Tea at Trianon: Teens Going Trans

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Saturday, July 2, 2022

Teens Going Trans

From The Daybreak Daily:

My thesis is rather simple. It’s that there are two prongs of what we nowadays call wokeness, especially as it appears in the school system, in the K-12 school system. One is the critical race theory component. And the other is what has become known as gender ideology.
And so, what I try to do in this piece is to show that these are actually deeply connected, one to the other. And I try to show it more from the perspective of the gender piece. And what I show — and this is based on extensive interviews with parents and parent group leaders, most of them in California, although some of them in other states — is that this phenomenon of teenagers and, in particular, teenage girls coming out as trans or in some cases queer or non-binary, all of these kind of new sexual identity labels, that it actually has a lot to do with messaging that they hear and absorb surrounding race.

And when I tell you my argument, you’re going to probably say, oh, okay, well, that makes perfect sense. But you know, it’s the kind of thing that you really have to dig deep and look into what’s going on on the ground in order to see clearly. And that is that these are young teenagers, very impressionable, most of them are highly intelligent, a little bit socially awkward. This stuff is going on right around the time of puberty when they’re acutely attuned to their social status and how others in their environment judge them and view them. And these teenagers are absorbing all of this messaging about race, about how horrible it is to be white, about how they are oppressors by virtue of being white, and there’s nothing they can do about it. (Read more.)