Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Neither Black Nor a WomanPrecious few on the Left can be saved by arguments or logic. It’s time to recognize the power of mockery.
By Josiah Lippincott
March 29, 2022
Owning liberals with facts and logic is a losing game. The hard-core liberal, like all ideologues, is immune to the power of reason. The future of the American regime, to say nothing of the fate of Western civilization, will not be decided by superior arguments.
This will sound like heresy to the Ben Shapiros of the world, who have made a name for themselves challenging liberals to open debate in the “marketplace of ideas.” The wisest minds in the history of philosophy from Plato to Locke, by contrast, have known full well that some human beings simply cannot be educated. In Book X of the Nicomachean Ethics, written some 2,500 years ago, Aristotle argues that some people can only learn through beatings. And those who cannot learn at all, he argues, should be deported from the city. A harsh assessment, perhaps, but the fundamental point is well taken. Even being whacked upside the head with literal two-by-fours is not enough to teach the most fervent political fanatics to recognize reality.
Anyone who has tried debating the most ferocious COVID enforcers or middle-aged liberal wine aunts (but I repeat myself) will swiftly realize how persuasion is lost on a mind warped by ideology.
Take Ketanji Brown Jackson’s recent insistence that she could not provide a definition of the word “woman” because she is not “a biologist.” If Jackson cannot provide a definition of the word woman, we may also assume that she cannot provide a definition of the word “black” because she is not an ethnologist. Therefore, since we don’t know what a woman is, and we don’t know what being black means, might we reasonably conclude that Judge Jackson is neither of those things?
For all we know, today’s “experts” might very well determine that she is a white male. In which case Ms. Jackson’s (or, more accurately, Mr. Jackson’s) nomination to the Court is not historic at all. She/he will simply join the long pantheon of other white males nominated to the Supreme Court and thereby perpetuate the history of systemic racism and white supremacy. Jackson should check his privilege!
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Trying to piece together how liberals understand gender and sexuality is an exercise in upside-down logic. I am told that liberals believe in materialism. If so, what do we make of transgenderism? If literal flesh and blood genitals don’t determine gender, then liberals must believe in some spiritual reality. A biological man may be born with a female essence or soul. In which case, liberals are not materialists at all. But where does this essence come from if one’s “innermost concept of self as male, female, a blend of both or neither” is the real foundation of gender identity, as the Human Rights Campaign puts it?
But if choice is the basis of identity, then how do we explain Lady Gaga’s profound philosophical insight that some individuals are simply “born this way”? Is homosexuality therefore genetic? Could homosexuality tests one day be administered in the womb, for instance? Or is a longing for same-sex relations a product of environmental conditions? Are we really to believe that homosexuality is inborn but gender is the result of choice?
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Source:
https://amgreatness.com/2022/03/29/ketanji-brown-jackson-is-neither-black-nor-a-woman/
