Dear Friends,
I’m sure by now you know that President Biden made a declaration that Easter Sunday was a national “Trans Visibility Day.” I couldn’t really bring myself to be outraged; trolling and provocation is the point, so why give in to it? So I can just say very calmly and assuredly that it is perverse (in every sense of the word) and an outrage.
Thankfully, Presidential candidate Donald Trump stood up for truth and righteousness by very tastefully encouraging everyone to buy his new Trump Bible for the low, low price of $59.99. He also wished everyone a Happy Easter:
Captures the Easter spirit and warms the heart, doesn’t it?
Speaking of Trans Visibility Day, there is a country even less healthy and thriving than ours: Scotland. They are busy implementing a new Hate Crimes Act that is so bonkers it is difficult to comprehend. I encourage you to read all about it in this Spectator article, but here’s a Cliff’s Note:
The offence of ‘stirring up racial hatred’ will be extended to disability, religion, sexual orientation, age, transgender identity and ‘variations in sex characteristics’. Scotland’s ancient blasphemy law, last invoked in 1843, is abolished by the Act. But with the extension of ‘stirring up’, a modern blasphemy code is being put in its place.
And:
The law doesn’t just apply to social media posts or newspaper articles. It covers anything said anywhere – even in your own home. Children will in theory be able to report their parents. Scots can inform on each other anonymously, through an expanded network of ‘third-party reporting centres’. The list of centres includes a striking number of university campuses, as well as a Glasgow sex shop and a North Berwick mushroom farm.
Did these people read Orwell’s 1984 and think it was an aspirational society or something? Already Trans activists are threatening Edinburgh resident J.K. Rowling with arrest if she doesn’t start deleting “offensive” Tweets. She says:
If you genuinely imagine I’d delete posts calling a man a man, so as not to be prosecuted under this ludicrous law, stand by for the mother of all April Fools’ jokes.
And then she did the mother of all April Fool’s jokes. She posted a long thread celebrating Trans “women.” Here’s the final one:
It appears, in the day or two following this flagrant violation of the law, that Ms. Rowling is dead serious about wanting to be arrested. And what a brilliant strategy. Someone that high-profile flat-out defying this law actually destroys, in one fell swoop, the law itself. If the authorities do arrest her, she gets to have the trial of the century, in which it will not be Ms. Rowling on trial, but rather gender ideology—and her endless supply of money means great lawyers and great expert witnesses. That is the very last thing the Scottish government wants. If they do not arrest her, then any lesser person arrested for violating this law can just point to the case of Ms. Rowling and rightly claim a selective prosecution. On the very first day of the Hate Crimes Act, J.K. Rowling effectively neutered it. How’s that for a reassignment surgery?
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