Judge Jackson’s ‘Don’t Know Much Biology’ Moment and Our Endangered Civilization
Judges like Ketanji Brown Jackson are a feature, not a bug, of our brave new post-modern, arguably pre-civilizational world, brought to you by our Ruling Class.
Judge Jackson’s ‘Don’t Know Much Biology’ Moment and Our Endangered Civilization
That President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, fulfilling his promise to put a black woman up for a seat on the bench, yet Judge Jackson pled the Fifth and then ignorance when asked in confirmation hearings to define one of Biden’s two prerequisites—what a woman is—will forever live in infamy in the annals of Court history.
Perhaps the most consequential element of the stunning exchange between Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Judge Jackson, in which Sen. Blackburn asked the judge to “provide a definition of the word ‘woman’,” eliciting a reply from Judge Jackson of “No, I can’t,” is to be found in its transparent—and purposeful—dishonesty.
It isn’t that Judge Jackson “can’t” define “woman”—something that, to put it lightly, strains all credulity, and would disqualify her in a sane world—but that she wouldn’t define what a woman is.
Why wouldn’t she?
I answer this question in a new piece at the Epoch Times.
As I conclude in part:
In a time of deathly serious challenges, we have a Ruling Class uniquely unserious about preserving the civilization from which it has so richly benefitted, and therefore ill-equipped to grapple with what’s facing it.
In fact it’s worse than that. We have a Ruling Class that is actively undermining the very pillars of that civilization, while pursuing those who call out its daily depredations as domestic terrorists.
Their destruction begins with rejecting things we know to be true, or at minimum coercing people into telling lies, and if all else fails, silencing them. It ends with societal collapse.
And among the most basic and fundamental truths is that we are born men and women, each with unique and distinctive characteristics. Human life begins there.
Judge Jackson’s non-response should be seen as an inadvertent endorsement of the progressives’ radical sexual ideology which denies this; celebrating the likes of a Lia Thomas or a Rachel Levine, while deplatforming the people and publications who dare to refer to them by their sex.
This denial is a precursor to the progressives’ rejection of the nuclear family. Kill the nuclear family—and indeed we have seen the decline of the family, and relatedly that of faith in G-d, and love of country—and you kill the country.
…Judges like Ketanji Brown Jackson are a feature, not a bug, of our brave new post-modern, arguably pre-civilizational world, brought to you by our Ruling Class.
We will all suffer the consequences. That is an inescapable truth you won’t need a biologist to confirm.
Read the whole thing here.