From a thread with video evidence of Hamas stealing UN trucks of aid in Gaza:
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It's the women here. Some of the videos have trouble loading.
the laws of war, not by statistics taken out of context….
This is not a campaign of extermination. It is a war against Hamas, a terrorist army embedded in civilian areas by design.
But different rules apply when Israel's involved.
Further to yesterday's post…
Last thing on the cowardice of (vast majority of) the philosophy profession about sex and gender. Possibly the most annoying thing: it is blindingly obvious you are turning yourself inside out to avoid noticing trans women are men, trans men are women etc simply because you are…
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"Last thing on the cowardice of (vast majority of) the philosophy profession about sex and gender. Possibly the most annoying thing: it is blindingly obvious you are turning yourself inside out to avoid noticing trans women are men, trans men are women etc simply because you are frightened of offending those students/ that colleague/ that daughter/ that friend. You are so frightened of this, you are prepared to advocate for ludicrously byzantine and impenetrable theories in public rather than go with the most simple, elegantly explanatory, and adequately predictive one, that most of the rest of the world can easily see is true. This may make you a good person (?) but it really does make you a terrible philosopher."
Yes but…surely a lot of these philosophers actually enjoy advocating for a theory that most people can see is nonsense. It marks them out as special: as capable of navigating the impenetrable byzantine jargon that they've spent their academic careers mastering. They're arrogant. They're so much smarter than the average Joe.
The St. Johns River ca. 1910. "Lunch hour on the levee — Jacksonville, Florida."
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osed as charlatans. As buffoons.
And all the people who quietly or not so quietly went along with this are now being revealed as the gullible idiots.
A view from India on the disastrous betrayal of medical ethics in the West that came with the gender cult. Janhavi Nilekani:
In the spring of 2022, a 50-year-old grandfather in North Carolina decided that he wanted his daughter’s newborn to suckle at his nipple.
Rather than keep this thought to himself, he opted to confide in his doctor.
You may wonder what happened next. Was the doctor a mandated reporter? Did Child Protective Services show up at his house to investigate a possibility of child sexual abuse? After all, the CPS is so vigilant that they investigate 37% of American children. Or perhaps he was referred to a therapist?
Well, no. Because this particular man identified as a transgender woman, doctors and academics from Duke University wholeheartedly supported his “unique desire”. Indeed, they published a research paper in Breastfeeding Medicine, providing details of the cocktail of hormones and drugs they used. With these, he was able to produce secretions, that were administered to his grandchild. The paper does not have a single sentence about the potential impact on the grandchild.
It is an unimaginable breach of ethics….
Worth a read.
From the Daily NK:
North Korean authorities are doing everything they can to stop the spread of South Korean pop culture, or hallyu, but young people keep using South Korean expressions and speech patterns anyway.
Article 41 of North Korea’s Youth Education Guarantee Act, passed in 2021, forbids young people from speaking or writing “in odd speech patterns that are not our own.” While North Korea has legally banned youth from using “non-socialist” language, South Korean speech patterns are quietly spreading among young people regardless.
According to a Daily NK source in North Hamgyong province recently, four people in their twenties were arrested in Chongjin by local state security officers for talking like South Koreans. A local resident had tipped off authorities after spotting the group mimicking lines from South Korean films and dramas.
The four are currently being questioned at the city’s Ministry of State Security branch and will likely face six months to a year of forced labor.
“These days, young people are careful to avoid South Korean speech during official activities because they know about the crackdowns, but when they’re with friends, they use it without hesitation—mimicking lines from South Korean movies and shows,” the source said. “They copy the patterns quite naturally, probably because they’ve grown up watching this content.”
When young people hang out together, they freely use South Korean expressions like jagiya (honey), oppa (elder brother, used affectionately by women), daebak (awesome), and jjokpallinda (embarrassed).
This might be their way of mocking North Korean society, where constant surveillance and informing on each other have become normal. North Korean youth embrace South Korean speech patterns, adapting what they hear in films and dramas while laughing and smiling as they do it, the source explained.
Sounds good to me.
ngement. These debates are difficult, but they cannot be postponed indefinitely; otherwise, any Israeli victory on the battlefield will be pyrrhic. History shows that wars often end with new realities on the ground, sometimes including population movements or border changes, but any such outcomes here must centre on the return of the hostages and the welfare and wishes of Gaza’s people, not force them into another tragedy.
Currently, saving lives and reducing suffering are the top priorities. No child in Gaza should be dying of hunger when food is available just a few miles away, sitting on a pallet or locked in a warehouse. This is a solvable problem, provided there is political will. Gazans are not starving due to drought or fate; they are starving because humans, both their own leaders and the international community, have failed them. Whilst Israel has no legal obligation to provide aid that will be repurposed by their enemy, stepping up and ending the failure of others should be a moral duty.
indulged at the expense of everyone else’s needs. What Upton wanted, Upton must have regardless of its impact on anyone else. He wanted to use facilities previously reserved for women and who, really, were these women to object to that? They were only little people, of no great consequence. Nurse Peggie’s objections to a man’s presence in her changing room were axiomatically proof she was a dreadful bigot. Being kind to Upton meant being unkind to Peggie but so what? She should suck it up and know her place.
There are other victims too and some of these receive less sympathy than they merit. Like Dr Hilary Cass, I believe gender dysphoria is a real though very rare condition. Real trans people — a term I am very comfortable using — have seen their condition hijacked by frauds insisting that men with fetishes are indistinguishable from people with a genuine medical need. The ever-broader definition of “trans” cheapens the reality of the lives led by people possessing a Gender Recognition Certificate. That is no more in their interests than it is in anyone else’s.
Some of Sturgeon’s allies once acknowledged this distinction without, quite typically, even realising it. Shona Robison, while serving as cabinet secretary for social justice, once talked about “genuine” trans people, thereby conceding the possibility of fake ones. How one might be distinguished from the other was, alas, a question too difficult to even allow, let alone answer.
Thus we reach a situation in which people incapable of determining their own sex are nevertheless also sure that a person such as Upton is indubitably a woman because, well, because he says he is and so that must be true. This contradiction cannot be acknowledged since doing so is the precursor to admitting it cannot be resolved.
Above all, however, remember that this Scotland of magical thinking is the Scotland a majority of our MSPs wanted. Some things really are binary. You are Team Peggie or Team Upton and most of our political representatives chose to be the latter.
