Leftism

"“If [transgenderism] is false, then for the good of society, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely – the whole preposterous ideology,” he said. "

Mr Knowles has said in the past that his rhetoric isn’t genocidal because he doesn’t believe trans people exist, Jezebel noted.

“There can’t be a genocide,” he said on his programme last week, adding that “it’s not a legitimate category of being. They’re labouring under a delusion. And so we need to correct that delusion”.

The exact same thing could be said for the 'my sky fairy is the true real one' ideologies. Monotheism is a brain disease.

Based church

If [transgenderism] is false

The way these self-confident charlatans talk, you'd think they believe every thing they don't like must be its own ideology, complete with ivory-tower academics dispensing it from a great height.

I'm seeing a bit of this kind of referential language elsewhere too, decrying such bugbears as 'evolutionism' and 'abortionism'- which, when you think about it, seems contrived to give people who read the title and don't read content the impression that there are whole fields of study, replete with cult followings, devoted to these things.

Rhetoric of this kind has a way of getting people to file away contingent-possible notions (that is, it might or might not be a thing but I don't have time to understand it now so I'm filing a placeholder in my head for later) Having those things filed away in your head has a way of putting you on the fence about whether they're true or real or not (they're neither true nor false, just contingent)- and when you're on the fence, partisanship can readily decide the matter without having to supply any evidence.

The purpose of rhetoric like this is not to inform, but to flood its audience with contingent-possible bullshit, to exhaust their critical capacity and render them receptive to even the most counterfactual nonsense you can contrive.

They are too ignorant to have intent. If they knew what they were doing, they’d realize the futility in doing it.

“Why commit yourself to a war you know you’re going to lose?”

Because their blind hate and stupidity compels them, not intentions.

Pretty based thing for a church to say

So, about the Crusades....

I believe that what's being taught as history is actually pro establishment rhetoric with stances baked in to convince everyone that effective opposition is "mistakes that never worked before".

Just curious where this was?