Divide and rule: The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’
Divide and rule: The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’
CPGB-ML recently reposted this speech on their youtube account. The video is here. I'll put the transcript in spoiler below:
I think the main things to dunk on are:
Idealism in the philosophical sense that that “the material world doesn’t exist”; “it’s whatever I think that is most important”. So actually, by that rationale, ideas are prime and matter will have to conform with my ideas, and the ultimate result is this kind of solipsism where you are alone in the world – the lone conscious force and the ultimate determiner of your own reality without reference to other people or the material reality of the word’s environment around you.
- Defines idealism incorrectly.
Are ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ synonyms? Well they are synonyms, but a certain group of academics in the seventies in the United States decided that they weren’t synonyms
- Misunderstands (or refuses) to use the word gender, treating gender and sex as the same. Says the above shit to justify it. Claims no communists or socialists took part in this.
No. It’s very far from that figure. It is statistically so small as to be insignificant. It’s absolutely tiny. But, if you take everyone who is ‘gay’ and tell them “actually really, you’re transgender”; if you take everyone who is ‘confused during puberty’ – well, everyone’s confused during puberty! – “but actually, probably you’re transgender”. If transgender becomes your fashionable label that you impose on everyone who feels alienated in society, then you start to arrive at these incredible figures.
- Claims all data that doesn't support their opinion is fake.
Because actually, the percentage of people who are alienated in society is massive; absolutely bloody massive. Because alienation is a product of capitalist exploitation, of its individualism and its dissatisfying, isolationist, selfish culture.
- Implying that all these lgbtq+ people are just worker alienation. (Gen Z is 30% LGBT if I recall the figure?)
- Usual transphobia.
- I dunno I probably missed stuff. Exhausted by this shit.
I know this is a bit longer than the content usually here but this shit really needs dunking on given that the original post of this was 5 years ago and they've clearly not grown or changed one bit since if they're reposting it. Their influence on CPB, which is also similarly transphobic, is also very real and I'm certain we have CPB members here.
EDIT: Taps the sign