@McJuggerNuggets “The loss of your unborn child” occurred because you murdered them. You continue to play with euphemisms to soften the blow on your own conscious of the blood you have on your hands. Run to Jesus in repentance, He is faithful to save.
No, the pro-life movement does not exist primarily because we empathize with the baby.
We champion the right of babies to not be murdered because it is the right thing to do, regardless of whether we can feel what the baby feels.
If human rights movements were motivated primarily by empathy, they would be extremely fickle and untrustworthy.
You free slaves because owning image bearers is wrong, regardless of whether you can empathize with the pain of shackles
You feed the hungry because helping those in need is right, regardless of whether or not you also feel their hunger pangs
This is why Christian love is so radical and culture-shifting. It is not a love dependent upon your ability to relate to someone, or upon any of your feelings at all. It is a love fully motivated by the fact that Jesus loves us and that He calls us to love others, whether we can put ourselves in their shoes or not.
Empathy *can* be helpful in guiding us to love, but it is not synonymous with love—or virtue or kindness.
Empathy can also lead harmful, because feeling how deeply someone feels can blind us to objective reality and morality. That is what I call Toxic Empathy, and it is the power behind so many bad cultural, moral and political decisions in our country.
That’s why Christians should opt for a truth-in-love approach rather than an empathy-led approach.
This is not complicated, you are not stupid, @philvischer, and, for all the time you’ve put into talking about my book for the past year, you could’ve spared a couple hours to consult the source material. So, at this point, your constant mischaracterizations are just deceit.
@DeborahMeaden@EssexPR Law school, a man obtained a speech restraining order v. me for saying males shouldn’t go in female bathrooms. I sued school. It x’ed the order and policy and paid me.
He then accused me of sex harassment, a charge I had to explain to the Bar, and that’ll never be off my record.
This is my latest article (a response to @JoelWebbon):
"People who celebrate what God condemns and those who condemn what God celebrates are both abominations to God."
Is My “Interracial” Marriage Against God’s Design?
[link: https://t.co/wiGpjDMW3z]
Imagine a scenario in which large numbers of white people start saying that they “feel black,” and that because of this feeling, and their enjoyment of stereotypically “black behavior,” they are now not just black themselves, but the most marginalized and vulnerable type of black person.
Imagine them insisting that they should be the main focus of all activism meant to help PoC. Imagine them having operations to darken their skin and mimic stereotypically black features. Imagine them walking around in blackface, and saying it’s the exact same thing as actually being black.
Imagine them being honored as black citizens by the White House, being summoned to talk to the President about issues facing the black community, being supported by celebrities, and having laws passed to make white people who identify as black a protected class.
Imagine these people demanding membership in black organizations, insisting that they receive a share of the reparations that CA is about to pay, and demanding they be given awards created specifically to honor black achievement. Then imagine them getting their way.
Now imagine mobs of them showing up to black events that don’t include them, carrying threatening signs and air horns to drown out any speakers with noise. Imagine them coming up with slurs for any black person who doesn’t accept that white people are black if they say they are.
Imagine them calling for the rape, torture, and mass murder of any black person who disagrees with them. Imagine them getting black people doxxed, harassed, assaulted, fired from their jobs, and investigated by the police for saying that you have to be born black to be black.
Now imagine the government supporting their demands.
That’s exactly the position that women are in right now, with a few extras, like being locked in cells with dangerous men, the sexual predation of lesbians via coercion, and the increased risk of sexual assault in what used to be female-only spaces. Our oppressors are now claiming not only the right to oppress us in whole new ways, but the right to erase our identities as women and rewrite the meaning of womanhood in ways that suit - and include - them.
If you wouldn’t support this kind of behavior towards black people, you have no business supporting this kind of behavior towards women.
'He has a point, but he's too blunt.'
From the start, a key tactic of the gender identitarians has been linguistic prescription, and it's proved shockingly successful. Trans activists' shibboleths and euphemisms have been allowed to penetrate the upper echelons of our culture with devastating consequences to freedom of speech and belief. Huge swathes of liberal media, the arts, academia and publishing have thrown themselves with gusto into the defence of a quasi-religious belief causing provable real world harm, and in their arrogance they've been outraged when people they assumed were part of their In Group have refused to march meekly along in lock step.
Time and again, I've seen and heard well-educated people who consider themselves critical thinkers and bold truth-tellers squirm when put on the spot. 'Well, yes, maybe there's something in what you're saying, but it's hateful/provocative/rude not to use the approved language/pretend people can literally change sex/keep drawing attention to medical malpractice or opportunistic sexual predators. Why can't you be nice? Why won't you pretend? We thought you were one of us! Don't you realise we have sophisticated new words and phrases these days that obviate the necessity of thinking any of this through?'
As the vibe shifts, and a lot of people in the elite professions start trying to reposition themselves, the obvious place to start is, 'it's not that I couldn't see your point, but did you have to say it that way?' We dissenters were supposed to find a way of questioning the chemical castration of children while calling it 'gender affirming care.' We were meant to defend the rights of vulnerable women while also using female pronouns for male rapists. We should have found a way to discuss fairness for women and girls in sport, while pretending that the ineradicable physical advantage men have over women doesn't exist.
Either a man can be a woman, or he can't. Either women deserve rights, or they don't. Either there's a provable medical benefit to transitioning children, or there isn't. Either you're on the side of a totalitarian ideology that seeks to impose falsehoods on society through the threat of ostracisation, shaming and violence, or you're not. The alternative to being 'blunt' - using accurate, factual language to describe what was going on - was to surrender freedom of speech and espouse ideological jargon that obfuscated the issues and the harms caused. We've always needed blunt people, but we need them most of all when being asked to bow down to a naked emperor.
Florida will seek the death penalty against Nathan Holmberg, who we allege raped multiple little kids.
Crimes against children, where someone takes their innocence and childhood, deserve the ultimate form of justice.
@seamus_coughlin Mr. Lambert is the type of individual who would, if alive during the American slavery era, demean the abolitionists’ efforts to end slavery because the abolitionists didn’t necessarily have job positions arranged for slaves after they were freed.
@ZachWLambert Mr. Lambert is the type of individual who would, if alive during the American slavery era, demean the abolitionists’ efforts to end slavery because the abolitionists didn’t necessarily have job positions arranged for slaves after they were freed.