#anti-ideology

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"POLITICIAN NEEDS TO BE SUPERMAN," Montreal Gazette. June 7, 1933. Page 5. ---- Social Ostracism for Spoliators of State Prescribed by Rev. L. Clare ---- DEMOCRACY UNDER FIRE ---- Alien Propaganda Not Dangerous in Presence of Humane Social Laws, Pastor Suggests ---- The true politician needs to be a superman. We should train them and expect honor from them, visiting upon those who make the states spoil the most contemptuous social ostracism, Rev. Lawrence Clare stated yesterday in his address, "Some Principles of Political Thinking" at the weekly luncheon meeting of the Rotary Club of Montreal at the Windsor Hotel. He emphasized the importance of respecting their art, "which is the greatest known to man."

Politicians are not popular, in fact, they are the scapegoats in connection with our present discontent and often are blamed where they have no responsibilty, Mr.Clare asserted. The political "high game of chess. In his opinion, is a difficult one, necessitating a keen knowledge of human nature. "To the knowledge of Machiavelli must be added that of Lincoln, because human nature is the material with which the politician works."

The wise politician, M. Clare believed. will have regard for men's souls. their possibilities and the reverence that is their due. "How may one maximize their freedom, for development In truth, beauty, adventure and peace?" he asked, for there lies national well being, and harbors, banks and concessions are but instrumental.' Democracy, he said, is under fire, and is believed to bring undesirable men to power, to encourage corruption, incapable of rapid decision and to be drugged by propaganda.

The politician must know how to settle the inefficiencies of democracy aside when big things are to be done, yet the people must be spirited enough to secure that this never is done save in their interests, Mr. Clare maintained. Denunciation of armaments, alliances and balance of power he thought futile, for "these are necessary resultants so long as human nature is what it is and the European and Asiatic situation is as inorganic as it is." Only those who can think in world terms, in his opinion, are fit to organize."

"Amid swift and alarming political changes, the politician needs to keep his head. Confronted by such things as the Russian experiment, it is difficult to avoid hysteria. What we need is facts, a spirit of analysis and valuation, plus quiet courtesy, whether the matter concerns Russia, Hitler or Mussolini. Allen propagandism is a seed that withers unless it falls upon the soil of social discontent.

"Humane social legislation has kept Britain quiet, imbuing her people with a feeling that private interests, on account of old age pensions, insurance, are identical with those of the state," Mr. Clare continued. As regards freedom of speech and restraint, he believed that all progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions. The only solution In this regard is a sliding scale of toleration, "for the more healthy a country, the more it can stand."

Idealists are a somewhat easy!prey for extreme Utopian builders of castles in the air, Mr. Clare found. The danger, in his opinion, is that of dreaming of some organization, for example, the state that is suitable to angels, but not to human nature, or to men of other traditions and conditioning, but not to men like ourselves. "They in the name of that dream attack with the intention of destroying existing organizations that are adapted, though perhaps imperfectly, to hman nature as it really is," he concluded.

A W. McMaster, president, was in the chair. The speaker was thanked by Rev. Dr. Leslie Pidgeon. Jim Laird outlined the comprehensive programme that has been prepared for the convention of Rotary International at Boston from June 26-30. urging members to bring the Montreal quota of visitors on this occasion to 100. Harry Maud sang several solos.

[tv--fan17]

I'm aiming for the legal protections of the prostitute but a crackdown on johns and pimps. I want prostitutes (and other 'sex workers' of course but I am focusing on prostitutes) to be able to seek aid, go to the police, and get other forms of help without fear of being arrested or fined. I want johns to be scared to even walk near a prostitute. I want pimps to face a minimum of 10 years in prison if not more. This isn t simply a matter of misunderstanding—it s a deliberate attempt to invalidate. These comments reflect a resistance to accepting the reality of emotional suffering, especially when it disrupts the narrative of strength and stoicism. But what is it about pain, specifically when expressed by women, that makes it so uncomfortable to acknowledge? Men's discomfort with vulnerability is a reflection of societal expectations that equate masculinity with emotional stoicism. When women express pain, some men struggle to respond with empathy, instead opting for dismissive or mocking remarks. This response reveals not only a lack of emotional intelligence but also a cultural conditioning that teaches men to avoid their own feelings by minimizing the emotions of others. Marriage as a patriarchal institution historically binds women to men through legal and financial dependence. In divorce, property division and child custody often favor men, leaving women at a disadvantage. Feminists critique marriage for reinforcing gender inequality and trapping women in cycles of dependence. Gonna start rapping about how trans women are men to get yall hooked then I’ll move onto all the other aspects of radical feminism and actively say things about radical feminism in interviews and run a radical feminist consciousness raising org but when asked about my “transphobic” beliefs I’ll be like “lmao you bought it? It’s a character duhhh that’s Raddy McFem she’s a baddy raddy lmao. she crazy. Have you ever heard of Slim Shady?”

Lets pring to The vegeta garden before peanut butter spreader finds out.

[nightmaretour]

Anti-technology people who insist they're not ableist crack me up. What about people who rely on machines to breathe, eat, keep their heart functioning, or otherwise stay alive? "Well not that technology, obviously!" Ok what about AAC users, people who use hearing aids, or otherwise use technology to interact with the world in ways they otherwise couldn't? "Not that technology, obviously." Okay, my mobile phone is my memory, my sense of time, my sense of direction when I get lost, my ability to contact someone when I need help. It is my personal freedom because without it I would need full time care and supervision. But yes, that technology, right?

I hate how technology is made and utilised under capitalism as much as the next guy, but to pretend that technology doesn't greatly improve the lives of countless people, or even allow them to continue being alive, is to be willfully ignorant to the existence of disabled people. A world without technology is a world where a lot of disabled people don't get to survive. Capitalism is the problem, not the technology. Technology can (and should) exist just fine without capitalism.

[thepiedcurrawong]

why are terfs all like "bodily autonomy!" and then they get pissed at people for trying to transition. seems kinda contradictory almost as if their ideals are built on irrational hatred rather than societal progress

[femailment]

I have not seen this website posted yet so gyns I am happy to present to you "The Grand Map of Non-Happenings"

All you have to do is zoom in and click on the red tent and it will tell you of a reported instance in that area of a crime committed by trans identified males (even though it totally never happens)

Best of all, it's crowdsourced, and you can submit articles not already listed right at the top of the map

Gyns I pray you make use of this website and to publicize and bring to attention of these crimes that "never happen". Share it, use it, whatever you need. And donate to The Red Tent Collective if you have the means to do so!

https://www.theredtentcollective.org/transgender-crime-map

[caitlinjohns77]

[even-more-pro-fiction-jellicle]

People will really say things like "this irl adult woman wearing lingerie is child-coded" and don't ever stop to think about the question of why they associate lingerie with irl children.

This reminded me of a while ago when I saw a post about someone in a Pokemon discord complaining about a game mechanic being pedo-bait because you could... put Pokemon in dresses?

And they'll continue on with no self-awareness of how they're closer to the "you wouldn't have gotten raped if you weren't wearing that" crowd (for both children and adults) than any reasonable people trying to reduce harm and encourage respect for others.

[ultimateblogform82727]

I ve walked the line between light and dark.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Jesse Singal

Published: Jun 27, 2024

In April Hilary Cass, a British paediatrician, published her review of gender-identity services for children and young people, commissioned by NHS England. It cast doubt on the evidence base for youth gender medicine. This prompted the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the leading professional organisation for the doctors and practitioners who provide services to trans people, to release a blistering rejoinder. WPATH said that its own guidelines were sturdier, in part because they were “based on far more systematic reviews”.

Systematic reviews should evaluate the evidence for a given medical question in a careful, rigorous manner. Such efforts are particularly important at the moment, given the feverish state of the American debate on youth gender medicine, which is soon to culminate in a Supreme Court case challenging a ban in Tennessee. The case turns, in part, on questions of evidence and expert authority.

Court documents recently released as part of the discovery process in a case involving youth gender medicine in Alabama reveal that WPATH's claim was built on shaky foundations. The documents show that the organisation’s leaders interfered with the production of systematic reviews that it had commissioned from the Johns Hopkins University Evidence-Based Practice Centre (EPC) in 2018.

From early on in the contract negotiations, WPATH expressed a desire to control the results of the Hopkins team’s work. In December 2017, for example, Donna Kelly, an executive director at PATH, told Karen Robinson, the EPC's director, that the WPATH board felt the EPC researchers “cannot publish their findings independently”. A couple of weeks later, Ms Kelly emphasised that, “the [WPATH] board wants it to be clear that the data cannot be used without WPATH approval”.

Ms Robinson saw this as an attempt to exert undue influence over what was supposed to be an independent process. John Ioannidis of Stanford University, who co-authored guidelines for systematic reviews, says that if sponsors interfere or are allowed to veto results, this can lead to either biased summaries or suppression of unfavourable evidence. Ms Robinson sought to avoid such an outcome. “In general, my understanding is that the university will not sign off on a contract that allows a sponsor to stop an academic publication,” she wrote to Ms Kelly.

Months later, with the issue still apparently unresolved, Ms Robinson adopted a sterner tone. She noted in an email in March 2018 that, “Hopkins as an academic institution, and I as a faculty member therein, will not sign something that limits academic freedom in this manner,” nor “language that goes against current standards in systematic reviews and in guideline development”.

Not to reason XY

Eventually WPATH relented, and in May 2018 Ms Robinson signed a contract granting WPATH power to review and offer feedback on her team’s work, but not to meddle in any substantive way. After WPATH leaders saw two manuscripts submitted for review in July 2020, however, the parties’ disagreements flared up again. In August the WPATH executive committee wrote to Ms Robinson that WPATH had “many concerns” about these papers, and that it was implementing a new policy in which WPATH would have authority to influence the EPC team’s output—including the power to nip papers in the bud on the basis of their conclusions.

Ms Robinson protested that the new policy did not reflect the contract she had signed and violated basic principles of unfettered scientific inquiry she had emphasised repeatedly in her dealings with WPATH. The Hopkins team published only one paper after WPATH implemented its new policy: a 2021 meta-analysis on the effects of hormone therapy on transgender people. Among the recently released court documents is a WPATH checklist confirming that an individual from WPATH was involved “in the design, drafting of the article and final approval of [that] article”. (The article itself explicitly claims the opposite.) Now, more than six years after signing the agreement, the EPC team does not appear to have published anything else, despite having provided WPATH with the material for six systematic reviews, according to the documents.

No one at WPATH or Johns Hopkins has responded to multiple inquiries, so there are still gaps in this timeline. But an email in October 2020 from WPATH figures, including its incoming president at the time, Walter Bouman, to the working group on guidelines, made clear what sort of science WPATH did (and did not) want published. Research must be “thoroughly scrutinised and reviewed to ensure that publication does not negatively affect the provision of transgender health care in the broadest sense,” it stated. Mr Bouman and one other coauthor of that email have been named to a World Health Organisation advisory board tasked with developing best practices for transgender medicine.

Another document recently unsealed shows that Rachel Levine, a transwoman who is assistant secretary for health, succeeded in pressing WPATH to remove minimum ages for the treatment of children from its 2022 standards of care. Dr Levine’s office has not commented. Questions remain unanswered, but none of this helps WPATH’s claim to be an organisation that bases its recommendations on science. 

[ Via: https://archive.today/wJCI7 ]

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So, there are 6 completed reviews sitting somewhere, that WPATH knows shows undesirable (to them) results. And they know it. And despite - or perhaps, because of - that, they wrote the insane SOC8 anyway. And then, at the behest of Rachel Levine, went back and took out the age limits, making it even more insane.

This isn't how science works, it's how a cult works.

When John Templeton Foundation commissioned a study on the efficacy of intercessory prayer, a study which unsurprisingly found that it's completely ineffective, it was forced to publish the negative results.

So, even the religious are more ethical than gender ideologues when it comes to science. This is outright scientific corruption.

[eretzyisrael]

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[gamer2002]

Out: Black people can act civilized like everyone else

In: Peace and quiet is racist

[redditreceipts]

one of the most obviously paradoxical beauty standards is how women are expected to have a lot of hair and no hair at the same time. The same genetics that make it possible for Indian women to have very long, thick and shiny hair and perfect eyelashes and eyebrows, make them grow visible hair over their lips and on their legs. women who don't have that much hair on their body will also not be very hairy on their head, it's just logically impossible. And I've thought about that for a long time, until I understood: It's literally designed to be that way. you will never be enough the way you were born. you will always feel inferior and you will always pay to modify your body so you look like the impossible combination of full hair and no hair at the same time.

[eerna]

I somehow didn't realize that Amazon produced Fallout until I was already done with the show, so now my mind is reeling with the implications of one of the biggest pillars of capitalism creating a show where US capitalists united and started the apocalypse on purpose bc it was the only way to ensure capitalism wouldn't collapse

[sissa-arrows]

French Israeli piece of shit: Wanna know why the Arabs don’t protest and break and burn shit in Israel like they do in France? First Arab who walks by gets beaten up. Even the nice Arabs. The peaceful ones with nice corner shops. We beat them up, broke everything did a carnage. It’s the only language the Arabs understand, they think that as long as you’re not in the streets to kill them you’re weak and they can do whatever they want. The war, what we’re doing in Gaza hasn’t been done in a long time. What we’re doing in Gaza… you know what we’re doing. Not a single Arab in Israel is moving not even their ear unlike 2021. Not a single burned tire. Nothing because they know that Israelis, including the leftists, if they do anything we will catch them and hang them to a traffic light.

People in the conversation: That’s good!!!

The same piece of shit: I can send you pictures of Arabs taped from head to feet. Their face, their eyes everything.

Mila a piece of shit: I absolutely want to see this.

A third piece of shit: If you want Mika I have really nice ones from the army.

Mila the piece of shit: I want to see it.

The two pieces of shit who have pictures: Sending you the pics in DM.

Mila: *laughing*

Come again and tell us how “Israel” is nice and how the “Israeli Arabs” are not mistreated. The thing is the three people who were talking are easily identifiable. We all know who they are know their names and faces. Mila is even invited on TV regularly to pretend to be a victim. But none of them was arrested. Let’s pretend a group with white supremacists and Muslims who can easily be identified because they are known and use their picture and full name on social media was calling for the murder of Jews? Do you think for one second it wouldn’t be all over the news and the piece of shit would be in police custody already? But hey it’s just anti Arab racism so nothing to see here. They are just celebrating the death of Palestinians. Fuck Zionism. Fuck every single person who stand with “Israel” in any form or shape even the “neutral” ones and both siders. You’re a piece of shit and I have absolutely zero respect for you or even any empathy.

(The two guys in the conversation are Zionist Jews the girl Mila is a white supremacist. A couple years ago when she was 17 and nobody knew her she insulted Muslims during a live video, idiots answered by insulting her cause she is queer. And she became a symbole in France they started using her to show how the Arabs are savages and saying that blasphemy is a right in France. They didn’t listen to us when we were like “Nah she didn’t insult Islam she insulted Muslims that’s not blasphemy that’s racism” and now years later after being told her behavior was perfectly okay multiple times including by politicians and the medias, she is casually calling for the murder or Arabs and asking for pictures of dead Palestinians.)

[she-is-ovarit]

By "vagina owner" and "uterus haver", by "*pregnant person not pregnant woman", by "sex work is work", and by retaining the mentality that what is social is superior to and transcends what is biological, you are reducing biology and especially female biology down to a material, exploitable natural resource.

[disillusionedmonster]

I think one of the most insidious parts of the trans, pseudo-sexuality, and libfem movements is the way that they prey on good people. I have met so many people who just want to support others and do the right thing by oppressed groups who support these movements because of their compassion. They want women, trans people and SSA people to be safe, and as such throw their support behind the movements that claim to keep us safe, and in doing so are duped into supporting regressive and oppressive practices. Without realising it, they enable and, in some cases, actively participate in oppression. Not everyone has the access or capacity to read or engage with radical feminist or gender critical theory and content, particularly considering how demonised it is. It's just so infuriating, and you can't push back because you will get painted as a bigot because of the ideas they have been sold.