Rich is joined by Michael, Maddy, and Phil on today’s edition of The Editors, and prominent among their topics is a discussion of Michael Knowles’s CPAC speech.
This speech has spread like wildfire, drawing criticism for his saying transgenderism must be eradicated, among other things. Maddy sets the record straight, saying, “This isn’t verbatim, but what he really said was . . . that there’s no middle ground when it comes to transgenderism. Either it’s true or it’s false. . . . And then the clause that people conveniently left out was ‘this whole preposterous ideology.’ . . . So he was very clearly talking about the ideology and not . . . transgender people.”
Michael agreed, and then stressed that Knowles had a point. There’s only so long that this phenomenon can continue, he said, and “it’s time for a swift, decisive intervention of common sense. This stuff has no business being in public schools. . . . There’s a bias in American society towards allowing people to live in their self-delusions. Right? But this one is harmful enough that I think it’s totally appropriate for Michael Knowles and everyone else to long for the end of it.”
To hear the rest of this conversation and much more, listen below.