I, Napoleon

National File;

Romania has passed a law banning gender studies and educational institutions from promoting gender identities divorced from biological sex, joining the ranks of Central European countries Hungary and Poland to require a more traditional approach to gender theory.
 
On Tuesday, Romanian lawmakers passed an amendment to an education law banning educational institutions from “activities propagating theories and opinions on gender identity according to which gender is a separate concept from biological sex,” according to The Swaddle.
 
The decision elicited widespread condemnation from a variety of activist organizations, with some professors openly intending to defy the law. The amendment was passed without any debate or consultation with teachers or educators.

Imagine that.

31 Replies to “I, Napoleon”

  1. Yesterday I heard a first hand account of a friend’s 18 year old cousin, who lives in Seattle. I’ve also known her a long time too. She has become “woke”, which means:

    1. She constantly looks for “offence” in EVERYTHING that everyone says.
    2. She claims she is “non-binary” and insists that people use the “they” pronoun to refer to her.
    3. She is adamant that all police officers are Nazis.
    4. She is convinced that all police and all courts should be immediately disbanded.

    MY friend has tried to get his cousin to get psychological help but she insists that she is the sane one.

    1. Who was it that said … “it would be better to have a brimstone tied around your neck and tossed into an inferno that to lead children astray” … that was not verbatim, but it makes the point, the someone taught that 16 year old little shit what she is spewing now.

      I suggest it’s time to toss profs and teachers into an inferno for what they are doing to the kids ….

      Just sayin’.

    2. I am confused by the insistence of the use of the “they” pronoun. To me that implies multiple persons or personalities. My question Is are all those personalities of the same gender at the same time? If they aren’t there must be some internal conflict at times. How does one reconcile those little voices in one’s head? Sounds like such a person is in need of treatment.

    3. One thing for sure. She will be quite happy in Seattle.
      Cause that’s all they do.

      Moved to CHAZ yet?

  2. Justin and his cabal used to brag that what the world needs is more Canada. Boy, that made-for-CBC garbage was hard to swallow. I think what the world needs right now is more Poland.
    I wish we had some in Canada.

    1. Who was it that said … “it would be better to have a brimstone tied around your neck and tossed into an inferno that to lead children astray” … that was not verbatim, but it makes the point, the someone taught that 16 year old little shit what she is spewing now.

      I suggest it’s time to toss profs and teachers into an inferno for what they are doing to the kids ….

      Just sayin’.

    1. Conservatives must also take some of the blame. Conservatives sat by whilst the liberals took over education, media and all the bureaucracies. What did they think would happen. Germany did that in the 30s and we know that story.

      Face it folks, bad shit happens every so often throughout history. I believe we are in one of those ..’bad shit’ periods in history.

  3. Central and Eastern Europe has been praised by populists for their steadfastly anti-globalist policies and resistance to political correctness.

    They say it like it’s a bad thing …

    1. I don’t know about you Kenji.

      But I’m thinking about moving? What the heck. Just maybe I’ll be around a few sane ones, unlike the nuts in Seattle.

  4. “Gender Theory” – Of all the interesting subjects of interest in the world & greater universe to study, and this is what some people find so fascinating they dedicate their lives to it. “It takes all kinds” – no kidding.

    They should have a study to study the types of people so fascinated with “Gender Theory”, and then lock them in institutions.

    1. You are right, of course, but the totalitarian (or would-be-totalitarian) response to your argument–and to all others that oppose the party line–has been that, “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun,” as per Chairman Mao (_Selected Works_).

  5. Those rayciss, homophobic BA$TARDS!

    We should send our Prime Minister to lecture them. Hopefully they’ll keep him – or at the very least, not send him back.

    He’ll be a shoe-in for UN next time!

  6. Where’s NonMe? Too busy buggering his pet poodle or maybe the five year old boy next door to xir?

  7. I’d be a whole lot happier if the embedded article had stopped after eight words.

  8. Civil society, basic community safety and law and order are no longer welcome in our society according to the Progressive left, replaced by chaos In pursuit of social justice.

    This is another front in the left’s war on capitalism and democracy.

    We’ve not seen things like sex, citizenship, policing, put in the table before, but appears all bets are off as they move to tear down North America.

  9. Living under real Communism seems to have inoculated central/Eastern Europe against what’s happening in the West today.

    Even Russia functions as a more conservative ideal than most countries in the West.

  10. What’s the problem? The problem for the university is not so much the ideologies of trans-sexualism, themselves, and the anti-objectivity of post-modernism generally (although one can argue that those ideologies are anathema to education). Those views can and should be studied, not banned, using the best academic tools we have. We know how to do this.

    But there’s the rub: These views are not studied in those academic ways. The fashion, due the anti-rationality of the Frankfurt school and now postmodernism, is that rational analysis and study is exactly what should not be done, precisely because that is itself nothing more than someone’s (male, white) ideology, and an especially bad one, given that it idolises Reason, which tells us what we can and cannot believe, and so oppresses individuals and keeps them from full self-discovery and unfettered self-invention—the very highest value, apparently. In this case, acceding to the authority of the laws of nature, and in this case, laws of biology which determine sex, is to enslave oneself to someone else’s ideology, and denies one the freedom to choose what and who one is! It’s the false consciousness of the slave!

    The problem for the university is that, once your academics have rejected rational enquiry and objectivity, anything (else) goes, and there’s no basis for rejecting mere proselytising in the classroom. These universities know this, which is why they are careful to say they will ban the proselytising of these ideologies. Why would they want to ban that? Because they are politically-inspired pathologies that promote detachment from reality.

    So the headline is misleading. It says they have banned gender studies, whereas the text says they’ve banned its proselytising, “activities propagating(?) theories and opinions”, and so on. If this is right, the universities are on more solid ground than this poorly-written article suggests. They would be on more solid ground than had they banned the ideas and their discussion and inquiry. And governments, of all things, would be justified in reminding the embarrassed universities what their job is, what ‘education’ means and therefore what teaching is and is not. ‘Education’ does not mean just any old thing. The university classroom should not be put into the service of social-engineering political zealots.

    If this is the way to understand the issue, it is a bit ironic (or is it mischievous?) of the University of Bucharest to complain that “the text of the law has no scientific basis”.

    Note by the way another curiosity: Under the rubric of teaching gender studies there is discussion of Poland having made it illegal for teachers to promote underage sex, pedophilia and childhood homosexuality. Is this what goes on in gender studies university classrooms? Does that explain why some of the critics are so agin the ban? If it also goes on in grade-school classrooms, where academic freedom is more limited than in universities, the critics wouldn’t have that basis for their opposition.

    Note finally the smear at the end which says that those who would “ban gender studies” are also against globalism and political correctness, the fiends.

  11. This thinking is common in former socialist countries run by communists.

    Its the little bit by little bit by little bit technique.
    Generally, those that are not interested or think to ignore it will realize and become aware when it will be too late and they’ve been had.
    Probably will say something like ‘I did not know’.
    And it will be that way until the whole system built on nothing but shit will collapse under its own weight.

  12. Oops. Two mistakes:

    (1) Replace “These universities know this” with “The law-makers know this”

    (2) Replace “the universities are on more solid ground” with “the law-makers are on more solid ground”

    Sorry

  13. “We’re led by the court jester that keeps peeing in his pants.”
    Nicely stated and very apt. But why must we be the ones that have to keep paying to mop the floors after he performs? As for common sense, if we collectively had some, we wouldn’t have to put up with this dipsh#t

  14. Poland, Hungary, and Romania all have recent experience with communism, within living memory for the middle aged. That’s why they aren’t putting up with this garbage, they’ve seen this movie before.

  15. Check out immigration to Hungary, Poland and Romania. The only thing you have to fear is a Russian occupation, and they are now officially a Caucasian, Orthodox Christian nation.

  16. I always tried to hammer home the notion that East Europeans are the only capable saviours of the West, but all you have done is ridicule them.
    If only Serbia and Bulgaria stopped fearing the EU and turned their ZPU-4 against the hordes of “migrants” that walk across them to Belgium!

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