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The Semantics Sheriff
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The Semantics Sheriff
@SemanticSheriff
Speak honestly using precision and clarity. Check your premise.
Katılım Kasım 2024
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Integrity.
Jennifer Sey@JenniferSey
About two weeks ago @xx_xyathletics was suspended from Meta for a few days. A mass reporting triggered the suspension. Since then, we've been given advice about how to avoid triggering the angry trans mob. My personal opinion is you can't avoid triggering them and Meta needs to not automatically suspend an account due to mass reporting. They mass report to gum up the works. They know the suspension will not be permanent but it will certainly mess with our business for a few days. It's a display of power. There's nothing I can say, no way I can say it, to avoid pissing this group of angry men off. That's a fact. But here are some of the suggestions I've been given to try to avoid doing so, to thread the needle, so to speak: 1. Don't say "biology" 2. Don't say "sex is binary" 3. Don't say XX and XY - that's literally in our name so ok 4. Don't say "men in women's sports" 5. Don't say "men pretending to be women" or "men claiming to be women." You get the point. Meanwhile on @instagram some person I never heard of until yesterday who goes by Ethel Cain and has 1.2M followers can hang out in a porny pose in a creepy bedroom wearing a corset with his entire fruit cup squished up and hanging out the bottom of the corset and he's met with nothing but "you're so beautiful" and "her penis..." Here's a smattering of quotes: "Most beautiful woman alive." "My darling." "Iconic." Blah blah blah. Vomit. This is just plain old male exhibitionism. He's a fetishist. You don't see "trans men" hanging their vaginas out for all to see. What a gross creep. And what is wrong with you Meta? (And no I'm not showing the photos here you can find them yourself like I did. 🤮)
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I guess this means its time for the Democratic Party to double down.
Again.
Chris Brunet@chrisbrunet
after many years of painstaking research, science has finally concluded that castrating a teenaged boy makes him suicidal
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after many years of painstaking research, science has finally concluded that castrating a teenaged boy makes him suicidal
James Cantor@JamesCantorPhD
"Among adolescents who underwent medical gender reassignment, psychiatric morbidity increased markedly during follow-up—rising from 9.8% to 60.7% in feminising gender re-assignment and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising gender reassignment." Ruuska 2026 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ap…
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@TCSWashington It's not "transgenders" in girls' sports that they object to - it's males.
If females consider themselves transgender they can still perform in female sports, unless they have taken disqualifying drugs.
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“We’re not going to back down.”
Two Washington students say they won’t stop speaking out about transgenders in girls' sports.
They say their fight isn’t just personal it’s about what they believe is right.
Watch ⬇️
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@TCSWashington Boys in their sport.
Not "transgender girls".
BOYS!
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@jonatanpallesen "Conversion Therapy"??
Telling a child that there is nothing wrong with their body is not "conversion therapy".
Blocking a child's puberty is conversion therapy.
"Affirming" a boy is a girl is conversion therapy.
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How is it possible to believe (as Justice Jackson does) that talk therapy can be banned, but puberty blockers and hormone treatment cannot? (As she opined in United States v. Skrmetti.)
Puberty blockers and hormone treatment are a far more invasive treatment than talk therapy. So if talk therapy can be banned, puberty blockers can too.
There is even a further free speech argument in the case for not being able to ban talk therapy.
It is quite clear that she makes her rulings not based on the law, or on logical consistency, but on her personal ideological alignment. The use of puberty blockers is viewed favorably by many progressive, while conversion therapy is not. That is why she makes logically inconsistent rulings.
Is there anyone who honestly disagrees with this claim?
And if not, aren't Democrats embarrassed for having nominated her?
Greg Price@greg_price11
🚨 BREAKING: The Supreme Court just ruled 8-1 in Chiles v. Salazar that Colorado's law banning "conversation therapy" for sexual orientation or gender identity is unconstitutional. Jackson was the lone dissent.
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@RupertLowe10 By firing squad so its an inexpensive process
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I read how a failed Pakistani 'asylum seeker' who repeatedly abused and raped an eight year old girl has been jailed for 15 years.
He abused her in her own home and bedroom.
She was told that if she told anyone, she would die.
I wouldn't deport him.
Under a Restore Britain Government, with the British people's approval, the death penalty would be reintroduced for such evil and undeniable crimes.
He would be put to death.
If you rape a young child, you do not deserve to live.
It's that simple.
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@EPoe187 Yes, except when politics is religion and outgroup members are the evil bad people that justify the ingroup loyalty.
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One of my strongest convictions is that people are vastly more than the sum of their political beliefs and that friendships among people who disagree about politics are not only healthy, but necessary for a complete and empathetic understanding of the world.
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@feelsdesperate Yes, it's a religion. But it's not a set of beliefs. It's a system that selects for narrative-alignment.
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A reasonable take I heard (from a millennial) is that wokeness happened because millennials looked around and saw that they had no transcendent belief system to guide them and give their lives meaning and so they just turned up the volume on Boomer anti racism because that was on hand. I think that’s right. It doesn’t explain everything but it’s definitely it’s definitely psychology true in an important way.
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@JenniferSey It's not a belief it's a social sorting mechanism.
Narrative-alignment as a costly signal of group loyalty.
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I’ll never understand how my former friends can defend this. Can they possibly actually believe this person is a woman?? No right?! They don’t really believe it. They have eyes.
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She needs to read Richard Reeves' book:
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It
Giving boys dolls and telling them that girls are exactly the same as them is not only not helping, it is hurting them, and it's false.
Election Wizard@ElectionWiz
DISTURBING: Gavin Newsom’s wife on how she raises her son: “I've given our boys dolls… if I'm reading a book and the protagonist is a male, I just change the 'he' to a 'she.'”
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Charles: "conversion therapy" for TRANS kids is telling them what sex they actually are.
The only alternative is affirmation of whatever a confused eight year old says.
Charles Booker@Booker4KY
Conversion Therapy is torture. Full stop. It must be banned.
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@TukiFromKL The unstated premise that "Iran is trying to negotiate a peace deal" is doing a lot of work in that post.
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Imagine all the falsehoods you would have to accept in order to believe this. Imagine all the truths you would have to suppress in order to believe this.
Imagine the environment where you get rewarded for saying this.
Cenk Uygur@cenkuygur
Every problem in the Middle East and every war we’ve fought in the past 60 years are all about one thing - the occupation. It’s the cancer that’s causing all these problems. People are never going to accept the Israelis brutally occupying the Palestinians forever. And the Israelis are never going to let them go because they’re vicious. They don’t want peace, they want more land. And they’re dragging the world through the mud to get what they want. And mainstream media is their evil henchmen who never talk about the occupation and hide all of Israel’s crimes - and aggressively bully anyone who dares to point them out. The propaganda they’ve done is historic. Israel couldn’t have done all of these war crimes and continued the occupation without their partners in crime - American media.
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@Glinner @supergeekmike That is the appropriate response to manipulation. Expose it.
Bare everything out in the open like a man in the girl's dressing room.
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@supergeekmike Not really. Here are those questions again. "Why do you support men in women's prisons/sports/changing rooms? Why do you support surgical and pharmaceutical interventions for children/teenagers? You won't engage on any of these matters because your position is indefensible."
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If people are getting frustrated with you, it's because you refuse to explain your positions and you appear to hold them only to hurt women. Why do you support men in women's prisons/sports/changing rooms? Why do you support surgical and pharmaceutical interventions for children/teenagers? You won't engage on any of these matters because your position is indefensible.
SupergeekMike (Mike Christensen)@supergeekmike
Spent the day fielding a flood of annoying comments from idiotic transphobes, all repeating the same mind-numbing arguments over and over. It was so tedious. But all I could imagine is how much worse it would be if I was trans. I KNOW they always get so much more shit than us.
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Decades from now historians, sociologists & linguists will make a list like this as a case study in how, in the early part of the 21st century, the left took liberal tolerance to absurd lengths to the point of illiberalism. (Didn't they have a word for "vagina-haver"?)
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Conquering the world is always on the minds of the worst power-elites. But the path towards that objective changes with technology. We're being targeted, in a new way. Our rights are paramount, and we need new rights that protect us from a technological assault on our freedom.
Bret Weinstein@BretWeinstein
It appears big changes are coming where MAHA meets Gov. The objective looks to be technocracy disguised as AI enabled health. Think Covid 2.0. And, as I have said, it won’t look like the Covid "pandemic." Goliath may be a big, dumb giant, but he learns from his mistakes.
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@LukeLRPS @CrunchAlias Instead of "dumb" and "incorrect" use "manipulative" and "instrumental-incorrect".
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@CrunchAlias The MSM headlines don’t help.
Dumb, incorrect headlines read by dumb, incorrect heads is a bad combo.
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One of the main reasons “trans” activists can’t get it into their heads that the Olympic policy is about males, not about “trans”, is because they simply cannot stand the idea that “trans” is utterly, completely irrelevant.
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@kylenabecker @PaleoStephen @SwipeWright Effective. Arguably, those woke clowns are effective since they captured half the institution’s that society relies on.
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@PaleoStephen @SwipeWright Scientific understanding is neither “socially constructed” nor “consensus-based.”
These Woke clowns are clueless.
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🚨NEW: Last year I published a paper detailing the gamete-based definition of the sexes and debunking common activist objections to it.
This year, the journal published a critique of it rooted in "feminist epistemology."
They invited me to respond. It's now published.
The final paragraph of my response (not shown in the screenshots) is:
"The renowned geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky wrote that 'Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution,' highlighting evolution as the unifying framework that makes life’s diversity, complexity, and interconnectedness comprehensible. I contend that a parallel statement applies similarly to reproductive biology: Nothing in the biology of the sexes makes sense except in the light of gametes."
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Mahr's critique of my paper:link.springer.com/article/10.100…
My response to Mahr:link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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@wil_da_beast630 Well, men can use the women's room whenever they want to. So there's that.
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Anyone who thinks the modern USA is a "patriarchy" or a "white supremacist state" is a fundamentally unserious person.
Actual formal discrimination has been civilly and often criminally illegal for 62 years. Pro-female/minority affirmative action has been the law of the land for 59 years. Of course there are SOME sectors still dominated by cocky white men, just as the reverse is true: I'm a former sales and trading floor guy myself.
But, words...MEAN things.
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