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The silliness of political correctness THE FIRST STREET JOURNAL.

Posted: November 8, 2022 at 11:42 pm

In the stupidity known as political correctness, the plural pronouns have been used to refer to a single individual who requests them. because such person is non-binary or makes some other idiotic claim. For anyone with an understanding of the English language, such can be jarring to read.

by Christopher Leach | Friday, October 7, 2022 | 9:03 AM EDT | Updated 4:56 PM EDT

An investigation is underway after an inmate reported being sexually assaulted by another inmate at the Fayette County Detention Center, a jail spokesperson confirmed Friday.

The victim reported the incident to a corrections officer Wednesday afternoon, said Maj. Matt LeMonds from Lexingtons Department of Community Corrections. The inmate told the corrections officer they were the victim of a sexual assault committed by another inmate.

The Division of Community Corrections and the Lexington Police Department are actively investigating this incident and criminal charges have been filed, LeMonds said in an email to the Herald-Leader.

LeMonds didnt give specific information on how jail staff responded to the incident but said the jail does have protocol in place for when a sexual assault occurs.

I cant speak to specifics as far as the individuals involved in this incident, but in the event of an alleged sexual assault we do transport the victim to a local area hospital for a proper examination, LeMonds said. The alleged offender would also be subject to internal disciplinary sanctions in addition to criminal charges.

You can read more of the story here.

Like so many other municipalities, Lexington is experience staffing shortages, and the alleged incident occurred while one of the corrections officers was on break.

This is really laughable. Prisoners are segregated by sex, so the use of the plural pronoun they to refer to the allegedly assaulted inmate is a silly way for the Herald-Leader to try to conceal what we all know anyway: the alleged sexual assault was a homosexual sexual assault.

It could, I suppose, be a reference to a victim who claimed to be non-binary, but the victim would still have been placed in custody in the prison which matched his biological status, and the article made no reference to the victim being non-binary.

In English, properly understood, the masculine subsumes the feminine, and in a situation in which the specific individual to whom a pronoun refers is unknow, the masculine pronouns are properly used, and do not imply that the person is male. For weaker minds, the writer, Christopher Leach, could have reconfigured his sentences to avoid the use of pronouns, but he did not do so. It is possible that the Fayette County Detention Center did not specify the sex of the inmates involved, but that is no excuse for the rotten grammar in the article.

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Why Women Are So Susceptible To Political Correctness

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The following is an excerpt from the authors new book, The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Terror of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer. (Bombardier Books, Post Hill Press.)

Feminists have long urged women to promote the politically correct viewpoint that they are oppressed victims. Champions of second-wave feminism such as Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem emphasized valid grievances of women, such as feeling like a sex object or being passed over for career advancement. However, the media-tech complex has gone well beyond promoting any constructive awareness of these concerns. Instead, it cultivates the resentments such women have felt for past humiliations.

Two cases in point are the confirmation hearings of Justice Clarence Thomas in 1991 and Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. In both, the Democrats playbook to derail the confirmation process was exactly the same. At the eleventh hour, a woman appears with stories of sexual harassment from decades past. There is virtually no corroboration.

Kavanaugh was a teenager when his accuser Christine Blasey Ford said he tried to take her clothes off at a party, though none present at said party could corroborate anything. Anita Hill accused Thomas of making some off-color comments while she worked in his office. Again, uncorroborated.

But Democrats trying to disrupt the confirmations were not concerned about the flimsiness of the charges. The stories hyped big in the media served a far greater purpose. The unspoken goal was to emotionally manipulate American women who may have been humiliated in the past. They stirred up old resentments and traumas and then projected responsibility for those traumas onto the nominees. And it worked. It dredged up old memories of mistreatment among many women across America. They then became emotionally certain that the nominees were guilty.

Hence, the nominees could be framed in the public eye as Me Too perps, members of Wifebeaters Inc., and so on. The Senate Judiciary Committee and halls of Congress during the Kavanaugh hearings became a circus of angst-filled women, just as planned. They screamed in the hearing room. They screamed at swing-vote senators in hallways and elevators. On Capitol Hill, there were parades of women posing in handmaid costumes. The slogan of the day was Believe all women! no matter who they are or what they say about you.

Which leads to another question: What is a woman anyway? When Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson was asked to define the word woman, she refused to do so and even added: Im not a biologist. Given the propaganda of gender ideology which seems to deny that males and females exist in biology or reality why did its recent propaganda continue to speak out of both sides of the mouth as though two sexes really do exist? More specifically, why do traditional feminists like Steinem and company accept that narrative while deploring their erstwhile sisters known as radical feminists who object to it?

And since any man can claim to be a woman simply by saying so, we end up having to ask the central question posed by British novelist Dorothy Sayers in her 1938 lecture: Are Women Human? It is the spark of individuality, along with the biological reality of humanity as a dimorphic species, that makes us human. And were losing both in the morass of identity politics enforced by political correctness.

This review of women in the clutches of identity politics seems to point to two broad outcomes. First, social pressures from all corners schools, media, popular culture appear to be taking their toll on young women in particular. Hence, trying to navigate political correctness has been so exhausting that it added to the mental health crisis of women, especially during the Covid-19 era.

This should come as no surprise assuming they have internalized the guilt foisted on them for racism, for poverty, for environmental disaster, to properly mask up, and more. An Evie Magazine article noted that progressivism is an ideology that keeps score to an exhausting degree. [I]ts understandable that anxiety and depression thrive in these kinds of environments.

Second, all this slicing and dicing leads to an isolation and exhaustion that probably causes many struggling women to hope just to be taken care of. With so many relationships broken and real conversations off-limits, what is left but the new patriarchy, the Daddy State?

In 2012, the reelection campaign of President Obama hoped to lure young women voters with just that message by presenting an infographic called The Life of Julia. It offered up a utopian story about an atomized woman and showed how the government would take care of her and her child from the cradle to the grave. In 2021, the Biden administration released a similar infographic called The Life of Linda, another isolated Stepford wife to the state.

Both infographics provide a perfect illustration of sociologist Robert Nisbets point that the State grows on what it gives to the individual as it does on what it takes from competing social relationships. The governments showcasing of Julia and Linda represent the push for a new social order that replaces our intimate relationships with a mass relationship with the state. The biggest losers of all are children and their childhoods. But the propaganda is meant also to destroy motherhood, fatherhood, and the whole family.

That leads us to wonder about the role of men in all this. I would say it all depends on the strength of women to reject the dystopia being foisted on us by a totalitarian force. We should reject the narrative that men are the bad guys and women are always the victims. In general, men take a lot of their cues from women. I would guess that elitist men take their cues from men who are higher in the pecking order.

But the de-masculinization of men and the bullying of women and girls by men who inject themselves into female sports by claiming a female identity are of a piece. Obedience to political correctness out of fear of being socially rejected drives much of it.

This psychological chaos is brought on by utopian power elites of both sexes. Divisiveness between the sexes is key to family and relationship breakdown across society. That division proved critical to the breakdown of the black family in America and, increasingly, to the American family across the board.

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What Weve Learned From Elon Musks Tweets – The Atlantic

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  1. What Weve Learned From Elon Musks Tweets  The Atlantic
  2. Op-Ed: Elon Musk's Twitter shows its dark side  Los Angeles Times
  3. Twitter lost more than 1.3 million users in the week after Elon Musk bought it  USA TODAY
  4. 'Weak, pathetic, and cruel': HR managers weigh in on Elon Musk's Twitter mass layoffs  Fortune
  5. Elon Musk owns Twitter. These are the men he put in charge  The Washington Post
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Elon Musk sells at least $3.95 billion worth of Tesla shares after Twitter deal – CNBC

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  1. Elon Musk sells at least $3.95 billion worth of Tesla shares after Twitter deal  CNBC
  2. Elon Musk sold nearly $4 billion worth of Tesla stock since Twitter deal closed  CNN
  3. Elon Musk sells 19.5 million Tesla shares worth almost $4 billion  TechCrunch
  4. Elon Musk sells another $3.9 billion worth of Tesla (TSLA) to throw in Twitter dumpster fire  Electrek
  5. Elon Musk's Fortune Falls Below $200 Billion As Tesla Hits 52-Week Low  Forbes
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Research Experience for Undergraduates | Center for Neurotechnology

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The CNT at the University of Washington (UW) sponsors a 10-week Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) on the Seattle campus. This programprovides undergraduate students with opportunities to work on research projects withscientists and to take part in workshop training sessions in ethics, communications, and scientific presentation skills designed to provide the undergraduate scientist with a solid foundation for graduate study. Undergraduates will help with research in one of the labs at the UW.

The summer 2023 CNT REU program will start on June 13, 2023 (Tuesday) and end on August 18, 2023 (Friday).

Applications for the summer 2023 REU program are now being accepted. APPLY NOW!

Completed applications are due on January 15, 2023.

REU Program Requirements

You must:

The University of Washington also requires that UW personnel and students be vaccinated against COVID-19.

What participants will receive:

REU Frequently Asked Questions (Updated: October 17, 2022)

If you have additional questions about the REU program, please contact Dr. Eric Chudler, CNT Education Director.

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Chicago, Illinois, Home With 5,600 Square Feet and Five Bedrooms Asks $1.6 Million – Mansion Global

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Chicago, Illinois, Home With 5,600 Square Feet and Five Bedrooms Asks $1.6 Million  Mansion Global

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The Missing Plan for Alien First Contact to Pro-and-Anti-UFO Factions in U.S. Government (Planet Earth Report) – The Daily Galaxy –Great Discoveries…

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The Missing Plan for Alien First Contact to Pro-and-Anti-UFO Factions in U.S. Government (Planet Earth Report)  The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel

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