Friday, February 2, 2024

The Federalist has a news category: TRANS INSANITY

I don't hang out at The Federalist much. (understatement)

But I peeked at it today, and the articles on their homepage are categorized: TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION, BORDER CRISIS, TRANS INSANITY.

Screenshot of The Federalist homepage, February 2, 2024. Main article: Elon Musk’s Neuralink Heralds The Beginning Of A Dystopian, Post-Human Future - TECHNOLOGY - Trying to merge man with machine will not solve our problems, it will cast us backward into tyranny and pagan slavery. Inset: BORDER CRISIS - Christian Nonprofits Incentivize Illegal Immigration With Your Tax Dollars JORDAN BOYD. Sidebar: TECHNOLOGY - Will The Taylor Swift Deepfake Scandal Force Congress To Get Serious About AI Pornography? - VICTORIA MARSHALL. TRANS INSANITY - How Lia Thomas And A Small Cabal Of Lawyers Are Waging Lawfare Across Women’s Sports - GEORGE M. PERRY. EDUCATION - Catholic Schools That Teach Life Begins at Birth Aren't Just Anti-Christian, They're Anti-Science - BROOKE STANTON.

If we want to briefly go into the weeds a bit:

They do have an "immigration" tag that's much larger than their "border crisis" tag.

On their website, compare:
/category/national-security-2/immigration/
/category/national-security-2/border-crisis/

Similarly, they have a big tag about gender called "the sexes" that's much larger than their "trans insanity" tag.

Compare:
/category/family-culture/the-sexes/
/category/culture/trans-insanity/

With that detail out of the way, what I'd like to point out is that TRANS INSANITY is not a normal media category. What we see here, on full display, is the prejudgment that anything a trans person might think, say, or do is insane simply because it's a trans person who's doing it. Have they made a separate category for "hey, a trans person said something halfway reasonable?" No, they haven't. If the article is specifically about a "transgender" topic, the Federalist labels the article "trans insanity." They are not open-minded to the possibility that any trans person might ever not be insane.

This is what the Federalist is, and this is why you are invited to write it off and not dialogue with it.

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