Dishonesty On Demand
Or, The Wig Is Doing A Lot Of Heavy Lifting.
In the clip below, Calgary trans activist Victoria Bucholtz, aka Karla Marx, has words – deep, manly words – with Jennifer Johnson, a conservative politician.
Ms Johnson had previously upset activists, and much of the Canadian media, by describing the classroom propagation of trans activist ideology – specifically, setting children on a path to mutilation and castration – as a blemish and contaminant, akin to “poop” in cookies.
I think it’s fair to say the exchange that follows is not a triumph of reconciliation. It may, however, prove instructive – indeed, telling – though possibly not in ways that Mr Bucholtz intended.
Trans activism in a nutshell.
An aggressive, bullying man attempts to intimidate a woman into submission, demanding that she say something she knows isn’t true.
And he’s loving every minute of it. pic.twitter.com/CY0Fa3Wp34
— Mia (@_CryMiaRiver) September 17, 2024
Readers will note how “listening to the community” is conceived by Mr Bucholtz as deference and prostration, and regurgitating things that are obviously untrue. If it sounds like a struggle session, hold that thought:
Readers may likewise wish to ponder the chutzpah of a gaslighting bedlamite demanding “respect” while simultaneously demanding that everyone else surrender their probity and become dishonest and absurd, mouthing lies as and when instructed.
Ms Johnson had also expressed concern about the use by activists, in schools, of pornographic material. Concerns that much of the subsequent media coverage sneered at or dismissed as unfounded.
I’m assuming that Ms Johnson was referring to things like this.
Because, apparently, “vagina slime,” fellatio, and “strap-on hotness” are topics of urgent moral importance for middle-school children. Children who need to know about the joys of masturbating while driving.
But ssshh, don’t tell Mom and Dad.
Mr Bucholtz – “(She/Her)” – is an “LGBTQ+ facilitator,” an “activist,” and “currently teaches at Mount Royal University.” His areas of expertise include “the history of emotions.” When not demanding that people tell lies repeatedly and in public, he is “an avid mountaineer,” a drag queen, and a “dog mom.”
Mr Bucholtz’ educational chops can be witnessed here.
One more time:
Because it’s a “basic foundational principle.”
Via Mia Hughes.
Update, via the comments, where Rafi asks, not unreasonably,
Alas, I fear that if we pull at that thread, the whole sweater may come unravelled. I mean, if, as we’ve been told, quite emphatically, women can’t be transwomen, on account of being, you know, women, then surely only a man can be a transwoman. Which sounds like another way of saying, a transwoman can only be a man.
But hey, pile of yarn.
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When they self-identify, it’s madness not to deal with them.
I’ve yet to see a one of these types who didn’t have actionable offenses in their background, which almost inevitably come out.
Said “coming out” is then viewed with shock by all “right-thinking” people, who evince amazement at the whole thing. “How could this happen? How could it be?”
Meanwhile, we professed troglodytes are over here saying “Told ya…”
I have no idea why people are so easily gulled. You’d think they would learn.
They’re the same thing.
Well, it’s perhaps telling that it took me a while to unearth exactly what Ms Johnson had said, and in what context. Such was many reporters’ eagerness to frame the situation in the worst possible light. I know almost nothing about Ms Johnson, and her comments were certainly clumsy and rather rambling, perhaps even regrettable, if only for reasons of style. But the collective hyperventilation seems intended to obscure rather than reveal.
It’s worth noting that Ms Johnson also expressed concern about the use by activists, in schools, of pornographic material. Concerns that much of the subsequent media coverage sneered at or dismissed as unfounded.
I’m assuming that Ms Johnson was referring to things like this.
Because, apparently, “vagina slime,” fellatio, and “strap-on hotness” are topics of urgent moral importance for middle-school children. Children who need to know about the joys of masturbating while driving.
But ssshh, don’t tell Mom and Dad.
[ Post updated. ]
Obvious teacher material.
Yet this is where we are now. Everyone remember where we parked.
‘Children who need to know about the joys of masturbating while driving.’
Yikes, maybe the H&S peeps will save us, I find it difficult enough to change channels on the radio safely, never mind anything more involved!
There’s always voice activation.
What?
As a keen reader of fantasy and sci-fi, I often peruse Tor Books ‘Reactor’ blog to see what’s coming up. Anyone wondering what’s driving the seeming explosion in ‘woke’ stuff amongst youngsters would do well to scan this for certain words and concepts:
https://reactormag.com/most-anticipated-young-adult-sff-h-for-september-october-2024/
It’s relentless! Finding a book that’s classic sci-fi or fantasy without a ‘gender fluid’ or ‘trans’ protagonist is like scrabbling around in a dung heap for diamonds.
I laughed and I’m not sorry. *ping*
Bless you, sir. While rummaging in the freezer for a bag of peas, may you find a forgotten Classic Magnum.
[ Slides tip jar to more prominent position, adds fairy lights. ]
If he really thinks he’s a woman, how can he be a drag queen – a man pretending to be a woman?
If you pull at that thread, the whole sweater may come unravelled.
I mean, if, as we’ve been told, quite emphatically, women can’t be transwomen, on account of being, you know, women, then surely only a man can be a transwoman. Which sounds like another way of saying, a transwoman can only be a man.
But hey, pile of yarn.
I’m a sucker for fairy lights. Ping!
Bless you, sir. May your local taxi firm not introduce a voice recognition system for confirming destinations that doesn’t work, ever, resulting in retrospectively comical aggravation and much shouting at your phone.
#RealLifeDrama
Turns out it’s all the fault of “patriarchy” and, inevitably, “white supremacy.“
He’s an educator, you know.
There’s always voice activation.
What?
A shouted climax
I’ll leave my coat…
[ Fetches petrol can, lighter. ]
Can I have a teacher without a serious mental illness?
[ Post updated again. ]
Well, that’s sort of the problem, isn’t it? If you’re not allowed to mention the elephant in the room – sexual dysmorphia as a mental health issue – then you’re likely to be wrong-footed and to find any progress elusive. It’s difficult to have a realistic discussion if the facts of the matter are pre-emptively taboo. And so, you may find yourself being scolded and rhetorically bullied by an unpleasant, preening man with unattractive tattoos and overly animated hands.
It is, I think, possible to acknowledge the obvious in a way that’s civil, perhaps even sympathetic. But if you can’t acknowledge the obvious, ever, regardless of relevance or provocation, if that’s not permitted, then… what’s left seems scarcely worth the effort. At worst, it’s a trap.
Omitting context is what reporters do. All the damn time. They don’t report the context, and they don’t tell readers where they can find the context. I have seen this excused on occasion as merely a tactic to protect their jobs by keeping citizens dependent on them for information, but the pattern of when they do give context vs. when they don’t proves this excuse to be false. Their corrupt desire to control what people know is morally no different from what government censors seek to do.
Let me stop you right there. In all communist countries I am aware of, Drag and other deviations, even vanilla gay/lesbian, are illegal and even severely punished. There is no “drag story hour” in schools. Same with “queers for Palestine”–go ahead, go to Gaza and show your support.
The more they talk, the worse it gets.
Where we parked? I can’t even remember what we were driving or where we were going…
I think the car is currently on fire.
A reminder, were one needed, that we live in strange times:
Again, everyone remember where we parked.
THAT WASN’T REAL COMMUNISM!
Trying to remember where I parked my helicopter.
Not to worry. I never forget where I parked my scorpion pit.
He’s just a bully (with backup).
As a rule, in person, I’m polite. No, really. Were I to see Mr Bucholtz in the street, I don’t think I would go out of my way to draw unflattering attention to him. I don’t think that would occur to me as a rewarding thing to do. Life, after all, has no shortage of peculiarities.
But – but – were Mr Bucholtz to demand of me that I actively participate in his unhappy psychodrama – and demand that I become dishonest and complicit – then, well, all bets are off. And any loudness on his part, any further insistence, any drag-queen finger theatre, would, I think, only make me less indulgent.
You know you’re special when your pretences have pretences.
Oh, well said, sir. Well said.
from that comment thread:
and:
The rapist mentality is commonplace in leftism, literally and metaphorically.
If it sounds like a struggle session, hold that thought:
It is actually a struggle session. In order for Jennifer Johnson to rejoin her political party, the UCP (United Conservative Party, the italics are for WTP), she has to undergo a public shaming and demonstrate that she’s “doing the work.” I’m being to sound like a broken record, but we stopped being a serious country a long time ago.
Makes you think ennui was a factor in the collapse of European communist states.
Unfortunately the clowns escaped.
In all communist countries I am aware of, Drag and other deviations, even vanilla gay/lesbian, are illegal and even severely punished.
Every system has its orthodoxies. Communism has more than the average. It’s also ironic that a system built on disruption and revolution has such a low tolerance for same.
He’s an educator, you know.
Those hands! I’m not going to be able to sleep tonight. Thanks.
Drag-queen finger theatre. You’d never tire of it.
“Good morning, class.”
A reminder, were one needed, that we live in strange times
… a lesbian was reprimanded for hurting someone’s feelings, so she sued because her feelings were hurt? And this all happened at a taxpayer funded “OMGWTFBBQ employee group meeting”?
Let them fight. Maybe once enough bodies have hit the floor everyone will remember why keeping your personal shit out of the office was the default setting.
It is, I think, possible to acknowledge the obvious in a way that’s civil, perhaps even sympathetic
It’s not a rabid dog’s fault that it’s rabid. That doesn’t make it any safer to be around.
Personally, I think we should just start responding to anything any OMGWTFBBQ activist says with a soothing-toned, sympathetic “I’m so terribly sorry you were moelsted as a child. That’s tragic, and it wasn’t your fault. I hope the therapy is helping.” It’s the Islam is right about women tactic re-applied.
David, thank you for removing the duplicate. The image was so disturbing I inadvertently posted twice.
See, you don’t get this kind of service over at Worstall’s, or Samizdata.
Don’t pin that shit on me, man.
I think I may need to practise my rough hoodlum voice.
[ Straightens tie, checks hair. ]
Drag-queen finger theatre.
Ooh, Great idea for an app. Small Hands Filter™.
Guaranteed to reduce those size 12 man hands down to a delicate ladies size 6.
Need a companion app for the voice.
‘Carol Channing’ should be the default setting.
Instalanche.
Slightly off-topic, what’s the deal with ‘queer witches‘?
And does that interviewer qualify?
Band name.
Crivens.
David’ll be putting out the fancy toenail clipplings.
The ones with the glitter polish.
Best behaviour. No heavy petting.
Okay then. Noted, sir.
Damn. That Driscoll ruins everything.
Found via the Mia Hughes link:
Not unfair, I think,
Still not gonna eat em.
I’m just going to leave this here.
Because I can, that’s why.
[ Senses an opportunity. ]
Hot sausages! Inna bun! Made from genuine pig parts!
Still got a box of these babies.
Hey man, I’ve got standards to maintain.
Found another supplier have you?
Put those back. You don’t know where they’ve been.
I thought I would chime in here on this video which had been posted the other day on Youtube by someone and I had watched it and so I thought I would give my comments on it. I have to say here that when I found out about this video and what Danielle Smith & the UCP had done to MLA. Jennifer Johnson,it honestly made me shake my head at this Disgracefull situation because it really made me wonder when did Canada ever turn into a Communist country or even Nazi Germany for that matter ? The reason I say this is to the Real actions of Danielle Smith & the UCP and them exiling MLA. Jennifer Johnson because they did not like some comments she made about the Snowflake LGBTQ+/ Trans Community and they coersed or forced her to go to some re-education camp to get brainwashed by some Freak trans Rep. Victoria Bucholtz whom by the way did nothing but Completely Bully MLA. Jennifer Johnson and try to force her into believing the Snowflake’s delusions that *IT* was a woman,which it was NOT
@SteveE, who said and quoted the following:
Yeah, see… This is how this works: The initial opening wave of the revolution recruits among the disaffected and the downtrodden, because everyone else is sane and well-off enough to ignore the blandishments of the revolutionary cadre.
What that cadre does is find the openings in the social armor; they get in amongst the LGBTWTFBBQ types and recruit, recruit, recruit. Then, once they’ve got their foot soldiers, they do what they can to outrage the normies by setting those transgressives on the rest of the social system, creating dissension and chaos.
Most of your true revolutionary cadre types are usually the driven, repressive blue-stocking sorts who just love telling people what to do. They will use the pervs and degenerates as foot soldiers, but the minute that they start to cross over into the spaces where the normies dominate, should they be successful? Those pervs and degenerates will be sacrificed on the altar of expediency. And, they’ll love doing it, ‘cos they’ve all this pent-up rage and disapproval of the people that they’ve been forced to associate with.
The pervs and degenerates are the opening wedge, easily recruited and directed at the normies they loathe, because they know that they themselves aren’t right in the head, and they hate anyone who is. Or, at least, who can fake it well enough to get on in society. The other thing that the revolutionaries like is that the pervs and degenerates are so easily blackmailed and taken out, as appropriate.
Do note the parallels here between all of these movements, whether it was the Jacobins during the French Revolution, the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution, or the Nazis when they took over. They all three had their equivalents to Ernst Rohm, and they all purged them viciously when the appropriate time came, in order to sanitize their movement for the normies. It’ll be the same this time around; the LGBTWTFBBQ types all think that they’re the leading vanguard of the revolution, but once that revolution reaches a certain point of penetration… LOL. Yeah, sweetie… Ask ol’ Unka Ernst how all that eventuated for him and his boys in the brown shirts.
To be a left-wing anything requires an historical illiteracy and lack of curiosity such that I’m not sure we can really safely describe any of these characters as fully sentient. I mean… How many times does something have to happen, before you start wondering if it’s happening yet again, and to you?
There hasn’t been a single successful “libertine” culture on the face of this planet in the entire history of the human race. Every nation that’s embraced licence and debauchery? What happens to them, mmmm? Can you not see the trend, there, and recognize that there are probably some quaint little fences belonging to Chesterton, in reference to all of this?
Ain’t none of this sh*t gonna work, and ain’t nonna it happening by “accident”. It’s being made to happen by the revolutionary cadre intending to tear it all down, and start over, but given the idiocy that most of them subscribe to, I don’t see anything constructive coming out of it. Ever.
more from that comment thread:
Dishonesty in another fashionable area:
The writer must either be a criminal, or have a lot of criminal friends, or is just another black racist psychopath. Or all three.
Yeah, see… This is how this works:
I’ve commented here many times, for many years about communism, socialism, leftism, progressivism et al. So everything you’ve said gets presupposed in any new comments. The point of my comment was that pre-communist system, the activities of all so-called communists is to disrupt and bring down the existing order. So they will use anything they can including every decadence and perversion to bring things down. As you point out, the exploited degenerates are the first to go when a communist system is actually in place. It is no less orthodox than other systems and has even less tolerance for non-conformity.
@JuliaM – I had a read through those snippets about YA fantasy/SciFi books. Quite staggering. Not quite Elidor or even Harry Potter is it? Just unrelenting propaganda wedged into hackneyed ideas.
Reply of note.
@Steve E,
I don’t think it’s so much an integral part of the -isms you enumerate, but it is more a function of “That’s how the revolution proceeds…”
Go back and look at early-days Christianity. Was Jesus Christ and his disciples working among the comfortably rich? Nope; they were out ministering to the prostitutes and so forth. Examine the history of how Christianity basically pithed Rome like a frog for dissection day, and then took over the body politic the same way Cordyceps takes over an ant.
This sort of thing is just how it all works, when the turn is on.
I don’t doubt but that similar things went on when other empires and civilizations fell. It’s a symptom of prosperity.
After her foot-in-mouth episode, Ms Johnson was obliged to make the usual noises:
Hence the video embedded above, the bizarre struggle session.
But again, if you’re not allowed to suggest that anything is amiss in the classroom, or that the situation is dysfunctional – if all you can do is approve and affirm – then that’s not much of a discussion. When practically any dissent is “transphobia,” and a basis for punishment, no views of any substance are likely to be communicated.
And in such scenarios, the “community” in question will almost always be represented by creatures like Mr Bucholtz. A man whose demands for affirmation suggest that he doesn’t actually believe his own demented claims. Which in turn would suggest that his demands are little more than a game of recreational spite. An attempt to dominate and humiliate, a kind of psychological abuse.
The very dysfunction that one isn’t allowed to mention. Lest it cause offence.
[ Schedules tomorrow’s Ephemera. ]
Note also that the writer claims to be a Stanford alumnus. Victor Davis Hanson and several other Stanford/Hoover Institution professors have commented on the lamentably “woke” culture there: Lots of leftist crackpottery replacing scholarship.
Baen Books might be better, as their editors are not “woke” ideologues.
The first two words of Mr Sinyangwe’s bio rather undermine one’s confidence in anything that follows. And so, his attempt to conjure victimhood and outrage reads as an inadvertent admission of an intensely, incorrigibly criminal demographic.
It’s a variation of the Scientific American article that denounced as “racist” the fact that contact-sport injuries tend to affect those who play contact sports.
Same kind of fudge.
Indeed. “Black activist” is as much a red flag as “proud Aryan”.
[ Schedules tomorrow’s Ephemera. ]
[ Sits back, gazes out the window, watches with satisfaction as the Weim Crime Syndicate mauls a CNN journalist jogging by . . . all is well, all will be well.]
Haircut in five hours.
Just sayin’.
I’m proud of you. The first step is knowing you have a problem.
Haircut in five hours.
In other news of the hirsute…
I suppose the question is whether an expensive, super-woke education – $60,000 a year – makes a person more stupid, or just mendacious. Given Mr Sinyangwe’s reluctance to acknowledge any of the numerous factual and logical corrections provided by commenters, I’m assuming it’s both. A poke through his X feed suggests a certain imperviousness.
Among the law-abiding, the prospect of being shot and killed by a police officer is vanishingly rare. For most of us, it belongs in the same mental category as being struck by lightning. However, among habitual violent criminals, that rate is, for obvious reasons, much, much higher, which is how Mr Sinyangwe arrives at his rather implausible we’re-all-in-danger figures.
What he might have said, but takes care not to, is that, because of how they behave, and how they persist in behaving, if habitual violent criminals are shot and killed, there’s a roughly one-in-three chance that the person doing the shooting will be a police officer.
Of course, the fact that habitual violent criminals are being killed at much higher rates than the law-abiding might be regarded as a good thing.