Saw a meme this morning that had me scratching my head.
Because this doesn’t meet the logic standard, I had to reply:
Someone else then responds, as they do:
My response:
Then the end comments (the original meme person and her friend):
What a bizarre standard to set. Do the minimum, “If you don’t put in much effort then your raises are great.” I guess this is a trending thing in our society. I won’t be doing business with those places though.
Another example of people relying on their own facts. I wish them the best, but gosh – where is the pride of accomplishment in an attitude like that?
You heard me right. A girl whose parents divorced when she was 5 stayed with her mom who was mentally ill and was an alcoholic.
Her dad was emotionally distant from both her and her sister. Fast forward to 14 and she became agoraphobic. At 15 she was going through puberty and started to fall apart. She wanted to be taller and be more like boys that she used to hang out with, when she was younger. (before puberty) She asked to have her puberty stopped and so her alcoholic mom gave her 15 year old child a ride to the doctor and said, “Oh yes, sure we will transition you. You don’t mind not having kids right? No problem? Great!” And so the transition began. 16, she started puberty blockers. At 20, she had a double mastectomy and fully transitioned. At 23, when she started having vaginal atrophy, just like what happens at menopause, she decided to stop taking testosterone shots.
As the High Court found, much of the clinic’s treatment is not even based on solid evidence. At the time our case was accepted, the NHS was asserting that the effects of puberty blockers are “fully reversible.” But recently, the NHS reversed itself, acknowledging “that ‘little is known about the long-term side-effects’ on a teenager’s body or brain.” That didn’t stop them from prescribing these drugs to people like me.https://www.persuasion.community/p/keira-bell-my-story?triedSigningIn=true
Dr. Christopher Gillberg, a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Gothenburg University in Sweden and a specialist in autism, was an expert witness for our case. Gillberg said in his court statement that over his 45 years of treating children with autism, it was rare to have patients with gender dysphoria—but their numbers started exploding in 2013, and most were biological girls. Gillberg told the court that what was happening at the Tavistock was a “live experiment” on children and adolescents.
Scare tactics are used – but they are lying. The torture of transitioning, not being able to have children and then figuring out that you want to actually be the sex you were born as (which 70%+ do) and then regret it. Protect your children, because those that are trans/gay/or any of the LGBTQ – have an exponentially higher rate of suicide – EVEN AFTER transition and in most instances, it’s even higher. How about that for life or death.
Parents who are reluctant or even alarmed about starting their children on a medical transition may be warned, “Would you rather have a dead daughter or a live son?” (Or vice versa.) I had suicidal thoughts as a teen. Suicidal thoughts indicate serious mental health problems that need assessment and proper care. When I told them at the Tavistock about these thoughts, that became another reason to put me on hormones quickly to improve my well-being. But after the court ruling, the Tavistock released an internal study of a group of 44 patients who had started taking puberty blockers at ages 12 to 15. It said that this treatment had failed to improve the mental state of patients, having “no significant effect on their psychological function, thoughts of self-harm, or body image.” Additionally, of those 44 patients, 43 went on to cross-sex hormones. This suggests blocking puberty isn’t providing a pause. It is giving a push.
Looks as if Biden is going to forgive $10,000 per person who has debt owed for college tuition AND makes less than $125,000 a year. Let’s not forget that this does not serve anyone who is under-privileged or lives in any of the urban-cities who has not had the benefit of college.
Several things are happening here.
They forgive $10,000 in debt, tuition will go up and our inflation will increase. Why? Someone has to pay for that $10,000 per college student or graduate. Who is going to pay? Those making more than $400,000? And who are those people? They are the ones running every business that we go to and pay for. If they start paying more in taxes, then they aren’t just going to sit by and just make less money, are they? NOPE. 5% – 30% increase in their salary and then the cost of their goods and services for that company will now go up to cover those expenses. Now, the pants you got for $20 last week are going to be $25. People aren’t understanding. Process this please.
They don’t make them like they used to in California. It appears our a-political friend and Judge Keith M. Alber views today as a culmination of events that were outlined in at least 1954. The Judge was 85 years old at the time of this writing, in October of 2021. This was published at The Epoch Times, 5 Dec. 2021. Confirmed (oddly) by Snopes as being valid. I say oddly, because I have reviewed a lot of their material and they have many instances of stopping JUST BEFORE getting to the truth of the matter with their research. So, without further ado. JUDGE for yourself.
I am a student of law whose age is 85. My first year of college was 68 years ago. One class I took was political science. A half-page of my textbook essentially outlined a few steps to overturn a democracy.
1) Divide the nation philosophically. 2) Foment racial strife. 3) Cause distrust of police authority. 4) Swarm the nation’s borders indiscriminately and unconstitutionally. 5) Engender the military strength to weaken it. 6) Overburden citizens with more unfair taxation. 7) Encourage civil rioting and discourage accountability for all crime. 8) Control all balloting. 9) Control all media.
What was printed in 1954 as a possible diabolic nightmare has become an emerging reality. I hope that Americans will unite enough to pen a good finish – Go dwelling. 1Alber, Keith M. “Opinion From a Former Judge.” The Epoch Times, 5 Dec. 2021.
Just a set of fun facts. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wore a dress designed and made by Aurora James (Company named Brother Vellies). Appears while AOC is sipping Champagne making nearly $200k a year, she is receiving help from a tax evader and potentially a person who is involved in tax fraud. AOC – your facts are all messed up. These “RICH” people you are talking about are paying in a huge portion of the countries tax revenue. Just investigate the truth.
I seem to recall that when you are a judge, you are to apply the law and dispense with personal feelings on matters of justice. Appears US Supreme Court Justice is simply ignoring the fundamental tenants of being a judge… Is she a Democrat or Republican appointee??? Is this ignoring the rule of law?
Appears Elizabeth Warren wants more deaths, at least at a higher rate.
Elizabeth went on a rant about how Texas has decided to limit murders at Planned Parenthood. When I say limit, I mean, that any child that has a heart beat may no longer be murdered in the womb. Why does the heart beat matter, you may ask. Isn’t that the measurement when a doctor determines that a person cannot be resuscitated and their heart has stopped? The doctor then writes down the time of death.
I decided to call her out… but then our friend Wayne T builds up a fun little strawman and then try to blow me away with his quip.
So, I thought since I put the time into answering him, that I would share my response:
@Wayne T – I suspect you don’t want facts. Just remember this statement. Black Babies Matter.
If I said only minorities get abortions, then I would mean that only minorities get abortions. However, you just decided to attempt to rewrite what I said and put your own agenda into it. AKA, your strawman attempt was weak.
As of 2020/2/25 – out of 44 million abortions, 19 million were black since 1973 – Roe vs Wade. It’s called Eugenics and it’s by design sir. Margaret Sanger believed in Eugenics – the founder of Planned Parenthood. Just read their site: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/our-history She was a white supremist, spoke at a KKK rally and targeted black communities to set up abortion centers. (I took a screen capture in the article below so you can read what they have there today) 2019 – Of all abortions, 39% are white (white women are 60% of all women), 34% are black women (black women are 12.9% of all women) and 20% are hispanic women (hispanic are 18% of all women) – and 8% other (non-white)
Couple that with what Elizabeth Warren said herself, that it will disproportionately affect minorities…
So – TECHNICALLY – 61% of all women who get abortions are minorities, which wasn’t my point – but since you put together a strawman and were trying to gas-light me, I figure I can just show you the statistics.
It’s not my opinion. These are facts sir. Thank you for the challenge. You can read up on it!!!
Roe v Wade notes: https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2020/02/25/abortion-the-overlooked-tragedy-for-black-americans/ All women in US – population between White/Black/Hispanic: https://www.catalyst.org/research/women-of-color-in-the-united-states/ Abortions in 2018: https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/state-indicator/abortions-by-race/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D
Clip from Planned Parenthood, should they decide to revise this later in time:
This is not in China. Not Saudi Arabia. Not in some remote forest of Africa. This is Canada. If it were one church, then we might not have much to go on, other than perhaps an accident. Two, maybe just coincidence. But when there is a rash of churches being burned down in Alberta, British Columbia and Toronto and you have someone like Harsha Walia who is the head of the B.C. Civil Liberties group tweeting things like…
Burn it all down
…there should be a cause for concern.
And others like Heidi Matthews of Harvard Law said…
Depends on whether you think there’s a right of resistance to extreme and systemic injustice
The United States is on the other side of the border of Canada. Our time is coming. When our churches start burning, will you do something about it or just do what the Jews did… on the nights of November 9th and 10th of 1938 throughout Germany? NOTHING…but watch as they burn to the ground.
Kristallnacht – Anti-Semitic rioters terrorized Jews and burned down synagogues in Germany and surrounding territories. – 1
Let’s just go down the checklist right now… of what the Woke Left hates and attacks on a regular basis… and what they say of each of these groups.
Republicans – bad people: racist, homophobic, bigots, etc. White people – oppress minorities. Men – patriarchal – oppress women. Evangelical Christians – extremists.
There are more categories of division, but this hits some of the high points.
Just walk this to the end conclusion and think about a conclusion one historical figure came to…. Adolph Hitler said that he had the answer to the “Jewish Question.” Appears Harsha has the “Christian Question” figured out. Heidi sounds like she sees it as justified. Please remember this… It will only take 5 minutes of the Toxic Woke Left to jump onboard with this and make it a reality for us in the U.S. But, don’t expect a passive audience to be in attendance.
Love God and love your neighbor as yourself – Jesus That’s our starting point…
Once you start to regard yourself as a victim, you look for a perpetrator. And the thing you look for in a perpetrator, you look for someone that it’s ok to hurt. It’s really not a good thing. – Jordan Peterson 2017 – McMaster University 1
Who are the victims today and do you fit into one of the categories of victimhood? To get to this answer, have you thought of what group or groups do you identify as being part of?
What are the most important categories that you are part of?
Your race? The nation you are from? The color of your skin? The faith system that you hold onto? How you personally identify?
Let’s break this down a bit, by giving a very basic view of Critical Race Theory or CRT. The fundamental aspect of CRT is that in all groupings, there is the oppressor and the oppressed. Here’s how it breaks down…
If there is a woman, then she is oppressed by men. Wage gap, more powerful positions, influence, and the list goes on.
If there is a person of color (someone who is not white), then they are oppressed by white people. Education, wage gap, power, influence, opportunities, racism and again – the list goes on.
If there is a person who is a homosexual, then they are oppressed by heterosexuals. Family rights, insurance issues, bigotry, and the list goes on.
If there is a Muslim, then they are oppressed by Evangelical Christians. Bigotry, racism, and the list goes on.
There are many more categories, but this should give a basic view of how each one of these categories claim victimhood. They are all being oppressed. But there is another aspect as well of CRT.
If one is a woman, person of color, who is a homosexual – then they are what are considered to be one of the most oppressed groups, because they can claim victimhood on several different fronts.
So – who is oppressing this last people group? To Jordan Peterson’s point, who will the perpetrator be? Who are they saying it is ok to hurt, so that they can assign this victim status???
Does anyone hear this answer? White. Male. Evangelical Christians.
Yes, all white people are complicit with racism… I had a Black roommate in college. I’m a minority myself. – Robin DiAngelo2
I hesitate in quoting this next statement from Robin, because context is really important and I don’t want it to come off as picking out a part of what she says to make her look bad. However, just let her words speak for herself.
I always knew that I was white. I knew that it was better to be white, and that being white is a large part of what helped me navigate poverty and classism. – Robin DiAngelo
Just process that. I have the link shared above, read it yourself.
I’m going to give you my view for a moment. I don’t recall in my lifetime ever thinking it was better to be white. In fact, when I was at school, I don’t recall for even one minute thinking that whites (white people) were better. Not even one time. When I starting thinking about college, I actually thought it might be better to be someone of a different people group who had a better chance of getting a scholarship, because school was expensive. Rather than giving you my story, how about I just show you what is on Scholarships.com right this second. This is what I’m faced with for my children…
Segregation being abolished in 1964 was a big step in fighting racism.
Seems now that we are moving backwards in the name of progress.
One final comment… I thought it important to show how one organization could word a scholarship to exclude a people group, to label them as perpetrators and therefore establish this group as one that it ok to hurt. Thoughts?
Delicato Family Wines realizes there is an imbalance of race and diversity in the wine industry, specifically those in winemaking and we are committed to being part of a meaningful, long-lasting positive change. To that end, Delicato is launching a new Winemaker Scholarship and mentoring program. The aspiration behind the program is to encourage Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) students to join the wine industry and support them through the academic pipeline to a successful early career placement opportunity. 3
***Facebook 9/26/2022
OK, I give up! I agree that we have at least one element of systemic racism in the United States.
Because no one is going to read a complete piece on this on Facebook – OR AT ALL – I’m going to be specific to one point. Scholarships.
I started to think about the opportunities that my children were going to have, when it comes to college. Are they going to have too much privilege because of their skin color? That’s what’s being pushed all over the place, so I needed to find out if this is true or not and maybe even call it out if necessary.
Paying for college!!! One very simple method, which is the same method I essentially used when I started to look for colleges was to look for scholarships. I don’t have a trust fund or huge amounts of money just sitting around to pay for all of my children to go to college, so – what is there to offer my kids. I’m told my children are going to have some significant privilege, so let’s check that out.
I have gone to this site before (scholarships.com) and it seems to be pretty consistent year over year. I pulled up all of the scholarships for our children. Who are they providing huge quantities of scholarships for?
Let’s look.
African American scholarships. This is 13% of our total United States Population. – 289 scholarships. That’s not many, is it? You’d think there would be more.
What about Hispanic scholarships. A total of 18% of our total United States Population – 253 scholarships. How terrible. Shouldn’t there be more.
This is terrible. Why aren’t there more scholarships for these minority groups? It’s enough to make you mad, right? But, before we get to the disparity that is scholarships based on race, I’m going to touch on a couple other categories.
I have one boy and two girls. Figured I would look to see what was available to my boy vs. my girls. When I select scholarships by gender, there are 313 for females with $1,460,796 as total scholarships. Why are there more for female than actual race minorities? Seems a bit unfair too, doesn’t it?
Scholarships.com has gender options other than just male/female so here are those Gender options : Other and Transgender. For transgendered there are 31 for $126k and other there are 26 for $94k.
What about male scholarships. 72 scholarships, in the amount of $128k. That’s interesting. Transgender and Other dwarf those of just male. Huh. At least transgender and other are getting a larger share of scholarships than males. That’s fair, right?
I asked the question, why are there fewer scholarships for individual minority races than females? Well, the numbers are interesting. 313 total scholarships at a bit more than $1.4 million.
However – for African Americans, there are fewer scholarships than females, but the amount is over $2 million (up from 1.4 million last year). For Hispanics, there is more than $1.8 million in scholarships (which is up from $1 millions last year). That’s fair, right? I mean, half of our population is female. And women are considered minorities and we have the patriarchy that keeps women down in pay, right?
Ok. This started about systemic racism, so let’s just get to it. Now for the whites. How many scholarships are there for white people?
4. There are four scholarships for white people. $12,500. Huh. That’s absolutely fair, right? White people consist of nearly 50% of the United States population and there are 4 scholarships for white people. That is down one from last year, when they had 5 for a total of $24,000. Let that sink in.
And because it’s relevant, here are the 4 scholarships for whites:
WEN Foundation – for the Women’s energy Network – for STEM – it’s a great scholarship. May do that for the girls one day. EMPOWER – to encourage minority participation of ethnically diverse students – a laudable goal. NBCC – Military and rural scholarship for master’s-level counselling students – great concept Journalism Institute for Media Diversity scholarships – no need for more info.
There does seem to be disparity and preference of race. My girls will have a chance. I didn’t read off the scholarships for the boys, because it would just piss off both conservatives and liberals.
All amounts below are published and do not reflect multiple awards for a specific scholarship, but a simple tally of all amounts that were fixed and published as of 9/26/2022.
Getting people “numb” to the idea. First, it’s a PBS staff attorney, then it’s representatives in Congress and by the time anyone knows what’s happening – “they” start carting Republican kids away… or worse. Just going to share the facts on this one. You decide. This seems to be getting a lot of publications and people are talking about it and saying, “why not?”
