Twice as Much Water!
Douglas Wilson
Blog&Mablog
It used to be that discrimination was a good word. A man with discriminating taste was a man with aesthetic standards that he understood and applied in wisdom. Now discrimination is an all-purpose term of condemnation designed to shut you up, Christian.
Of course, discrimination is one of those words that carry the inescapable concept around with it. It is not whether you have a standard of discrimination, it is which standard of discrimination you will have. Not whether, but which.
For example, Mississippi recently passed a law prohibiting, get this, discrimination by the government against sincerely held religious beliefs. Residents of that state will still have the freedom to follow their own conscience when their conscience requires them to decline to do crazy stuff. This outbreak of common sense was too much for the governor of New York, and so Andrew Cuomo banned all “non-essential travel to Mississippi” for state employees. Take that, Hattiesburg.
But the point here is that absolutely everyone involved is discriminating. Mississippi formally allowed her citizens to discriminate against abnormal people, and New York is mandating discrimination against normal people.
Ah, there it is — the intolerable word.
How dare I, in these endarkened times, use a hurtful word like normal? Don’t I realize that cis-normality has been the greatest cause of grief in the world?
The secular world wants to assume a new normal, against which there can be no dissent permitted. It must be a universal normal, for if dissent against it is permitted, then this will reveal that normal implies a standard being applied. This is why apparent differences have to be accounted for on the basis of pathological and irrational hatreds — so that the standard can be quietly assumed as something that “just is.”
With the old normal, the defenders of it knew that they were imposing a morality, and they knew they were imposing a morality on those who differed with it. If some perv wanted to hang out in the junior high girls locker room, then society would say something like “no, you can’t do that because you’re a perv.” The old normal would play rough with the outliers, but it did not resent them.
The new normal has to discipline the outliers, just like every system of social organization must do, but they are powerfully insecure about it. This is why they are so shrill. Because they are trying to enshrine certain practices that the Almighty describes as kinks in the hose, the whole thing is problematic. The ruling elites have passed laws that the hose be kinked in at least seven places and, moreover, the majesty of the law has also determined that twice as much water will flow through as ever before. The governor signed the decree with a separate pen for each letter of his name. Did you hear that, people? Twice as much water!
When a people’s leadership have been struck with a judicial blindness that is capable of thinking something like that, they cannot even afford to have anybody clear their throat and say ummmm . . . And so it is that respected solons are banning travel to states where people have not lost their minds. It might be contagious.
This is why PayPal is boycotting North Carolina. For they dast — a word that must be brought back, by the way, for we have great need of it — allow freedom of conscience with regard to accepting or rejecting the new normal for weirdos in bathrooms. But no one may have the freedom to reject the new normal because if someone has the freedom to reject it, he will. And that is why we have the ridiculous strictures of totalitolerance. Assent must be universal, and for this reason those who do not assent must be defined as sick in the head. If you are sick in the head, they need not count you when determining if they have a quorum for universal. And if you do not assent to that, then you are sick in the head too.
PayPal does business in countries where the penalty for homosexual behavior is death, but they are too fastidious to do business with a state that allows people to keep restrooms what they have been in this country forever?
The secularist thinking is that we must demand that an evangelical florist to do an arrangement for the nuptials of Suzy and Fido.
Did I say Fido? Sorry, my mistake. It is not 2019 yet. These things are tumbling along fast enough without me rushing them. I meant to say Suzy and Loretta. Deepest apologies.
Neutrality is impossible. Sitting this one out is impossible. Wishing it might go away by itself is impossible. Cowardice is indefensible.
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