In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 includes heretofore unimagined employment protections on the basis of sexual preference and “sexual identity.” Neil Gorsuch, appointed to replace the late originalist Antonin Scalia, wrote the majority opinion, joined by squish John Roberts and the rest of the Court’s liberals. Conservative justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh dissented. Gorsuch’s liberal judicial activism has in effect rewritten the most consequential law of the twentieth century and redefined a fundamental aspect of our nature. No ruling that he might make in the future could counteract that kind of radicalism. Conservatives must now count Scalia’s successor among the worst jurists in our history.
It comes as no surprise that a legal establishment confounded by the difference between men and women would be likewise flummoxed by the insistence of criminals on committing crimes. According to Michael LiPetri, chief of Crime Control Strategies for the NYPD, at least 250 of the 2,500 convicts sprung from Rikers Island over coronavirus fears have reoffended and been rearrested 450 times so far. It turns out that law enforcement exists because of crime and not the other way around. Leftists from Gracie Mansion in New York to the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle have fallen for the same error that ideologues have believed since at least the French Revolution: namely, that politics can perfect human nature. The journalist Irving Kristol famously described neoconservatives as liberals who had been “mugged by reality.” Many idealistic liberals once again stand to be mugged, either by reality or by the thugs they themselves let loose.
In Brooklyn, thousands of leftist activists gathered over the weekend to support “black trans lives” after two black men who identified as women were murdered last week. The protesters sought to tie the demonstration to the nation’s broad racial, anti-police protests. But in the case of one murder, the two suspects were both themselves black, and in the case of the second, the Philadelphia Police Department was already at work investigating the crime. The protesters would not let facts get in the way of the narrative, and neither would the mainstream media, which turned from stoking racial resentment to ginning up fear of the sometime coronavirus pandemic. Within the span of just one hour, NBC News tweeted approvingly that a “rally for Black trans lives draws packed crowd to Brooklyn Museum plaza” before warning that “health experts are questioning” President Trump’s decisions to restart his campaign rallies.
Scientific data seem not to have played a role in the media’s reaction to the two mass gatherings, nor crime statistics in the City government’s decision to release thousands of criminals, nor the plain meaning of the Civil Rights Act in the Supreme Court’s ruling to redefine sex. Ideology long ago determined those outcomes. And while we argue against the nonsense, the revolution marches on.
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