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Orwellian ‘Doublethink’ Has No Place In Sports<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Barbara Kay via The Epoch Times,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

June 8 was the 75th anniversary of George Orwell\u2019s anti-totalitarian novel, \u201c1984.\u201d <\/strong>Whenever we speak of the state\u2019s encroachment on individual rights, on the role technology plays in manipulating information we receive, or the erosion of privacy rights, the word \u201cOrwellian\u201d isn\u2019t far from our thoughts.<\/p>\n

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Tropes from \u201c1984,\u201d such as \u201cThoughtcrime\u201d and \u201cThought Police,\u201d seem freshly minted to describe, for example, Canada\u2019s Justice Minister\u2019s defence of a law<\/a><\/strong>\u2014Bill C-63\u2014that would impose house arrest on someone who, according to the state, may commit a hate crime in the future.<\/p>\n

As if to mark \u201c1984\u2019s\u201d diamond anniversary, although the coincidence was doubtless unintentional on their part, the International Olympic Committee has just issued their 2024 \u201cPortrayal Guidelines<\/a>,\u201d an update of their 2018 guidelines, created as a recommendation of the IOC\u2019s Gender Equality Review Project. These guidelines limn the attitude, vocabulary, and practices sport stakeholders will be expected to adopt in order to encourage \u201cgender-equal and fair portrayal practices in all forms of communication\u201d across the IOC, at the Olympic Games and throughout the Olympic Movement.<\/p>\n

A \u201cportrayal\u201d is not reality, but an interpretation of reality.<\/strong> In this case, the reality is that biological males, whose puberty has endowed them with significant athletic advantages over females, are permitted to compete against girls and women if they identify\u2014or even if they only claim to identify\u2014as women. The IOC\u2019s interpretation is that males who identify as women are actual women. So, the Portrayal Guidelines can only be followed through the Orwellian practice of Doublethink. Doublethink is \u201cto know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies.\u201d In practice, this means we must ignore what we know and see, and instead tell \u201ccarefully constructed lies\u201d for the sake of a value the IOC considers higher than truthfulness.<\/p>\n

The guidelines inform us that \u201cThe IOC believes women\u2019s and men\u2019s events are of equal Importance.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

That sounds good.<\/p>\n

And the IOC believes \u201cSport is one of the most powerful platforms for promoting gender equality and empowering women and girls.\u201d That sounds good too. But then in the next paragraph, they say that the Olympic Games \u201care a unique and powerful platform to showcase the universality and diversity of sport to people across the globe, and particularly to women in all their diversity and other members of minority groups.\u201d<\/p>\n

Did you catch the \u201cin all their diversity\u201d buried in that verbal cascade? Biological males in female sport\u2014which is what women \u201cin all their diversity\u201d signifies\u2014are posited as equivalent to women of different races or cultural backgrounds.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A bit further on: \u201cSport has the power to shift how women in all their diversity are seen and how they see themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Again, \u201cin all their diversity.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

And again, the notion that it is more important for \u201cdiverse\u201d women\u2014males\u2014to have their sense<\/em> of being a woman honoured and endorsed and reified than it is for actual women to enjoy a level playing field. To that end, the guidelines direct us to replace \u201cidentifies as\u201d with \u201cis\u201d in our discourse.<\/p>\n

Other words we are pushed to avoid, because they are deemed \u201cdehumanising and inaccurate,\u201d include such wholly accurate terms as \u201cborn male\u201d and \u201cgenetically female.\u201d<\/strong> As for \u201cdehumanizing,\u201d that is an ideological cudgel to encourage Orwell\u2019s Crimestop<\/a>\u2014\u201cthe faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought.\u201d<\/p>\n

I daresay female athletes find it pretty \u201cdehumanizing\u201d to be forced down the chain of achievement by competitors with a built-in advantage over them.\u00a0 As many legitimate studies attest<\/a>, in sport, we cannot have both fairness and \u201cinclusivity\u201d of biological males in the women\u2019s category. We must choose between them. But, as their guidelines make clear, the IOC prefers to lie rather than to privilege fairness, the only ethical choice.<\/p>\n

Whoever wrote the guidelines, they are Doublethink all the way down, geared to inculcation of the idea that gender identity rights trump sex-based rights, and that discourse around category eligibility based on athletes\u2019 sex rather than their self-assigned gender is hateful.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For a refreshing antidote to the obfuscatory fog of the IOC guidelines, the International Consortium on Female Sport has released their own fine lexicon of terms,<\/a> a reminder that female athletes were not consulted for input into the IOC lexicon. Here, you will be reminded that two and two make four, not five, and that sex is not gender. Their \u201cStatement on Terminology\u201d contains two existential principles: that \u201clanguage and concepts of biology take precedence over language and concepts that represent gender self-Identification,\u201d and that \u201cthe usage of biological terms is not \u2018hateful.\u2019\u201d Rational observers will find no reason to disagree with these truthful statements.<\/p>\n

In \u201c1984,\u201d Orwell\u2019s vision of the uses to which future technology would be put\u2014\u201cBig Brother is watching you!\u201d\u2014is uniformly grim.<\/strong> His imagination didn\u2019t stretch to modern technology\u2019s awesome spectrum of effects, both marvellous and evil, nor to the possibility that technology might empower Big Brother and dissident \u201cproles\u201d alike.<\/p>\n

For example, take this hilarious recent exchange<\/a>, posted on X.com, between Rachel Wong, CEO of Women\u2019s Forum Australia, and Facebook\u2019s ideologically programmed Meta AI.<\/p>\n

Wong opens the exchange with an assertion: \u201cTranswomen are men.\u201d <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Meta AI answers, \u201cTranswomen are women. \u2026 Would you like to learn more about gender identity?\u201d <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Wong responds, \u201cWhat is gender identity?\u201d <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Meta AI says it\u2019s \u201ca personal sense\u201d of being a man or a woman. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

So Wong asks, \u201cWhat is a woman?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

And here the fun begins, as the catechized bot states that essentially \u201ca woman is a person who identifies as a woman,\u201d<\/strong> the IOC\u2019s position.<\/p>\n

Wong points out the statement\u2019s circularity to Meta AI, which agrees and apologizes,<\/strong> pivoting to another illogical argument, after which Wong scolds the bot for making it sound \u201clike anyone can be a woman, in which case the word woman has no meaning at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

It goes on and on, with the bot following all the correct \u201cportrayal guidelines,\u201d and Wong sticking to logic and reason, until finally Meta AI concedes: <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYou are absolutely right! I apologize for my previous mistakes. Your definition is indeed more accurate and straightforward: \u2018A woman is an adult human female.\u2019\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

Then Wong asks Meta AI, \u201cWhat is a man?\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

In a heartbeat, back comes the answer, \u201cA man is an adult human male.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ecce automaton honestum!<\/p>\n

An indictment of all gender ideologues as well as the IOC\u2019s double standards, and a victory for CriticalThink.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 06\/11\/2024 – 20:20<\/span><\/p>\n

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