Fevered and fearful, or perhaps fearsome, media claimed that Daily Wire podcast host Michael Knowles said in a CPAC speech that “transgender” people should be “eradicated.” While he made no such remark, there’s not even the slightest possibility such a quasi-genocide could occur, for a simple reason:
You can’t eradicate people who don’t exist.
Oh, “transgenderism,” which is a political and social movement, certainly exists.
What should be called sexual identity disorder also exists.
And people masquerading as the opposite sex exist.
But no one is “transgender” because humans don’t have “gender” (words do) but the quality called “sex” — and you can’t transition from one sex to the other.
Knowles was, in essence, expressing this truth at CPAC. Pointing out the conservative error of trying to split the baby on the MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status, aka “transgender”) agenda — that is, of claiming it’s “okay for adults” but “not kids” — Knowles said that MUSS ideology must be “eradicated from public life entirely.”
It was this statement the media misrepresented, claiming the podcaster wanted MUSS individuals eradicated. This spin surprised even Knowles, who said on the Monday edition of Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight that while he expected media blowback, he didn’t figure on a genocide accusation.
Knowles also mentioned that some media organs changed their initial headlines, perhaps after warnings from their lawyers that their transgressions absolutely are legally actionable.
Introducing Knowles’s appearance, commentator Tucker Carlson stated what he believed motivated the attack on the podcaster. “The dumber the lie, the more viciously obedience to that lie must be enforced,” he said. “So now all of a sudden you are expected to believe that anyone, even children, can change their … sex at will.”
Carlson then played a clip of Knowles at CPAC, logically articulating the rationale for complete and total rejection of MUSS ideology. To wit:
If transgenderism is true — if men really can become women and women really can become men — then it is true for everybody of all ages. If transgenderism is false, as it is — if men really can’t become women, as they cannot — then it’s false for everybody too. And if it’s false, then we should not indulge it, especially since that indulgence requires taking away the rights and customs of so many people. If it is false, then for the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion, “transgenderism” must be eradicated from public life entirely — the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.
The Carlson segment follows.
Knowles also addressed the propagandistic attacks on him by Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, HuffPo, and other outlets (examples below). “You heard exactly what I said,” he told Carlson. “I said that for the good of these [MUSS] people in particular — so presumably I don’t want to murder them. I talked about an ideology in particular; I’m not talking about eradicating any human beings.”
Of course, in the Left’s distorted way of thinking (read: feeling), eliminating the MUSS agenda would amount to eradicating “transgenders” because you’d be “denying” them the opportunity to, as is said, “fully live as who they ‘really are.’”
In reality, though, what they “really are” are members of their actual sex, as observed at birth. Knowles should be applauded, too, for bucking the conservative norm of conserving liberals’ mistakes, of meeting them halfway to insanity.
Illustrating this folly, he further said at CPAC that on “one side of the [MUSS] debate you’ve got the liberals, who argue that third graders should be taught to change their sex in schools; on the other side of the debate you’ve got the conservatives — who say we should wait until fourth grade.”
“The problem with transgenderism is not that it’s inappropriate for children under the age of nine,” Knowles added a sentence later. “The problem with transgenderism is that it isn’t true” (video below).
Ah, isn’t true. That’s a word too seldom heard in this age of lies. We may hear that something isn’t “conservative” or isn’t “American” or isn’t “patriotic,” and these accusations are fine when valid. But a discerning person can know if a thing is true or not, and that is the most fundamental of distinctions.
And when losing sight of Truth, it’s easy to meet liars halfway in compromise’s or tolerance’s name. Thus have conservatives essentially said regarding the MUSS agenda, “Act upon your mental illness — just don’t involve the kids or try to change society. This is a bit like saying, “Sure, drive home drunk from the party — just don’t run anyone down en route.”
Thus have conservatives said, “Act upon your mental illness — just don’t think about entering women’s sports.” This is like saying, “Be mentally ill, but not too mentally ill.” And that’s a bit like saying, “Go, jump off that precipice — just stop halfway down.”
Apropos to this, we wouldn’t let people in bipolar disorder’s grip and consequently detached from reality determine treatments for bipolar disorder. We wouldn’t let people with narcissistic personality disorder determine treatments for narcissistic personality disorder. And we wouldn’t allow raging alcoholics determine treatments for alcoholism (“Free drinks all around!”). But the MUSS phenomenon?
It’s the only delusion where we let the deluded determine how society should handle the delusion. The inmates running the asylum, indeed.
It’s impossible to eradicate “transgender” people because they don’t exist. But we should, if possible, eradicate their delusion. That’s what love demands.
