One of the great lessons in life, at least if you live long enough, is that it can always get worse.
And I am convinced that if anybody says that aloud, they jinx the whole world and are responsible for it.
So which one of you said that the whole Alphabet ideology mess couldn't get worse? When I find you, tar and feathers will follow.
I partially agree with the author.
— Happy Granddadddddd (@PlotWeaver) August 21, 2026
FGM and 'gender affirming surgery' are on an equal moral level.
I just see that as the lowest moral level imaginable, while the author sees both on the 'diversity is our strength' level.
While it is objectively true that those of us who refused to turn our backs on reality have made some modest progress fighting the gender ghouls, it's easy to overstate both the progress we have made and the permanence of our cultural victory.
The ghouls still own the commanding heights in our culture and, more importantly, are deeply ensconced in our public institutions that make the rules. As we have seen at Cambridge University, the insanity is deeply entrenched, and it will take more than one election cycle, where we won by the skin of our teeth, to reverse a moral decline that has rotted out our most important institutions.
Such as, the British Medical Journal, which stands as one of the top three medical research journals in the world. It is, in 2026, shilling for brutal practices that sane people have been trying to stamp out for years. In this case, we learn that it is racist and cultural colonization to oppose mutilating the genitals of young girls to ensure that they cannot one day enjoy sex, because that would make them civilization-destroying nymphomaniacs.
FGM comes from the same people who bring you rape gangs, niqabs, and Khat chewing. Many of the places where it is common have reached the civilizational heights of cooking with dung, which is, admittedly, probably a good way to boost your immune system.
The geniuses at the BMJ have published an article that argues that the war on FGM waged by people who have attained the civilizational height of learning to read, write, and tell time is actually a bad thing, because it is as culturally insensitive as opposing giving puberty blockers and genital surgeries to children.
Traditional female genital practices, though long-standing in many cultures, have become the focus of an expansive global campaign against ‘female genital mutilation’ (FGM). In this article, we critically examine the harms produced by the anti-FGM discourse and policies, despite their grounding in human rights and health advocacy. We argue that a ubiquitous ‘standard tale’ obscures the diversity of practices, meanings and experiences among those affected. This discourse, driven by a heavily racialised and ethnocentric framework, has led to unintended but serious consequences: the erosion of trust in healthcare settings, the silencing of dissenting or nuanced community voices, racial profiling and disproportionate legal surveillance of migrant families. Moreover, we highlight a troubling double standard that legitimises comparable genital surgeries in Western contexts while condemning similar procedures in others. We call for more balanced and evidence-based journalism, policy and public discourse—ones that account for cultural complexity and avoid the reductive and stigmatising force of the term ‘mutilation’. A re-evaluation of advocacy strategies is needed to ensure that they do not reproduce the very injustices they aim to challenge.
Now I, being a neanderthal by virtue of the fact that I believe that some cultural practices are superior to others, read about the similarity between Western genital mutilation and Third-World genital mutilation and see that as an acknowledgment that we went off the rails somewhere, and should immediately stop emulating cultures that are literally stuck in the Stone Age.
This is proof, though, that I am not enlightened, and should listen to my credentialed betters from institutions revered around the world. Their lesson is that we should quit being cultural colonists and embrace the diverse cultures of the world, which really are no less enlightened than we.
Now you would expect that, among the large world of academics, you could find a few obscure examples of people who hold crazy views, and that, perhaps, a bad paper or two would even make it into the pages of a prestigious journal.
That is most certainly not what you have here. There are 25 signatories to this paper, from esteemed institutions and across the many disciplines. Law School professors, medical school professors, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and philosophers all came together to pound into our heads that removing the clitoris of children with broken Coke bottles is really a highly advanced practice we should admire.
After all, we chop off breasts and penises too, you know.
And we are not talking about people from some fly-by-night school, who, after all, wouldn't be offered a plum spot in the BMJ, but rather some of the Best™ universities such as...Cambridge University.
Have I heard that name before? Isn't that where the Best Sociologist in the World™ taught?
The fact that an article like this can be published by anybody, no less the BMJ, is a cultural and scientific disaster, not a funny human interest story about how Woke One was craaazzzzyyyyy. These people have power. They teach our ruling class. Your doctor, in your dotage, has been taught to think this way.
Expect that they will be burning incense, pulling out the crystals, imploring the gods with prayers, each of which will be endorsed by highly credentialed people, and the incense will be licensed by Bristol Myers Squibb or Pfizer and sold at a premium.
$1,000 a whiff of that smoke to inhale to cure your COPD.
We know what decolonization looks like in practice, and it isn't pretty. The best experiment was South Africa, which had a peaceful transfer of power, a highly developed economy that was among the wealthiest in the world, and extensive infrastructure.
It is now a disaster, all due to a "decolonization" ideology.
South Africa looks like a zombie apocalypse now!
— Jason Bartlett (@Jason2bartlett) May 20, 2026
This the same country that gave you the first heart transplant under completely different governance as we all know.
Let that sink in! pic.twitter.com/F2c6uxjzR4
South Africa has clearly improved since ANC took over!!! 😲😲😲 pic.twitter.com/pMFTihR98A
— Rogue (@RogueUnfiltered) August 20, 2026
Mamdani, by the way, believes that South Africa is a model we should follow in America. And guess who voted for him.
It was the same sort of people as those who wrote this paper.
Mamdani is trying to implement the same policy as South Africa in NYC. I thought this article was parody when I saw a screenshot. I had to hunt down the original. pic.twitter.com/a0HqXra4R8
— I Love America News (@ILA_NewsX) January 8, 2026
I am not going to defend the apartheid government of South Africa because the fundamental racism was evil. I also won't endorse a way of thinking based on the idea that rejecting Western ideas makes its replacement superior.
That is the kind of logic that leads us down the path to endorsing FGM, and it is at least as evil, and arguably more so.
Our institutions are broken. We are not improving them or making them more enlightened and less racist; we are committing seppuku.
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