Tulsi Gabbard was On Fox and Said a Thing

 

Tulsi on Diversity in The Biden Administration: They’re proud to be selecting people based on race.. It’s based on genetics.. Where do we see that connection? These are the very same core principles embodied by Nazism and Hitler. pic.twitter.com/bI2HoumYaw

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 25, 2023

I get that the Fox Mushroom Farm infotainment network has no respect whatsoever for the clickers that they mutant cordycep-pilled over the years, but having mule-faced Jesse nod while obvious op Tulsi lays the line on his viewers that the eliminationism of Hitler and the inclusivity of the Biden Administration are the exact same thing should insult the fuck out of even someone whose brain is 75% taken over by fungal rot.

But even if the fan club don't feel like what's left of their basic intelligence has been insulted, those of us who can still appreciate what's in front of us know that's straight-up Orwellian doublethink. Inclusivity and elimination are opposite things. Gathering in people so they can contribute and prosper and cutting people out in the hopes they are destroyed are obviously not the same thing. To say that--to say what she said, isn't a mistake. It's seeding the ground for resentment. What she's doing is telling straight white cis males that the inclusion of other people is their exclusion. That if people who deviate from their default humanity are featured, it's the exact same thing as one of them being annihilated. 

Competition for roles in a society is not annihilation but regular order: may the best person win. If the assumption is some people are by identity simply better suited--what are the deets on their CV? What is the real-life contribution they are making? Saying something that stupid out loud and so obviously biased would have been seen for exactly what it is if Watters said it by himself. Why Tulsi Gabbard is so willing to say it is justified by her getting to be on Fox. 

This is why exactly nothing she ever says has any value to me. Nor should it to anyone else. 

No True Abortion

 

The "No true Scotsman" fallacy is a device that can be used to pretend one's own side is pure as the driven snow: Was this particular Christian found out to be, for example, a terrible bigot? Why, land of Goshen! That person was clearly no real Christian! Christians love their fellow man! Thus, the rest of the group can stay happy that the menace was that not-Christian over there and he's not in the club, and the rest of them will just not act like him. In public anyway. It can also be used to deny the flaws in your absolutist argument. 

If all abortions are bad, but some abortions actually would be not-bad, then those abortions are no true abortions. We've seen this a couple times just now. The not-at-all connected to anyone you would have heard of counsel for the Alliance for Defending Freedom (an Orwellian-ass name for a group trying to take folks' rights away) just yesterday wanted to pretend that maybe there was a thing that terminated a pregnancy that wasn't an abortion. And also, an anti-abortion activist claimed that if a ten-year old got an abortion that saved her life, well, that wasn't an abortion at all, was it?

Well, yes it was. It was a medical procedure or medicinal application that terminated a pregnancy--that's an abortion. If you need to end a pregnancy to save a person's life, just say so! Why the backflips? Just admit some abortions are not whatever you think the "bad" ones are!