{"id":6292,"date":"2023-04-24T08:14:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T12:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=6292"},"modified":"2023-06-11T11:50:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T15:50:18","slug":"fear-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2023\/04\/24\/fear-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Just a note:&nbsp;&nbsp;This essay was done \u2013 finished, or at least ready for more editing on Sunday morning.  Then,  I managed to do something I haven\u2019t done since I was typing on my Apple IIC back in the 80\u2019s.&nbsp;&nbsp; I was just finishing up a chapter of my Master\u2019s Thesis, twenty pages of cross country running history. Then lightning struck.&nbsp;&nbsp;No, it wasn\u2019t a brilliant workout plan to win the State Meet, it was<u>&nbsp;real<\/u>&nbsp;lightning, and close by.&nbsp;&nbsp;The power went out, and so did my Apple IIC, along with twenty pages of text NOT saved to the floppy disk drive (5 \u00bd inch floppies \u2013 kids today would have a whole different definition for that!!).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Somehow, today\u2019s essay disappeared:&nbsp;&nbsp;not saved under the wrong name, not in the \u201crecovery\u201d file, not out in the ethernet \u2013 just gone.&nbsp;&nbsp;So here\u2019s round two, maybe better, maybe worse, but no way to compare and tell. I&#8217;ll definitely save.&nbsp;&nbsp;Enjoy the fruits of my duplicate labors!!!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Guns<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an essay in the \u201cGuns Series\u201d called&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2023\/03\/30\/fear-itself\/\">Fear Itself<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em>It was about the historic linkages between Americans, guns and fear, right from the very beginnings, even before the American Revolution.&nbsp;&nbsp;I won\u2019t repeat all of that (you can click the link above if you\u2019d like), but this past week has been the \u201cexample to prove the point\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Kansas City, an old white man shot a skinny young black man for mistakenly knocking on his door.&nbsp;&nbsp;No words were spoken, just gunshots through the door, hitting the young man in the head.&nbsp;&nbsp;In North Carolina, a middle-aged black man shot a white neighboring six year-old girl and her father.&nbsp;&nbsp;The cause:&nbsp;&nbsp;a basketball rolled into his yard, and they tried to recover it.&nbsp;&nbsp;In upstate New York, a white man shot and killed a twenty year-old white girl.&nbsp;&nbsp;Her mistake:&nbsp;&nbsp;pulling into his driveway.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s more.&nbsp;&nbsp;There&#8217;s the cheerleader in Texas who was shot for getting in the wrong car.&nbsp;&nbsp;And the Florida men: the mistaken grocery delivery drivers shot at by a home owner, and the University of Tampa man (white), shot and killed for getting into a private car he thought was his Uber ride.&nbsp;&nbsp;Both district attorneys declined to file charges.&nbsp;&nbsp;Under Florida\u2019s infamous \u201cstand your ground\u201d law (remember Travon Martin back in 2012?) the homeowner and driver were \u201cin the right\u201d defending their property (<em>save).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Legal Tender<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>All of these incidents have three things in common:&nbsp;&nbsp;fear, guns, and innocent victims.&nbsp;&nbsp;The shooters were fearful:&nbsp;&nbsp;of the knock on the door, the neighbor in the yard, the strange car in the driveway, the stranger opening the car door.&nbsp;&nbsp;And they all had guns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fear is the \u201clegal tender\u201d of our media world.&nbsp;&nbsp;Here\u2019s today\u2019s \u201crandom\u201d feed from my&nbsp;<em>Fox News<\/em>&nbsp;app as I write this essay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Mass shooting leaves at least nine people hurt at after-prom party in Texas<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Wisconsin attorney reacts to trans woman flashing male genitalia at girls in locker room<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Christian prayer warriors to attend Satanic gathering in Boston<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Dangerous Hawaii man scales razor wire fence in jail escape<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Texas cattle found dead with tongues cut out with \u201capparent precision\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Backlash intensifies following transgender state lawmaker\u2019s \u201chate filled\u201d remarks<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Former Disney World employee took hundreds of \u201cupskirt videos\u201d (save).<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Be afraid. Don\u2019t send you kids to parties, or locker rooms.&nbsp;&nbsp;Satanists are out to out-pray you, and dangerous criminals aren\u2019t stopped by razor wire.&nbsp;&nbsp;Transgendered women are full of hate, and even at Disney World the employees are perverts.&nbsp;&nbsp;I\u2019m not sure what\u2019s up with the cows, but it\u2019s pretty weird, if not scary (<em>save).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Orientation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not just about guns.&nbsp;&nbsp;When I was a kid back in the 1960\u2019s, homosexuality was illegal in much of the United States.&nbsp;&nbsp;Saying you were homosexual \u2013 gay &#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;wasn\u2019t illegal itself, but having physical love was against the law.&nbsp;&nbsp;Of course there were gay people, but most were \u201cin the closet\u201d, rumored and secretly discussed, like the man who lived across the street in Cincinnati.&nbsp;&nbsp;I remember being seven and trying to understand the whispered, \u201c He\u2019s a man who left his wife for another man\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The famous Stonewall Protests weren\u2019t until 1969, and when I started teaching a decade later, teachers still \u201cweren\u2019t allowed\u201d to be gay.&nbsp;&nbsp;Of course some were, but their secret was closely kept; open knowledge would cost them their jobs.&nbsp;&nbsp;Americans feared what they didn\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even in the 1990\u2019s I was teaching when a male student had the \u201caudacity\u201d to come out in high school.&nbsp;&nbsp;He was beaten up in the locker room and constantly bullied in the hallways.&nbsp;&nbsp;It seemed that many male students, and even some of the staff, thought he \u201cearned\u201d the beatings by being honest about his orientation.&nbsp;&nbsp;That was all about fear, that somehow being openly gay might cause an \u201cepidemic of gayness\u201d, or that he represented a threat to the other males in the school.&nbsp;&nbsp;Even just thirty years ago, we didn\u2019t understand the forces that drove sexuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not that it\u2019s easy to \u201ccome out\u201d as a gay person now.&nbsp;&nbsp;But there\u2019s a lot more understanding, and a lot less institutional bias then there was just a couple of decades ago (<em>save).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gender<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, transgendered kids face the same kinds of discrimination.&nbsp;&nbsp;They face the fear of others who don\u2019t understand, and aren\u2019t willing to allow them to live their lives.&nbsp;&nbsp;Some of the persecutors are folks my age, schooled that gender is all about a single \u2018Y\u2019 chromosome and genital equipment.&nbsp;&nbsp;And parents worry \u2013 will \u201cpeer pressure\u201d make my kid trans?&nbsp;&nbsp;Are you kidding? Science now knows that there are dozens of factors that go into gender, and that, as difficult as it is for the \u201cregular\u201d world to understand, there are boys trapped in girls bodies, and girls in boys bodies (<em>save).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But multiple state legislatures across the United States are outlawing medical care for those trapped kids.&nbsp;Instead of allowing the kids, their parents and doctors to determine what course they should take, legislatures are virtually requiring them to grow up in bodies that are betraying them daily.&nbsp;&nbsp;The state legislatures are doing it to \u201cempower\u201d the parents, but really they are stripping them of their ability to make the best decisions for their kids.&nbsp;&nbsp;And as for the surgical solutions \u2013 hysterectomies and castrations followed by reconstruction; there are almost none of those performed on minors in the US.&nbsp;&nbsp;That\u2019s the \u201cstraw-man\u201d argument, just like the \u201cgay child molester\u201d boogie man.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Legal Cruelty<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s cruel.&nbsp;&nbsp;We\u2019ll look back  in a score of years, and wonder just how we could have stooped so low, just as we look back at  the 60&#8217;s  gay laws.&nbsp;&nbsp;We are bullying the most vulnerable, using them as political pawns; and generating fear.&nbsp;&nbsp;And, as the transgender state legislator from Montana so eloquently put it, there will be \u201cblood on the hands\u201d of the lawmakers who wrote those laws.&nbsp;&nbsp;It will be the blood of suicidal young people,  forced to grow up in the wrong gender.&nbsp;&nbsp;Some fear what they are told \u201cnot\u201d to understand \u2013 and so they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I were a parent, already struggling to help my transgendered child, I would be more than outraged.&nbsp;&nbsp;Those states are not just legislating, they are putting already at-risk children in greater danger.&nbsp;&nbsp;For parents trying to &#8220;save&#8221; their kids, that&#8217;s an unacceptable threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And for those legislators with future blood on their hands,  it&#8217;s unconscionable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(save)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a note:&nbsp;&nbsp;This essay was done \u2013 finished, or at least ready for more editing on Sunday morning. 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