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Showing posts with label political correctness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political correctness. Show all posts

Saturday, August 19, 2017

How the 'No Such Thing As Gender' People Are Endangering Women


Certainly it’s most important to keep studying and reading, going to sources that one wouldn’t do ordinarily, because stuff never even considered shows up as really important. I’m saying this as an ancient citizen from experience. The effect that denying gender causes pain, suffering and death to women because of medicines prescribed to them is one of them.

Regardless of what feminists, PC psychologists and psychiatrists, scared neurosurgeons and neuro researchers, are saying about there being no difference between men and women, when it comes to dosage between the two genders, when no adjustment is made, women suffer and sometimes die. With the side effects of that sometimes women have accidents and people get killed.

For example, in 2013 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cut the dosage in half for Ambien, having known for 20 years women metabolized the active ingredient zolpidem more slowly than men. That and a sleeping pill, Restoril, may have caused about 500,000 early deaths; from overdoses, car crashes and falls. 

I’m ancient enough to remember the Thalidomide tragedy of the 1950’s. The research on the effects were primitive. An FDA scientist, Frances Oldham Kelsey, for years did research on it, and it took years of her collecting data before anyone accepted something really bad was happening. This drug, by the way, was for morning sickness during pregnancy. Women in Europe were taking it, and about 2,000 children died, and about 10,000 were born with defects; no or partial limbs. The lab tests for this drug on animals were only on male animals. (Fortunately the FDA didn’t approve it. Knowing their track record and corruption, we can only thank chance.) 

From that time until 2014, in all tests and studies, it was never mentioned in reports that almost exclusively male animals were tested on. Even when tests were done for female specific diseases, only 12% of the animals tested were female. Excuse given was there are too many things, like chemical responses, to test for variables. 

That’s the base. Drugs designed for women were rarely tested on women. The FDA approved these, causing a lot of damage to women. 

Which brings us to the present. There are differences in brain hemispheres, and how left and right brain interact. There are differences between brain parts, like the hypothalamus and hippocampus, different baseline amounts of neurotransmitters (serotonin and dopamine). 

If you’re a neuroscientist, or neurosurgeon, and you point this out, you’re labeled as a ‘neurosexist’ and your report on findings are ‘neurotrash’.  Your study can be blocked from science journals, you can lose funding. This is done by anti-gender feminists and other various PC people, none of whom have any neuroscience education or training. They are usually people from the “soft sciences” like sociology and psychology.

Even with hard science data stating that because a man came up with the results, it’s biased and by definition sexist. They believe reality is different for men and women. I have a hard time squaring this with their argument there is no differences between the sexes; or that there is more than one gender. 

Another charge that just stuns, is that unless a neuroscientist has been trained or had classes in “gender scholarship” their hard science findings are invalid. This is scary stuff, and for some reason the non-gender, anti-science people have been able to get such power scientists are afraid to speak out, though a few have. 

At the core of “gender scholarship” is “intersectionality”. I’ve heard the term before, and still have a hard time wrapping my mind around it. Here’s the definition: “…the principle that important social identities like gender, ethnicity, and social class mutually constitute, reinforce, and naturalize one another”. I think what that means is one must take race over gender (black over white), female over male, and class (poor over rich). White males I’m sure are at the bottom of this fabricated hierarchy. Apparently hard science results are unacceptable unless “intersectionality” theory is applied. 

As a result we have women overdosing on meds, having increased traffic accidents (involving others), and incorrect or ineffective medical treatment. All because  PC Totalitarians that have power and don’t know what they’re talking about are forcing the people that do know what they are talking about to do their bidding or suffer the consequences.  



Saturday, February 9, 2013

Dr. Benjamin Carson at National Prayer Breakfast: Truth Be Told In Front of Obama


This is a speech given by Dr. Benjamin Carson at the National Prayer Breakfast, with Obama in attendance. It was a remarkable speech, faith filled, and made more remarkable because Dr. Carson addressed political correctness (a Leftist tool suppressing free speech and Obama is a Leftist), education (we are at the bottom of nations), taxation (he advocates a flat tax using Scripture and Leftists advocate progressive taxation), the national debt (increased more in Obama's administration than all previous presidents combined) and privatized healthcare and health savings accounts (vs State controlled like ObamaCare). What he has to say is profound and true and well worth the 26 min. 





Saturday, March 26, 2011

PETA and the Deconstruction of the Bible

Part of the attack on Christianity is deconstructing the Bible, changing the language to fit the times. Leftists do it to the Constitution to pass laws that are in violation of the Constitution. Leftists in the Christian community do the same by agreeing to change the language of the Bible. There have been attempts to make scripture gender neutral for example, and now some alleged Christians are siding with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to change scripture because it’s “speciesist". These knuckleheads even make up words to create an issue.

PETA and their supporters in the Christian community think using ‘it” to identify an animal is wrong, and animals should be identified as ‘he’ and ‘she’. There’s lots of animals in the Bible. Would giving them a gender, that in the case of the Torah and the rest of the Old Testament, give more meaning and understanding to God’s Word?

Bruce Friedrich is PETA's vice president for policy, and claims to be a practicing Roman Catholic. How one could be an animal worshipper and Christian at the same time mystifies. He’s said some ridiculous things, and obviously doesn’t understand the meaning of Scripture.

Some of his observations:
"Language matters. Calling an animal 'it' denies them something. They are beloved by God. They glorify God." How do they glorify God? Do they pray, sing hymns, feed and clothe the poor? Glory in the Biblical sense means recognizing God's divine quality. How would an animal to that?

“What happens in slaughterhouses mocks God.” People know intuitively that "animals are 'who' not 'what.' ... Acknowledging it would better align our practices with our beliefs.”  God requested a lot of animals to be sacrificed to Him. So I suppose He was having that done to mock Himself? Animals are understood to be who? Who was that masked raccoon? What practices and beliefs is this guy aligning?

“God’s covenant is with humans and animals. God cares about animals." I would think that’s a rather unanimous opinion among biblical scholars today, where that might not have been the case 200 years ago.” The second part of the quote is just made up nonsense. Of course God cares about everything in His creation. What He doesn’t have, is a covenant with animals. A covenant is an agreement between two people or groups of people, and they make a promise to each other, usually for a lifetime. People 200 years ago didn't think God cared about animals? What?

Then there’s a covenant between God and people, Again it’s an agreement. God made a covenant with Noah not to flood the Earth again. He made a covenant with David, He made a covenant with Abraham. Don’t read about any covenants where animals and God agreed to things. In CS Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, the lion had a covenant that he would sacrifice himself, but that’s fiction, which is what PETA and all the rest want to do with the Bible; turn it into a piece of fiction. In real life, Jesus did in fact sacrifice himself. Don't suppose PETA and their supporters can wrap their souls around that. I wonder, taking a poll, how many PETA member and Gaia worshipers are Christians? My bet would be they are anti-Christian bigots, atheists, pagan Gaia and animal worshipers.

The word itself, covenant, comes from the Hebrew word “to cut”. People in those days would cut a piece of meat, whether a he or she animal we don’t know, to seal an agreement. Sometimes they would share a meal of meat, he or she we don’t know, to seal a deal. Animal blood, he or she we don’t know, was sprinkled on altars to seal a covenant. I’ll bet all those sacrificed animals, he or she we don’t know, didn't have a covenant with God to be sacrificed.  

Then there’s the problem of language. Gender specific terms are used differently in ancient languages than in modern languages. The PETA people and their supporters would just have to make stuff up again. Every time there’s an animal mentioned in the Bible, instead of ‘it’ there will be ‘he or she’. Really?

Which brings us back around to people that need to destroy tradition to gain power for themselves. Need to destroy the Constitution and the Bible…that would be quite effective, and there are people that claim to be Christians and Jews who will go right along with this.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Leftist Metaphor Alert!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZEB-8IKKRI
"Before we go to break, I want to make a quick point. We were having a discussion about the Chicago mayoral race. My friend Andy Shaw used the term 'in the crosshairs' in talking about the candidates. We're trying, we're trying to get away from that language. Andy is a good friend, he's covered politics for a long time, but we're trying to get away from that kind of language."




PC isn't enough, now metaphors that have been a part of the culture since forever are now under attack from wimpy limpy weenies. 

Monday, January 10, 2011

Trading Death and Tragedy Into Political Gain

Jared Lee Loughner's Mug Shot

Dems and the Jurassic Press blame all violence on the Right, anyone to the Right of them being by definition an extremist, of all on the Right being violent by nature. Thinking back to the emergence of the TEA Party movement how they were Nazi’s (Nancy Pelosi making that claim often and early), and those Docker wearing Dad’s with Polo shirts were a bunch of violent racists; we covered that for nearly two years leading up to the 2010 election. The Oklahoma bombing Bill Clinton directly blamed on Rush Limbaugh, and the guy in Texas that flew in the IRS building was immediately labeled a right wing extremist even though he turned out to be a Leftist.

Statists in this country bemoan the “politics of personal destruction” but one needs look no further than the vileness directed at Sarah Palin the last two years, the attacks on her children, the personal attacks on GW Bush and Dick Cheney to see they don’t walk the talk. There was Murtha, an ex-Marine and congressman calling US soldiers in combat murderers, and Dick Durban comparing US soldiers to Soviet Gulag Stalin style murderers and torturers, Pol Pot, Hitler, and all the vile rest.

Now we have a gunman in Tucson, AZ kill and wound many. How do the Dems and Jurassic Press respond?

Within in an hour of the event on CNN this exchange with David Fitzsimmons, a political cartoonist for the Arizona Daily Star:
Fitzsimmons: I must tell you, as a columnist who's covered politics in this state, it was inevitable from my perspective.
Savidge: Why do you say that?
Fitzsimmons: Because the right in Arizona, and I'm speaking very broadly, has been stoking the fire of heated anger and rage successfully in this state. And, you know, it's just stunning when you consider Congresswoman Giffords's positions on the issues. She is a centrist. She is a moderate. And I don't know who the shooter is--have no idea who the shooter is--but what could possibly motivate an individual to be enraged against, or to take down, a moderate centrist? To me that just paints a picture of how off the mark the politics of this state have grown.
 Fitzsimmons and his newspaper later apologized for the comment. It was such an emotional moment don’t you see….well, boo hoo. This is what these people are about. Don’t believe a word of it.

Then there’s the Marxist economist Paul Krugman that has been proven wrong about all of his economic and political analysis:
We don't have proof yet that this was political, but the odds are that it was. She's been the target of violence before. And for those wondering why a Blue Dog Democrat, the kind Republicans might be able to work with, might be a target, the answer is that she's a Democrat who survived what was otherwise a GOP sweep in Arizona, precisely because the Republicans nominated a Tea Party activist.

Krugman didn’t apologize. He made his statement on the Saturday within a couple hours of the event.

New York Daily News: "Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' Blood Is on Sarah Palin's Hands After Putting Cross Hair Over District." 

Politico: "Liberals Blame Sarah Palin in Wake of Tucson Shooting."  This was posted less than three hours after the shootings.

George Packer of the “New Yorker”:
Many conservative leaders, activists, and media figures have made a habit of trying to delegitimize their political opponents. . . . This relentlessly hostile rhetoric has become standard issue on the right.”

Unnamed "veteran Democratic operative" on Politico giving advice to the Left, specifically the White House:
"They need to deftly pin this on the tea partiers." "Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people."

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with no information on the shooter:
Look, we have extremists in my country. A wonderful, incredibly brave young woman Congress member, Congresswoman Giffords, was just shot by an extremist in our country. We have the same kinds of problems. So rather than standing off from each other, we should work to try to prevent the extremists anywhere from being able to commit violence.
The extremists and their voices, the crazy voices that sometimes get on the TV, that's not who we are, that's not who you are, and what we have to do is get through that and make it clear that that doesn't represent either American or Arab ideas or opinions.
 Really, comparing extremists in this country with Islamofacist terrorists, when an extremist to the Dems and other Statists is anyone who disagrees with them. Any speech critical of them is by definition, to their ears, extremist hate speech.

Then there’s the knucklehead Sheriff Clarence Dupnik of Pima Country that right at the beginning was laying this tragedy at the feet of Conservatives, and specifically laid it at the feet of Rush Limbaugh today:
"The kind of rhetoric that flows from people like Rush Limbaugh, in my judgment he is irresponsible, uses partial information, sometimes wrong information," "Limbaugh attacks people, angers them against government, angers them against elected officials and that kind of behavior in my opinion is not without consequences."
 Here’s a vid of the sheriff saying the political climate is the cause of the tragedy. He’s a Democrat by the way.
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvc_7Fb5T5M

This murderer went berserk, as have many others in the past, but now someone does something horrific like this, it’s Conservatives fault, Rush Limbaugh’s fault, Hillary’s Vast Right Wing Conspiracy’s fault, George Bush’s fault, no nevermind that there is never ever any evidence of it.

The Left must look to itself and not project its own hatred and intolerance onto others, and not turn death, loss, and tragedy into an opportunity to gain political points. Obama (former) Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."

This is their credo; not fairness, tolerance, understanding, compassion or love. It’s power, submission to the State, political correctness.  

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Huck Finn Gutted by PC

Revising past literary works to fit modern PC sensibilities is just stupid and crass. This comes up because NewSouth Books is publishing a revised version of Mark Twain’s masterpiece The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, removing the “N” word and replacing it with the word “slave”.

Doing that removes all meaning of the relationship between the races at the time the novel reflects. What would this precedent do to all lit or art? Tom Bowdler tried this with Shakespeare in the 19th century, wanting to make those writings more acceptable to his time; thus the word “bowdlerize” (Verb: Remove material that is considered improper or offensive from [a text or account], esp. with the result that it becomes weaker or less effective: "a bowdlerized version of the story".)  Isn’t this a weird inversion, a reflection of the upside down world we live in when there was more literary freedom in Shakespeare’s and Twain’s time that we have now?  

The reason the editor, Dr. Alan Gribben, decided this was the track to take, was because he found out some teachers were refusing to teach the book because of the use of the “N” word. Good grief. Those teachers should have their credentials taken away. Teaching has been mostly reduced to indoctrination, and we need to stop it, and this would be a good place to start. Something else that’s been going on with this novel is that often teachers have parents sign a consent note allowing the student to read it. Not only are schools handing out prophylactics for sexual activity, they’re handing out intellectual prophylactics.  

Would a modern writer of an historical novel of those times be able to use the “N” word? I think not. Are we reverting back to a time when D H Lawrence or Henry Miller will be removed or edited?

These knuckleheads have also removed the word “injun” from Huckleberry Finn. Really?

What’s the endgame for these people? Historical revisionism? Whether or not it’s intentional, that’ll be the outcome if such like minded editors are allowed to continue and let this horrid idea expand into all lit and art.

Let’s hope that no one buys this edition, especially our PC school systems.