Jamie Reed: "I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I'm Blowing The Whistle"

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   This is an insane catastrophe. It was clear that it was an insane catastrophe from the beginning. It all began with obvious falsehoods--in fact, material contradictions: that women can be male and men can be female. This is political correctness: the subordination of truth to politics. When PC invades science it is Lysenkoism. No even vaguely rational person can believe such things. But the radical progressive left now controls our public discussions and our institutions. They badgered and bullied people into line by shrieking hysterically at anyone who failed to mouth their nonsensical jargon, slogans and dogmas--"transwomen"..."transwomen are women!"...etc. No one on my campus would dare question gender ideology out loud--if you did, you'd be subject to massive blowback--i.e. "cancellation." We have an office dedicated to advancing gender ideology. One can ask them to dispatch apparatchiks to indoctrinate one's classes with it. Many professors undoubtedly do. The ability of the politically correct left to force our institutions to adopt patent absurdities en masse is horrifying and virtually impossible to believe. Yet here we are. As in the days of paleo-PC in the late '80s-early '90s, one key component of the insane left's political power is relatively more centrist left--which is unwilling ever to contradict the radical left, and even more unwilling to side with the right. Without the cowardice and tribalism of the relatively more centrist left, the radical progressive left would be virtually powerless.

   Radical progressives have been able to take over in part because few are willing to stand up for the importance of truth. Political correctness is the progressive view is that "social justice" and the feelings of the allegedly oppressed trump truth. I've heard innumerable people online and in person ask some version of the question "why do you care?" That is: why do you care that gender ideology is false? Feelings and alleged oppression matter; mere truth does not. Why on Earth would anyone care about the mere fact that our institutions have all adopted patently absurd falsehoods that none of us are permitted to question?

   But facts matter. They matter in and of themselves, regardless of their positive or negative consequences. 

   Though blatant lies and falsehoods, and blatant disregard for truth do tend to have bad consequences. If you reject the evidence and disregard obvious truths--not to mention accepting and acting on patent absurdities--you are playing dice with respect to the consequences. Sometimes such irrationality can have pleasant consequences--but that's a crap shoot. At best.

   And now we are seeing what was predictable all along--the horrific consequences of accepting an absurd, bizarre. politically correct fantasy radically at odds with reality. Children are being sexually mutilated. It's the Satanic Panic Part II: but this time it's real, and the cultists control almost all our institutions, including the media, universities, and medicine. This time the sexual abuse and mutilations are actually happening--and we are conducting them. Question the cult--question their abuse and sexual mutilation of children--and they will come for you. So people in a position to stop this are silent--or enthusiastically pro-cult. Conservatives openly deride and question the madness--but no one in power cares what they think. They are powerless. And, in fact, their very opposition strengthens the resolve of the left, and bolsters their refusal to see the plain facts before their eyes. 

   If "mere" truth were the only thing at issue, these absurdities might just win out in the end. If they don't, it won't be because of our regard for truth, but because of the undeniably horrific consequences of the falsehoods.

   History will not be kind to us--nor should it be.