House of Eratosthenes

What exactly does conservatism seek to conserve? Civilization, the blessings that come from having it, and the definitions that make civilization possible. From what does liberalism seek to liberate us? Those things — starting with the definitions. — Me

The latest example, we find by way of William Teach at Pirate’s Cove:

Isn’t it awesome that a government has decided to side with a tiny, tiny, tiny percentage of people who are, for the most part, mentally ill?

(Daily Caller) Ontario passed a law Thursday that gives the government the right to take away children from families that don’t accept their kid’s chosen “gender identity.”

Parents who oppose or criticize the LGBT agenda will be considered potential “child abusers” and may have their children taken away by the state, according to the new bill. If the parents are ruled to be abusers by failing to wholeheartedly support their child’s gender choice, that child “can be removed from that environment and placed into protection where the abuse stops.”

Bill 89, also known as “The Supporting Children, Youth and Families Act of 2017,” received Royal Assent and was passed in Ontario by a vote of 63 to 23.

The old law allowed parents to “direct the child’s education and religious upbringing” but now says a parent must influence a child’s education and upbringing “in accordance with the child’s or young person’s creed, community identity and cultural identity.”

Why are they doing this? They’re nuts. The law could even stop people from fostering and/or adopting kids if they disagree with the LGBTQ agenda

Of course, let’s never forget that these unhinged radical leftists will gladly throw the same LGBTQ folks, along with women, under the bus in order to patronize and protect Islamic extremists.

American Lens goes on to note (using an article from Gender Trender) that Canada is looking to legalize gender confusion nationally with Bill C-16, which “would establish a government recognized class of people based on their personal feeling that sex stereotypes form an integral and desired component of their legal identity.” This would be a part of the criminal code, so, it should turn out great, right?

Like any bad idea, it falls apart when you take it seriously.

We have these kids who have somehow attained sufficient maturity to opine about their gender-identities while they’re still very young, and also, somehow, about how they’re confused about it. So that’s the first problem: The people who know, must defer to the opinions of the people who do not.

Second problem — and this could be just me, maybe some important piece of information has yet to find its way to me, although given how much chatter there is about gender lately I doubt it — it doesn’t seem like those who are culturally and ideologically invested in this gender confusion business, are putting a lot of effort into curing confusion. It seems to me they view the confusion less as a problem, and more like a tool by which they can achieve cultural triumph. And this Ontario law is a pretty good example of what I’ve been noticing. Take the children away from the parents…to…what? To go live with someone else who believes the right things, of course, but what else? Gender reassignment? Hormone therapy? Fixing the problem doesn’t seem to be one of the goals. Rather, it looks like the goal is to make sure parenting is done solely by people who don’t believe in or don’t understand the concept of male & female. Whoever understands it, shall be barred from the practice of parenting.

The blind leading the not-blind…

What could possibly go wrong?

If they were interested in solutions, or even follow-up, they wouldn’t be Liberals. Just off the top of my head… how’s that “gay marriage” thing going? It’s the law of the land now. Are there more gay weddings, or less? Are gays happier, on average, than they were this time five years ago? Does the NY Times publish gay wedding announcements, and are there more or less of them? Are all of these questions rhetorical? It’s obvious they don’t care, since they haven’t even bothered to taunt us — I haven’t even seen a Salon.com snarkfest about “conservatives said gay marriage would cause the apocalypse. Boy, were they wrong!” They scored a total victory, in other words, and not only have they not updated the scoreboard, they didn’t even spike the ball and do a touchdown dance. What explains that apathy, other than that winning was never the point? (We can take it as read that Our Betters, the Liberals, aren’t restraining from rubbing our faces in it from a sense of decorum).

It’s not necessary to read the entire text of When Prophecy Fails, but a nice summary explains modern liberalism like nothing else can. Money shot:

But whatever explanation is made [for the world not ending on the day the cult said it would] it is still by itself not sufficient. The dissonance is too important and though they may try to hide it, even from themselves, the believers still know that the prediction was false and all their preparations were in vain. The dissonance cannot be eliminated completely by denying or rationalizing the disconfirmation. But there is a way in which the remaining dissonance can be reduced. If more and more people can be persuaded that the system of belief is correct, then clearly it must, after all, be correct. Consider the extreme case: if everyone in the whole world believed something there would be no question at all as to the validity of this belief. It is for this reason that we observe the increase in proselytizing following disconfirmation. If the proselytizing proves successful, then by gathering more adherents and effectively surrounding himself with supporters, the believer reduces dissonance to the point where he can live with it.

What do liberals always do? Lie, double down, and project. All of that is because they can’t stop, because even “victories” like Obergefell don’t stop the dissonance — they can’t, because words don’t make reality. So they’re forever off onto some new cause, some injustice, something, anything, to keep them from introspecting, even for the merest split second. Because if they did that….
- Severian | 06/06/2017 @ 13:24

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