defending their own fucking country.
ahh, fourth point of contact speaking again. What Ukrainian militia do you speak of? stay on topic little guy. You are saying there aren't any Ukrainian openly nazi Ukrainian military units----ones that we aren't directly funding or have trained in the past? you so silly.
 
And their President and Prime Minister are still both Jewish, right in front of the whole world.
how does that even factor into anything? gibberish from you as usual. Because they are jewish it means the nazis are less nazi like? I mean wut? So you are saying you don't believe for one minute that there are nazi units currently in the Ukrainian military? Even though their clearly are? It's all lies and viscous propaganda from the ruskies?
 
Pretty soon Trump’s pronouns will be inmate/gimp.
Is this the year that you get Trump in Jail Surf Futbol Daddy who paid "big time?" Is Jack Smith going to finally get Trump? Your team has been saying this for 7 years. Little boy in big boy pants. You sure are something else today. I'm glad I pulled my daughter out of your evil circus of cheaters. How much did you spend helping your dd make the A Team and the YNT list?
 
Welcome to the third world. Look what they did to our country all to stop Trump. They started the Corona Virus BS to get all of you to wear a mask and take the jabs. It's clear as day today. It's truly a sad day in America. The good news, my socialist and democrats pals are now seeing the Marxist's like Surf Futbol and Espola. They sold us all out and used girls to win and make money. Shameful and dirty mean they are. I'm talking nasty cheats.

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