I enjoyed this glimpse of Las Vegas – but I’d add an observation. When a journalist makes ‘something’ a proxy for ‘everything’, and other journalists advance different proxies then no proxy carries any conviction. It’s just a journalist struggling for something catchy to earn a crust.
michael harris
1 month ago
The Senate battle is over. West Virginia and North Dakota flips have sealed it for the Republicans. Nothing to do with Nevada. But, heck, reporting from Wheeling or Bismark is no fun compared with a few days in Sin City.
While I agree with that, a few extra seats would be a help – OH, PA, NV – all which may go R. The House is another matter – there are 20-30 seats which are way too close to call from outside.
Alex Lekas
1 month ago
When ‘gay rights’ has become forcing women to allow men into their sports and promoting men dressed as women gyrating in front of school kids, the plot has been lost, as the Brits say. We’re quite a ways from the simple goal of simply being allowed to be. But that’s how activists roll. They are incapable of taking yes for an answer; they cannot claim victory because that’s not the point of activism. The point is to perpetuate the activism. Claiming a win would mean these people might have to get real jobs.
The community is not “under attack,” as the article claims. Gay has become mainstream. Everyone knows, works with, or is related to a gay or lesbian. It’s the other letters that are at issue and it would be nice if people stopped pretending otherwise. The LGB part has long been settled. The rest of the alphabet is something else.
The reason why the LGB can’t be separated from the T and the rest is because they all rest on the same fundamental premise… “the natural order be darned – my persistent feelings and desires demand respect and recognition.” Put it this way… how can we tell absentee fathers that “dads matter” while we simultaneously applause lesbians raising children without them? The worldview that defines UnHerd is incoherent.
This is exactly what I like about UnHerd: its incoherent worldview. Echo chambers catering to your coherent belief system are a boring waste of time. Apart from that, I concur with your pointing out one of the absurdities of our derailed culture.
That’s not quite what I meant. I like divergent viewpoints represented in a single media outlet, too. But UnHerd has an over-representation of TERF-y types… and their individual worldviews are individually incoherent.
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FFS! How about we ignore this BS and avoid WWIII?
I enjoyed this glimpse of Las Vegas – but I’d add an observation. When a journalist makes ‘something’ a proxy for ‘everything’, and other journalists advance different proxies then no proxy carries any conviction. It’s just a journalist struggling for something catchy to earn a crust.
The Senate battle is over. West Virginia and North Dakota flips have sealed it for the Republicans. Nothing to do with Nevada. But, heck, reporting from Wheeling or Bismark is no fun compared with a few days in Sin City.
While I agree with that, a few extra seats would be a help – OH, PA, NV – all which may go R. The House is another matter – there are 20-30 seats which are way too close to call from outside.
When ‘gay rights’ has become forcing women to allow men into their sports and promoting men dressed as women gyrating in front of school kids, the plot has been lost, as the Brits say. We’re quite a ways from the simple goal of simply being allowed to be. But that’s how activists roll. They are incapable of taking yes for an answer; they cannot claim victory because that’s not the point of activism. The point is to perpetuate the activism. Claiming a win would mean these people might have to get real jobs.
The community is not “under attack,” as the article claims. Gay has become mainstream. Everyone knows, works with, or is related to a gay or lesbian. It’s the other letters that are at issue and it would be nice if people stopped pretending otherwise. The LGB part has long been settled. The rest of the alphabet is something else.
Apologies that I accidentally disliked your comment when I was trying to give it a wholehearted like!
Not sure if it works on this system but you can usually correct such errors by voting again in the opposite direction
On THIS system you can correct your voting error immediately, on the other, the big one, just once every four years…
The reason why the LGB can’t be separated from the T and the rest is because they all rest on the same fundamental premise… “the natural order be darned – my persistent feelings and desires demand respect and recognition.” Put it this way… how can we tell absentee fathers that “dads matter” while we simultaneously applause lesbians raising children without them? The worldview that defines UnHerd is incoherent.
This is exactly what I like about UnHerd: its incoherent worldview. Echo chambers catering to your coherent belief system are a boring waste of time. Apart from that, I concur with your pointing out one of the absurdities of our derailed culture.
That’s not quite what I meant. I like divergent viewpoints represented in a single media outlet, too. But UnHerd has an over-representation of TERF-y types… and their individual worldviews are individually incoherent.