A roundup of news and commentary from around the interwebs.
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Jordan Peterson gives a rambly but interesting take on why pornography is terrible for you:
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Those who are insanely persuaded by the progressive argument that questioning some of the crimes the medical establishment is currently perpetrating (abortion and sex changes for children as well as euthanasia come to mind) is “anti-science” would do well to remember the eugenics craze of the previous century. Tristin Hopper has a good essay in the National Post reminding readers of this period: “The time when Canada’s elite wanted to sterilize ‘insane’ and disabled people.”
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Today’s elites, it bears mentioning, are no saner than their predecessors: “Lib Dem activists say menstruation ‘not just a women’s issue’ as party to debate motion.”
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Canada, as a country, has become an international laughingstock because of stories like this—which you’ll be sure to see in the Daily Mail any day now: “BREAKING: Infamous Canadian trans shop teacher with massive prosthetic breasts returns to classroom this fall.” Yeah, that teacher.
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View at your own discretion—I include this article from the Western Standard only because the mainstream press insists that parents with objections to what is going on in schools are right-wing fanatics: “SEE THEM: The sex cards that got Planned Parenthood banned from Sask classrooms.”
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France is following Canada’s lead in doing everything they can to hide the reality of euthanasia and assisted suicide…by not using those words. In Canada, we refer to “MAID,” a soothing euphemism that ignores the brutal reality of death by lethal injection. France would also like to avoid terms that tell the truth: “France government bill will hide the reality of euthanasia.”
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Surprised? From Live Action: “Biden health secretary praises gender clinic that wants mothers to be called ‘egg producers.’” I see no similar move to label men “sperm producers.”
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Ever heard of a “trans widow”? That’s when somebody’s spouse decides to abandon his or her partner by self-actualizing through a sex change. There’s been an increasing number of articles (and at least one book) on this strange, post-modern experience. From The Daily Wire: “‘Trans Widow’ Details Dark Side Of Ideology In Interview With Michael Knowles.”
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And finally, if you’d like a glimpse at where our elites are heading and how they’ll justify it. Shot:
From a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behavior, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition.#21lessons
— Yuval Noah Harari (@harari_yuval) August 24, 2023
And, chaser:
That’s right. None at all, apparently.
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More soon.