Worth Reading January 27, 2022

January 27, 2022

For a disturbing analysis consistent with the direction that Pecknold and others see America heading, WDM recommends this article on attitudes of those under-30 on free speech. The high percentage of this generation that does not value free speech, reflecting one part of what they were taught by the transgressive left that has skillfully taken over education, underlines that delay in countering this influence means ultimate defeat.

To bring up a recent victory over the forces of progressivism, Chris Rufo tweeted this First Amendment defense of Virginia Gov. Youngkin’s Executive Order on CRT.

Even though he characterizes most Republicans as “bat-shit, crazy, ignorant fools,”, John McWhorter, author of Woke Racism, agrees that woke racism has become a religion with Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ibram X. Kendi as its priests. For the record, those two despise McWhorter.

On the subject of Ukraine, JDQB and MPD recommend this assessment of the stakes involved. In addition to insightful historical context and analysis, the article reveals a correlation between multiple crises and incompetent Presidents – is there some cause and effect here or just very bad luck?

WDM recommends another recent article suggesting possible resolutions that could avoid war and strengthen NATO. It seems more realistic and factual than the endless name-calling of “war-mongering Neo-Cons” versus “traitors and appeasers.”

Worth Reading

By David Montgomery

Here we go with the topic that gets me hate mail:

An exceptionally clear and concise faith-based statement on handling trans questions. Its arguments against efforts to alter biological sex, socially or surgically, are worth memorizing by anyone who believes in a Divine Creator or natural law. Its instructions on how to handle the ‘real but usually transitory condition of gender dysphoria” are directed at Catholic schools, but WDM thinks they should be observed everywhere.

An interesting article on the ideology of gender manipulation caught WDM’s attention. It describes the “concerted push by members of one of the richest families in the United States to transition Americans …to the broad acceptance and propagation of synthetic sex identities (SSI).” In addition to the investigative journalism, the acronym SSI coined by the author is a useful shorthand for the ideology of gender fluidity. Even more interesting, the article was found on the Wayback machine.

James Lindsay is not the easiest commentator to read (understatement of the year there) but no one WDM knows does as good a job of exposing just how wrong teaching about gender choice in schools can be. In a recently posted article he talks about how gender curricula in schools are not intended to foster greater tolerance of those with different sexual preferences, but to undermine children’s understanding of what is true and natural.