Stephen King vs. J. K. Rowling: Political Correctness Is Dogmatic Insanity

This stuff is almost impossible for me to believe.

   The participants in the disagreement don't really matter. The disagreement is repeated all around us. Rowling is merely stating the plainest facts--facts only the craziest and most radical niche lefties denied less than ten years ago. King's no dummy. He's no rocket surgeon, but he's no dummy. Yet here he is, confidently and piously repeating a mantra of the cult--which might as well be p and not-p...p and not-p... Who would have predicted that the nation's most powerful cultural/political faction would adopt as a central dogma that some adult human females are not female? There's no real making sense of what they think, but it's probably mostly a political decision to use the words 'women' and 'girl' in nonstandard ways. That's what some feminist philosophers have finally settled on as an explanation of their position. It's a "social justice" decision to use words differently. Which is, of course, completely different than believing that "trans" "women" are actually, really, in fact women. It would all be less insane if they all recognized and admitted that they're merely using words in a nonstandard way. That's sophistry, but at least it's not incoherent. Thing is, though some in the intellectual vanguard of the left may be forced by cognitive dissonance to admit what's actually afoot, the lefty hoi polloi seem to have actually come to believe--or quasi-believe--that the dogma is actually in some sense true. Not to say that everyone in the vanguard admits the truth, nor that none among the lefty hoi polloi don't, of course. Orwell really nailed it when he described doublethink... Though I think that it's more accurate to say: a superposition of doxastic states. It's not really that they both believe and don't believe--it's rather that they sort of do and sort of don't.

   But anyway: aside from all the particulars: keep it firmly in mind that we're dealing with a political cult that's willing to both (a) sincerely affirm that falsehoods are true, despite knowing better, and (b) actually, eagerly believe what they can clearly see are falsehoods, and (c) do both (a) and (b) out of some combination of political fervor and fear of ostracism from the tribe. Any one of those three things would make a faction extremely dangerous. All three together.*.. Very, very, very dangerous indeed.

* Yes, I understand that some are inseparable from others.