Posted on 08/18/2017 1:21:48 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This week's question: Should transgender people be allowed to serve in the Canadian military?
On Friday former premier Christy Clark resigned as leader of the B.C. Liberal Party and Kelowna MLA. Her downfall at the polls and subsequent departure from politics is largely a result of her abandoning long articulated principles.
Many on the Left relished demonizing her and would never have voted for her. Yet, over the course of the 18 months preceding the May election Clark began pandering to the Left.
Just before Vancouver’s annual Pride Parade in 2016 Clark suddenly abandoned the government’s principled position, which refused to provide special protections to transgender people in the B.C. Human Rights Code. The decision left many on the right wondering if Clark had ever been the principled leader she had so often touted. We learned the complete answer during the post-election throne speech — Christy Clark has no principles.
It seems, neither does the Canadian military unless one considers 'virtue signaling' a principle, which it is not.
Almost instantly following President Trump’s courageous and principled decision to ban transgender people from serving in the U.S. military, the Canadian Armed Forces tweeted from its official account: "We welcome Cdns of all sexual orientations and gender identities. Join us!" accompanied by a photo of flute playing forces and the hashtag #DiversityIsOurStrength.
This tweet demonstrates the perilous impact of allowing social justice ideology to infect the Canadian military. How does diversity defeat radical Islam? It doesn’t. It empowers radical Islam and weakens resolve here at home.
Don’t take my word for it. Camille Paglia, the fiery feminist, university professor, renowned author and fearless advocate of gender equality said in a 2014 interview with the Feminist Times “transgenderism has taken off like a freight train ... there has been a collapse of perspective here that will surely have mixed consequences for our art and culture and that may perhaps undermine the ability of Western societies to understand or react to the vehemently contrary beliefs of others who do not wish us well.” This is an ominous prediction, yet it partially explains why the West seems unable to mount any defence against those seeking to destroy our society.
I do concede Garth’s point that gender fluidity is not a new phenomenon. However, as Paglia warns “transgender phenomena multiply and spread in 'late' phases of culture, as religious, political, and family traditions weaken and civilizations begin to decline.”
Canada must resist the pressure to transition our battle-ready forces into social justice warriors.
well now we know...
the people become weak, wimpy, no compass, no will to fight...
flighty little creatures without a value they could live without...
our country is the same...
Ok the males who want to wear lipstick size 10 heels and a skirt and not get their manicured nails dirtied by any nasty gun...
“WHAT ??? you expect ME to touch that ??? That’s a DANGEROUS WEAPON !!! Does Barak know about this ???”
Anyhoo
some thoughts...in our country...
How many of those so called “thousands of “brave patriotic” trannies who are “risking a bullet” by “serving heroically for their country” enlisted less than one year ago ???
How many enlisted just for the free body parts chop N add ???
How many plan to get a medical discharge after they have the chop N add op ??? Disability dontchaknow... :)Service connected kind Oh yeah :)
Ah exactly what JOB are they doing or signed up for (When I enlisted in 1971 there was a “guaranteed job promise” they either gave you what you were qualified for or you were discharged with no bad feelings a couple of females in my lot left during basic due to that) I bet they have back lot jobs way back from the front lines and not requiring DEPLOYMENT, cooks, soft non armament supply, office work, etc...something that wouldn’t be missing from the frontlines...
How many joined the INFANTRY or some other more basic shoot kill and destroy unit ??? LOL
How many were so called “transitioning” when they enlisted BEFORE one year ago...
How many would agree to just look dress and serve as the gender they were born with until the end of their term of enlistment without an operation and without demanding special treatment ???
How many wonder agree to be DEPLOYED to a battle area ???
How many would stay in or enlist if there was no free chop N add operation and no hormone treatment ???
This is what it comes down to...
Whacking off ones pecker does not change their DNA
I can see where it would erode trust and morale - the phrase, “I got your back” no longer engenders a sense of warrior camaraderie....
the phrase, “I got your back” no longer engenders a sense of warrior camaraderie....
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Or the ‘old chestnut’
The Greek didn’t want to go in the Army because he didn’t want to leave his buddies behind.
(Well, it was the 50s and it was more subtle then <: <:)
Where’s the evidence transgenders weakens the Canadian military? I assume that fact is true, but....
Heard it before - along with their pick-up line in a bar....”Push your stool in for you?”
Where’s the evidence transgenders weakens the Canadian military? I assume that fact is true, but...
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A lot of that has to do with the mindset of the people at the time.
When I went in in 1956, integration of the Military was about 10 years in the making.
I was raised in upstate NY and because of ‘indoctrination’ I had received, was in a better mindset to ‘accept’ serving with Blacks than say my fathers generation was BUT the boys from the South had a harder time with it - even 10 years later.
Having been raised in a ‘sheltered’ surrounding, the thought of serving with ‘homos’ never entered my mind - until I was ‘introduced’ to their ‘community’ and found it disgusting to say the least.
Transgendered probably didn’t hit the ‘big time’ until Klinger showed up wearing a dress and HE was just a clown - albeit it an UGLY Clown - wearing a dress.
Todays 17-18 year olds are better equipped (mind set) to accept the ‘other life styles’ as the preliminaries have been brushed aside as they have already been indoctrinated into accepting them moreso than ‘we’ were.
I was looking at some old pictures and noticed a Black guy on my basketball and baseball teams.
I honestly didn’t remember him - which a ‘progressive’ said that just proved I was a racist and I said, NO, the guy just never did anything to etch himself into my mind, which was a ‘good’ thing.
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