An interesting piece from Heather Wilhelm at Real Clear Politics
Decades ago, when Americans imagined 2016, hopeful citizens visualized groovy innovations like widely available personal jetpacks, easily accessible moon bases, and “futuristic†fashion trends that looked suspiciously like neon 1980s clothing coated with Saran wrap. So far, 2016 has brought us none of these delightful novelties, but it has delivered a series of depressing public bathroom wars.
Three weeks ago, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed a now-infamous “bathroom bill,†a law that, among other things, restricts access to public restrooms based on the sex that users were assigned at birth. The bill, which was cobbled together after 12 hours in an emergency session, came as a response to a Charlotte ordinance that declared gender identity, not biological sex, as the standard-bearer for proper bathroom entry. (big snip)
Interviewed last week by the Wall Street Journal, McCrory seemed baffled at the bathroom backlash. “Who would’ve thought?†he said. “I can’t believe we’re talking about this.†Indeed, in a world where ISIS is expanding into Europe, ghost ships full of corpses are washing onto Japanese shores from North Korea, Hillary Clinton is proposing a $1 trillion tax increase, and people are still paying good money to see Bruce Springsteen, it seems ludicrous to obsess about bathrooms.
It is ludicris. But, such are the priorities of Leftists, who think that passing laws forcing all business to comply with allowing fake women into the bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers of real women and girls by force of law.
So why can’t we just live and let live? Bathroom law opponents “are crusading against a tiny minority that poses no real threat,†Jillian T. Weiss, a transgender rights lawyer and activist, wrote in Wednesday’s USA Today. In a way, she’s correct: Demonizing transgender people is unfair in any light. But Weiss also misses the bigger picture behind the bathroom brouhaha. It’s not a fight against people. It’s a fight about reality, and whether the government can dictate a certain version of it. Ultimately, it’s a fight about freedom of thought.
Freedom of thought is a choice. And Leftists do not like that whatsoever. The only choice they approve of is aborting babies, and, even there, they are dead set against Wrongthink. We see this with ‘climate change’, we see it on college campuses, we see the rise of microaggressions and trigger warnings. Juveniles attending adult colleges have meltdowns over chalk writings. They say the feel “unsafe.” Even clapping can send them into safe rooms cuddling stuff toys and using coloring books. Their goal is to force societal change for nebulous rationales, without considering the consequences and certainly at the expense of the very people they proport to protect. Most probably have no idea what they’re fighting for, they are joining a cause for the sake of being part of a cause. And one thing they ultimately love is Force, particularly from Government.
