THIS IS CNN: CNN Panel Meltdown Over Trans Issue Shows Left Learned No Lessons From 2024 Defeat.
A CNN panel discussion this past week perfectly exemplified the Left’s remaining blindspot on the transgender issue, which the Wall Street Journal called the “sleeper issue” of the 2024 election.
One guest, Jay Michaelson, yelled at strategist Shermichael Singleton for supposedly being
“transphobic” for explaining that boys who identify as trans playing in female sports is not a popular policy with families across the country. Moreover, CNN host Abby Phillips, amazingly, tried to police Singleton’s language instead of shutting down Michaelson’s tantrum.“They’re not boys! I’m not gonna listen to ‘transphobia’ at this table!” Michaelson interrupted Singleton. “Did you call a ‘trans girl’ a boy?! … When you use words as a slur, I’m gonna interrupt.”
“They’re not boys! They’re not boys!” Michaelson continued to interrupt. “I’m not gonna sit there and listen to that.”
Phillips tried to “reset” the discussion by saying the trans issue is a “heated” one, but notably called on Singleton to seemingly police his language to be “respectful” to Michaelson.
“I think out of respect for Jay, let’s try to talk about this in a way that is respectful,” Phillips said to Singleton.
It’s an astonishing bit of tag-team language bullying against Singleton, both by the world’s angriest rabbi, and the show’s equally leftist host:
Another remarkable thing about this clip is the casting of Singleton as if he’s the cultural aggressor, rather than a normal guy calmly pushing back against the redefinition of everything we’ve assumed since the dawn of time. He didn’t make this an issue; they did.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 9, 2024
UPDATE: As Richard Fernandez tweets, “One of the ways to defend a position is to insist on language that makes it impossible to attack or criticize it at all. Control of language is an immensely powerful tactic. Once you concede the vocabulary you are doomed.”