Left-leaning Wikipedia blocked founder from editing site — after he campaigned to make it more balanced - "Larry Sanger launched WikiProject Intellectual Diversity (WID), a group designed to help reinforce the online encyclopedia’s “original, firm commitment to intellectual diversity,” by emphasizing neutrality and transparency. However, Sanger — who coined the name “Wikipedia,” drafted the site’s foundational set of rules and guidelines, and launched the site alongside Jimmy Wales in 2001 — is now indefinitely blocked from editing, the most drastic action the site can take against an editor. “I am flabbergasted,” Sanger told The Post, saying the decision was made by a group of the site’s volunteer editors. He described the modern Wikipedia community as being like a “mob or a blob,” noting users do not feel obligated to a specific vision of the rules, but rather to each other. “They are constantly trying to gauge what other people think, and this is the way ultimately these people are able to influence each other,” Sanger said. “Even a lot of the hard and fast policies are regarded as just guidelines if everybody is on board.” Sanger became unpopular among the site’s most prolific editors for making public calls for those whose viewpoints have typically been underrepresented — Hindus prominently, but also, most pointedly, American conservatives — to be more involved. The exact reason for his blocking was not given. Wikipedia makes a lot of noise about how its content is created by volunteer users, citing a figure of 267,000 people contributing or editing over the last 30 days on its website. However, Sanger has long argued the real power rests with a small, largely anonymous class of Wikipedia administrators — who he has identified as being just 62 accounts, which he calls the “Power 62,” of which 85% hide behind their screennames and have never revealed their true identities. For Sanger, the swiftness of the block highlights a glaring lack of procedural fairness. “There is no due process,” he argued. “People are being blocked—in other words, disciplined—and yet there is no respect for certain expectations that any other serious disciplinary procedure would be held to.” He likened the platform’s arbitration to being judged by a “faceless mob,” with the absence of basic structural safeguards like a distinct prosecutor, jury, or opportunity to mount a formal defense. After making the fact he had been blocked public on X Monday, Sanger was permanently banned from Wikipedia and any avenue for appeal was closed by the site... The campaign to oust him was instigated by one of the most combative editors on the platform, who goes by the handle TarnishedPath. The same editor was a driving force behind one of the most controversial maneuvers in Wikipedia’s recent history: a 12-month “moratorium” that froze the lead of the site’s “Zionism” article, locking in a sentence that critics — and this reporter, in Tablet Magazine — have documented as effectively equating the movement for Jewish self-determination with ethnic cleansing. TarnishedPath has been extremely active in gender issues on Wikipedia, pushing strongly to have JK Rowling labeled “anti-trans” or “transexclusionary radical feminist” (TERF). The editor eventually placed a banner on Rowling’s entry alleging it expressed a non-neutral point of view. “She should be referred to as having ‘anti-trans’ or ‘trans-exclusionary radical feminist’ views,” the editor wrote last June. The editor wrote in 2023 of people who sought to lend credence to the idea that the theory that COVID-19 originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology: “They might have a political smear that they wish to push, but anyone who knows what terms properly mean, can’t say that the Lab Leak conspiracy is a scientific theory with any sort of integrity.” Just weeks ago, Wikipedia’s own administrators banned TarnishedPath from editing in the entire Israel-Palestine subject area on account of the editor’s problematic behavior. This didn’t stop the anonymous editor from playing a key role in the ban of Sanger — indicating the kind of palace intrigue that Sanger has critiqued as being detrimental to the open exchange of ideas on Wikipedia. Wikipedia has come under intense scrutiny for leftwing bias, including a successful effort to brand Donald Trump as a fascist and authoritarian. The site notably uses a list of reliable sources whose reporting can be cited as fact. While mainstream media outlets like CNN, New York Times, NBC, and BBC are almost universally rated as green for “Generally reliable,” conservative outlets, including Fox News, Newsmax, and Federalist are rated red for “Generally unreliable”— a rating lower than even Chinese state media outlet China Daily, which has a rating of yellow for sometimes reliable. To justify the ban against Sanger, editors categorized Sangers’ recent efforts — most notably his intellectual diversity project — as “canvassing.” Wikipedia policy describes canvassing as alerting other editors on the site about editorial activity “with the intention of influencing the outcome of a discussion in a particular way.” Sanger strongly pushed back against the canvassing charges, saying: “The people who found fault with that… pointed to the fact that I was recruiting for a project that, in their opinion, is aligned with the radical right wing, which is absolutely absurd,” Sanger explained. However, the first sentence of that same policy specifies that “it is perfectly acceptable to notify other editors of ongoing discussions, provided that it be done with the intent to improve the quality of the discussion by broadening participation to more fully achieve consensus.” Sanger has returned to being active on Wikipedia in recent months after a long hiatus. Last September, he published his “Nine Theses,” a set of essays demanding a top-to-bottom overhaul of a site he argues has been captured by a “Globalist, Academic, Secular, and Progressive”—or GASP— worldview. Ironically, the eighth of Sanger’s nine theses called for an end to the practice of indefinite blocking, which the co-founder called “draconian.” Sanger’s return to active engagement had already thrown the site into turmoil. In November, Sanger’s decision to weigh in on the Gaza genocide entry — one of the most contentious on the site — threw Wikipedia into what editors called “pandemonium” after Wikipedia’s other co-founder, Jimmy Wales, waded into the Talk page of the same entry with a heavy critique. Reacting to his former partner stepping in to defend him, Sanger expressed appreciation, but remained fatalistic about his standing on the site. “It’s so interesting that Jimmy has come out and defended me,” Sanger noted. “But I have a feeling he’s going to be very unsuccessful and that I am going to be permanently banned. I don’t think it’s ultimately going to make any difference.” Sanger left Wikipedia in 2002, and Wales has largely erased any mention of him as co-founder. Wales stormed out of a podcast interview last November when asked about whether he was the sole founder of Wikipedia, telling the host: “It’s stupid. Don’t ask me stupid questions.”"
Left wingers hate different points of view so much
Larry Sanger on X - "Well, that’s that—I’ve been blocked by Wikipedia “indefinitely” for unstated reasons, by the “consensus” of a mob. There was no due process, no prosecutor, no dispassionate judge, no jury, no interpretation of law. All my judges were self-selected and hated me. ๐คฃ"
Larry Sanger on X - "Well, now it’s really official. After being blocked this morning, then unblocked (after being defended by Jimmy Wales), I have now, as of this evening, been “blocked indefinitely” from editing Wikipedia. The charges are lies and misrepresentations. More soon."
Kaguya’s Top Gal on X - "He didn’t want it to be a leftist echo chamber so that made him a nazi and they banned him from his own site"
Meme - Soyjak with Proud Ally Award and Good Heckin' Person Award: "I <3 saying "the culture war is a distraction from the class war" but I would NEVER EVER EVER EVER stop pushing my culture war stances"
If you push back against the left wing agenda to radically remake society, you are a bad person starting a culture war and creating wedge issues and should focus on more important things like wages and housing.
If you push the left wing agenda to radically remake society, you are a decent human being and you are not being political
Ethnic differences in bone geometry between White, Black and South Asian men in the UK - "Black men had higher aBMD at the whole body, total hip and femoral neck compared to White and South Asian men independent of body size adjustments, with no differences between the latter two groups. White men had longer hip axis lengths than both Black and South Asian men. There were fewer differences in vBMD but White men had significantly lower cortical vBMD at the tibial diaphysis than Black and South Asian men (p < 0.001). At the tibia and radius diaphysis, Black men had larger bones with thicker cortices and greater bending strength than the other groups. There were fewer differences between White and South Asian men. At the metaphysis, South Asian men had smaller bones (p = 0.02) and lower trabecular vBMD at the tibia (p = 0.003). At the diaphysis, after size-correction, South Asian men had similar sized bones but thinner cortices than White men; measures of strength were not broadly reduced in the South Asian men. Combining pQCT and DXA measurements has given insight into differences in bone phenotype in men from different ethnic backgrounds. Understanding such differences is important in understanding the aetiology of male osteoporosis."
Proof that race is just skin deep, that race is socially constructed, and that there is no biological basis to race!
Toronto Star on X - "A Muslim wage gap? New study exposes major economic disparities in Greater Toronto and Hamilton"
เคธเคฎ्เคฏเค เฆธเฆฎ্เฆฏเฆ on X - "“Credible” Blue Institutions in the West have converged to a point where they are publishing articles that would have been Onion articles or 4chan parody Guardian articles 10 years ago. Trump and his owners might have squandered the 2024 mandate but that does not mean that Blue Institutions have any credibility left…"
Rowan on X - "Isn’t it funny how the more immigration we have, the more “diverse” we are the more we hear radical left hyenas screeching constantly about alleged racism when they are typically most racist?"
Christina Kunneke on X - "So, do you organize employees along faith lines now? Have you looked into the wages for Buddhists, Shinto, Falun Gong, Christians, Zoroastrians, Hindus, Jews and atheists for comparison? If not, this is nonsense."
KSW33T on X - "Isn’t this the point of immigration?"
Wizard of Time & Speed on X - "Ah yes, imported low skill immigration somehow yeilds less wages than local and established skilled citizens. Interesting how that works. Truly amazing reporting here. Truly."
Captain Meowsers on X - "What about Christians? Buddhists? Mormons? Why do we only ever talk about Muslims? Muslims in all western countries are the most likely to be dependent on tax payers…."
The "myth" of the slippery slope strikes again!
This Week in Canada: Your Anti-Racism Is Not Anti-Racist Enough - "Joshua Gordon taught for years at Simon Fraser University’s School of Public Policy. He had limited-term contracts, received positive evaluations, and applied for a tenure-track job at the public university in British Columbia in 2021. The job posting required candidates to demonstrate a “commitment to EDI”—or equity, diversity, and inclusion—and the ability to “center diverse perspectives and experiences.” You might already have guessed what happened next. In his application, Gordon included a statement titled “Contributions to an inclusive community,” in which he wrote: “In discussions around gender, race, and class, I have sought to center voices from underrepresented groups. At the same time, in general I strive to make sure that everyone is treated equally, without regard to race or gender or sexual orientation.” Gordon didn’t get the job. One faculty member involved in the hiring process wrote that his statement “signals a potential lack of regard for diversity and what is required to make spaces feel inclusive.” A student added: “I think the only concern I have with Josh is that he is not at the level of anti-racism/anti-colonialism learning/knowledge that I would expect of a professor in this program.” And one member of the search committee said about his rejection: “Almost entirely, it was based on his qualified (as opposed to enthusiastic) support for Indigenous reconciliation as defined by First Nation advocates.” Gordon, who is white, also was remembered for challenging aspects of a letter in 2020 from students and alumni who accused Simon Fraser of “a pattern of systemic racism.” During faculty meetings, he argued that it should not automatically be assumed that institutions were systemically racist. One faculty member accused him of being defensive. Gordon later accused the same faculty member of being “the primary organizer against his candidacy.” He filed a complaint with the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal (BCHRT), claiming that the decision not to hire him was discrimination based on his political beliefs. If you still don’t believe just how ideological hiring inside Canadian universities has become, let me tell you how Gordon’s complaint turned out. He lost. The tribunal member who decided the case said that while Gordon might have been torpedoed because of his opposition to what he called “activist EDI,” those views do not qualify as protected “political beliefs” under British Columbia’s Human Rights Code. “Though such beliefs or worldviews may be ‘political’ in the everyday sense of the word, they are not political within the specific meaning” of the law. Reading last month’s ruling reminded me immediately of my reporting on former Toronto principal Richard Bilkszto in 2023. He became a symbol of growing ideological conflict about diversity training in Canadian institutions after objecting to aspects of mandatory anti-racism sessions run by a consultant. In one session, Bilkszto challenged claims about white supremacy and systemic oppression and objected to being categorized through racial frameworks. Rather than defending his right to disagree, many of Bilkszto’s colleagues appeared to treat dissent itself as evidence of moral failing. Bilkszto was portrayed not as someone raising questions, but as a racist whose views were dangerous or illegitimate. After two years of public humiliation, professional fallout, and legal battles, Bilkszto took his own life in 2023. Friends and colleagues told me at that time that his reputation meant everything to him, which is precisely why the public branding and institutional ostracism devastated him so deeply. The Gordon ruling reflects a strikingly similar dynamic. Faculty members organized against Gordon’s job candidacy because they viewed his approach to EDI, anti-racism, and identity politics as inadequate or suspect. One faculty member was described as “adamant” that hiring should be used to “advance EDI” and “shape the direction and future” of the school. Another internal communication described a faculty campaign objecting to Gordon’s inclusion on the shortlist. Across Canada, university hiring ads require applicants to submit diversity-related statements, demonstrate commitments to anti-racism and inclusion, or give priority to candidates from designated identity groups. The federal Canada Research Chairs program requires universities to meet equity targets for women, racial minorities, indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and gender minorities. Toronto Metropolitan University openly instructs hiring committees to incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into the faculty recruitment process. The Gordon ruling also made me think about Barry Neufeld, a school board trustee in Chilliwack, British Columbia, who was ordered to pay CAD$750,000 for saying on Facebook that a man is not a woman. After the decision against him, Neufeld told me that he was simply criticizing gender identity ideology in schools. Yet the ruling concluded that questioning aspects of gender identity ideology could amount to denying someone’s very existence. It all seems upside-down, but in a country that treats disagreement not as dissent but as harm, that’s where we are."
Robert Reich on X - "If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control."
Cynical Publius on X - "How is keeping the government out of our daily lives a form of "control," Mr. Oompa Loompa? Explain."
Comment (elsewhere): "So you're proposing total Government control because you're opposed to perceived control? ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คก"
Logan Bowers ๐️ ๐️ on X - "“Policing should be more targeted” lolololol. Let me tell you a story about targeted policing. So Seattle got speeding cameras a few years ago, an advisory group had to recommend where to place them. One thing they hated was that if the cameras were simply put in the most dangerous places—with the most dead children—it would be disproportionately in PoC neighborhoods. So the working group wanted to move some cameras into whiter neighborhoods. But think about the implications for a second: local residents are the ones most likely to be caught speeding and local residents are the ones most likely to die in collisions. Targeting actual need of speeding cameras was deemed racist. So the implication of the group’s recommendations was to literally kill poorer children of color, so that more white people would get speeding tickets."
Damn Elon Musk murdering 600k children!
Yossi BenYakar on X - "A church in Ottawa has been turned into a mosque, and the speaker in the video doesn’t hide a thing. He openly boasts about their rising influence, political reach, and long-term plan to reshape the country. They are telling you exactly what their movement intends to do. Why do so many Canadians refuse to see what’s right in front of them?"
GB News on X - "King Charles will now 'protect the multi-faith nation' as new role defined"
Paul Embery on X - "I do not know of any other country whose ruling elites are so willing to trash that country’s history and traditions, or seem so intent on diluting its unique national character and turning it into some sort of outpost of the UN. It’s relentless."
I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup - "On the other hand, that same group absolutely loathed Thatcher. Most of us (though not all) can agree, if the question is posed explicitly, that Osama was a worse person than Thatcher. But in terms of actual gut feeling? Osama provokes a snap judgment of “flawed human being”, Thatcher a snap judgment of “scum”."
wanye on X - "This is a point I’ve made before in a slightly different way. The average liberal hears that somebody screamed the N-word at a nice black guy in a suit and they feel it way down in their gut. What a fucking despicable thing to do. The type of person who would do that is pure scum, the worst of the Earth. It’s disgusting. The feeling is visceral. Makes them wanna puke. Who could possibly do such a thing? But then they hear a story about a black teenager who stomped on another man’s head until he died and… well they’re not going to condone it, obviously, but the passion, the intensity, the disgust — it’s just not there. And I just think, like, you know, stomping on another man’s head is worse than saying something racist. I think that should be obvious to everybody. And I think the fact that one of these things feels to liberals like an absolute kick in the gut and the other one doesn’t is deranging a lot of their politics."
Eric Zed | Facebook - "The absurdity is hard to comprehend. We're told to hate billionaires. But I suppose they just mean, "our" billionaires. Those same social moderators will then in the same breath, enthusiastically accept the billions poured into Western institutions from Islamic Gulf monarchies, as political aid. We're told to oppose foreign influence and that AIPAC are monsters with dark money. But foreign influence is welcomed when it arrives wrapped in the right politics and benefits the right narratives. We're told to defend women's rights, LGBT rights, secularism, democracy, and liberal values. Then organizations, networks, and governments fundamentally opposed to those values are shielded from scrutiny because questioning them has become politically inconvenient. Citizens going so far as to advocate for their validity and protagonism. The Muslim Brotherhood plays a great role in what we are seeing in the western world, allieship is directly and/or indirectly established with them and college campus'... Meanwhile they are being designated, restricted, investigated, or banned by governments across the world. UNRWA is a human rights advocacy group in direct relation to the UN, yet staff recently became the subject of October 7 investigations. Billions in foreign money from equally as or more corrupt billionaires flow into Western institutions. Yet somehow the people who claim to oppose power, influence, religious interference, and billionaire control become the most reliable defenders of those exact things when they arrive wearing the correct ideological costume. That isn't principle. That's tribalism. That's narrative addiction. That's ideological capture. The alliance isn't merely contradictory. It's one of the most extraordinary political paradoxes of the modern era."
Coddled Affluent Professional on X - "There’s no idea that’s seriously entertained on the right that is as stupid as ‘prison abolition.’"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "Creationism?"
Just Loki on X - "Would you rather live in a town where the city council was 100% creationists or 100% prison abolitionists?"
Aryeh Kontorovich on X - "I've long maintained that the bad RW policies are at least *reversible* -- unlike the LW ones like mass immigration and transing children. but creationism isn't even a policy. it's just a harmless belief"
wanye on X - "This is the characteristic of mass immigration that I find so appalling. You can say whatever you want about bad economic policies, but everybody kind of understands that if you get it wrong, then you can start doing something else and re-introduce economic growth. But mass immigration is the permanent destruction of society as it exists today. It is completely irreversible. It’s hard to imagine a more arrogant, hubristic, reckless policy."
Renzo Downey on X - "Dispatch from the @TexasGOP Convention: “A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention. He left in tears.”"
Andy Hopper on X - "Hussein's dad founded the Houston chapter of the terrorist organization CAIR. He showed up to our convention to elicit the exact reaction that we are seeing echoed throughout the press--that Islam is somehow the victim. This is the tried-and-true formula to hijack the sympathies of Western cultures through the media."
Amy Mek on X - "๐จ SCOOP: Staged Tears at Texas GOP Convention DO NOT FALL FOR THIS ISLAMIC AND LEFT-WING OPERATION!
Mohamed Hussein’s staged tears at the Texas GOP Convention were pure theater. The Texas Tribune and its leftist media allies are running the same tired “Islamophobia” script to protect CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood operatives who tried to embed themselves inside the Republican Party. These are the exact networks Governor Abbott designated as terrorist organizations. (thank you) ๐จ These are the four operatives tied to CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood who registered as delegates/guests and tried to plant themselves inside the Texas GOP Convention:
๐บTarek Hussein – CAIR-Houston founder
๐บAmjad Muhtaseb – MAS Houston (Muslim Brotherhood arm)
๐บSamar Halabi – Pushes hijab recruitment and dawah on Texas public school kids
๐บ Mohamed Hussein – Board member at the radical Clear Lake Islamic Center
When conservatives moved to remove them, the tears flowed on cue - just in time for the cameras (of cours Classic victim card. Classic distraction. These networks preach Sharia, glorify Hamas, run prison dawah, and target our children. Pastor Rick Scarborough said it straight: “If you embrace those values, there’s no place for you in America. That’s not assimilation - that’s takeover.” Texas, hold the line. Do not fall for jihadi and left-wing staged outrage. They will keep inventing crises to silence you. Stand strong - Americans across the country are with you. Demand investigations. Enforce the terrorist designations. Remove the infiltrators from our party. (more to follow on this) The red-green alliance wants us divided and weak. We will not comply. Texas First. America First."
M.A. Rothman on X - "๐๐๐ ๐๐๐
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Victor Davis Hanson has been mapping the Left's most cherished social movements for years. The pattern is always the same: a crusade launches with religious fervor, bulldozes anyone who asks questions, and then quietly collapses under the weight of its own hypocrisy — usually after doing enormous damage. #MeToo was supposed to be a reckoning. “๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ ๐๐ญ๐ญ ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ” became a moral commandment — until it became inconvenient. Christine Blasey Ford's uncorroborated 2018 allegations against Brett Kavanaugh were treated as settled truth. Then Tara Reade made a far more credible accusation against Joe Biden in 2020, and the same movement spent months working to destroy her. The new rule, left unspoken: believe women only when useful to the Left. Now Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner — a socialist backed by Elizabeth Warren — has been exposed with a social-media history of crude, pornographic put-downs of women and ๐ ๐๐จ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ค๐จ๐ฉ๐ ๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐จ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ณ๐ข ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง. Warren called him “๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ.” The movement that was going to hold powerful men accountable for disrespecting women is now campaigning for him. BLM followed the same arc. Ferguson's “๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ถ๐ฑ, ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ด๐ฉ**๐ต” was a fabrication — the DOJ under Obama confirmed Michael Brown attacked the officer first. Jussie Smollett staged his own MAGA “๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ข๐ค๐ฌ” and hired two Nigerian-Americans to play the role. Kamala Harris called it an “๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ-๐ฅ๐ข๐บ ๐ญ๐บ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ” and never apologized. The George Floyd aftermath: ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐ข๐จ๐ญ๐ฌ, ๐๐ ๐∗๐๐ญ๐ก๐ฌ, ๐,๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐ข๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ, $๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฆ๐๐ ๐ — plus a torched police precinct, a federal courthouse, and a church. America got defund-police layoffs, no-cash-bail laws, dropped SAT requirements, race-segregated graduations, and thousands of DEI bureaucrat positions. Race relations did not improve. BLM's founders never accounted for the $90 million in donations they collected. They vanished into multi-million-dollar homes. Britain offered a stark parallel. Eighteen-year-old Henry Nowak was fatally stabbed by a Sikh immigrant wielding an 8-inch “๐ค๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ช๐ข๐ญ” sword exempt from Britain's knife laws. The attacker falsely claimed Nowak started it with slurs. Police handcuffed the dying Nowak as he said nine times he couldn't breathe, almost certainly ensuring his d∗ath. No national mourning. No protests. Nowak was on the wrong side of the Left's victim-victimizer ledger. Climate is the same story on a longer timeline. Agencies now quietly concede global warming was never the existential emergency they declared. Germany dismantled its energy infrastructure chasing net-zero — and wrecked its economy — ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐๐ ๐ง๐๐ฐ ๐๐จ๐๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก. The elites who demanded sacrifice made none themselves. The transgender push follows the pattern precisely. Gender dysphoria is ancient and rare, affecting under 0.01% of the population. The Left invented “๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ฆ” to weaponize dissent, pushed biological males into girls' locker rooms and women's sports, and triggered an epidemic of teens questioning their biological sex. Hanson identifies the engine behind all of it: crises manufactured in affluent Western universities, newsrooms, and bureaucracies, designed to frighten ordinary people into otherwise-insane agendas. The long-term playbook runs four moves: open borders to build a dependent constituency; fake working-class candidates; destruction of time-tested institutions like the Electoral College and the nine-justice Court; and pseudo-existential crises requiring massive taxes and ever-larger government managed by the elite class that invented the crisis. The antidote is already visible. Westerners are saying no to green haranguers, gender demagogues, the race-baiting industry, and open borders. As Hanson puts it, they are refusing to let the Left “๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ฅ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐บ, ๐ด๐ฆ๐ค๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐บ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ต๐บ.” ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฅ ๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐๐๐ ๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง."
