Until the recent wave of wokeness, virtually NOBODY considered gender a social construct, nor did they think that children believing they were dogs or cats, people surgically mutilating their genitals and/or breasts, parents putting their young children on hormones or encouraging them to have sex change operations, nor drag queens were examples of emotionally healthy, well-adjusted people. They aren't. I'm all in favor of compassion and help, but stop calling all this a social construct or perfectly normal. That you believe (or claim to believe) it is ridiculous. It's no better than the people in the cartoon below.
What's a social construct is what many of us would refer to as a cultural tyranny. Much like when you have a minority of political terrorists, such as during the French or Bolshevik revolutions, who are competing to see who can go the furthest in their demonstration of devotion to the cause and rooting out all who aren't as dedicated, you end up with today's hero being eaten alive by tomorrow's "even more radically devoted" adherent. That's how we've ended up with today's cancel culture. Some of the Left's most vocal supporters are now finding themselves being publicly crucified in the press and on social media because they said the wrong word, expressed an opinion that isn't strict orthodoxy, or didn't shout loudly enough that the emperor's clothes are fantastic. And the whole thing is complete BS. And they get half the population, including those like you and a few others in here to parrot their radical, phony, harmful nonsense because you want to fit in and don't have the courage or core values to call it for what it is.
Well, some of us do. It's a dishonest and intentional effort to destroy any objective values or truth. It's straight out of Orwell's 1984. More than 70 years ago he laid out exactly how governments or political or social movements use this sort of thing to destroy resistance to their cause. We saw it during the Bolshevik Revolution. We saw it during the Nazi takeover of Germany in the '30s. You control the narrative, introduce ideas and ideologies that are completely subjective and irrational, then persecute anyone who protests or disagrees.
If you can destroy any objective value of numbers, e.g., then you can push any sort of lie you want concerning a business plan, financial records, ledgers, and etc. Nobody can prove your Ponzi scheme or impossible investment or government plan to finance an agenda or whatever makes no sense and doesn't hold water. If you can destroy any objective understanding or agreement of values, right & wrong, cultural norms, morality, ethics, and etc., then you make it extremely difficult for anyone to judge your behavior as wrong or harmful. That's the whole point: to destroy any objective values of culture, behavior, values, and etc. Once you do that, you can then say or do anything you want and nobody can argue against it. If you have no objective valuation of anything, then you can't judge between any two ideas and are completely vulnerable to whatever system or beliefs or actions are pushed on you. That's the point of the current woke culture war.
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