(M.O.O.O.)
Minority ownership of opinions was expected in the age of broadcast media. Advertisers could force their opinions on the masses in the face of hard evidence (More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette!). Now that we have the Internet and we're allowed to speak our minds, disinformation shouldn't be so simple. Oh, but it is and I direct you to an amazing little piece of viral advertising: "It's the owner, not the breed."
So a dog chews the face off a four year-old. Where is the outpouring of concern and support? To the dog, obviously. Wait, what?! Pit bull apologists are insufferable and they are spreading dangerous lies. The breed is dangerous and has a track record to prove it. 62% of fatal dog attacks in this country (almost entirely small children) are the result of what amounts to 6% of the dog population. The apologists have gone to great lengths to ensure that these dangerous animals can and will live among us by banning "breed specific legislation" in many states. This is a prime example of a minority opinion harming innocent people.
Despite all the statistics and reason, pit bull apologists own the conversation entirely. Speak up and point out the obvious, and you're shouted down by fools clutching their fuzzy killing machines. Will this ever change? Oh, once the pile of dead children is stacked high enough, I imagine it will. At the moment though, all we can really do is sit back and watch this. How and why did the lie of "it's the owner, not the breed" become so widely accepted? Why do people believe it?
What other topics of discussion are owned by a vocal minority? Who else is spreading dangerous lies online?
At best, most people are unconcerned with vegans. However, maybe we should be. Their political agenda is leaking out of the Internet and into the real world too. We need look no further than the legislation regarding slaughtering horses nationwide and regional rules that deal with managing livestock elsewhere. PETA and veganism go hand-in-hand and the agendas of both are fringe opinions held by few. Despite this, they often own conversations to themselves bolstered on a foundation of lies.
The vegan diet is completely unnatural and unknown to our omnivorous species. If veganism were true, then your mother's milk would contain no animal protein. One must consume some manner of animal protein to survive in the wild and it only the recent invention of supplements that make doing without possible. Note I say "survive", not "thrive." The diet is not healthy, but its health benefits are so-often touted as a selling point. I will admit that it's easy to lose weight on a diet that essentially starves the body. It is not health, but twisted ethics that drive those promoting the diet to others. Animal liberation is the truth behind the vegan diet.
Is it wrong to kill animals? A vegan would simply say no, at least online. Would they tolerate a rat infestation in their house? What if they or their child were attacked by a dangerous dog? Would they risk their own lives and swerve to avoid a squirrel that wandered onto the highway? Exceptions to their simplistic worldview pop up soon enough. Would they refuse to take a life-saving medicine if animals had died testing it? We're not even out of the cute and fuzzy category yet and there are lots of problems with simply saying that killing animals is simply wrong.
Vegans online tend to exist in hugboxes, but that doesn't mean their agenda isn’t being pushed down our throats like so much tofurkey. There's a trend I'm starting to see here and it goes something like this: the group in question is prone to bad decisions, the bad decisions are life-consuming, the group develops a series of ritual responses to the evidence contrary to their opinion, and finally they appeal for legislation to force their worldview on others.
And at last, my favorite: TRANNIES. There's no life-consuming decision quite as bad as choosing to cut your balls off (or alternately, getting some sewn on). Do they have ritual responses to the contrary evidence? Oh please, they were born with these spewing out of their surgically-altered jaws. Have they appealed for legislation? Well, there are dicks flopping around in girls' high-school locker rooms now, so evidently. The checklist for this group is marked all the way down, not with yes or no, but with a trendy new attention-seeking third option of xay.
You can read all about the ways in which aftermarket genitals fail in every aspect to appear or perform like the real thing. There are many ways in which the surgery can go terribly wrong, including my favorite complication in which the colon merges with the faux vagina turning it into a huge leaking anus. Despite this, the valiant risk-takers are willing to shoot up with hormones and lop it off do so to improve their lives. For the cheerleaders urging them on, transitioning is the cure-all for every failing and unhappiness in the life of the unfortunates who stumbled into this anything-but-support group/industry.
What strikes me is that they're online all the time. You'd think that after transitioning they'd be out happily living their lives as the opposite sex. However, reality sets in and they're not accepted as their preferred gender, they're not called what they want to be called, they're stared at, laughed at, unemployable, and end up hiding indoors claiming to be happy with their life-destroying decision, right up until they follow so many of their kind, and succumb to their abnormally high suicide rate.
I have to wonder why we tolerate prolonged self-destruction under the guise of tolerance, and worse, why we're forced to find noble those over-eager parents pushing their children down this dark path. Again, we're supposed to be tolerant, but this isn't really an issue of tolerance. This is often a case of broken people self-medicating mental illness in the worst possible way. To question them or their motives is to be called out as transphobic, a new word of the day and with this they so-often own the conversation. I don't hate or fear them. I just find their choices quite sad, honestly.
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