Blast From The Past
By Mitch Berg
One of the moments that made me realize my old former friend known to all of you as “Dog Gone” had slipped the surly bonds of reason was their claim that gender reassignment surgery altered the patient’s biological makeup at the DNA level – that it changed gender-related chromosomes [1]
I told myself “nobody can possibly be this deluded”…
…even while knowing deep in my soul that there’s always someone more delusional out there.
And sure enough:
Part of me wants to say “someday we’ll look back on this whole period of Western history and shudder”. But I realize that’s optimistic.
[1] Side issue – if they did have surgery or medication that altered the human body’s entire chromosomal makeup, it occurs to me that curing cancer would be a pretty trivial matter, wouldn’t it?.
January 4th, 2024 at 6:41 am
DNA tests are white-male-centric.
January 4th, 2024 at 7:15 am
Wait a minute, this phenomena is well established science based on ground-breaking research by Trofim Lysenko in the 30’s and 40’s.
January 4th, 2024 at 8:07 am
The message from the testing company says: “the biological sex detected by the DNA test does not match the reported gender for the person who took the test.”
The trans person complained: “There is no place for trans people . . . Why do they force me to say I am male? Gender is not the same as biological sex.”
Quoting from Merriam-Webster online: “Sex is often the preferred term when referring to biology (for instance, “in many species, members of the male sex are larger than those of the female sex”), while gender is the preferred word when referring to behavioral, cultural, and psychological traits typically associated with sex (for instance, “young people more likely to challenge the gender norms they grew up with.”)”
The trans guy is correct. If all the testing company wants is to verify the sample, then knowing the sample giver’s lifestyle choice is irrelevent. The testing company should change its questionnaire. Stop asking “what is your gender” and start asking “what is your biological sex?”
This is another example of political correctness making it impossible for society to think clearly about the difference between Being a girl and Acting like one, most recently illustrated by the decision to require tampons in boy’s bathrooms.
January 4th, 2024 at 9:55 am
That usage of “political correctness” reminded of the Dalrymple quote – another blast from the past which can never be repeated too often:
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.
January 4th, 2024 at 10:03 am
So much of lefty derangement involves believing you can change reality by changing the definitions of the words we use to describe it. E.g. believing you can make a man a real woman by defining a woman as someone who believes they are a woman, rather than an adult female.
By their reasoning, they *can* cure cancer just by marking all deaths from it as “natural causes”. Just like they’re already doing with crime.
January 4th, 2024 at 10:33 am
Regarding the notion of curing cancer by changing DNA, it’s hypothetically possible, but given that fact that large code developers like Microsoft have found that fixing one code bug creates others, call me very nervous about that idea…
And the guy who is “triggered” at his own DNA? Seems to me that’s an indication that gender dysphoria is in itself a mental illness. A side note is that as I deal with my own teenagers and others at church, it all too often seems that “reality” is too often a “trigger” to them, and a bit of tough love with Niebuhr’s “Serenity Prayer” might be in order.