The New York Post (founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton) published a disturbing article yesterday: “Minneapolis gunman Robin Westman blamed massacre on mom warning him not to change gender.”
Robert (aka Robin) Westman wrote in his journal:
“I remember one day, she said something like, ‘In the future you will look back and feel ridiculous about who you feel like you are inside. You will regret this.’”
His mother was right.
Westman said this made him want to kill children. Let that sink in: his mother telling him the truth—offering sound, grounded parenting—became, in his mind, justification for mass murder. Even while admitting he should never have gone down that path, and warning others against it, this was his response to parental correction.
See how this ideology works? The mother refuses to lie, so the son kills children. This warped logic mirrors the emotional blackmail often employed by trans activists, where suicide threats are wielded to enforce compliance with a warped worldview.
But those trapped in this delusion—given meaning by radical gender ideology, indeed generated by it—aren’t the only ones deploying this tactic. The queer activist sphere and the profit-driven medical industry that mutilates bodies have adopted the same coercive logic. And now, grotesquely, we see child murder used as leverage to demand affirmation of a sick ideology.
This is what I warned about Thursday in Alliance of Death Cults: The Rise of Lethal Misanthropy in the West (see also The Terrorist Embodies the Ideology in Reality).
Yesterday on Facebook and X, I posted an analogy to illustrate the emerging mindset in queer praxis:
Instead of condemning Islamic terrorism every time a Muslim kills people, we need to respond with love and acceptance. Those who oppose Islam are responsible for the terrorism. Islam is a religion of peace. We provoke them by rejecting their way of life.
We would have fewer victims of Islamic terrorism if we affirmed the teachings of Muhammad and changed our laws to reflect his tenets. That’s all they want: for the rest of us to embrace their worldview. We must teach our children that Islam is a wonderful way to see the world—and ask them whether they might want to become Muslim themselves. We should fly the Star and Crescent over City Hall and paint elaborate geometric designs on our crosswalks. This is how we should deal with Islamic terrorism: by recognizing our role in causing mass shootings and suicide bombings. Because, really, it’s our fault. We’re the bigots.
It’s less an analogy than a parallel. Anti-Western sentiment and self-loathing underpin woke progressivism. It’s the frame and the shuttle of the loom weaving together anti-human ideologies. The endgame of progressivism isn’t just the overthrow of the American republic—it is the dismantling of the Enlightenment itself, replaced with the nihilism of transhumanism: a religious fervor that denies reality.
We are now in the terroristic phase of a neo-religion. Authorities hid Audrey (aka Aiden) Hale’s manifesto because they needed more time to normalize the ideology. Westman’s approach—releasing so much on the Internet—did not allow the authorities to memoryhole his crime and the motive.
Shame on everybody who enables this pathology. It’s madness. Denying the madness goes to judgment. If one believes in the doctrine of gender identity, one’s judgment on everything is suspect. If he’s right about anything, it’s accidental; he is simply repeating a truth he’s heard from an authority he obeys, just as he repeats the lies that authority tells him. He does not obey reason.
Deep down, almost everyone knows Westman was a man. Likewise, almost everybody knows Hale was a woman. Some reporters avoid pronouns altogether, terrified of what will happen if they use the “wrong” ones—their linguistic contortions are, at this point, almost comical. Others knowingly use the wrong pronouns out of fear. And still others insist on the wrong pronouns because they’re loyal to a movement that demands lies over truth.
Westman was a man. Hale was a woman. Both were psychopaths who killed children because they embraced a hateful, anti-human ideology—the same ideology that demands we all participate in the lie.
There’s no transcultural or transhistorical way for a male or a female to appear. This is not about how a person dresses or whether he wears makeup or whatever. It’s about the demand that society affirm the delusion that a person can be the gender he is not and cannot be—and making them out to be the enemy when they don’t.
The West is a free society because we don’t have to believe ridiculous things. We shouldn’t have to live in fear over our refusal to participate in a mythology about gender, a god, or anything else. Children shouldn’t have to die for the cause of a neo-religion.
It’s not resistance to radical gender ideology that’s responsible for the death of children. It’s not guns, either. It’s the collective act of embracing a deranged worldview that endangers them.
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