Authored by Roger Simon via The Epoch Times,
Many people bear in mind “4 Legs ‘Good’; Two Legs ’Dangerous’” from George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.”
In its proclaimed superiority of animals over people, it was maybe essentially the most memorable expression from that sensible and infrequently hilarious satire of communism and fascism.
I wager lots of our “progressive” associates cherished it, too, of their youths, oblivious to how, in current instances, it simply may not directly be referring to them.
I can bear in mind a long time again sitting in a crowd of hipsters in an out of doors theater in Los Angeles’ Topanga Canyon as they, the best of the then-cool, chortled away at a good adaptation of Orwell’s work.
So it was of “Animal Farm” that I instantly thought when my spouse Sheryl Longin got here up, as she typically does, with the best phrase to characterize a very malign side of our up to date life.
She referred to as the trans mania that has overtaken our society “gender appropriation,” in response to the left’s countless carping about “cultural appropriation.”
Many males are appropriating girls, really changing into them, in a brand new type of left-wing misogyny you’d assume would alarm “feminists.” One way or the other, it doesn’t.
This sexual migration is meant to be applauded, whereas cultural appropriation is to be abjured, in line with those that assume they know higher.
Therefore, my Orwellian title: Gender Appropriation “Good”; Cultural Appropriation “Dangerous.”
The cultural appropriation meme—fraternity boys attacked for celebrating Cinco de Mayo, solely Italians could make pizza, and extra—so beloved of “progressives” has at all times appeared to me significantly mind useless.
Just about all the things in tradition has been appropriated from one thing or another person, beginning with the primary phrases uttered by people.
On a better stage:
Shakespeare, in his historical past performs, appropriated Holinshed.
Thomas Mann appropriated Goethe in “Dr. Faustus.”
Picasso appropriated Velázquez.
Miles Davis appropriated Dizzy Gillespie.
DJs acceptable different individuals’s music each time they do a mixture. It’s their job.
I might go on and on and bore you to demise. Make up your personal. I’m certain you’ll be able to.
The entire cultural appropriation music and dance is, on one stage, simply dumb. Nevertheless, in actuality, it’s a technique for one group to bully one other to get what it desires, generally with violent overtones.
In different phrases, like most progressivism, “cultural appropriation” is an absurd pretend that Orwell would ridicule, and deservedly so till the four-legged cows come dwelling.
“Gender Appropriation” relies on the same technique—one thing we’re informed by “elites” to just accept pretty much as good—however is a good deal extra harmful in its implications.
I believe we are able to agree that it—the trans motion—is now all over the place, and never simply within the closely criticized, but nonetheless pervasive, acceptance of transgendered males in girls’s sports activities that Donald Trump has promised to put off if he’s reelected president.
But, extra importantly, it’s in tradition from early childhood. We see this within the fad for drag queen story hours with essentially the most flagrant transvestites studying fairy tales to younger youngsters and the sexually express materials obtainable at school libraries.
The left accuses the best of censoring these express books, however as everyone is aware of—even the lefties themselves, in the event that they had been trustworthy—the best simply seeks to protect the innocence, no less than for some time anyway, of pre-pubescent 6-year-olds.
What’s behind all this?
Whether or not acutely aware or not, the purpose of “gender appropriation” is the breakup of the nuclear household. When all the things and everybody are confused about gender—a intentionally misused phrase in itself—what occurs to the household unit?
In the end, it dissolves.
A lot of their rank and file might not consider this or deny it, however that’s been a principal intention of the left because the French Revolution.
Learn Rousseau.
Karl Marx, the Frankfurt Faculty later enhanced it, and now there’s the woke obsession that seeks to throw household values and life into the air like a lot worn-out confetti to be stomped on and forgotten.
The irony in that is they imply your loved ones and mine, however not theirs.
I hope my spouse’s time period “gender appropriation” takes off. It might assist stop this cultural Armageddon from destroying an important a part of our lives and the precise lynchpin of Western civilization.
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