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War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, and men are women, and if you don’t affirm the latter, Twitter will ban you. But it is propaganda nonetheless, not fact, and as Josef Goebbels once explained, propaganda only succeeds by constant repetition. The truth keeps breaking through, and the only way it can be prevented from carrying the day is by repeating the lie over and over, until people grow accustomed to the falsehood and begin to mistake it for fact. Cheryl Cooky, a professor of American studies and women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Purdue, did her bit for the Big Lie on Monday, writing an op-ed for NBC saying that Lia Thomas, the guy who keeps setting new women’s collegiate swimming records, should be celebrated as Jackie Robinson is celebrated.
Leftists today have embraced insanity on a large scale, and insanity cannot be reasoned with, but since this fantasy and falsehood is being pushed on Americans so relentlessly, it has to be answered point-by-point, or it will gain traction. Cooky declares that Lia Thomas “should be embraced in the history of progress that sports represent and recognized as the trailblazer that she is.”
Jackie Robinson was certainly a trailblazer and should be embraced in the history of progress that sports represent. But what is the difference between Jackie Robinson and Lia Thomas? Jackie Robinson was a member of a group that had been unjustly barred from playing Major League Baseball because of immutable racial characteristics. Lia Thomas has not been barred from anything and never was; nor is he a member of any group that has ever been barred. He is a man who pretends to be a woman, and because he has the physical characteristics of a male, he is able to outperform his female competition in women’s swimming events.
In a sane society, Lia Thomas would not be celebrated. Lia Thomas would be banned from women’s sports, or never would have been allowed to enter. But Cheryl Cooky argues that this would be tantamount to separating men and women in schools, bathrooms(!), and restaurants: “Women’s sports are situated at a paradoxical intersection wherein sex segregation is upheld through claims of biological difference, yet equality is prefaced on being treated the same and given the same opportunities as men. If we are to change this, we need to ask some important questions. How does one advocate for equitable treatment while also adhering to the notion of biological difference? If separate is not equal in the case of schools, bathrooms, restaurants or other social institutions, can separate ever truly be equal in the case of sports? Would gender-based discrimination in sports be eradicated if sports were gender-integrated?”
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Infidel says
They should just create 1 or 2 new categories called ‘Trans’, and add that to Men’s and Women’s events
CogitoErgoSum says
I’ve known some women I would like to go a few rounds with in the boxing ring. This Cheryl Cookery might be one of them – but would anyone give me a trophy if I (a man) beat the hell out of a woman? Yeah, I would be just like Jackie Robinson – if Jackie Robinson beat his wife. Anyway, I have the feeling this Lia Thomas is secretly laughing to himself every time he wins a race (and even more when he lets a woman beat him).
Ray Jarman says
This Thomas clown be called the great destroyer. He is in the process of completely destroying women’s swimming and others like him will certainly be actively competing for positions on women’s team sports such as field hockey, basketball and soccer if the courts do not strike this contravention to Chapter IX. It is simply immoral for a male who is incompetent to compete as a male to simply announce that he is a female and few months of hormone treatment be permitted to compete as a female. Also, what happens when these temporary women decide to return to the male world?
somehistory says
I say, we should all be like Gov. DeSantis. He called the woman who reached the end first, the winner of the 500. He had some other good stuff to say about it.
will thomas should hang his head in shame for what he has tried to do to all the young ladies who like to swim and enter swimming competition. Liars eventually have to meet up with the consequences of their lies.
James Lincoln says
somehistory says,
“will thomas should hang his head in shame”
He should – but he won’t.
gravenimage says
Gender Studies Prof Says We Should Celebrate Lia Thomas Like We Did Jackie Robinson
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Just nuts. There was nothing but racial prejudice that kept Blacks out of baseball for so long, whereas Lia Thomas is a *biological male* competing in women’s sports.
Note that even Caitlyn Jenner–herself transgender–has said that this record should not hold and that we need to protect women’s sports.
“Caitlyn Jenner says trans swimmer Lia Thomas is not the ‘rightful winner’ of NCAA title”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2022/03/24/caitlyn-jenner-trans-swimmer-lia-thomas-not-rightful-winner-ncaa/7154631001/
Note that Jenner–as Bruce Jenner–competed as a male during his athletic career.