“A time is coming,” said St. Anthony the Great way back in the fourth century, “when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.’” And here we are. Fox News reported Friday that “students at the University of Southern Maine (USM) are demanding that their professor be replaced for saying that only two sexes exist.”
The students, drunk on the Left’s fantasies and propaganda about there being a multiplicity of genders, actually got up and walked out of professor Christy Hammer’s graduate education class en masse, because she dared to state the simple and obvious truth that cuts against the way they wish the world to be: There are only two biological sexes, male and female.
In response, instead of telling the students that they should stop denying the obvious and try to reconcile themselves to reality, university officials acceded to their demand to hold what the Bangor Daily News called a “facilitated restorative justice meeting.” Adamantine in their delusions, the students demanded that Hammer be fired. USM professors who believe that water is wet and that human beings cannot get along without breathing air are trembling; they could be next.
Oddly enough, in today’s carnival academic environment, USM declined to bring the hammer down on Hammer. However, it did bow to the slavering crazies enough to make an “alternative, identical class” available to the students who remain defiant in their insanity. USM spokesperson Gina Marie Guadagnino explained, “We have developed an alternative plan for this class and will be opening a new section of this course for those students who would like to move.” Sane students, however, will still be able to take Hammer’s class: “The original section taught by professor Hammer will continue for any student who wishes to remain in that class.” It will be interesting to see how many students choose each option.
The fantasists, however, are predictably fascist and are not placated just by being given a playpen in which they can play pretend at will. They still want Hammer’s head on a platter — figuratively, right? Right? USM student Elizabeth Leibiger, who was behind the walkout, declared, “I think that the next step USM needs to take is being clear what accountability will look like for Christy Hammer.”
Yeah. By golly, Hammer needs to be held accountable for her egregious deeds. If USM had an ounce of integrity, it would hold her accountable, all right: It would give her an award and a nice raise, announced publicly by the president of the university, for standing up for the truth in a viciously hostile environment. It would provide her with round-the-clock police protection in light of the Left’s ever-increasing propensity for violence. And it would issue a statement saying that universities ought to be dedicated to the pursuit of the truth wherever it may lead, and that students at any university worth its salt ought to be ready to have their fantasies and delusions challenged without dissolving into an emotional wreck or flying into a violent rage when it happens.
Instead, USM, predictably, is only feeding the students’ madness by creating the alternative class, which gives the impression that Hammer really did something wrong. Ironically, the entire controversy began during Hammer’s graduate course entitled “Creating a Positive Learning Environment.” During “a free-for-all discussion [that] erupted over both social gender and biological sex identifications,” only “one student and Hammer [said] they believed only male and female biological sexes exist.”
Bangor Daily News didn’t say how many students were in the class, but however many students were present, it’s astounding that only one and the professor stood up for a reality that is as obvious as the fact that the sun is in the sky. Even worse, at the “restorative justice meeting,” the lone student holdout caved in and apologized, no doubt quailing at the prospect of facing daily ostracism and abuse for clinging to the truth. But Hammer refused to drink the Kool-Aid, annoying Leibiger, who said, “It’s our job as educators to grow and change, address our biases, and above all else, protect every one of our students.”
Yeah. It’s also our job to grow up and live in the real world. Bob Dylan once sang, “I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.” I never knew what he meant until now. At the University of Southern Maine, it looks as if few students, if any, have that kind of stubbornness.
Take a look at the latest Ami Horowitz video on PragerU where he asks young people about a FIVE year old transitioning without parental consent.
How about expelling every student making such ridiculous claims, on the grounds that they are too gullible or stupid, or both, to be in college.
Then you would have to expel every devout Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Hindu student for the same reason; making gullible or stupid, ridiculous, magical thinking, mystical, mythological, claims as real, factual, scientific, and true.
These students are denying self-evident scientific truth, anatomic, physiologic, and genetic, truths within the discovery of science, so a case can be made for an academic penalty. Students with religious faith in God don’t necessarily reject scientific truth, since religious faith is belief in that which is beyond the discovery of science, so academic penalty is not indicated.
Good to know that most Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Hindu students, are for now, rational enough to keep their religious superstitions personal and private.
For now that is, as reason keeps collapsing and eroding in America and the West that won’t last.
Outside of supernatural power the sum of all mass and energy in the universe must be constant at all times, according to the law of conservation of energy, the fundamental law of physics. Thus, in the absence of a Creator God, to be in compliance with the law of conservation of energy, the universe must have always existed, extending eternally into the past, and extending eternally into the future. No person was or could have been present to observe the beginning of a universe with no beginning, so a true atheist must take this belief on faith, because faith is any belief beyond the discovery of observation – beyond the discovery of science. Thus, atheism is based on faith just as religion is based on faith. It’s also good to know that most atheists, for now, are rational enough to keep their secular faith and superstition personal and private.
“Is God the designer of the universe? Not if A is A. The alternative to “design” is not “chance”. It is causality….
The religious view of the world, though it has been abandoned by most philosophers, is still entrenched in the public mind. Witness the popular question “Who created the universe?” — which presupposes that the universe is not eternal, but has a source beyond itself, in some cosmic personality or will. It is useless to object that this question involves an infinite regress (if a creator is required to explain existence, then a second creator is required to explain the first, and so on). Typically, the believer will reply: One can’t ask for an explanation of God. He is an inherently necessary being. After all, one must start somewhere.” Such a person does not contest the need of an irreducible starting point, as long as its a form of consciousness; what he finds unsatisfactory is the idea of existence as the starting point. Driven by the primacy of consciousness, a person of this mentality refuses to begin with the world, which we *know* to exist; he insists on jumping beyond the world to the unknowable, even though such a procedure explains nothing. The root of this mentality is not rational argument, but the influence of Christianity. In many respects, the West has not recovered from the Middle Ages.” – Leonard Peikoff
Let me remind you that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam consist of much, much, more than simply Deistic Prime Mover Monotheism. To reduce any of those three religions to simply Deism to wipe out 99% their content. To reduce those religions to Deism is to in effect destroy them.
“Many of the Founding Fathers, of course, continued to believe in God and to do so sincerely, but it was a vestigial belief, a leftover from the past which no longer shaped the essence of their thinking. God, so to speak, had been kicked upstairs. He was regarded now as an aloof spectator who neither responds to prayer nor offers revelations nor demands immolation. This sort of viewpoint, known as deism, cannot, properly speaking, be classified as a religion. It is a stage in the atrophy of religion; it is the step between Christianity and outright atheism.” – Leonard Peikoff, “Relgion versus America”
Actually, we are facing a moral collapse in the western world. The rejection of the Judeo-Christian worldview in preference for the atheistic materialism of the evolutionary worldview, is causing an accelerating moral and spiritual decline. When man uses his God given reasoning abilities to deny his Creator, decline is sure to follow.. He may think it is more rational to be “liberated” from what he thinks is an outmoded worldview, but in actuality he is less rational. The fact that the founder of your system was unable to distinguish the differences between Marxism and Christianity is proof that the so-called “reason” used to establish her system was quite weak.
You can be sure, that in the end, a system will arise, that is anti-biblical and anti-Christ. Unless you repent soon you will be one to help it on in the present world. I only hope your eyes will be opened before it is to late.
Would that objectivists were smart enough to do the same
Thank you, because, putting aside for a moment your digression into religious philosophy, your statement demonstrates that you believe that claims of gender dysphoria are gullible, stupid, ridiculous, magical thinking, mystical, mythological.
Seems to me we give these college kids way too much credit for being able to do any critical thinking at all. Sadly most are simply SHEEP, nodding along with idiotic lectures given by idiotic group-think professors. They certainly aren’t able to ponder “the atheistic materialism of the evolutionary worldview”. etc. etc…
Prof. Hammer is a National Treasure and deserves recognition. Which will never happen in the People’s Republic of Portland, Maine !
When we force you to believe or shut up about your beliefs, then you can make that claim.
“A time is coming,” said St. Anthony the Great way back in the fourth century, “when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.’”
This is rich coming from a fourth century Christian lunatic who chose to live as an ascetic in the desert in total isolation all his adult life. He would fit right in with today’s lunatics that are a throwback to the religious medieval lunatics.
“Unlike many Americans today, who drive to church in their Cadillac or tape their favorite reverend on the VCR so as not to interrupt their tennis practice, the medievals took religion seriously. They proceeded to create a society that was anti-materialistic and anti-intellectual. I do not have to remind you of the lives of the saints, who were the heroes of the period, including the men who ate only sheep’s gall and ashes, quenched their thirst with laundry water, and slept with a rock for their pillow. These were men resolutely defying nature, the body, sex, pleasure, all the snares of this life — and they were canonized for it, as, by the essence of religion, they should have been. The economic and social results of this kind of value code were inevitable; mass stagnation and abject poverty, ignorance and mass illiteracy, waves of insanity that swept whole towns, a life expectancy in the teens. “Woe unto ye who laugh now,” the Sermon on the Mount had said. Well, they were pretty safe on this count. They had precious little to laugh about.” – Leonard Peikoff
I would bet that Objectivism would give us tons to laugh at and about. After all I get a belly laugh at your neurotic posts.
Or perhaps it is you that are the throwback as you smugly condemn all who are not like you.
:Classy as always. But at least we know where your damaged mind is, Jew Hater.
scratch a Jew hating, find a sniveling, jealous loser -beat it jerk
“In response, instead of telling the students that they should stop denying the obvious and try to reconcile themselves to reality, university officials acceded to their demand to hold what the Bangor Daily News called a “facilitated restorative justice meeting.” Adamantine in their delusions, the students demanded that Hammer be fired…. It’s also our job to grow up and live in the real world. ”
Reconcile oneself to reality? Try telling that to someone who believes Moses parted the Red Sea and that a body dead for three days can come back to life and then float up through the air to an Eternal Magical Utopia.
“Christianity prepared the ground. It paved the way for modern totalitarianism by entrenching three fundamentals in the Western mind: in metaphysics, the worship of the supernatural; in epistemology, the reliance on faith; as a consequence, in ethics, the reverence for self-sacrifice.” – Leonard Peikoff
See, I just got another belly laugh at Peekaboo’s ravings.
And there are no sexes in Mein Kampf
Yes, Hitler was just a barrel of laughs. I can tell by the number downvotes you are getting today picyournose.
Great and well written article! Adamantine – thank you for exposing me to a word I haven’t seen before. Bravo!
Let me guess…..it’s you…..our Rezidentura Jew Hater.
Did you get lost on your way to Stormfront? Perhaps you ought to figure out how to use a search engine and find your way back there.
Maybe when parents refuse to subsidize their children’s education at these indoctrination centers, financial reality will bring back sanity.
Time to put them out in the real world and make them gets a Job instead of laying around all day in their Bedrooms watching the Fake News and stuffing their fat faces lets hear their whining begin
Just to think these “students,” had to go to college to become stupid. They should have struck out on their own with just a high school education, they would be far better off by now. But, as has been mentioned, they are too lazy to try to be real people.
Where the hell did you read that? In Stormfront? If you read it in the Talmud, please cite the exact source there.
Political correctness is a new age plague and the CRT Would make it worst
Oh, hell… might as well piss off all the religionists here…
If ‘male and female’ would/could/should be consider “sexes,” YES, there ARE ONLY TWO, and the ultimate criterion is genetic.
XX == Female; XY == Male (ignoring the other rare variants, for the time being.)
And, at least with the knowledge, tools and science available today, there are NO feasible ways to convert an XY person into an XX person, or vice versa.
If anyone could see the ultimate logic in those statements, most of this alleged ‘discussion’ would be moot.
But my meme that follows nails the whole subject from a slightly different view, one which will obviously piss off any and all religionists, fundamentalists, etc., here and everywhere else…. to wit….
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“SEX is determined by what’s between your LEGS.
GENDER is determined by what’s between your EARS.”
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So, the XX/XY conundrum is decided by the FIRST line and the SECOND line moots any and all arguments or theories as to “how many genders are there?”
For my money, there are only two ‘genders’… heterosexual and “other.” “OTHER” merely being a way for humans, as the tribal animals we’ve been for millions of years, to identify themselves into groups, tribes, clans or whatever, with similar characteristics defined by themselves.
Vote me up or down, as you wish, but if you’re good, pose rebuttals or arguments about the points, not me. Thanks!