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@SwipeWright - Colin Wright
🚨BREAKING: @Nature has just published one of the most insane papers imaginable. In woke studies, “feminist queer crip theory” leads the pack in terms of derangement. But Nature has now embraced it, publishing an autoethnographic paper about “crip guts,” “queer stoma pride,” the “intergenerational trauma” inflicted upon the author's guts by “British colonialism in Ireland,” and how crip guts bestow people with “situated ways of knowing” that undermines “Western biomedical models of knowledge production.” A real quote from the paper: “I was processing some memories around my gut condition and became overwhelmed with sadness and grief. It felt ridiculous explaining to the (English) therapist what had come up because the only way I could describe it was famine grief. The Irish Famine of the 1800s is of course before my time, but in that therapy session I felt overwhelmed with a grief that felt larger than my own. I made sense of this feeling through the framework of intergenerational trauma and described it as feeling the pain of the famine lingering in my guts.” The author calls for “queer stoma pride,” which celebrates “the leakiness of bodies which disrupt boundaries” and “requires more collective and relational modes of knowledge production which value embodied experiential knowledge, holistic healing, and reject the idea that normality is a neutral desirable location.” It further “focuses on imaginings of alternative, more expansive bodily futures which foreground agency and a joyous plurality of bodies beyond category, refusing the idea that non-normative bodies are a site of unwantedness.” She hopes that the concept of “crip guts” will “disrupt epistemic injustice and challenge Western biomedical models of knowledge production,” though she gives no concrete instructions about how that looks in practice. Ultimately, she says “queer stoma pride” is “about talking about poop at conferences and in journal articles,” and “revelling in not being normal, being unexpected or disruptive, and rejecting colonial, queerphobic and ableist discourses around returning to normal, passing as normal, and aiming for normal, as if normal was ever a good thing.” I never imagined that feminist queer crip theory would make it into Nature, but here we are.
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I have been sent internal @OxfordUnion group chats by an anonymous member showing comments from George Abaraonye, the incoming President-Elect, celebrating Charlie Kirk's m*rder. Some of these messages have not previously been made public. The chats include memes posted by Abaraonye with captions like “we’re back,” messages stating “CHARLIE KIRK GOT SHOT LOOOL” and “CHARLIE KIRK GOT SHOT LET’S FUCKING GO 🙏,” a post implying Kirk deserved to be murdered for being “pro-guns,” and a reference to a “scoreboard” suggesting Kirk’s m*rder put them ahead. Abaraonye has since said he “reacted impulsively” to the news of Kirk’s murder and that his comments “did not reflect [his] values.” Why was his first impulse, upon hearing of the m*rder of someone who above all valued good-faith debate, to celebrate? And is this acceptable behavior for the incoming president of the Oxford Union?
@SwipeWright - Colin Wright
Gender ideology parasitized people's brains and turned them into seemingly rabid versions of their former selves. This is how one of my very closest friends (at the time) responded to my article debunking the "sex spectrum" in 2020, including my responses. Many years of friendship thrown away instantly over an article he admits he didn't even read. It's hard to convey how deeply I hate gender ideology for what it did to people.
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You quickly get used to being insulted by random internet strangers. It just becomes white noise. But when close friends say something like this, it's intensely painful. Every time. We were closefriends for many years, and were even housemates in college for several years. Believe it or not, our friendship was very much defined by having deep philosophical conversations, often on moral issues, where we heard each other out and approached each other in good faith. You'd never have guessed that by the exchange above. It's like he's possessed. Old friends are hard, and often impossible, to replace. It's a tragedy, like the last of a majestic species dying.
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Here's the essay he didn't read, in case you were interested. Let me know if you find anything hateful in it. https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/sex-is-not-a-spectrum
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Let's check in over at BleuSky to see how they're handling Zuckerberg's free speech pivot. Oh my... https://t.co/NjuYMOzPG9
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These histrionic meltdowns used to carry so much power. But they are becoming increasingly impotent. They'll keep screaming, but to a smaller and smaller audience of like-minded mentally disturbed extremists. Soon we'll be able to tune them out entirely.
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Ken Hale, a retired Cal Fire battalion chief who was chief investigator for Nevada County v. PG&E, explained in a 2019 article how "PG&E is spending millions to convince everyone in California that all these fires are caused by climate change" instead of on "vegetation management and maintenance as required by law to maintain in a safe and reliable power grid." "Sorry folks, climate change does not start fires. Powerlines in contact with vegetation does. If there is no spark, there is no fire, regardless of the weather," said Hale. During Hale's investigation, he unearthed emails from PG&E that "straight out said that it was less expensive to pay the fines than to trim the trees." Although this case resulted in over 700 criminal convictions, Hale says "PG&E has not changed much in the last 25 years."
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@GavinNewsom appears to be bought and paid for by @PGE4Me. h/t @Nopilled16622 https://t.co/A0Bip5bKs8
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Get ready for insanity. This new peer-reviewed paper in the a @SpringerNature journal, uses "feminist blue posthumanities to reimagine...how brine shrimp are perceived in science, culture, and art." The paper "introduced the concept of hydrosexuality" to enrich "feminist blue posthumanities and feminist biology through art-based practices and queer advocacy." Its use of the "hydrosexual perspective challenges settler science by exploring the connections between the reproductive system of brine shrimp and the economy, ecology and culture." Its analysis "draws inspiration from low trophic theory and Queer Death Studies" to "gradually alter white humans' perceptions and understandings of brine shrimp." I gotta say, this might dethrone the classic Feminist Glaciology paper for Most Insane Paper Ever. I am convinced that @ConceptualJames, @peterboghossian, and @HelenPluckrose are behind this!
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@SpringerNature Link to paper ⬇️ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10806-024-09934-0
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A little about the author: "Ewelina Jarosz (she/they) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Research at UKEN, Poland. Her current research explores the intersections of environmental art, queerfeminist blue posthumanities, queer ecologies, and activism of pleasure. They are also transdisciplinary collaborative artist working in cyber_nymphs art research duo with Justyna Górowska and they launched the hydrosexual movement in arts."
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The author describes brine shrimp as having "swirly sexuality" and claims they can reproduce by "pathogenesis," which isn't a thing and she/they meant parthenogenesis. This paper was queer-reviewed, not peer-reviewed.
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The term "hydrosexuality" emphasizes the "more-than-human sensuality and sexuality emphasizing fluidity and relationality" and "deploys watery thinking to dissolve" the "hegemonic notion of the autonomous and bounded human subject."
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🚨BREAKING: The @nytimes and @business killed stories at the 11th hour covering new research on DEI pedagogy and its negative psychological impacts. The study showed that certain DEI practices increase hostility, authoritarian tendencies, and agreement with extreme rhetoric. 🧵
@SwipeWright - Colin Wright
The study was conducted by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) in collaboration with Rutgers University. It investigated the psychological effects of DEI pedagogy, specifically trainings that draw heavily from texts like How to Be an Antiracist and White Fragility.
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The findings were unsettling, though perhaps not surprising to longstanding opponents of such programs. Using carefully controlled experiments, researchers found that exposure to anti-oppressive rhetoric consistently amplified perceptions of bias where none existed.
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In one experiment, participants read excerpts from Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi, juxtaposed against a neutral control text about corn production. Afterward, they were asked to evaluate a hypothetical scenario: an applicant being rejected from an elite university. Those exposed to the DEI materials were far more likely to perceive racism in the admissions process, despite no evidence to support such a conclusion.
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Those exposed to the DEI materials were also more likely to advocate punitive measures, such as suspending the admissions officer or mandating additional DEI training.
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The NCRI also analyzed anti-Islamophobia training materials to determine their effectiveness in reducing anti-Muslim prejudice and to examine whether they unintentionally skew perceptions of fairness, potentially reinforcing biases against institutions viewed as oppressors.
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"Following exposure to the texts, participants were presented with a controlled scenario involving two individuals—Ahmed Akhtar and George Green—both convicted of identical terrorism charges for bombing a local government building." "In the control group (corn), Ahmed’s trial was perceived as just as fair as George’s, indicating no baseline perception of Islamophobia. In the anti-Islamophobia content group (treatment), George’s trial ratings were not significantly different from the corn content group (control). However, participants in the anti-Islamophobia treatment group rated Ahmed’s trial as significantly less fair (4.92 vs. 5.25) than did those in the control group. The training led them to perceive injustice toward Ahmed despite the specifics of his situation being identical to those of George." "These results suggest that anti-Islamophobia training inspired by ISPU materials may cause individuals to assume unfair treatment of Muslim people, even when no evidence of bias or unfairness is present."
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The study also looked at DEI training on caste discrimination. Participants exposed to materials from Equality Labs—a prominent provider of anti-caste training—were significantly more likely to perceive bias.
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Those people were also more likely to endorse dehumanizing rhetoric, including adapted quotes from Adolf Hitler where the term “Jew” was replaced with “Brahmin.” The findings suggest that these programs may not only fail to address systemic injustice but actively cultivate divisive and authoritarian mindsets.
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Critics of DEI have long pointed to its lack of empirical support, and the NCRI study adds weight to those concerns. As troubling as the study’s findings are, its suppression may be even more consequential. The decision to withhold this research from public discourse speaks to a larger issue: the growing entanglement of ideology and information. The public deserves to know if the tools being deployed to foster “equity” and “anti-racism” are instead causing harm. As DEI programs continue to expand across schools, workplaces, and governments, the stakes could not be higher. Whether this research sparks a broader reckoning or remains buried will depend on whether institutions—and the media that hold them accountable—are willing to confront uncomfortable truths.
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Read more about this new report and the story to suppress it in my latest article: https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/why-was-this-groundbreaking-study
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🚨ALERT: A bombshell article in the @nytimes reveals that Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a prominent gender doctor who received millions in funding from the @NIH, has withheld her data on puberty blockers, fearing that the lack of positive results might "fuel...political attacks" and prompt bans on "youth gender treatments." The truth is not political, but concealing it certainly is. If the data shows no positive effects of puberty blockers on children's mental health, while at the same time stunting their development and harming their future fertility, then these treatments should be banned. The Supreme Court should be informed of these findings to help them make an informed decision. Withholding this data is a political act that will harm children.
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@nytimes @NIH The full story can be read below. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/science/puberty-blockers-olson-kennedy.html
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@nytimes @NIH Read more about Johanna Olson-Kennedy below by a pediatrician who shadowed Olson-Kennedy at her Los Angeles clinic. "I’m fortunate not to have my empathy and capacity to reason parasitized by a pernicious ideology disguised as righteousness." https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/a-gender-doctors-descent-into-medical?utm_source=publication-search
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"Our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to hammer [disinformation] out of existence. What we need is to win...the right to govern by hopefully winning enough votes that you’re free to be able to implement change." No thanks.https://t.co/SLGHOLVjCr
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There's a very narrow way to interpret his statement as not a desire to overturn or disregard the First Amendment, but when his party has been routinely trying to censor Americans, I'm unwilling to bend over backwards to interpret his words charitably.
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This person just got a PhD in Clinical Psychology last week by interviewing just 3 (yes 3!) "Black, transgender, and nonbinary" (BTN) individuals to "explore the prevalence and impact of sexual violence on BTN students and advocate for more inclusive institutional responses." To be clear, it's impossible to get accurate data on the "prevalence and impact of sexual violence on BTN students" by interviewing only 3 people. This is a complete joke.
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Link to dissertation ⬇️ https://rdw.rowan.edu/etd/3270/
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This is an absolutely insane paper published in the Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education. It looked at differences in school discipline and dropout rate by race, gender, and sexual orientation. It discovered that "cishet white" students have lower rates of cutting/skipping class, suspensions, being expelled, and dropping out compared to "cishet BIPOC," queer and trans white, and queer and trans BIPOC students. However, the paper rejects a priori the notion that any differences observed in disciplinary rates among groups can have anything to do with individual behavior differences in those groups regarding cutting or skipping class. Instead, the authors say that these observed differences must be viewed through "QuantCrit and intersectional theories" that insist the results should be "interpreted as a reflection of how systems of power disproportionately impact QT BIPOC students, resulting in pushout." Rather than hold individuals accountable for their individual actions, the authors insist that group differences are a result of "oppressive pushout" by systemically racist and transphobic institutions. The authors of the paper emphasize the quantitative nature of their study, yet inform the readers that "quantitative methods such as the chi-square test were created to promote white supremacy and cisheteronormativity," and that they are using these methods in order to "write in QT BIPOC into the literature and talk back to the cisheteronormative positioning of exclusionary school discipline literature." According to the authors, the reason that queer and trans BIPOC students cut/skipped class more is because they "do not feel welcomed or safe at their respective institutions" which results in them being "less likely to engage and ultimately have a higher probability of skipping out on class to protect themselves." Keep in mind there is no survey data in this study to support these assertions; it is just assumed to be true in QuantCrit and intersectional frameworks. The authors conclude, based on nothing more than a univariate analysis of group differences in discipline and dropout rates, that their data "connect cisheteropatriarchy to the over-policing and hyper-surveillance of QT BIPOC, highlighting schools' gender and sexuality policing." They further claim that their "results echo the unique and exacerbated oppressive experiences of QT BIPOC individuals, which contrast to cishet white students who hold privilege within their whiteness and cisheterosexuality, an inherent privilege that cuts across disciplinary actions and experiences." Furthermore, they favored a QuantCrit methodological approach because "traditional quantitative inquiry" is an "inherent[ly] transphobic and racist mechanism of quantitative methods rooted in eugenic thought." In the conclusion, the authors say they hope their study will "hold institutions accountable for developing policies and practices that promote QT BIPOC academic success, safety, and holistic well-being."
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Check out this very serious looking journal website. 🔗https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/jqtsie/vol1/iss1/2/
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This is absolutely massive. Everyone who was and is still complicit in this massive scandal must be held to account. WPATH officials, the AAP, Admiral Levine, everyone. https://t.co/KP2AB1ZiLW
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Archived article ⬇️ https://archive.ph/q7Csg
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I found a thread from 2018 I did about the lack of evidence for puberty blockers. A user commented, citing the NHS website: "The effects of treatment with GnRH analogues are considered to be fully reversible." "That is an assertion provided without evidence," I said. "Colin are you saying that the official NHS website gives advice without evidence? I think you'll find it doesn't." "That's exactly what I'm saying." **Fast forward 5+ years** USA TODAY: National Health Service England stops prescribing puberty blockers, citing 'not enough evidence' I am so happy the NHS banned puberty blockers, but so frustrated it took so long. I'll never forgive these gender ideologues for corrupting our medical institutions and inflicting harm on children.
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“I believe the official, award winning NHS website is more likely to provide factual information than you, to be blunt.” Hey @setoacnna, any thoughts?
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This is a pertinent clip from Sam Harris on the moral difference between Israel and her enemies. The moral difference comes down to understanding the answer to this question: what would each side do if they had the power to do it? TRANSCRIPT: The truth is that there is an obvious, undeniable, and hugely consequential moral difference between Israel and her enemies. The Israelis are surrounded by people who have explicitly genocidal intentions towards them. The charter of Hamas is explicitly genocidal. It looks forward to a time, based on Koranic prophesy, when the earth itself will cry out for Jewish blood, where the trees and the stones will say “O Muslim, there’s a Jew hiding behind me. Come and kill him.” This is a political document. We are talking about a government that was voted into power by a majority of Palestinians. The discourse in the Muslim world about Jews is utterly shocking. Not only is there widespread Holocaust denial—there’s Holocaust denial that then asserts that we will do it for real if given the chance. The only thing more obnoxious than denying the Holocaust is to say that it should have happened; it didn’t happen, but if we get the chance, we will accomplish it. There are children’s shows in the Palestinian territories and elsewhere that teach five-year-olds about the glories of martyrdom and about the necessity of killing Jews. And this gets to the heart of the moral difference between Israel and her enemies. And this is something I discussed in The End of Faith. To see this moral difference, you have to ask what each side would do if they had the power to do it. What would the Jews do to the Palestinians if they could do anything they wanted? Well, we know the answer to that question, because they can do more or less anything they want. The Israeli army could kill everyone in Gaza tomorrow. So what does that mean? Well, it means that, when they drop a bomb on a beach and kill four Palestinian children, as happened last week, this is almost certainly an accident. They’re not targeting children. They could target as many children as they want. Every time a Palestinian child dies, Israel edges ever closer to becoming an international pariah. So the Israelis take great pains not to kill children and other noncombatants. What do we know of the Palestinians? What would the Palestinians do to the Jews in Israel if the power imbalance were reversed? Well, they have told us what they would do. For some reason, Israel’s critics just don’t want to believe the worst about a group like Hamas, even when it declares the worst of itself. We’ve already had a Holocaust and several other genocides in the 20th century. People are capable of committing genocide. When they tell us they intend to commit genocide, we should listen. There is every reason to believe that the Palestinians would kill all the Jews in Israel if they could. Would every Palestinian support genocide? Of course not. But vast numbers of them—and of Muslims throughout the world—would. Needless to say, the Palestinians in general, not just Hamas, have a history of targeting innocent noncombatants in the most shocking ways possible. They’ve blown themselves up on buses and in restaurants. They’ve massacred teenagers. They’ve murdered Olympic athletes. They now shoot rockets indiscriminately into civilian areas. And again, the charter of their government in Gaza explicitly tells us that they want to annihilate the Jews—not just in Israel but everywhere.
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NEW VIDEO of Casey Goonan, the hammer-wielding gender activist who showed up to the @WDI_USA women's sex-based rights event in downtown SF, being arrested by police while other gender activists march toward them chanting "fuck the police!"
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The push to move away from gametes as the unifying definition of the sexes to collections of sex-related traits is as crazy as modern astronomy going back to the geocentric model of our solar system and adopting complex "epicycles" to explain aberrant patterns like planetary retrograde motion. De-centering gametes in sex is like de-centering the Sun in our solar system. Sure, you can construct increasingly complex patchwork models that superficially appear to validate your preferred conclusion, but in science we abide by what's called the "principle of parsimony." This is a methodological principle that says that, when faced with multiple explanations for a phenomenon, one should favor the simplest one that requires the fewest assumptions and still adequately accounts for the evidence. Just like every astronomical observation of our solar system suddenly makes elegant sense when you properly center the Sun when constructing models of our solar system, the patterns in reproductive biology across the natural world suddenly snap into place and make sense when you center gametes. That's because other traits like chromosomes, hormones, secondary sex characteristics, behaviors, etc, all orbit gametes. Gametes are the center of mass in reproductive biology.
