I really appreciate your thoughts here. You’ve been able to put into words the frustration that I have with the neo-progressives who are also the loud and proud “cancel culture” crowd. I firmly believe that there needs to be accountability and transparency, I just don’t agree with how they’re going about it.
I really appreciate your thoughts here. You’ve been able to put into words the frustration that I have with the neo-progressives who are also the loud and proud “cancel culture” crowd. I firmly believe that there needs to be accountability and transparency, I just don’t agree with how they’re going about it.
Add onto that that, as you stated, “sex” and “gender” are two terms that have been well-defined by biologists, anthropologists, wildlife experts, and so many others for well over a century now. To up and change those definitions because someone feels they lack inclusivity makes no logical sense to me. That would be, as you provided the example of, saying that “all children under 12” now includes anyone who identifies as a 12-year-old, no matter their biological age, and there is a whole rabbit hole of nasty that that kind of thinking can lead to.
When did we abandon intellect and common sense for burning down the world because someone got offended by what they interpreted a word to mean without actually taking the time to look up the true definition and actually try to comprehend what it means instead of demanding it be changed to what they want it to mean?
Yes, one irony for me comes from something decades ago at a family gathering, where I wound up assigned to help a Christian home-schooled relative with his homework. The particular book being used was a seemingly normal science textbook, studying the eye, with diagrams and terms. When I injected observations about the differences between the eyes of prey like deer, and those of predators like cats or primates like ourselves - he solemnly corrected me to inform me that humans are not animals. Apparently, the similarities between our species and other primates are just coincidental. (Scanning the textbook after that, it had some strange anomalies, like avoiding any concept of species per se, but that's another topic).
Now it's neo-progressives who are in effect sometimes asserting that humans are not like animals, and our *biological sex* (not just social gender roles) is not determined by genes or phenotype, but by self identification. And then smugly saying "follow the science" as if they had a lock on science, which always follows their ideology or can be dismissed.
Yeah, I have to continually work on being more generous in my framing, and I do. Scorn does not persuade anybody, it more pushes them into defending their corner. I do not want to follow their example. But I just need to let my hair down in a space like this sometimes.
I really appreciate your thoughts here. You’ve been able to put into words the frustration that I have with the neo-progressives who are also the loud and proud “cancel culture” crowd. I firmly believe that there needs to be accountability and transparency, I just don’t agree with how they’re going about it.
Add onto that that, as you stated, “sex” and “gender” are two terms that have been well-defined by biologists, anthropologists, wildlife experts, and so many others for well over a century now. To up and change those definitions because someone feels they lack inclusivity makes no logical sense to me. That would be, as you provided the example of, saying that “all children under 12” now includes anyone who identifies as a 12-year-old, no matter their biological age, and there is a whole rabbit hole of nasty that that kind of thinking can lead to.
When did we abandon intellect and common sense for burning down the world because someone got offended by what they interpreted a word to mean without actually taking the time to look up the true definition and actually try to comprehend what it means instead of demanding it be changed to what they want it to mean?
Yes, one irony for me comes from something decades ago at a family gathering, where I wound up assigned to help a Christian home-schooled relative with his homework. The particular book being used was a seemingly normal science textbook, studying the eye, with diagrams and terms. When I injected observations about the differences between the eyes of prey like deer, and those of predators like cats or primates like ourselves - he solemnly corrected me to inform me that humans are not animals. Apparently, the similarities between our species and other primates are just coincidental. (Scanning the textbook after that, it had some strange anomalies, like avoiding any concept of species per se, but that's another topic).
Now it's neo-progressives who are in effect sometimes asserting that humans are not like animals, and our *biological sex* (not just social gender roles) is not determined by genes or phenotype, but by self identification. And then smugly saying "follow the science" as if they had a lock on science, which always follows their ideology or can be dismissed.
Yeah, I have to continually work on being more generous in my framing, and I do. Scorn does not persuade anybody, it more pushes them into defending their corner. I do not want to follow their example. But I just need to let my hair down in a space like this sometimes.
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