Changes one world Progressives’ good week Caitlyn Jenner and Rachel Dolezal has Progressives had a very good week.each So good self-idenified as something they that the New York Times dubbed not. Each has inherited genetic itwere the Liberal Spring. So good that characteristics altered Republican Sen.but Tedhas Cruz calledtheir it culturalofcharacteristics to become “some the darkest 24 hours in our something different. nation’s history.” AfterCaitlyn the humiliais transsexual, Rachel tion of the 2014 while elections, it feltisgood transracial. to be hopeful and inspired again. by Brendan Genetic makeup is flags determined As the Confederate started Sheila Leslie Trainor by yourdown birth.inCaitlyn waswith bornthe coming solidarity Bruce because heofhad male genitamurdered citizens Charleston, Dolezal wastowhite alia. nation seemed wakebecause up to theher parents of arehomegrown apparently right-wing white. dangers extremism. But your cultural identity is Thenbythemore Supreme Court affirmed shaped complex factors. Obamacare, and the 17 million Gender is largely what society defines Americans whonot now have health it as, behavior biology. Well insurance breathed a huge sigh before modern sex reassignment of relief, some escaping chaos as of women an surgery, menthe dressed adverse decision. and women as men. The surgery Andthe finally, marriage. What physimakes cultural construction seemed impossible in 2009,the when it cal, forcing us to confront reality was all the Nevada Legislature could directly. What exactly is the self? do to override Gov. Jim Gibbons’ Others have passed for different veto partnerships, is now racesofasdomestic well. Since being lightthe law ofconfers the land. Social media skinned more advantages could barely society contain than itself.being in Western There were does, naysayers, to pass be sure. dark-skinned many for They said it wasn’t a flag or a that white if they can. Althoughgun more
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rare, the some whites have passed killed church members, it was afor black as young well. Most notable deranged man, and we’ll was never Effa Manley, only the woman know why. This,the despite photosin the words baseball of portrayed Fame. She and thatHall clearly a was inducted forfueled her career in the racist white man, by hatred, Negro Leagues. She, like Rachel who bought a gun to express his views Dolezal, a whiteway. woman who in the mostwas despicable passed for black. Republican leaders refused to Thaddeus Russell giveHistorian up their holy war against health believes this cultural started care for the millions of shift Americans withneed blackface minstrel shows, who Obamacare because their which he won’t said were not health racist,insuremployers provide but aand crude for the masses ance theirway Republican governors refuse to expand Medicaid to cover to appreciate black culture. Then low-wage workers. Andhipster, don’t think it progressed to jazz they’re giving up and now,now just hip-hop because Motown lovers the Supreme Courtdoes has ruled. culture. Dolezal not dream of The rhetoric wascafes predictable performing in the of Paris like with rants from Mississippi’s Josephine Baker, but rather Gov. being Phil Bryant “the socialist featured onabout the cover of Ebony takeover of with health care forcedupdo as magazine her $2,000 down the throats of the American a competent, upper-middle-class, people,” not to mention all the black woman. Like, allegedly, Republican presidential Elizabeth Warren, she candidates used her and congressional leaders whoracevowed self-identification to obtain tobased continue their Dolezal fight to “repeal benefits. insists she and replace” Obamacare. is black, which crosses aNot lineone for provided even aBut glimmer of whatalso the some people. transsexuals replacement plan would be, even as live on a continuum from part-time
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transvestitism surgical more than a few to of full-time their consultants realignment. Should Dolezal bethe acknowledged they were relieved blamed Court for gaming themeant affirmative Supreme decision the action mess we created? phantom replacement plan could now Genetics not determine remain a secretdoes forever. racial identity. In fact, leaders race is not Nevada’s Republican genetic. is no genewere moreThere mutedreally in their criticism, based race human race. realizing thatexcept Obamacare has had The that differentiate races and atraits tremendous positive effect here ethnicities are based of onMedicaid geographithrough the expansion cal access and cultural development and to subsidies on the and adaption While far more than the exchange. avoiding anyminor praise genetics involved with the levels of for the president, Gov. Sandoval couldn’t but skin pointorout thatthe theskin melaninhelp in the how number of uninsured in Nevada has wraps around the eyes. beenModern cut in half since Obamacare medicine has made the was implemented. future for the Caitlyn Jenners of it was Friday’sNow decision to theBut world brighter. people allow to marry thatamade progresreallyallcan construct physiology sives giddy with happiness. And not around their self-identification that just those who suddenly hadadvances the right defies genetics. Medical tocould marry. Straight friends, neighbors even one day allow childbirth and members were genuine for family transsexuals. Unlike Dolezal’s instory, their the joy, Bruce-to-Caitlyn witnessing the shift lifeto equality many would not story has beenthought met with a sense arrive in their Thenot ruling of wonder bylifetimes. the world, headwas a testament to the courage so scratching wonderment. manyBoth individuals showed over stories illustrate the the years through quiet individuation that and our difficult increasing
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wealth and education allow. Every conversations with family members can expect to have asgeneration well as suffering through angrythe opportunity for evenwith more selfpublic confrontations right-wing exploration and experimentation. zealots who portrayed homosexuality of the that asThe a sinmentality against God andherd country. enabled of our species Again, survival Republican leaders since themired Ice Age beingand cast off remained in aispitiful and replaced by litany the self-creating increasingly petty of personal individual. Thereand arearguments still vestiges religious opinions of left, rights of course. Collectivist thought states to explain their discrimioften views, dominates much of ourthat PC natory despite evidence big government Race- and many in their own world. party, especially gender-based violence still exists, young people, have fully embraced equal rights. but the united outpouring of love Thethe triumphs of lastmassacre week arrived after Charleston like a thunderbolt, as President reveals the revulsion most feel Obama even to those who about suggested, hatred of superficial differhad anticipated the Supremeracists Court like ences today. Outspoken decisions. Whileare many Republicans Dylann Roof thankfully more vow move the country backward raretonow. through Forconstitutional libertarians, amendments the next big step orwill replacing fallsindividuals upon the to be thejurists, abilityitfor rest of us their to harness progreschoose own renewed government. Most sive energy toward other intractable today cannot even imagine what problems: corruption in ourno that willcorporate be like. But then again, politics, gender equity,only and ensuring one could imagine a few years every American is able to vote. ago what Caitlyn Jenner would look Lasteither. week proved it can be done.Ω Ω like,
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Occupy Wall Street has a pretty good explanation of white privilege: http:// occupywallstreet. net/story/explainingwhite-privilege-brokeRepublican presidential white-person candidates had a spectrum of responses to the marriage decision: http:// tinyurl.com/qbj74ha.
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