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Apr 2, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Portland, Seattle, NY, SF all came to mind when you said, you know, that city.

I'm listening to New Discourses this morning. Also have Race Marxism in my stack next.

Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein have much to say on this subject as well.

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In May of 2020 we adopted a kitten for my then 7 year old from a rural honey stand in Arkansas. It was a calico, about 5 weeks old, and the woman at the stand insisted that it was a boy. I checked it a little later it was a girl of course. I explained to my two daughters that Calicos were virtually always girl cats, because the gene for orange color is carried on one X chromosome and the gene for black color is carried on a separate X chromosome, so a calico (black, orange and white) or a tortashell (black and orange) cat is almost always by default female, because it has two X chromosomes. My older daughter ((14) was really blown away by this and asked me if you could have boy cats that were Calicos. "Yes of course you can. It would be very rare though, involving an XXY chromosome." She had never heard such a thing and was fascinated. I thought that used to be common knowledge but they've done a good job of covering it up!

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Apr 2, 2022·edited Apr 2, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

I don’t think there’s any question about the good intentions of the vast majority of teachers. Sadly, these good intentions are accompanied by the political, social, and psychological ignorance of many who have chosen that profession. Teachers who are enlightened (which seems to be the opposite of “woke”) are often constrained by economic reality to simply go along with the madness. District administrators often are in a race to be seen as “woke” so as to quiet the vocal minority of radical true believers who poison school staffs and the teachers Union.

The analysis that The Good Citizen quoted is brilliant. I hadn’t put it together before, but now I get it:

“Once CRT is done tearing down these kids and leaving them with a negative self-identity, Queer Theory (QT) is introduced and offers them a wide assortment of positive self-identities to choose from. Instead of living with the shame and guilt of being a member of the oppressive dominant culture, these students can be celebrated for coming out as gender nonbinary or pansexual.

In an instant, these kids can trade their negative self-identity and all the accompanying guilt and shame of being an "oppressor" for a positive self-identity as a much-venerated "oppressed" minority.”

I suspect that Abigail Schrier’s research would affirm the effectiveness of the process described above.

Thank you for posting this. I hope it awakens many people to action.

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Apr 2, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

What I don't understand is why parents would allow their children into these schools. Nor why they would allow that their children be made to wear masks.

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Apr 2, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

“ When I asked where she learned that, she said school. They live near the one city in the U.S. you would imagine as being the center of all this ideological madness. Yeah, that one.”

With lots of geese? Sounds like Portland Oregon.

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Apr 2, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Home schooling, period. Anything else is child abuse...

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These little AOC Pol Pot soldiers will lose when parents learn the great harm they have in store for their precious babies. Great job.

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Apr 2, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

How is this even a thing, madness everywhere!

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Thank you, TGC. Utmost Priority:

Our Personal breaking straws to move from The Birthplace of The American Revolution, early 2000's:

1) A local father jailed after refusing to leave his child's elementary school. Finding an odd new book had come home, he had sought a clear explanation as to why his child had been taught about "diverse" family structures. He had been given the "let him wait" two days in-a-row; no one had talked with him past the reception desk. (Realize there was a clear statute on the books that elementary parents would be notified a week prior to any "sex education" and given the opportunity to keep their child at home.) The third day he refused to leave until he met the principal. He met police instead. Then the press obfuscation began on behalf of the system: the father was a Christian; his tone and attitude were abrasive: this was not technically sex education, but diversity enlightenment. This made state-wide and even some national news. The family fought in court and lost.

2) For weeks the main news event, preceding, during, and following, was the public High School's multi-day gathering of non-traditional sexuality speakers, workshops, booths, activisties, a parade, etc. The"carnival" atmosphere was lauded.

Realize this is not happenstance; moving to a red state is no more inoculation than experimental gene therapy. (Maybe a bit better, considering.)

There are four clearly stated strategic steps; they need not neccessarily be sequential; they can always be massaged and replayed:

1. Demoralization: more than realizing that one is losing; it is subverting and debasing historic values: familial, spiritual, judicial...

2. Destabilization: schools, families, churches; things once inherently understood as...

3. Crisis: 9/11, Patriot Act, wars, pandemic, inflation, open border, crime, two-tier justice, lies...

4. Normalization: The New Normal. The Great Reset. NWO...

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Noting the similarities - encouragement to change-gender-identity-without-telling-parents, and get the newest, coolest, vaccines without-telling-parents. (Like VaxTeen, pharma sponsored, grassroots-pretending, org that helps kids vaccinate without parents consent) https://www.vaxteen.org/

( And this by James Corbett is important to see - some of the same people behind transhumanism / transsexual / mRNA injections - https://www.corbettreport.com/what-is-the-trans-agenda-questions-for-corbett-video/ )

(& This is a great article by Heather Heying, evolutionary biologist.

https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/iamawoman?s=r , and this, letter exchange of Heather and Abigail Shrier (Author of Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters) https://letter.wiki/conversation/893 )

Somehow, gender got conflated with biological sex. I'm both horrified by children being taught biological sex can be changed, and in agreement with the premise that gender can be fluid, and mutable, and if a child or adult wants to dress or act like the other sex, for an hour or lifetime or whatever, that should be respected. (Not made international policy to coddle, but, respected).

But how in the actual fuck did that get confused with BEING the other sex, either in medical interventions or pronoun obsession??

And, as Heather says, there are some who are born with different combinations or lack of The Only Two Sexes That Exist. And there are some who would be truly better off if they medically change their biological sex. And they all deserve dignity and respect.

One of her letters is about a student she knew well and cared for, who was really and truly a boy inside a girl's body.

I can't imagine how deeply awful that would feel - to literally feel trapped in the wrong body.

The awfulness of that, and the pain of having one's struggle denied when they are in that turmoil, or that sure, of who they really are, is what a lot of teachers / people on the left are trying to protect kids from. Many had friends, or who were, gay or bi and were heartbroken by parents / teachers being not-accepting.

But like the reasonable, good, feeling of wanting to protect the vulnerable ... the basic human decency of not wanting to kill innocent people, has been twisted to perversion and thrown back, when "Responsibility to Protect" becomes "Obligation to Inject" ...

The respecting diverse identities has become making sure way more kids feel like they're in the wrong body, and their own concept of themselves and their parents is broken, and they may have felt comfortable in their own skin except for being taught to wonder from grade one if there's something wrong with them because they feel like a girl and look like a girl.

There are a lot of trans-coddling, pronoun-careful allies who really mean no harm. But the manipulation behind all this is real and wrong ...

NY Times Kid's Section (found outside ice cream shop in Woke-but-mostly-mean-well-ville) - the subject is Keeping Secrets. https://store.nytimes.com/products/for-kids-the-secrets-issue-march-2022?variant=39925164113990

How to talk in code. Things you don't want to tell people.

Even a section on government classified spy-kinda-stuff. Because it's OK for the government to keep secrets.

Maybe not every single thing from the mainstream media is purposeful indoctrination. But the more disgusting (or brainwashed), I realize they are, the more it seems like it.

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Something I've not seen anywhere has to do with Biden's Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson. When it comes to, say, "Lia" Thomas participating in women's sports, those of us who insist that a real woman has two X chromosomes, a vagina, uterus, and so on are told we are white supremacist, racist, misogynistic domestic terrorists. Race is also supposed to be "fluid" which is why Elizabeth Warren can get fast-tracked to Harvard for being a Native American.

Why then did the Biden administration and Democratic Congress insist that the nominee fit the domestic terrorist definition of a "Black woman"? Couldn't someone like "Rachel" Levine with a law degree identify as a Black woman and be a nominee that fits their criteria? Are they not violating their own woke ideology by insisting that "Black" and "woman" fit the definition we rednecks in flyover country insist on?

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How long do you suspect this has been going on? I’ve noticed this phenomenon in Caucasian young men who are as old as a college junior. And I think perhaps my own son, homeschooled his entire K-12 education, and turning 30 next month, has experienced this. (Our relationship is still broken down.) I partly suspect the influence of liberal progressive family members, so watch out for them too.

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These people do not get my kids, they will not get my kids, and this is 100% the line that none shall pass.

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Bravo, my sentiments exactly. Very good serious article. Linking as usual @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/

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Apr 3, 2022·edited Apr 3, 2022

The ideological war of good vs evil, right vs wrong, has waged for all of human history. It is not over, and has taken on a very challenging dimension, the denial of reality.

"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it, can not be conquered by it." Ayn Rand wrote this in her notes on The Strike (aka Atlas Shrugged).

As we battle the forces of anti-reality, we must remember they are immune to the ammunition of reason. We must also never give up on finding chinks in their armor, unless we are willing to concede defeat to "ungood".

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Define woman: 'I'm not a biologist'. Newly appointed US Supreme Court judge person.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/03/30/every-single-person-with-a-penis-is-a-man/

Our lamentable MPs, now in the grip of righteous Ukraine related war mongering, are apparently unable to acknowledge biological reality, as one 'comes out' as trans, tneteby receiving tumultuous applause and a torrent of opportunistic support.

Those of us who are 46XX, with the requisite anatomy, are now being dismissed as bigots .

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