Just Let Me Check Who I Am
From the Telegraph, the thrill of modern high-street banking:
If your eyebrows have even twitched ever so slightly, you’re a very bad person.
Because the above is part of an “LGBT-friendly diversity measure,” endorsed by Stonewall, and is therefore beyond reproach. Indeed, it’s the very measure of moral sophistication. The cutting edge of corrected thought. And employees who aren’t sure who or what they are at any given time must be encouraged to enact their “masculine and feminine” personas according to mood and medication.
Hence the double-sided lanyards, obviously.
It’s not just a matter of lanyards, of course:
Oh shiny tomorrow.
Employees have also been trained in “how to confront non-inclusive behaviours.” Which I’m assuming includes customers whose eyebrows are not yet under control.
We have, needless to say, been here before:
Because “gender fluid” and “bigender” employees should have “multiple pass-cards with different forms of gender expression or linked email accounts / intranet accounts with different names and photos.” You see, “workplace equality” will apparently be enhanced by enabling “non-binary employees to have their identities recognised on all employee-facing workplace systems.”
And by introducing confusion and farce into the workplace, along with security complications and a kind of obligatory collective pretension. Such that employees may be unsure of which make-believe “identity” a colleague is inhabiting on any given day and, consequently, which email address to use in order to avoid complaints or claims of being oppressed.
But hey, banking and mental illness, together at last.
You can laugh but there truly is a mass psychosis happening. It has been slowly coming on for a couple of decades but it is very real now. These people are not playing. They really, truly believe this crazy shit and many of them are people who don’t let on because many of them are genuinely afraid like these people fleeing to Portland. This idiocy has taken such a broad foothold because these people so rarely see or encounter anyone expressing a normal perspective on life such that they really, truly believe that the few normal people they do see expressing normality are the crazy kool-aid drinkers. Look at how many regular people have fallen for the numerous hoaxes, especially my personal litmus test the Trump-told-people-to-drink-bleach hoax. If you think someone like Jake Tapper or Jen Psaki or your overly politicized next door neighbor or such is only pretending to believe this “obvious” BS you are yourself a certain degree of delusional. These crazies are real and they are not all the ones with purple hair and neck piercings. They are your bankers, your pastors, your grocers, your electricians, your engineers, and especially your doctors. As every institution has been corrupted, the much broader influence those institutions have beyond their own members and stakeholders into the general population is doing much greater damage.
Again, this is how most people think.
That would seem to be an obvious issue. If your financial affairs are being handled by someone whose identity is so unstable that Harry could be Helena on any day you happen to interact – complete with wig, make-up, and a different personality – and then be Harry again, and then Helena again… well. This does not result in confidence.
That this detail should have to be pointed out is itself hardly comforting.
I’ll bet that these two women are not really women.
For the benefit of our US friends this incident took place less than 10 miles from Brighton, a city with distinct similarities to both Portland and the Castro district of San Francisco. The report from Sussex police, copied verbatim by the media, has allegedly caused considerable interest to the recruitment section of the local ladies basketball team.
Astonishing.
Especially the fact that ‘They arrived’ links to the earlier ‘They left’.
It’s quite eye-opening to compare the comments of those leaving to those arriving.
From ‘They left’:
From ‘They arrived’:
From ‘They left’:
From ‘They arrived’:
And:
The reasons Krajcer gives for embracing Portland like a warm security blanket:
It’s also worth noting how the “culture war” referred to in the article is, as usual, presented as some ex-nihilo conservative phenomenon, waged inexplicably and entirely without cause. As if it were merely some random act of malice.
Rather than, say, a somewhat belated pushback to the never-ending overreach of ‘progressives’ – and regarding issues of obvious contention and moral seriousness. Say, the sterilising and mutilation of children, a phenomenon mentioned in the article only in affirming terms.
That, as they say.
We see sterilisation and mutilation of children. They see scientific studies that hormones might alleviate suicidal ideation in trans adolescents – 11 years old in this case.
On the subject of scientific studies i draw your attention to the late Professor John Money. Arguably one of the more evil, perverted and deranged individuals to ever draw breath. The icing on the cake is that at the time of his death, well over a decade after his theories had been utterly discredited, he still held the position of Professor of Paediatrics and Medical Psychology at Johns Hopkins University. (This may have been on account of tenure but, if so, it would have been politic for the University to issue a statement of disassociation and preferably outright censure).
On the plus side, the bank will have no trouble demonstrating that they meet equal opportunity targets – at least on the right day. Who needs affirmative action programs when employers can just offer inducements to identify as the gender required in the workplace?
(And if employees can identify differently on different days, no reason they can’t identify as one gender in the workplace and drop the pretense off hours.)
https://youtu.be/js5-OsdvqTY
Again for the benefit of US readers here is a much-beloved British comedian back in 1976.
Two favorites: My blackberry is not working and Four candles.
Well, you can imagine my surprise.
Just a one-off.
https://reduxx.info/rest-in-power-drag-queen-story-hour-uk-founder-fundraising-for-convicted-child-sex-offenders-funeral/
Another one-off. Close little community aren’t they?
It’s quite eye-opening to compare the comments of those leaving to those arriving.
“A sucking chest wound from a bum stealing my phone is a small price to pay for being able to see “pride” flags and not having my feelings hurt.”
Ah, those super-tolerant people who can’t bear the sight of lawns with Trump signs on them, or Republicans more generally. Because people who don’t vote Democrat want to harm lesbian couples or something.
This came to mind, as did this. In both cases, it’s worth noting how the objects of contempt appear to be much nicer and more neighbourly than the spiteful neurotic bitches badmouthing them in print.
Needless to say, more examples are available.
I laugh because there truly is a mass psychosis happening. There’s not much I can do when reason takes a holiday.
Much like the Canadian shop teacher with the two pigs in a sack strapped to his chest.
What was parody is now holy writ.
Always liked The Two Ronnies.
“thousands fleeing”–objection! Facts not in evidence!
As WTP said, they are panicking about a fantasm.
Also Dave Allen.
Would they be unable to do this sketch today?
OVER/UNDER:
How long before the MGM Sphere Is politicized? And which branch of wokeness will it be pushing on us?
I give it until August 1, and climate.
https://twitter.com/TheLastDon222/status/1676727657055260673?t=97pbOHiXWZgsqy2o-3RxUA&s=19
You laugh because neither you nor anyone you truly care about is directly affected by the consequences of such a mass psychosis. You have that luxury. Some do not. Other do…until they don’t.
It sounds better if you say it in French.
You make assumptions unsupported by fact.
To the Manor Born and Keeping Up Appearances were also well worth the time.
The extremism over environmental concerns was a precursor to all of this which was never addressed properly by the right. The belief that the profit mechanism or something else would somehow override the fear instilled was a very risky play. Now that the corporations have been usurped by the watermelon crowd, or even those pretending to be watermelons…my god how deep these deceptions can go..,the power of profit has been ju-jitsu’d.
Astonishing. Especially the fact that ‘They arrived’ links to the earlier ‘They left’.
In reading through both articles, ‘They arrived’ is written as woke boosterism while the ‘they left’ sprinkles bits of ‘good riddance’ throughout. Yet, the compare & contrast is still pretty stark.
And the claim that a phantom 260K movement of paranoid TQ+ will rival the Dust Bowl migration? I note that nowhere in that article is any mention that California has already lost population for 3 straight years (estimated total net loss of 500K).
Yeah, don’t want to explore why people are leaving the CA ‘paradise’, eh?
There is some evasive dancing around the assumptions and voting vanities that exacerbate the dysfunctions that people are fleeing. In other words, a concentration of ‘progressives’ and the consequent, pretty much inevitable, degradation.
We do, however, get glib lines about “good riddance to the capitalists” and people “sounding like Ayn Rand.” Yes, those awful “capitalist” people who’d rather not find bloodied needles in their gardens, where children play, or have their homes broken into, and who would rather not have a “familiar ambient noise” of street racing, screams, and gunfire.
One of my favorite examples: Communists pointing to occasional food safety violations as proof of the evils of capitalism, while ignoring the pervasive food safety problems in communist regimes. When the Party owns the “means of production” and the police and courts, routine and gross violations of the putative rules are ignored.
This right here is how the whiners/commies win. Nothing is perfect. Success is often seen and described by people on the right by what works. The left focuses on what doesn’t work. Which gives the left tons more material to work with. If the right passes on its numerous opportunities to brashly and loudly point out how government, and more broadly monopolies, don’t work, out of some silly notion of propriety or whatever style points they think are important, the left will prevail.
I think reflecting on some past protests throws some light on the present. Remember “occupy wall street”? And several others followed. They thought it was just fine to make lots of people suffer, they made a mess, crimes happened in their tiny enclave, and they were incapable of governing themselves. But the key here is their demands: end capitalism, shut down wall street. So this is what they think is a reasonable demand. End the modern banking system that makes business possible. End the stock market that makes it possible to have a retirement account. All while these dimwits had cell phones and nylon tents made by big corporations. The idiocy just reeks. And the local gov just let them. This is what they are about. Ending our way of life.
Yes. So why are we just letting them do so? Which side is more suicidal?
Surprised they’re not calling it a ‘crime of fashion.’
Indeed. My personal favourite is Ontario’s Walkerton water tragedy, where blindingly incompetent government employees were taken as proof of the dangers of private ownership of water utilities.
The crazy just keeps piling up: That trans Philadelphia mass killer says he did it to “help the city do something about gun violence”.
Doctors Frankenstein now have a robot.
“It’s not going to end well, is it?”
“it” never does. Bang, whimper, and all that jazz…
I’d rather entrust my care to Marvin the Paranoid Android.
My personal favourite is Ontario’s Walkerton water tragedy, where blindingly incompetent government employees were taken as proof of the dangers of private ownership of water utilities
As I recall it, bottled water from those eeeevil private corporashuns was trucked in, and was the only reliably safe drinking water.
…blindingly incompetent government employees…
Sorry, forgot to italicise the quote (there’s a change!!!) in the comment above.
Back on topic, the functionary in charge at Walkerton went on to another government job in another town, without any consequences.
That seems to be the default position of most government bureaucrats…and all socialists.