This Tweet and others by John Cleese on transgender issues are eye-opening and raise an important point. This can be confirmed quickly by cruising Twitter. Numerous people refuse to read what J. K. Rowling writes about people who are transgender, yet they hate her for what she supposedly said. This is even more distressing than the large number of people who read only headlines before responding to posts or sharing the entire article. “59 percent of all links shared on social networks aren’t actually clicked on at all, implying the majority of article shares aren’t based on actual reading.” I’ve seen it repeatedly on Twitter that Woke Folk claim that Rowling has said things that she never said. Tweets by or about Abigail Shrier draw hate from the same crowd (and from large media outlets), most of whom claim that she is “anti trans,” when 1) there is no evidence of this and 2) Shrier’s book, Irreversible Damage, focuses only on teenagers who are undergoing surgery and hormone treatment based upon self-diagnosis and without the benefit of any counseling in an attempt to change their gender.
Nowhere was this more evident than in the statement “46 million Americans without Health Insurance.” It was the title of a Census Bureau report; reading the entire report revealed that the number of Americans without a Third-Party payer for health costs, who could not afford to buy it on their own, was actually eleven million. Still a tragedy; one involving three percent of our population is quite different from one involving 15% of our population. The former requires a squad of snipers, while the latter requires nuclear weapons.
Most of the ACA was overkill. When pointed out, opponents were accused of malicious motives. Instead, we were guilty of actually reading the article.