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"Please stop America, you're scaring your children": Trans activists parental alienation myth produces victims of American political discourse

Lisa Marchiano
Quillette
Sun, 22 Jul 2018 18:18 UTC
girl sitting on bed
When children and adolescents experience gender dysphoria, our aim should be to provide them with treatment of the highest standard of care. We should be attempting to provide assistance that will result in the best outcomes-in the short-term, as well as the long-term. Unfortunately, treatment of childhood dysphoria is an area not yet well understood. The extreme contentiousness around the topic means that research can be difficult to conduct and is often hampered by ideological agendas. (For example, see here.) Without a clear consensus among researchers about the best way to treat gender dysphoric children and teens, input from parents increases in importance when determining course of treatment, since it can be assumed that most parents know their children well and have their best interests at heart.

However, narratives promoted by activists and the media currently undermine the crucial parental role in diagnosing dysphoria and helping to determine the most appropriate treatment. Amid glowing media discussions of brave trans kids and their heroic, supportive parents hangs an ominous specter of ignorant, bigoted parents who coldly turn their child out, or cause him or her to endure torturous conversion therapy to eradicate transgender feelings. Tales of the former abound. These stories are told in detail and with soaring rhetoric. In contrast, the latter kind of parents are always darkly implied, but rarely discussed with specifics. Rather, their influence is frequently invoked to underscore the dangers of not immediately affirming a child's chosen gender.

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Bad Guys

Google attempting to redefine truth through its biased algorithm

Kip Hansen
Watts Up With That
Sat, 21 Jul 2018 12:00 UTC
GoogleNaziflags
© Now The End BeginsSearch engine bias: Nazism designation
The world's most influential information-gateway - GOOGLE Search - has recently made the decision to abandon its long-standing primary corporate policies: 1) "Don't Be Evil" and 2) Provide internet search results based upon neutral algorithms, not human judgment; unbiased and objective.

Some may object to the charge that they have abandoned their oft-repeated mantra "Don't Be Evil" - but to be clear, this has always meant, as Eric Schmidt (Executive Director of Google at the time) stated in a Wired profile in 2003, "Evil," he said, "is what Sergey says is evil" (referring to Sergey Brin, who co-founded Google together with Larry Page).

As for the second point,
"As Stanford's Terry Winograd, Page and Brin's former professor and a consultant on Gmail, explains to Ken Auletta, "The idea that somebody at Google could know better than the consumer what's good for the con­sumer is not forbidden." He describes his former students' attitude as "a form of arrogance: 'We know better.'" .....

"[Larry] Page and [Sergey] Brin designed Google to avoid human judgment in rating the relevance of web pages. Recounting Google's original design, Steven Levy describes the founders' opinion that "having a human being determine the ratings was out of the question," not just because "it was inherently impractical," but also because "humans were unreliable. Only algorithms - well drawn, efficiently executed, and based on sound data - could deliver unbiased results."

- Alex White, in "Google.gov"

Comment: Google's hiring preferences reflect the companies twisted perception of reality:

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The issue with reparations: The truth about Black American culture and the racial wealth gap

Coleman Hughes
Quillette
Sun, 22 Jul 2018 17:50 UTC
poverty
There is arguably no racial disparity more striking than the wealth gap. While the median white household earns just 65 percent more income than its black counterpart, its net worth is fully ten times as high. And, unlike income, which individuals earn in their own lifetimes, wealth accrues over generations, and whites are more than three times as likely as blacks to inherit money from their families. In the public debate on racial inequality, the wealth gap is among the sharpest arrows in the progressive quiver. When conservative commentators argue that America is a meritocracy, or that blacks lag due to cultural factors, progressives can retaliate with a single statistic that seems to prove the reality of white privilege beyond the possibility of doubt.

But statistics don't interpret themselves, and the wealth gap is no exception. A recent wave of scholarship-including Mehrsa Baradaran's The Color of Money, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law, and Ta-Nehisi Coates's "The Case for Reparations"-has converged on the interpretation that the wealth gap is caused by two factors: slavery and racist New Deal policies.

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Media condemned Roseanne's racism, but now defends James Gunn's 'jokes' about child rape

Jay Syrmopoulos
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 21 Jul 2018 17:24 UTC
Jmes Gunn tweets pedophilia
© The Free Thought Project
The same mainstream media that openly condemned Roseanne's racist Tweets, has come to the defense of James Gunn over his "jokes" about raping children.

Conservative media pundit Mike Cernovich exposed Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn's history of making pedophilic tweets and "joking" about child rape, but rather than media outrage about Gunn's "jokes" involving sexually assaulting and raping children, the mainstream media circled the wagons to defend the Hollywood director.

After his extremely offensive tweets about pedophilia and rape became widely publicized, Gunn apologized, but was ultimately fired as director of Disney's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Gunn released a statement Friday afternoon after Disney fired the director of the first two "Guardians" movies:

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Bizarro Earth

Victims, fellow officer expose cop who raped multiple women on duty

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 21 Jul 2018 07:58 UTC
police officer raped woman
© The Free Thought Project
A fellow officer is among the witnesses who have come forward to testify against a police officer who is accused of sexually assaulting multiple women while on the job, and the police department's claim that the abuse was never reported is raising questions about whether a cover-up was attempted behind the scenes.

Officer Desmond Logan is being investigated after the sexual misconduct allegations against him allege that he brutally raped multiple women in the community he was supposed to be "protecting and serving."

The investigation began after Logan was accused of sexually assaulting a woman last month, and when police began looking into it, they found that there were allegations of a similar assault three years ago. According to a report from the Times Free Press, a current police officer and a separate source asserted that Logan was accused of raping a woman while on duty in 2015, and that "department leadership knew about that allegation."
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Road Cone

Loose cannon: Runaway artillery gun hits taxi in Canada


RT
Sun, 22 Jul 2018 11:00 UTC
Cannon
An investigation is underway in Canada after a runaway artillery gun detached itself from a military vehicle and rolled into afternoon traffic.

The incident occurred around 1 pm on Saturday in the city of Nanaimo, British Columbia, where witnesses saw two members of the Canadian Armed Forces unsuccessfully chase after the howitzer after it mysteriously detached from the military vehicle towing it, according to the Vancouver Sun.
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Bizarro Earth

Syrian refugees cling to life on Golan Heights as Assad's net tightens around Israeli-supported militants


The Guardian
Sat, 21 Jul 2018 20:05 UTC
Russia air strike syria
© Atef Safadi/European Press AgencySmoke rises as a result of Russian airstrikes on rebel positions on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.
Thousands are trapped between the regime's missiles and minefields along the frontier with Israel

It's a regular stop for holidaymakers in Israel. American teenagers, some of them boys in sleeveless basketball tops, cluster on hilltop lookouts in the Golan Heights, a volcanic plateau captured from Syria half a century ago. Visitors ride quad bikes along dusty paths or spend the day touring the area's vineyards. Signs on the roads warn of the risks to tourists: "Caution - cyclists ahead."

For Syrians on the other side of a fortified perimeter fence, there are more pressing concerns. Thousands have gathered as close to the border as possible, gambling their lives on the assumption that Syrian government forces fighting rebels will not bring the battle too close to Israel.

Comment: If Israel claims the territory then why aren't they taking these people in? Apparently they view the responsibility the same way they view the West Bank and Gaza.

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Mr. Potato

Rampaging tractor leads Denver police on a bizarre slow-speed pursuit


RT
Sun, 22 Jul 2018 09:08 UTC
Tractor
Trained canines had to be used to stop a joyrider who had led Denver authorities on what could only be described as one of the slowest police chases in recent memory.

The incident in an area of downtown Denver resulted in damage to several vehicles and properties after a man drove a John Deere tractor erratically down streets and onto a sidewalk, according to WEWS.

Footage from an eyewitness shows the subsequent bizarre police chase, with at least four cruisers seen following the tractor down a busy Denver road at half-pace. The strangely low-octane pursuit lasted for approximately 30 minutes, Denver Police spokesperson Tyrone Campbell admitted at a press conference.
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Ocasio-Cortez reminds us of the worthlessness of economics degrees

Daniel Carter
Investment Watch Blog
Sat, 21 Jul 2018 07:08 UTC
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez socialism meme
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has taken the Democratic party by storm. Although she has only won the primary election in her New York district, she is quickly becoming the face of a new wave of left-wing politicians. These new left-wingers are undoubtedly socialists, so highly baffling views on economics are to be expected. One may think a college degree in economics, which Ocasio-Cortez has, may steer an individual toward rational views on the economy. But as I will show you below, that has almost never been the case.

People with more advanced economics degrees than Ocasio-Cortez have participated in some of the US's darkest moments. Irving Fisher, a PhD in economics and very influential economist, infamously said that we had reached a "permanently high plateau" in the stock market. Less than a month later, the market began its descent in what would become the most severe stock market crash in history: the stock market crash of 1929.

Comment: For more info on Ocasio-Cortez, see:

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Mosul 1 year after 'liberation': Residents living in rubble, surrounded by dead bodies, ISIS still around


RT
Sun, 22 Jul 2018 16:15 UTC
Mosul Iraq
© Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFPRuins of Mosul, Iraq
Dead bodies, ruined houses and the risk of Islamists coming back are only a few perils people in Mosul have to cope with. Life in the liberated city is still full of fears, hopelessness and grief, RT's Ruptly agency revealed.

It's been a year since the US-backed Iraqi forces defeated Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in the city of Mosul that had become their de-facto capital. Baghdad has declared a major victory in the war that gripped the country for several years in a row. On the back of the liberation, disturbing reports began emerging, telling of all-out destruction, extrajudicial killings and a looming humanitarian crisis. A new report from the ground now reveals that, since then, things haven't improved a lot.

A Ruptly crew went to the city to talk to local people who went through enormous hardships while living in war-torn Mosul. A man named Mohammed Qadir told the crew a harrowing story of his small daughter being killed in the bombings in April last year. The girl was hiding in the toilet with her little sister when a bomb struck the man's house.

"You know when a mortar falls you hear the sound, it's loud. When this [projectile] fell we didn't hear it even though it was right here. This is where it happened." Shrapnel severely mutilated the girl, but the nearby doctors refused to save her.

"They said: 'We are not going to treat her. Our priority is the fighters. We can give her an injection so she dies immediately. Better for her to die at home.'"

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