Gott mit uns
The ACLU really needs to stop letting Chase Strangio write their tweets.
Say it with us – there is one god and Mohammed is his prophet. Say it with us – it’s one nation under God. Say it with us – Jehovah is the most high. Say it with us – Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.
Trans teapots exist and have always existed! Hear me shout! Tip me over and pour me out!
It’s actually cunning. By publicly affirming the nonsense, people forge their own mental chains. Because they chained themselves, they’ll fight anyone trying to break those chains.
Ain’t human psychology grand?
Well it’s cunning from the pov of Chase Strangio. From the pov of the ACLU as a whole, not so much. They sound like lunatics to most people. They’re torching a century of serious work.
Hey-
What do you all think of the Paradox Institute?
https://www.theparadoxinstitute.com/about
I’m finding the videos fascinating. I ask you all because you’re so goddamned smart and I’m just a writing instructor!
Looks interesting. I don’t think I’d heard of it before; thanks!
OB–
I’ve watched some of the vids twice now. I’m hooked. I feel that I’m developing a firm footing with the proper language now to possibly engage in discussion about the subject.
And I find Zach adorable….
Ophelia: I suspect that the ACLU is pretty ideologically uniform, and that uniform looks rather totalizing. Everything must be burned until the sweet smoke of their offerings appeases History and we are blessed with the End. Only then will the inclusive utopia come to be. Nothing else matters, because nothing else can matter.
Mike B @4
I’ve been following Zach Elliot (he’s behind the Paradox Institute) for years now. I prefer his essays and stuff, but only because I have a short attention span for videos. Anyway, yeah, his stuff is terrific.
Strangio has absolutely destroyed the ACLU. On the last appeal for donations that I got from them, I wrote “I’ll donate $1000 when you fire Chase Strangio”. That was two years ago, and I haven’t gotten a donation-begging letter since.