Posted on 01/04/2017 5:45:10 AM PST by Kaslin
We will never understand liberals and progressives until we recognize that they often see reality as a social construct subject to being challenged and changed. For example, throughout the world, boys and girls have different toy preferences. Typically, boys like to play with cars and trucks, whereas girls prefer dolls. Liberals explain this with the assertion that boys and girls are socialized and encouraged to play with different types of toys by their parents, peers and "society." Growing scientific evidence suggests that toy preferences have a biological origin. Even studies of male and female primates find that they exhibit similar toy preferences. Despite the growing evidence of biological determinism, liberals have managed to intimidate toy sellers into getting rid of the labels "toys for boys" and "toys for girls."
Another reality issue that's extremely annoying to liberals and progressives is chromosomal sex determination. The XX/XY sex determination system is found in humans. Females have two of the same kind of sex chromosome (XX), whereas males have two distinct sex chromosomes (XY). This chromosomal reality is seen as limiting, annoying and an artifact of a patriarchal, chauvinistic society. So liberals and progressives want to change it. Say you are an XY (male) individual but would like to conduct your affairs in a facility designated for XX (female) individuals, such as a ladies' room. You can satisfy your desire by claiming that you are transgender -- that is, you've switched from one gender to another. Therefore, if one has XY chromosomes, he can behave as if he were an XXer. Plus, there is the expectation of being addressed according to one's chosen gender. The Minneapolis Police Department has a new rule that requires officers to address transgender people using their preferred names and pronouns. When an XYer is arrested but claims he is a woman, I wonder whether the police will place him in a cell with XXers. Just how far the Minneapolis authorities will go is in question; maybe they, too, believe that reality is optional.
Another part of reality that liberals and progressives find difficult to accept is the fact that equality among humans is the exception and inequality the norm. If one were to list the world's top 30 violinists of the 20th century, at least 20 of them would be of Jewish ancestry. Jews constitute no more than 3 percent of the U.S. population but 35 percent of American Nobel Prize winners. One wonders what liberals would propose to promote equality in violin excellence and winning a Nobel Prize. By the way, liberals and progressives love to attend classical concerts, where there is a virtual absence of racial diversity.
Year after year, blacks of West African descent walk away with all of the prizes in the Olympic 100-meter run. The probability of such an outcome by chance is all but zero. It must be a reality -- namely, genetic physiological and biomechanical characteristics -- that causes blacks to excel in certain sports (e.g., basketball, football and track) and spells disaster for those who have aspirations to be Olympic-class swimmers.
Somehow liberals and progressives manage to cope with some realities but go ballistic with others. They cope well with black domination of basketball, football and track and with the near absence of black performers in classical concerts. They also accept the complete absence of women in the NFL and NBA. They even accept geographical disparities. For example, not a single player in the NHL's history can boast of having been born and raised in Hawaii, Louisiana or Mississippi. The reality that they go ballistic on is the reality that we are not all equally intelligent. There are many more male geniuses than female, and median male IQ is higher. Liberals might argue bias in the testing. Men are taller on average than women. If liberals don't like that, would they accuse the height-measuring device of being biased?
The lesson liberals need to learn is that despite their arrogance, they do not have the power to alter reality.
The author takes a while t get to his real point. On average, men are smarter than women. Don’t tell Harry Belafonte.
A rational person alters his politics to conform to his reality; a liberal alters his reality to conform to his politics.
My cousin and her husband are the parents of three girls. when they were young, their parents bought both girl and boy toys. They completely ignored the trucks and gravitated toward the dolls.
Conversely, I knew a family who were missionaries in eastern Europe. Their youngest son was born and raised there, in a culture with few firearms. They purposed to not give him toy guns to play with. As I recall the story, he came home one day with a stick and shouted BANG.
Boys are boys and girls are girls. Period.
"THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General." -- Harrison Bergeron
They do not have the power to alter reality.
Most lefties never stop trying...and they never stop trying to force others to not only except, but embrace, their altered reality.
Or else you are a [fill in the blank] aphobe.
They do not have the power to alter reality.
Most lefties never stop trying...and they never stop trying to force others to not only except, but embrace, their altered reality.
Or else you are a [fill in the blank] aphobe.
Sometimes it can cost you your business if you do not play along.
You must except anti-logic and reject science and biology and more generally common sense or else you will pay!
“For example, not a single player in the NHL’s history can boast of having been born and raised in Hawaii, Louisiana or Mississippi.”
What is fun though, is reading through old copies of The Hockey News or Toronto Star or Globe and Mail from the 1960s through 1980s era and the lectures about how the Russians and Europeans had fighting banned and helmets mandatory for their players, but the NHL during many of those years (helmets were grandfathered starting in 1979 and no instigator rule until 1992) did not and how brutish and uncivilized it was because of that.
You can talk to all sorts of players and others connected with the game back then and they will tell you about how the game became that much more full of stickwork and cheapshot related offences not long after those rules were brought in.
It’s a lot like ju-jitsu. Capitalism is the acknowledgement of human characteristics and tries to use natural tendencies to motivate the course of civilization with those tendencies in mind, much as ju-jitsu uses the opponent’s weight in your favor.
Socialism is the belief that humans can and will be perfected by suppressing ‘sinful’ attitudes and individualistic notions that make ruling over people harder to do. I guess the nub is contention over whether humans are perfectable.
It ticks off “liberals” that the God they don’t believe exists, or at least they won’t ever answer to, is patriarchal and chauvinistic.
Dr. Williams is spot-on as usual.
The science of transgenderism? They ridicule and harass the Christian that believes in a God who created heaven and earth and don't believe man is the cause of global warming. Laughing at anybody that denies science, their science of global warming. Do they ever self evaluate?
On average, men are smarter than women.
I always heard there are more males geniuses, in addition to more male imbeciles...
feminist SJW’s make me doubt the part about male imbeciles...
It’s a lot like ju-jitsu. Capitalism is the acknowledgement of human characteristics and tries to use natural tendencies to motivate the course of civilization with those tendencies in mind, much as ju-jitsu uses the opponent’s weight in your favor.
Socialism is the belief that humans can and will be perfected by suppressing ‘sinful’ attitudes and individualistic notions that make ruling over people harder to do. I guess the nub is contention over whether humans are perfectable.
Fascinating post, and true. The Soviets spent decades trying to perfect the perfect “Soviet Man”, who was totally selfless, would give all to the collective, with no self interest. Obviously impossible, that reality which is contrary combined with human nature and the black market broke the economic back of the Soviet Union.
It seems we will have to re-live this lesson, given the ‘occupy wallstreet’ anti-capitalism idiots...
They do not have the power to alter reality.
Most lefties never stop trying...and they never stop trying to force others to not only except, but embrace, their altered reality.
Or else you are a [fill in the blank] aphobe.
Sometimes it can cost you your business if you do not play along.
You must except anti-logic and reject science and biology and more generally common sense or else you will pay!
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Sounds like a lesson learned the hard way.... me too!
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