All These Things Thou Shalt Not Judge
At Adelphi University, a curious inclusion:
A private university in New York told students, faculty, and staff to not discriminate against someone based on a history of sexual offences. A poster at the university, obtained by The College Fix, has a list of categories and a statement that “I will not discriminate.” The poster has the university’s name on it. People should “not discriminate” against someone based on sex, race, disability, or religion, according to the poster, nor someone’s “sexual offender status.”
Presumably, students and staff should not regard someone’s status as a registered sex offender as having any conceivable utility or relevance and should never allow this knowledge to influence any decisions they might make about anything.
An adjacent poster denounces “dating violence,” “lack of consent” and “incapacitated sexual contact.”
Also, open thread.
Any neighbourhood bulletin board or facebook group is ready to turn the mundane into a twisted tit-for-tat battle for righteousness.
Social media in a nutshell.
I have questions.
we’re at the point now where doctors are chemically destroying the sexual development, and even cutting out the sex organs of children. Doctors. Educated people. With skills.
How quickly we forget the FGM/circumcision debate.
Any neighbourhood bulletin board or facebook group is ready to turn the mundane into a twisted tit-for-tat battle for righteousness.
Woke virtue signaling online is high school mean girls social competition among women.
Amber Heard is unhappy. This woman at the Guardian may soon be unhappy too.
Woke virtue signaling online is high school mean girls social competition among women.
I sometimes wonder how large a fraction of female interactions fall into the High School Mean Girls category.
New York has very restrictive gun control laws, and yet this psycho murderer with a history of stalking, threats, and violence–even gun violence–was allowed to keep his collection of guns. He should have been charged with felony assault, given a restraining order, and required to surrender all firearms. Why didn’t that happen? In New York, the home of the Smartest People in America?
Once again, everybody: Do liberal DA’s and officials want vicious criminals to commit more crimes?
How quickly we forget the FGM/circumcision debate.
Ah, I remember vividly everything that happened at the outbreak of the Foreskin Wars. I had just received a job offer working in the circumsion ward–40 skins a week and a chance to get ahead.
[ ba dum tss ]
I’m here all week. Don’t forget to tip your server.
Tip???
David, may I borrow the hamster urine spray bottle?
circumsion ward
Oy vey, I’m such a mohel, I circumcised the word circumcision.
Just don’t circumcise the skipper.
How quickly we forget the FGM/circumcision debate.
Well as I recall there was significant opposition to FGM back then and it wasn’t endorsed by any serious people…so called. The medical establishment opposed it. Biological reproduction is not significantly impaired. It is still, to my knowledge anyway, not acceptable outside of those specific religious/ethnic groups.
Circumcision is a whole other thing open to discussion but it certainly has not been proven to do reproductive damage to the child nor eliminate pleasure from sex. Putting aside malpractice, etc.
I had just received a job offer working in the circumsion ward–40 skins a week and a chance to get ahead.
Yadda-yadda-yadda, but if you rub it, it turns into a briefcase.
Sorry, the ocd again.
Circumcision is a whole other thing open to discussion
Oh, of course it is. Of course it is.
The point is that doctors – educated people, with skills even – were and are still cutting out the sex organs of children and have been for a long time.
DR, it’s because of crap like this that you don’t get invited to the…never mind…
Circumcision is a whole other thing open to discussion but it certainly has not been proven to do reproductive damage to the child nor eliminate pleasure from sex.
Alas, this reasoning is flawed. Prepucectomy isn’t a “whole other thing” merely because it’s not as bad as the worst forms of FGM. It’s still genital mutilation; it’s done to the genitals, and it would be mutilation if done to any other normal, healthy, functional human body part.
As a rule, the acceptance of the validity of routine and ritual male prepucectomy necessarily requires the false proposition that the infant male prepuce is somehow –
[jazz hands] – magically, just like people changing their gender! –
exempt from the presumptive standard of retention applied to the rest of the human body by default.
The awkward and discomforting – dare I suggest cognitively dissonant? – parallels to be drawn between the subjects of the recent Matt Walsh filmclips and the contortions of circumcision apologists promise much amusement of exactly the stripe for which I habituate this venue.
Alas, this reasoning is flawed. Prepucectomy isn’t a “whole other thing” merely because it’s not as bad as the worst forms of FGM. It’s still genital mutilation; it’s done to the genitals, and it would be mutilation if done to any other normal, healthy, functional human body part.
As a rule, the acceptance of the validity of routine and ritual male prepucectomy necessarily requires the false proposition that the infant male prepuce is somehow –
[jazz hands] – magically, just like people changing their gender! –
exempt from the presumptive standard of retention applied to the rest of the human body by default.
FFFS, there you have it. This. It’s not just a leftist phenomenon (or perhaps it is?), the willful and intentional obtuseness of people trying to appear smart. Smaaaart. It’s different, very different, for the clear reasons I previously stated. Not saying it should not be considered/re-examined, but clearly, to anyone with common sense, male circumcision is SIGNIFICANTLY different from FGM and the chemical interference and ever removal of children’s genitals. This right here, this idiotic obfuscation, is a big part of the problem.
Tangential to the discussion above: coworkers used to refer to a certain northern B.C. town as “Foreskin John”, which for the benefit of our drill crew I rendered into French as “St-Jean-de-Prepuce”.
It’s funnier if you’ve had a Jesuit education.
coworkers used to refer to a certain northern B.C. town as “Foreskin John”
