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PoliticalHat #dunning-kruger politicalhat.com

Kids played “pretend” or “make believe” all the times and acted like they were robots, or dinosaurs, or other non-human things. When they’re young this is seen as exercising their imagination or even cute. It used to be that as the kids got older, not only parents but society at large would tell them it’s time to grow up and play pretend. In this day and age, identifying as something you could never be has been normalized. After all, if a girl can be come a boy, why not a robot or a dinosaur. After all, such “identity” has already been established to have nothing to do with physical and/or biological reality.

Identifying as a robot seems almost mainstream and socially acceptable compared to the aformentiond Tumblr madness. And that is how for well over a decade the crazyness of Tumble has been distilled down into an almost anodyne embrace of identity politics and the dissevering of “identity” from objective biological reality.

If people feel secure enough to publically say this, just think how much worse the next phase, currently sub rosa, will unleash upon young people!

This will not end well.

Political Hat #pratt #transphobia politicalhat.com

“The same belief in magic reveals itself in the claim that certain words or ideas associated with ‘white privilege’ are a form of ‘epistemic violence’, capable of wreaking untold psychological damage on women and minorities. When a group of LGBT+ activists at a university claim that giving a platform to a ‘Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist’ will ‘erase’ the identity of trans students, it is tempting to dismiss this as hyperbole. But maybe we should take what they say at face value. If we grant them that courtesy, we have to conclude that the members of this cult attribute a terrifying supernatural power to those in possession of ‘white privilege’. They really do believe that the people at the top of the intersectional hierarchy can literally ‘erase’ people by uttering certain words, almost like magic spells. In this context, the ‘safe spaces’ that have been created in universities, in which students are protected from the harmful effects of these spells, are a bit like churches — holy places where evil cannot penetrate.”