I don't really understanding your choice to publish Tom McLaughlin's column. Here we are all pulling together as a community to survive these scary times and we have to be subjected to this guy's nonsense. So it goes I suppose.
What Tom was describing is Minoritarianism: The rule by a dominant minority such as an ethnic group delineated by religion, language, sexual orientation, or some other identifying factor.
James Madison posited that the tyranny of the majority would be held in check by the coalition of many minorities. And to a certain extent, he was correct. Again, the genius of the forefathers.
However, what he probably could never imagine was a singular, extremely small minority having such a grasp around shaping new norms for the rest of society. Coupled with the power of technology in its ability to magnify the voice(s) of so few into a megaphone of false cultural acceptance and supposed cultural normalization.
This same mini-minority will castigate those with opposing viewpoints with monikers of hater and bigot, while they will speak of themselves as being loving, accepting, and tolerant.
The current issue of having biological men competing as women is one filled with controversy, and without a doubt, a certain amount of hypocrisy. To think that this issue would not cause people to push back is naive, and unrealistic. This debate, frankly, never occurred in the public forum. Its premise was pushed upon all of as if it should be an accepted norm. A conclusion has been reached about a question nobody else was asking.
My guess is Tom will experience the backlash from this highly vocal, yet minuscule portion of society. They will come at him with emotionally charged, rhetoric designed to shut down any opinion rather than theirs. Logic or reason be damned, Tom will be labeled, intolerant, a bigot, a hater, etc.
What you will not see is a reasoned, non-emotional, adult counter argument to the issue. Debates have been replaced with rhetoric, hyperbole, and cancel culture.
Moreover, sometimes you do lose the debate when facts override emotion.
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Greg,
What Tom was describing is Minoritarianism: The rule by a dominant minority such as an ethnic group delineated by religion, language, sexual orientation, or some other identifying factor.
James Madison posited that the tyranny of the majority would be held in check by the coalition of many minorities. And to a certain extent, he was correct. Again, the genius of the forefathers.
However, what he probably could never imagine was a singular, extremely small minority having such a grasp around shaping new norms for the rest of society. Coupled with the power of technology in its ability to magnify the voice(s) of so few into a megaphone of false cultural acceptance and supposed cultural normalization.
This same mini-minority will castigate those with opposing viewpoints with monikers of hater and bigot, while they will speak of themselves as being loving, accepting, and tolerant.
The current issue of having biological men competing as women is one filled with controversy, and without a doubt, a certain amount of hypocrisy. To think that this issue would not cause people to push back is naive, and unrealistic. This debate, frankly, never occurred in the public forum. Its premise was pushed upon all of as if it should be an accepted norm. A conclusion has been reached about a question nobody else was asking.
My guess is Tom will experience the backlash from this highly vocal, yet minuscule portion of society. They will come at him with emotionally charged, rhetoric designed to shut down any opinion rather than theirs. Logic or reason be damned, Tom will be labeled, intolerant, a bigot, a hater, etc.
What you will not see is a reasoned, non-emotional, adult counter argument to the issue. Debates have been replaced with rhetoric, hyperbole, and cancel culture.
Moreover, sometimes you do lose the debate when facts override emotion.
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