I keep telling myself nothing will shock me any more. And progressives STILL manage to do it.
I had to watch this three times to confirm my hearing was correct.
Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women's Law Center, testified before Congress Tuesday during a hearing on Title IX. On the recent news where biological males are being allowed to compete alongside biological women, said that female athletes should "learn to lose gracefully" to trans women.
No really. That’s what she said.
A mere ten years ago, if you had told me that a women's rights advocate would tell girls they need to learn to "lose gracefully" to guys in sports I would have looked at you like you just fell out of a turnip truck. How absolutely insulting!
How is this fundamentally different from telling blacks they'll have to be comfortable with sitting in the back of the bus if white people want to sit up front? Then telling them this is a wonderful opportunity for them to “learn humility?” The backlash from such an outlandish statement would be swift and memorable.
WTF has happened to feminists? This is absolute madness! This is a cult. Graves even speaks with the smiley-lilt of a brainwashed acolyte.
Unfortunately when you take a deeper look at contemporary progressivism, this makes perfect sense. This DEI rot, and all of the forms it takes, is nothing more than a binary contest that sees the entirity of human history (and everything in the modern world) as falling into one of two categories. Oppressor and oppressed. It is the extension of Marxist principles on a macro scale.
Of course there are layers to this. Certainly women have been the “oppressed” at many points in history. But in judging who wears the white hats and black hats in contemporary debates, “intersectionality” comes into play. That is, there are hierchies to consider. So even though women have been oppressed, that is not enough to trump the level of oppression granted to transgenders. And thus, the trans community scores enough intersectional woke points to come out ahead of females, earning the oh-so-coveted title of “today’s victim.”
We’ve seen this sicking jousting for position before. In the wake of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando the contest emerged? Whom would score the most “woke” points? The gay community or radical Muslims. Evidently the Muslims won that battle; just as they are outpointing the Jewish community among the woke inteligensia.
I have no idea how the Babylon Bee and The Onion are still able to make money. The real headlines we see are far funnier than anything we have seen on a digital parody site.