Cliff Kincaid
"Happy Pride Month" from the media
By Cliff Kincaid
The coming out of Bruce as Caitlyn Jenner is happening as various sexual minorities are celebrating "Pride Month." It used to be "Gay Pride Month," but the number of oppressed sexual minorities seems to be growing at an amazing pace. Without a scorecard, it is hard to keep up.
Sooner or later, pedophilia will emerge as just another orientation.
One of the leading enforcers of political correctness in the media, the site known as BuzzFeed, is coming down hard on "misgendering" by other outlets. It is not permissible, according to this way of thinking, to refer to "Bruce Jenner" anymore, or to call him a male.
The BuzzFeed literary editor has published a quiz titled "How Transphobic Are You?" That's right: "transphobia" is the new catchword, designed to silence those of us who still believe in the scientific, biological, and traditional definitions of the sexes.
Publications such as BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post, as well as the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA), represent the forces of cultural Marxism, designed to highlight and affirm what seems like an endless stream of sexual minorities objecting to their oppression by pro-traditional forces in society.
In a similar vein to what the NLGJA has directed in terms of acceptable coverage of transgenders, the ACLU has gotten into the business of telling the media how to report and what to think. The Daily Caller refers to it as the ACLU going "full fascist," though it would be more accurate to label it as a Marxist way of thinking.
In any case, ACLU official Casey Strangio has declared, "Words matter, and erasing the identity of trans people by calling them by their birth names and birth-assigned sex is an act of hatred – one that is inextricable from the brutal violence that so many trans people, particularly trans women of color, encounter just for existing in the world."
Strangio goes on, "There is no need to mention what her name used to be or what sex she was assigned at birth. And as writer and activist Janet Mock brilliantly explained to Piers Morgan, neither Janet nor Caitlyn were 'born boys.' They were born babies and they are women – brave and fabulous women."
This is really beyond the pale. Babies are not born male or female anymore, just babies? What's more, we are supposed to wait years or decades, in order to determine what they are, or at least what they claim to be.
"Caitlyn Jenner still has her penis" is the headline over a Richard Johnson story in the New York Post. That seems to make him still a man, at least in my book.
What's more, Jenner still has male DNA. He can never eliminate that.
Nevertheless, "Caitlyn Jenner" is being honored with the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at The 2015 ESPYS on ABC on July 15.
At the same time, CNN has announced that some "activists" are objecting to the "misgendering" of Caitlyn Jenner when people in the media label "her" as a "him." These activists "say that when news anchors and commentators purposefully use a male pronoun for Jenner, such as 'he,' they are misgendering her, thereby insulting her and the transgender community more broadly," CNN reports.
CNN adds, "News outlets are generally striving to be sensitive. Many journalists immediately adopted 'she,' and 'her' in articles and discussions."
Count me a member of the "insensitive" group of journalists and commentators. I still believe in the science and biology of DNA.
The propaganda barrage comes as President Barack Obama has officially designated June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month.
Interestingly, however, the Defense Department is highlighting "the achievements and sacrifices of LGB service members and LGBT civilians." That's because transgenders cannot yet officially join the combat services.
DoD News reports that Air Force General Counsel Gordon O. Tanner, a gay attorney, said he plans to do two things in celebrating LGBT Pride Month – "set new mentoring goals to mentor more rising young LGB leaders, and visit the gravesite of former Air Force Tech Sgt. Leonard Matlovich in the Congressional Cemetery on Capitol Hill."
"Sergeant Matlovich was the first to fight the ban on gays serving in the military," Tanner told DoD News. "His picture was on the cover of Time Magazine in 1975; NBC made a movie about his life."
Matlovich died of AIDS in 1988.
The Washington Blade reports that Tanner is the first-ever presidential appointee confirmed by the Senate who's not only openly gay and married to a same-sex spouse, but also a military veteran. He was confirmed by the Senate by voice vote last September without any dissent.
Much has happened in the intervening years, to the point where the Council for Global Equality recently marked the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT). I am not sure what "biphobia" is.
The Council for Global Equality was a recent co-sponsor of the "Conference to Advance the Human Rights of and Promote Inclusive Development for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) Persons." The term "intersex" is apparently another new addition to the list of politically correct gender identity categories. I'm not really sure what it means, either.
What's important, of course, is that in addition to the Obama administration, a lot of big liberal money is backing this international campaign for new "rights" for various sexual minorities.
The Council reports that it has been "generously funded" primarily by the Arcus Foundation, Sigrid Rausing Trust, the Open Society Foundations, Ford Foundation, and an anonymous source.
The executive director of the Arcus Foundation is Kevin Jennings, the former Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education in the Obama administration, while the Open Society Foundations are funded by billionaire hedge fund operator George Soros.
You may recall that Jennings' activism was "inspired" by Harry Hay, the Communist Party member and "Radical Faerie," who believed in the power of the occult. Hay was also a supporter of the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA).
Now that Robert Gates, the former defense secretary and current president of the Boy Scouts of America, has called for the organization to open itself to homosexual Scoutmasters, can the acceptance of pedophilia as just another sexual orientation be far behind?
NAMBLA operates in the open, with a website devoted to "the benevolent aspects of man/boy love" and advocating "sexual liberation and youth liberation."
In the past, the ACLU has defended NAMBLA, saying it goes to bat for "unpopular organizations" and believes in "robust freedom of speech for everyone."
On the other hand, if you call Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner a he, which is how he was born, you are denounced by the ACLU as being guilty of hatred and possibly provoking violence. That's enough to intimidate most of the media.
This is how a society spirals out of control, with the media afraid or unwilling to tell the truth any longer. Young people are clearly being singled out as the next victims, with sexual abuse being defined as love.
You might think, based on the media's preoccupation with the terrible sexual abuse that has been documented in the Duggar family, that the media would oppose the sexual exploitation of children. But this scandal seems to be a convenient way for many in the media to make fun of the Duggars' professed Christianity.
Our media have no principled objection to making children into sex objects. Otherwise, they would campaign to close down NAMBLA and expose the evil campaign to make sexual exploitation into just another sexual orientation.
The next phase of this sick campaign will be to present kids claiming to benefit from having sex with adults. If you object, you will be labeled as insensitive.
© Cliff Kincaid
June 6, 2015
The coming out of Bruce as Caitlyn Jenner is happening as various sexual minorities are celebrating "Pride Month." It used to be "Gay Pride Month," but the number of oppressed sexual minorities seems to be growing at an amazing pace. Without a scorecard, it is hard to keep up.
Sooner or later, pedophilia will emerge as just another orientation.
One of the leading enforcers of political correctness in the media, the site known as BuzzFeed, is coming down hard on "misgendering" by other outlets. It is not permissible, according to this way of thinking, to refer to "Bruce Jenner" anymore, or to call him a male.
The BuzzFeed literary editor has published a quiz titled "How Transphobic Are You?" That's right: "transphobia" is the new catchword, designed to silence those of us who still believe in the scientific, biological, and traditional definitions of the sexes.
Publications such as BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post, as well as the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA), represent the forces of cultural Marxism, designed to highlight and affirm what seems like an endless stream of sexual minorities objecting to their oppression by pro-traditional forces in society.
In a similar vein to what the NLGJA has directed in terms of acceptable coverage of transgenders, the ACLU has gotten into the business of telling the media how to report and what to think. The Daily Caller refers to it as the ACLU going "full fascist," though it would be more accurate to label it as a Marxist way of thinking.
In any case, ACLU official Casey Strangio has declared, "Words matter, and erasing the identity of trans people by calling them by their birth names and birth-assigned sex is an act of hatred – one that is inextricable from the brutal violence that so many trans people, particularly trans women of color, encounter just for existing in the world."
Strangio goes on, "There is no need to mention what her name used to be or what sex she was assigned at birth. And as writer and activist Janet Mock brilliantly explained to Piers Morgan, neither Janet nor Caitlyn were 'born boys.' They were born babies and they are women – brave and fabulous women."
This is really beyond the pale. Babies are not born male or female anymore, just babies? What's more, we are supposed to wait years or decades, in order to determine what they are, or at least what they claim to be.
"Caitlyn Jenner still has her penis" is the headline over a Richard Johnson story in the New York Post. That seems to make him still a man, at least in my book.
What's more, Jenner still has male DNA. He can never eliminate that.
Nevertheless, "Caitlyn Jenner" is being honored with the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at The 2015 ESPYS on ABC on July 15.
At the same time, CNN has announced that some "activists" are objecting to the "misgendering" of Caitlyn Jenner when people in the media label "her" as a "him." These activists "say that when news anchors and commentators purposefully use a male pronoun for Jenner, such as 'he,' they are misgendering her, thereby insulting her and the transgender community more broadly," CNN reports.
CNN adds, "News outlets are generally striving to be sensitive. Many journalists immediately adopted 'she,' and 'her' in articles and discussions."
Count me a member of the "insensitive" group of journalists and commentators. I still believe in the science and biology of DNA.
The propaganda barrage comes as President Barack Obama has officially designated June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month.
Interestingly, however, the Defense Department is highlighting "the achievements and sacrifices of LGB service members and LGBT civilians." That's because transgenders cannot yet officially join the combat services.
DoD News reports that Air Force General Counsel Gordon O. Tanner, a gay attorney, said he plans to do two things in celebrating LGBT Pride Month – "set new mentoring goals to mentor more rising young LGB leaders, and visit the gravesite of former Air Force Tech Sgt. Leonard Matlovich in the Congressional Cemetery on Capitol Hill."
"Sergeant Matlovich was the first to fight the ban on gays serving in the military," Tanner told DoD News. "His picture was on the cover of Time Magazine in 1975; NBC made a movie about his life."
Matlovich died of AIDS in 1988.
The Washington Blade reports that Tanner is the first-ever presidential appointee confirmed by the Senate who's not only openly gay and married to a same-sex spouse, but also a military veteran. He was confirmed by the Senate by voice vote last September without any dissent.
Much has happened in the intervening years, to the point where the Council for Global Equality recently marked the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT). I am not sure what "biphobia" is.
The Council for Global Equality was a recent co-sponsor of the "Conference to Advance the Human Rights of and Promote Inclusive Development for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) Persons." The term "intersex" is apparently another new addition to the list of politically correct gender identity categories. I'm not really sure what it means, either.
What's important, of course, is that in addition to the Obama administration, a lot of big liberal money is backing this international campaign for new "rights" for various sexual minorities.
The Council reports that it has been "generously funded" primarily by the Arcus Foundation, Sigrid Rausing Trust, the Open Society Foundations, Ford Foundation, and an anonymous source.
The executive director of the Arcus Foundation is Kevin Jennings, the former Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education in the Obama administration, while the Open Society Foundations are funded by billionaire hedge fund operator George Soros.
You may recall that Jennings' activism was "inspired" by Harry Hay, the Communist Party member and "Radical Faerie," who believed in the power of the occult. Hay was also a supporter of the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA).
Now that Robert Gates, the former defense secretary and current president of the Boy Scouts of America, has called for the organization to open itself to homosexual Scoutmasters, can the acceptance of pedophilia as just another sexual orientation be far behind?
NAMBLA operates in the open, with a website devoted to "the benevolent aspects of man/boy love" and advocating "sexual liberation and youth liberation."
In the past, the ACLU has defended NAMBLA, saying it goes to bat for "unpopular organizations" and believes in "robust freedom of speech for everyone."
On the other hand, if you call Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner a he, which is how he was born, you are denounced by the ACLU as being guilty of hatred and possibly provoking violence. That's enough to intimidate most of the media.
This is how a society spirals out of control, with the media afraid or unwilling to tell the truth any longer. Young people are clearly being singled out as the next victims, with sexual abuse being defined as love.
You might think, based on the media's preoccupation with the terrible sexual abuse that has been documented in the Duggar family, that the media would oppose the sexual exploitation of children. But this scandal seems to be a convenient way for many in the media to make fun of the Duggars' professed Christianity.
Our media have no principled objection to making children into sex objects. Otherwise, they would campaign to close down NAMBLA and expose the evil campaign to make sexual exploitation into just another sexual orientation.
The next phase of this sick campaign will be to present kids claiming to benefit from having sex with adults. If you object, you will be labeled as insensitive.
© Cliff Kincaid
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