COVID, Gender, & Mainstream Media
Spectrum Street Epistemology in Sydney, Australia
This Spectrum Street Epistemology exercise in Sydney, Australia began with a claim about COVID-19. It quickly transformed into a conversation about mainstream media and gender self-ID. Two women and one man with diverse views on the topics participated.
Peter Boghossian offered two claims about COVID-19, the first regarding Australia’s response to the pandemic and the second about mask mandates. Discussion regarding media influence during the pandemic led to a third claim: “Mainstream media is trustworthy.”
One participant said her feelings on mainstream media would have been different just a few days before. She said “the scales have fallen from my eyes” following Australian media coverage of Kellie-Jay Keen’s “Let Women Speak” events. Peter offered two new claims to the group related to this topic: “Female-only spaces should exist,” and “Trans women are women.” The conversation ended with an attempt to define “woman.”
Two participants indicated that discussing gender-ID laws could have negative consequences, including losing friends and employment. One woman’s hands were visibly shaking. When Peter interviewed Kellie-Jay Keen following her events in Australia, he shared excerpts of this conversation.
This conversation in particular did an excellent job of illustrating how damaging suppression of free-speech is to the individual and ultimately to societies ability to explore and identify truth.
These are the conversations of an insane society. We have lost our grip when we can no longer define male and female. Everything is supposedly a social construct, but the Left is still defining our reality.