If this be disinformation, then make the most of it

As an avid foe of subversive
disinformation
, I guess now I should be bashing myself. An economically powerful media-filtering group has flagged one of my columns as disinformation.

This puts me somewhat in the position of the right-wing protester (although I’m far from “right-wing”) in
the Oct. 15, 1984
, entry of the comic strip “Bloom County” who informed a police officer that, because protests show a disrespect for authority that right-wingers usually deplore, it was the officer’s duty to “bash our heads.”

FORMER BIDEN DISINFORMATION CHIEF REGISTERS AS FOREIGN AGENT

Actually, I shouldn’t make light of it because the flagging of my column is part of a nasty effort that, apparently, is costing my publication a great deal of money and depriving easy access to the Washington Examiner’s work for huge numbers of readers.

The Washington Examiner’s Gabe Kaminsky has the report Thursday:

But the material these groups label as “disinformation” often is opinion well within the mainstream of American political thought — and, in my case, some anodyne facts used to support the opinion. In short, what amounts to a secret Big Tech effort at censorship is using economic blackmail to keep readers from even seeing opinions of which the Left disapproves.

This is nefarious. It may even be illegally collusive. Either way, please allow me to defend myself while providing an example of the degree of rank dishonesty in this big money, Big Tech censorship effort.

The column of mine specifically targeted for “deplatforming” by the British company called Global Disinformation Index was headlined “
The Left’s gender-bending obsession
is tiresome and absurd.” In it, I took issue with three simultaneous stories that made what I argued were ludicrous assertions, such as that “a binary framework of binary sex didn’t exist in Western culture ’til the late 18th century” and that binary sex is somehow, yes, racist. Granted, in esoteric realms of academia, one definitely sees even ideas as dumb as these gaining adherents.

But in truth, it is hardly “disinformation” to note that, before modern surgical techniques and exotic hormone treatments became available, the idea of anything other than two sexes (other than in vanishingly rare chromosomal anomalies) was not some 18th-century invention. Rather, it was always the generally accepted, empirically observable norm for as long as humanity has existed.

Even stranger than the professional censorship company identifying this particular column of mine as “disinformation” was the portion of my column the company highlighted. Two paragraphs that GDI redlined merely reported, without opining, the undisputed fact that “Catholic universities such as Georgetown and Villanova [are] abandon[ing] Catholic teaching” by accepting these new gender norms as “fundamental” to the schools’ very missions. The third paragraph, which was the final one in my column, just opined that such gender matters would be better treated not as “fundamental,” and that instead, we should all just be “polite to one another and otherwise go about our lives.”

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That’s neither a radical conclusion nor in any way an insulting one. But most importantly, in no way can any rational human being call that “disinformation,” which is,
by definition
, information that is verifiably false, especially “propaganda issues by a government.”

So I will not bash myself on the head after all. But these malicious Big Tech censors should be bashed to within risk of their very corporate lives.