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The SPLC turns its attention from Southern poverty law to talk instead about luxury idennnies and the evil demons who don’t bend the knee to them.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) people exist in all societies across the world and thrive in all areas of life.
What are “Queer” people? How do they differ from lesbian and gay people? Why are they part of this discussion?
And why are transgender people part of this discussion? They’re the opposite of lesbian and gay, rather than being a branch of lesbian and gay.
And what does the “+” mean?
It is important to say these things at the outset of this report because society regularly tells LGBTQ+ people that they are not normal.[vi] The assumptions that LGBTQ+ people are abnormal are called heterosexism and cisnormativity, and they are pervasive in our culture.
Called by whom? I don’t call anything “cisnormativity.”
These assumptions also show up in faulty scientific studies that sustain medical and policy industries dedicated to changing who LGBTQ+ people are and limiting LGBTQ+ rights by promoting conversion therapy, de-transitioning, bans on gender-affirming health care, bans on transgender people playing sports, censorship of LGBTQ+ topics in public schools, bans on public expression of LGBTQ+ culture like drag performances, and other politically motivated attempts to erase LGBTQ+ identities.
Note that sly but stupid “bans on transgender people playing sports.” This is how far the SPLC has fallen. It’s pathetic.
This report examines recent developments in the anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience industry. In Chapter 1, we offer an overview of pseudoscience as an enforcement mechanism of white, heterosexual, cisgender supremacy.
Note the obligatory meaningless “white.”
This is embarrassing.
It looks as if the whole thing is about 8 billion pages, and I don’t think I have the will to read much more of it.
I’m so tired of stupid.
And right here is the fundamental divide, the problem with coupling homosexuality and gender nonconformity with transgender. The society that regularly tells people who don’t abide by the conventions associated with their sex that they’re perverted, wicked, or sick is not the same part of society which views sex as a biological category we can’t choose to follow or not. The reasoning is completely different. The issue is completely different.
We do not believe that psychics are not normal. We question the existence of psychic powers.
We do not believe that reincarnated people are not normal. We question the existence of reincarnation.
We don’t come up with elaborate excuses for why prophets aren’t really prophesying because we don’t like how they’re different than the rest of us, and so we are disgusted or fearful.
I’ve talked to many people who believe in the paranormal and abilities associated with the paranormal. When I ask them what they think motivates skepticism, they seldom bring up anything having to do with evidence or science. They almost all talk about how skeptics are afraid of what is different. They frame skeptics not accepting ESP the way the SPLC frames critics of gender ideology: through ethics rather than reason. A form of Argumentum ad Hominem.
Surely so-called “gender-affirming care” is a form of conversion therapy–the intent is to convert the body to some facsimile of the opposite sex–so who is “promoting conversion therapy” here?
And not even good ethics. They tend to use a self-serving ethical model that seeks to diminish the humanity of those who think otherwise; trans do it, and religious do it. That’s their version of ethics…in short, unethical ethics, if such an oxymoron might be said to have any hope of being functional.
WaM: In this ideology, reality and the self are solely the mind, not the body. Changes to the body cannot be conversion in a meaningful sense according to this view. I heard someone make what I thought a compelling comparison between the mind-body dualism of Genderism and the mind-body dissociation of the Heaven’s Gate cult.
So if I’m white, heterosexual, and not trans, then I’m also a pseudoscience promoting supremacist? Good to see the boundaries of what consitutes a hate group at the SPLC have expanded to include so many of us. Hell, I had no idea. Must have happened overnight while I was plotting how to further oppress people with my tarot cards.
Way back when, I applied for a job at SPLC. It was around the time that the gender ideology nonsense was picking up steam. I didn’t get the job, probably for good reasons, and it was undoubtedly for the best, as things turned out. Part of the conflict I had with their direction was that they were promoting unconditional tolerance, where people were expected to see and appreciate all the good in any religion, with no room for legitimate, even respectfully-expressed criticism. My discomfort with their direction was probably obvious.
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Some people brand themselves as queer and “society” gets the idea that they (and everyone they are forced teamed with) are not not normal. Nope, I don’t understand that at all.