The Ketanji Brown Jackson Senate confirmation hearings have been interesting.
I’d like to hone in on one of the snippets that went viral.
Asked by Senator Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., to define a woman, Judge Jackson responded, “I can’t.” Asked to clarify if she really can’t define a woman, Jackson reiterated, “I’m not a biologist.”
She clearly dodged the question. It would be interesting to know exactly her rationale, in light of the fact that she appealed to biology to define a woman in contradiction to the gender ideology she clearly is bowing her knee to.
While I confess this exchange has produced great memes – and it keeps giving – it shows the depth of the lunacy being foisted upon America.
The response of not being a biologist would be akin to responding to defend the statement 2+2=5 with “I’m not a mathematician!”
Everybody knows what a woman is, even if they don’t know the concise definition (an adult female person).
That’s why so many Americans were upset last week, when the NCAA allowed a man to compete and dominate in women’s collegiate swimming. Lia Thomas swam in the 500-yard freestyle women’s race and, of course, he won.
This gender ideology is all about the truth and whether or not those in power can coerce society into accepting these reality distorting lies, even when everyone knows they are lies. Furthermore, the confusion and chaos the Left is trying to create will be absolutely devastating to the many young people today who are already confused.
The Left is clearly winning and making headway. If you have read or watched any reporting on the race that Lia Thomas won, they all refer to him as her. They reference a “he” as “she.” Virtually all conservative and liberal reporting alike have knowingly supported this lie.
My main concern is not with elites, but with those of us who are just every day, common Americans. We can make a difference, but we can’t make a difference without courage … and that courage will be costly.
For some, to stand against this social control will mean being seen as a bigot and an insensitive jerk – probably with a phobia – by those with the power and those they influence. For those who work within systems that wholly embrace these lies (like public school systems, which Judge Jackson is a lifelong product of) it will be even more costly to stand against these lies.
It’s hard to find more timely advice than that of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a man who dealt with powers that sought to distort reality in Russia (the powers he dealt with were different, but they were no more deviant).
He said, “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.”
For us, freedom is the freedom to say that Lia Thomas is a man … or to define a woman.
Scott Kamps writes a bi-weekly column for The Graham Star. He can be reached via email, thestableguy@frontier.com.