Just for the record, against the
woke
inversion and perversion of reality, here are things I don’t just believe but insist to be true or wise, or both. So sue me.
Gender and sex (the state of being, not the act) are the same thing. Except in the case of vanishingly rare chromosomal abnormalities, sex is determined at birth by simple anatomical observation.
THE LANGUAGE POLICE(MEN?) NEED TO SMOKE A PEACE PIPE
The act of sex, along with any ceremony and customs related to it, such as a wedding, is essentially a private matter as long as choices are free, public health isn’t menaced, and minors aren’t involved. The state has no business forcing any third party to participate in or endorse any activity pertaining thereto. Sex acts in public are a different matter, and may reasonably be regulated by the state.
Skin color and ethnicity have nothing to do with character. Skin color and ethnicity have nothing to do with inherent guilt. They also have nothing to do with inherent predilections toward economic systems or codes of behavior or values or work ethic. Public laws should make no distinctions, none at all, based on race. Public policy should be colorblind. Colorblindness is not racism, and indeed is the very definition of non-racism. Racism is attitudinal, not a matter of “power relations.” There is no such thing as “whiteness” in terms of character or personality, although house-paint colors can be said, roughly speaking, to show various shades of whiteness. We are not collectively or individually responsible for the sins or accomplishments of our ancestors. We are not collectively or individually meritorious because of the sufferings of our ancestors. We are individual human beings, responsible for our own choices, our own flaws, and our own actions.
Absent clear cases of abuse or abandonment, parents own ultimate responsibility and ultimate authority for the upbringing of their children. Yes, in very limited circumstances, the state may act
in loco parentis
, but even then usually as delegates of the parents in situations where the delegation can automatically be rescinded, or otherwise only
in extremis
. Governmental officials or other authorities or individuals who do not defer to parental rights should themselves bear the major burden of proof as to why they, the officials, should not lose their jobs or positions of authority. (Again, this rule applies absent specific and rigorously observed legal guidelines involving abuse or abandonment.)
The right of free speech exists prior to government, and it is all but absolute except in unambiguous cases of threats of violence or of tightly defined examples of defamation — or for volume, such as when not the content but the loudness or location disturbs the peace. Outside those narrow exceptions, an alternate opinion is no grounds for negative sanction or for public restriction. And “shouting down” other speakers is not itself a form of protected speech; it is a denial of the speech rights of others, and it should be penalized.
In a constitutional republic with rights to speech and procedural safeguards in legal proceedings, nobody ever has the right to deface or destroy or abscond with anyone else’s property, or occupy property not one’s own without a permit, or commit violence except in obvious self-defense. There is no such thing as a right to riot, and there is no “communal rage” exception to this rule. On the flip side, vigilante justice is no justice at all, but is instead its own form of lawlessness, unjustified and vile.
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Finally, God and government make us equal in our liberties and equal in legal proceedings, not equal in outcomes.
Here I stand. So should we all.
