{"id":58547,"date":"2016-04-26T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58547"},"modified":"2016-04-25T08:12:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T13:12:04","slug":"fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58547","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fear&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The internet is full of Liberals saying \u201cI\u2019m not afraid to let my little daughter go to the bathroom alone because transgender men are not rapists or child molesters.\u201d\u00a0 Yes, agreed; this is not about Bad Trans. \u00a0But straight people CLAIMING to be transgender men so they can camp out in women\u2019s bathrooms, those pretenders might be rapists and child molesters.\u00a0 That\u2019s a possible problem Liberals aren\u2019t acknowledging.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The response is \u201cThat\u2019s dumb, who would pretend to be trans?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">If a wealth philanthropist (a member of the Rockefeller family, for example) were to offer $50,000 cash on the spot to everyone who would pretend to be transgender and use the ladies\u2019 room at Target one time, would you reject it out of hand? \u00a0How about $100,000?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">So yes, at least some straight people would pretend to be transgender in order to use the ladies room, if the motivation was sufficient.\u00a0 The question is what would those pretenders consider sufficient motivation?\u00a0 Cash in hand?\u00a0 Access to little girls?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">I note these are the same Liberals who vilify the Boy scouts for allowing pedophilia, but then attack them for excluding the largest group of identifiable individuals most likely to be pedophiles.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if Liberals can\u2019t wrap their heads around the notion that not everybody plays by their unicorn-and-rainbow rules.\u00a0 I\u2019m not certain if that\u2019s plain stupidity or willful obliviousness.\u00a0 I\u2019m leaning toward willful obliviousness but it wouldn\u2019t take much to persuade me to change my mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">That&#8217;s become the latest addition to the left&#8217;s toolbox of noxious debate tactics; right out of the gate, disagreeing with their proposal is based on &#8220;fear&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The internet is full of Liberals saying \u201cI\u2019m not afraid to let my little daughter go to the bathroom alone because transgender men are not rapists or child molesters.\u201d\u00a0 Yes, agreed; this is not about Bad Trans. \u00a0But straight people CLAIMING to be transgender men so they can camp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58549,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58547\/revisions\/58549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}