Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was confronted by a few college students last year over the number of genders in existence. The exchange centers around a back and forth between Kirk and two young men who were there to protest Kirk’s appearance on campus while accusing him of being a “transphobic piece of shit.” […]
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was confronted by a few college students last year over the number of genders in existence.
The exchange centers around a back and forth between Kirk and two young men who were there to protest Kirk's appearance on campus while accusing him of being a "transphobic piece of shit."
Kirk asked the most verbose of the two students how many genders there are, to which he responded "I don't think that's a quantifiable number." When Kirk suggested 100 as a figure, a long-haired student, with arms akimbo, replied "every time you annoy us we add five."
The students go on to repeat the rote dictates of gender theory, in which sex and gender are divorced entities and gender itself is entirely a social construct.
"Do you think 3-year-olds should be able to choose whatever gender they are?" Kirk asked, to which one student responded "that's beautiful, I love that, that's awesome."
There has been a marked increase in gender ideology being pushed on kids. As The Post Millennial reports, examples range from Kindergarten teachers teaching trans terminology to guidance counselors keeping children's gender transitions from parents.
Kirk stumped the two when he asked if there are biological differences between men and women and asserted that gender and sex are directly related. The long-haired student attempted a gender theory semantic shift and said "between males and females?" to which Kirk immediately responded, "they're the same thing."
The long-haired student then said they're not playing the same language game, "to use the Wittgensteinian term." This is an incorrect reference to German Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's "the language game" concept.
Wittgenstein's "game" and body of work was a rebuttal of the American Scientist Charles Sanders Peirce's work in semantics. Sanders, often called the "father of pragmatism," continued the Enlightenment tradition of stressing the relationship between semantics and ontology: for existence to have meaning, words, and concepts should be logically defined and correspond to reality. In contrast, Wittgenstein believed words do not need to have clarity for meaning and do not need to correspond to reality at all.
Sanders is considered the last of the modernists and Wittgenstein one of the first postmodernists as well as a nihilist.
Kirk addressed this nihilist thinking very plainly and said "if you don't have societal and biological standards you can divulge into chaos.
