Two thoughtful articles on the madness infecting our society and the meekness and equivocation of civil society defenders ( such as university presidents) to confront it
Wayne State Professor Volunteers as First Amendment Tribute
popehat.substack.com/p/wayne-state-professor-steven-shaviro
“Although I do not advocate violating federal and state criminal codes, I think it is far more admirable to kill a racist, homophobic, or transphobic speaker than it is to shout them down”
Misgendering a Murderer
Mark Steyn
www.steynonline.com/13362/misgendering-a-murderer
Mark and Bo Snerdley:
The main focus of discussion was the school shooting in Nashville, and the sin of the local police in misgendering a woman who identified as a man as a man who identified as a woman. There will be a lot more of this in America’s future.
Violent radicalization (VR) is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon (12) defined as a process whereby an individual or a group increases support for violence as a legitimate means to reach a specific (e.g., political, social, and religious) goal (13). Although the association between support for VR and violent action is not linear, population-wide attitudes toward legitimizing some forms of violence may increase social polarization and fuel the emergence of extremist groups, thus providing a narrative to channel despair and rage in vulnerable individuals (14, 15). Schools and colleges are important radicalization vectors and recruitment sites (16
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8873191/
During the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots, I observed a disproportionate number of suspects at the violent riots were #trans. (I write about this in more detail in my book, "Unmasked") There is a phenomenon of young trans people being pulled into (far-left) violent t.co/MaxrLoyNx7… pic.twitter.com/1yBGXWIiTw
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) March 28, 2023
h/t Dodger007