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Simon Black
\nSovereign Valley Farm, Chile<\/p>\n
Are you ready for this week\u2019s absurdity? Here\u2019s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity\u2026 and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice.<\/p>\n
ACLU and Professor Team Up to Encourage Book Burnings<\/b><\/p>\n
Abigail Shrier has committed the ultimate sin: she has a different opinion than the woke mob. And that is an unforgivable transgression.<\/p>\n
Shrier\u2019s new book is called\u00a0Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters<\/i>, and she discusses some very strong views, such as that children shouldn\u2019t be coaxed into taking life-altering hormones.<\/p>\n
This is a controversial topic for many people, and they can choose to support or argue against Shrier\u2019s opinions.<\/p>\n
But that\u2019s not how the woke mob works. They don\u2019t use logic and debate to engage in intellectual discourse.<\/p>\n
Instead, they simply rage\u2013 what Isaac Asimov described as \u201cthe last resource of fools.\u201d<\/p>\n
So naturally Twitter is jumping all over this book and trying to cancel it.<\/p>\n
Target\u2013 the mega retail chain with stores all over the Land of the Free, already buckled, and decided to pull the book because apparently it\u2019s full of hate speech.<\/p>\n
(Never mind that Target continues to sell\u00a0White Fragility<\/i>, which is also full of hate speech that accuses roughly half the country of being White Supremacists\u2026)<\/p>\n
But more surprising is that Chase Strangio, a deputy director with the ACLU, is one of the Twitter mobsters.<\/p>\n
Strangio recently Tweeted, \u201cWe have to fight these ideas\u2026 Stopping the circulation of this book and these ideas is 100% a hill I will die on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Remember, Strangio is with the ACLU, where the \u2018C\u2019 and \u2018L\u2019 stand for \u2018Civil Liberties\u2019. And last time I checked, civil liberties include freedom of speech. How quaint.<\/p>\n
Also joining the mob is a Professor of English from the University of California\u2019s Berkely campus, who encourages people to\u00a0steal<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0burn<\/b>\u00a0the book.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s right, our cultural overseers are now advocating literal book burnings in the Land of the Free.<\/p>\n