Opportunities for direct activism are greatly needed and appreciated. It will take large numbers of people working on different aspects of the problem to solve the Marxist takeover of our country. We are in the midst of a cold war between those who want the U.S. to remain a free nation and those who want to make it unfree.
Yes please. This is something that I’ve loved about some of the accounts calling out vile antisemites that have sprung up since 10/7. They routinely provide contact info for the leadership of schools and companies whose students and employees engage in acts of antisemitism. I try to contact as many of them as I can. And so often the antisemites get fired. We have to all help hold feet to the fire, especially when it comes to protecting the most innocent and vulnerable in our society like the children at TCH.
And one more thing - my son is autistic. As you know, neurodivergent adolescents are disproportionately preyed on by these evil doctors. This is without a doubt the case with many of the children who come through the doors of this chop shop. Thank you, Christopher, for your endless advocacy against this evil because you are defending a particularly vulnerable population that includes my precious child.
I see it this way. Your book was about the history of American Neo-Marxism. People may find it a bit confusing that you are now into activism. You might need to offer a bridge-explanation between the two. In other words, what is the role we should identify you with now? For instance, I thought that I would be seeing a volume 2 coming out soon, in terms of the history of this movement; instead, you are focusing on activism. Nothing wrong with that, but you seem to be changing roles.
Suggestions for direct activism are good. Think of it as Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" but turned on its head to use against the WOKE themselves. Community organization seemed to have been a key to the leftwing advancing their aims. Of course they can read all of this, so the tactics are not secret, but neither was the Alinsky book (1971).
Apart from activist tactics, I would recommend keeping in mind that you would be wise to attempt to understand the principles behind why the WOKE are as they are. How and why do people become that way?
In terms of such understanding of Wokeism, please see Michael Shellenberger, an excerpt of whom is below:
Wokeism is a religion, but its religious nature didn’t necessarily describe the madness that seemed to grip its most devoted adherents. Many people believe crazy things but don’t behave so narcissistically or psychopathically, without regards for other people, in the way that Woke activists do. And so we decided to create a new taxonomy, one focused on Woke psychopathology.
“Woke Psychopathology: A Taxonomy” is inspired by the traits that characterize what the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM-V) calls “Cluster B personality disorders.” There are four of these personality disorders: narcissistic, anti-social (previously psychopathy), histrionic, and borderline. The traits, which run horizontally across the top of the Taxonomy, are Attention-Seeking, Grandiosity, Emotional Dysregulation, Excess of Empathy, Victimhood Ideology, Impaired Reality Testing, Lack of Empathy, and Splitting. Together, the traits form an easy-to-remember acronym: AGE-EVILS.
Though Michel Shellenberger appears to do a decent job fighting WOKE, I am far ahead of him in terms of unravelling and understanding the Evolutionary/Psychological underpinnings of the phenomenon. I am glad that a few people are catching on, but I was pointing out the existence of numerous forms of totalitarianism in the West when I was an undergrad, and within several years of post-grad and life experience, I was announcing what caused this. Therefore, I hope that perhaps Michael Shellenberger will read my book when it comes out.
I was telling listeners 20 years ago what, exactly, the madness was.
It could at least make them uncomfortable? I would hope so. Beyond that - who knows? But I spent 30 years signing petitions and sending letters to people like this and it didn't do any good that I know of. A lot more of them than we realize are brainwashed drones.
They need to be hit smack in the reputation, and the wallet. Then they need a few pesky lawsuits filed against them. I am really surprised there aren't more white people suing for discrimination.
Suing under discrimination is not easy or cheap. Need to file with federal EEOC first, and ask for right to sue. Then comes the lawsuit. Lawyer is $500-$1000 per hour, and only works on contingency if there's a likely payout at the end.
Plus you need damages-- so you have to get fired, lose a promotion, or some other quantifiable event. Then you need evidence that discrimination occurred, and it's not because they don't like you (legal in most places), or some other reason. This is an uphill battle in the best of circumstances, and that's assuming the judge or whoever decides the case believes white people can be discriminated against.
Chris gave us 16 names. Obviously not all of them will be "moved" by a large number of emails. But I am sure that enough of them will understand that people are aware of what they are doing and vehemently oppose it.
Oh, the "awareness" argument. I don't agree, if people are willing to mutilate kids for $$ then they will laugh when you send them your "threatening" note. These are psychopaths we are dealing with, not your average dupe.
Chris, as ever very impactful, empirically based work. Without any evidence at all, I am inclined to agree with Mary. In any case, is there a useful way to contribute to a lawsuit or something that's more of a punch in the face?
My reporting led to an attorney general investigation. The doctors who allegedly committed Medicaid fraud could face up to 10 years in prison. And the hospital could be held liable for the fraud.
The idea is to apply pressure from multiple points simultaneously.
I would like to see a pipeline for faculty and others at Texas and Florida institutions to friendly media contacts so that the anti-DEI laws can be socially enforced.
What I cannot understand is the additional staff involved in these surgeries. How many employees of the hospital saw the procedure codes, checked them in, filed insurance, nurses, lpns, anesthesiologist , surgical technicians, physical therapists, etc, etc etc. AND SAID NOTHING!! They are complicit. ‘I would lose my job’ is a BS answer. Great work as always Chris Rufo.
Since the start of COVID Mania in 2020, I have wondered whether the whole false-front erected by the Neo-Marxists would begin to unravel through the eventual whistleblowers....because there must be scads of people out there who were witness to these wrongdoings, who knew what was actually going on. Eventually a portion of them will either be out of harm's way in terms of job loss possibility, or their conscience will overtake them.
Will email today. Unfortunately, medicine has come under the sway of the Postmodern Progressives. Ideology is everything. Truth is relative. Ethics nonexistent.
This is ALL about feeling virtuous, as they have rejected Judeo-Christian morality, and want us to do the same. That's the theses of my book (Modern Paganism) and my newsletter here on Substack.
This is a well-known psychological phenomenon: Munchausen syndrome by proxy. I want you to be sick, so I can be virtuous by being your defender. Infantilizing a generation.
I believe a great deal of gender dysphoria is Munchausen by proxy, as well as attention garnering and virtue signaling. For the normie parents struggling to resist the trans fascists, they use threats of their child’s suicide (it has been vigorously debunked that denying cross gender hormones or surgeries increases suicidality, quite the opposite actually).
the thing is, this is one of many childrens hospitals that are guilty of doing this. the fact that it is being done to begin with is sickening. When I read as well that Autistic children were being mutilated, it angered me even more, as a parent of a now adult Autistic son, I know how autism affects kids/adults.
Chris, can you elaborate on the string of comments from yesterday’s post concerning the legality of the whistleblower status, the HIPPA laws that may have been violated by Haim and the timing of Haim’s reporting (whether the law that the hospital had allegedly broken had actually gone into effect? I’m terribly worried for Haim and Sivadge. Please continue to post their GiveSendGo link. I hope they have excellent representation.
Haim's lawyers believe that they will prevail in court. He was not motivated by malicious intent and he redacted all of the information before transmitting it. There is an open question about access, which will be part of the court proceedings. Sivadge has not been contacted or indicted by prosecutors, so she is currently not in any legal trouble, which I hope continues.
You are into the practicalities of fighting WOKE. This angle is very necessary, of course.
I am into understanding the mental/emotional causes driving the WOKE perspective and WOKE behaviours. From this understanding, hopefully, will come further successful practical steps.
Good idea, Chris. Hopefully many Texans and others who frequent TCH facilities will join in this effort. They won’t budge unless something threatens their funding.
Great, Chris. Just sent an email to them all. See also: "A high-ranking Biden administration official, Assistant Secretary for Health Dr. Rachel Levine, directly interfered with these supposedly evidence-based WPATH recommendations." The rest is in Barri Weiss' "The Free Press" today (Substack). I knew that guy would do as he is doing. It was like knowing Obama was hanging around with these radical pro-Palestinian academics and the Dems saying to you he'll be neutral when he got in office in 2008. Now we've got the push for the Iran deal, the gaslighting about it and the alliance with the mullahs on the part of our Dem national security apparatus ... Levine is the same, a pernicious influence and a man who wields power with completely wrong and foolish ideas ...
Speaking of such, it is generally not well known that Alexandre Troodo, brother of Canada's tyrannical PM Justin Troodo, worked for years on making documentary films for the Iranian regime. You might have said he was their PR man in the West.
And going back a generation before Justin and Alexandre, their step-father/father, former PM Pierre Troodo, was a self-avowed Communist and eugenicist. Friend of Mao and Fidel Castro. And the UN operative, Maurice Strong. Member of the ill-begotten Club of Rome. In fact, you might say that Justin himself was ill-begotten too.
Yes, but in the same way that the Nuremberg Code was ignored during the authoritarian jabs of the COVID years, unless an edict is written as solid and enforceable law rather than a nice cozy but toothless "code".....there will be persons who toss it aside when convenient.
Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth. Not providing care is sentencing them to death.
I think the numbers are more correctly 58% of trans or questioning youth have considered self-ending to 57% of all youth and 26% have attempted it compared to 31% of anorexic preteen white or asian girls. Boys who don't make the varsity football team actually commit suicide at a higher rate than all of them combined.
The number of actual juvenile deaths from self-ending (suicide is so negative!) has decreased from 588,207 in 1986 to a mere 322,427 today thanks to gender affirming care.
ICYMI, I got my 'stats' from the same dark hole that you got yours!
Here is my wording of the letter in case anybody finds it useful:
Esteemed members of the Board of Trustees of the Texas Children’s Hospital!
I am writing you today to request that you shut down the pediatric sex-change clinic, which has been operating at your hospital in violation of the Texas State Law.
Without getting into the details of the scientific arguments for and against such procedures, suffice it to say that we don't allow young children to drive until 16, to vote until 18 and to drink or smoke until 21. I believe that assisting young children in making life-altering decisions before the age of maturity is violating the Hippocratic Oath. I urge you to follow a more cautious approach taken my multiple European countries in addressing this serious medical issue.
In addition, I ask that you terminate the employment of Richard Roberts and David Paul, the “gender-affirming” doctors who spearheaded the treatment of minors and who are currently under investigation for alleged Medicaid fraud.
I will tell them all that they will be remembered forever as the professionals that destroyed the lives of thousands of children and their families. That they will be remembered not for their courage or skill, but their depravity. And that when they stand before the God they do not fear now, they will tremble and cry and beg for the mercy they did not show these children.
First comment, 16 members of the BOD, makes sense why they kept the money mill going. Great work Chris. Now lets see if the BOD has any sense of decency or honor.
Let me know if you like these opportunities for direct activism. Would you like to see more of this in the future?
Opportunities for direct activism are greatly needed and appreciated. It will take large numbers of people working on different aspects of the problem to solve the Marxist takeover of our country. We are in the midst of a cold war between those who want the U.S. to remain a free nation and those who want to make it unfree.
Yes please. This is something that I’ve loved about some of the accounts calling out vile antisemites that have sprung up since 10/7. They routinely provide contact info for the leadership of schools and companies whose students and employees engage in acts of antisemitism. I try to contact as many of them as I can. And so often the antisemites get fired. We have to all help hold feet to the fire, especially when it comes to protecting the most innocent and vulnerable in our society like the children at TCH.
And one more thing - my son is autistic. As you know, neurodivergent adolescents are disproportionately preyed on by these evil doctors. This is without a doubt the case with many of the children who come through the doors of this chop shop. Thank you, Christopher, for your endless advocacy against this evil because you are defending a particularly vulnerable population that includes my precious child.
Thank you.
I see it this way. Your book was about the history of American Neo-Marxism. People may find it a bit confusing that you are now into activism. You might need to offer a bridge-explanation between the two. In other words, what is the role we should identify you with now? For instance, I thought that I would be seeing a volume 2 coming out soon, in terms of the history of this movement; instead, you are focusing on activism. Nothing wrong with that, but you seem to be changing roles.
Suggestions for direct activism are good. Think of it as Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" but turned on its head to use against the WOKE themselves. Community organization seemed to have been a key to the leftwing advancing their aims. Of course they can read all of this, so the tactics are not secret, but neither was the Alinsky book (1971).
Apart from activist tactics, I would recommend keeping in mind that you would be wise to attempt to understand the principles behind why the WOKE are as they are. How and why do people become that way?
In terms of such understanding of Wokeism, please see Michael Shellenberger, an excerpt of whom is below:
Wokeism is a religion, but its religious nature didn’t necessarily describe the madness that seemed to grip its most devoted adherents. Many people believe crazy things but don’t behave so narcissistically or psychopathically, without regards for other people, in the way that Woke activists do. And so we decided to create a new taxonomy, one focused on Woke psychopathology.
“Woke Psychopathology: A Taxonomy” is inspired by the traits that characterize what the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM-V) calls “Cluster B personality disorders.” There are four of these personality disorders: narcissistic, anti-social (previously psychopathy), histrionic, and borderline. The traits, which run horizontally across the top of the Taxonomy, are Attention-Seeking, Grandiosity, Emotional Dysregulation, Excess of Empathy, Victimhood Ideology, Impaired Reality Testing, Lack of Empathy, and Splitting. Together, the traits form an easy-to-remember acronym: AGE-EVILS.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michael-shellenberger-019631a8_over-the-last-few-years-woke-progressives-activity-7115381848033136642-E8rH/
Hello Fred,
Though Michel Shellenberger appears to do a decent job fighting WOKE, I am far ahead of him in terms of unravelling and understanding the Evolutionary/Psychological underpinnings of the phenomenon. I am glad that a few people are catching on, but I was pointing out the existence of numerous forms of totalitarianism in the West when I was an undergrad, and within several years of post-grad and life experience, I was announcing what caused this. Therefore, I hope that perhaps Michael Shellenberger will read my book when it comes out.
I was telling listeners 20 years ago what, exactly, the madness was.
Yes. I would like to see more opportunities for direct activism.
Got it!
Yes, finally learning the tactics of the left which are successful, so we can make our voices heard where it counts. Thank you Chris...keep 'em comin!
I personally don't think petitions do anything. I think continuing to expose them, publishing about it, and lawsuits, do.
The theory here is that hospital leaders are not accustomed to public contact. It will cause them to, at a minimum, consider what they are enabling.
It could at least make them uncomfortable? I would hope so. Beyond that - who knows? But I spent 30 years signing petitions and sending letters to people like this and it didn't do any good that I know of. A lot more of them than we realize are brainwashed drones.
Holding corporations accountable to their stated values is why there are tons of LGBT+ things offered by them today.
Letter writing is one aspect. Cultural shaming and bad numbers are also needed.
They need to be hit smack in the reputation, and the wallet. Then they need a few pesky lawsuits filed against them. I am really surprised there aren't more white people suing for discrimination.
Suing under discrimination is not easy or cheap. Need to file with federal EEOC first, and ask for right to sue. Then comes the lawsuit. Lawyer is $500-$1000 per hour, and only works on contingency if there's a likely payout at the end.
Plus you need damages-- so you have to get fired, lose a promotion, or some other quantifiable event. Then you need evidence that discrimination occurred, and it's not because they don't like you (legal in most places), or some other reason. This is an uphill battle in the best of circumstances, and that's assuming the judge or whoever decides the case believes white people can be discriminated against.
Holding corporations accountable to their stated values is why there are tons of LGBT+ things offered by them today.
Letter writing is one aspect. Cultural shaming and bad numbers are also needed.
Chris gave us 16 names. Obviously not all of them will be "moved" by a large number of emails. But I am sure that enough of them will understand that people are aware of what they are doing and vehemently oppose it.
Oh, the "awareness" argument. I don't agree, if people are willing to mutilate kids for $$ then they will laugh when you send them your "threatening" note. These are psychopaths we are dealing with, not your average dupe.
Chris, as ever very impactful, empirically based work. Without any evidence at all, I am inclined to agree with Mary. In any case, is there a useful way to contribute to a lawsuit or something that's more of a punch in the face?
My reporting led to an attorney general investigation. The doctors who allegedly committed Medicaid fraud could face up to 10 years in prison. And the hospital could be held liable for the fraud.
The idea is to apply pressure from multiple points simultaneously.
Nice. And it's not so nice to the mutilators. This has real PUNCH!
I would like to see a pipeline for faculty and others at Texas and Florida institutions to friendly media contacts so that the anti-DEI laws can be socially enforced.
Like the activism because it engages people.
What I cannot understand is the additional staff involved in these surgeries. How many employees of the hospital saw the procedure codes, checked them in, filed insurance, nurses, lpns, anesthesiologist , surgical technicians, physical therapists, etc, etc etc. AND SAID NOTHING!! They are complicit. ‘I would lose my job’ is a BS answer. Great work as always Chris Rufo.
All it takes for evil to prevail is a few good people doing nothing.
At the beginning--that's the last part of that quote. If good people had spoken out EARLY, then they might have made more of a difference.
Since the start of COVID Mania in 2020, I have wondered whether the whole false-front erected by the Neo-Marxists would begin to unravel through the eventual whistleblowers....because there must be scads of people out there who were witness to these wrongdoings, who knew what was actually going on. Eventually a portion of them will either be out of harm's way in terms of job loss possibility, or their conscience will overtake them.
Will email today. Unfortunately, medicine has come under the sway of the Postmodern Progressives. Ideology is everything. Truth is relative. Ethics nonexistent.
Appreciate it!
Chris, how did we get to this in 2024? Have leftists run out of all the possible ways to feel virtuous?
It must be hard work to wake up everyday, spit in the face of reality, then claim to be the victim and the virtuous
It's a disgrace!
This is ALL about feeling virtuous, as they have rejected Judeo-Christian morality, and want us to do the same. That's the theses of my book (Modern Paganism) and my newsletter here on Substack.
This is a well-known psychological phenomenon: Munchausen syndrome by proxy. I want you to be sick, so I can be virtuous by being your defender. Infantilizing a generation.
I believe a great deal of gender dysphoria is Munchausen by proxy, as well as attention garnering and virtue signaling. For the normie parents struggling to resist the trans fascists, they use threats of their child’s suicide (it has been vigorously debunked that denying cross gender hormones or surgeries increases suicidality, quite the opposite actually).
the thing is, this is one of many childrens hospitals that are guilty of doing this. the fact that it is being done to begin with is sickening. When I read as well that Autistic children were being mutilated, it angered me even more, as a parent of a now adult Autistic son, I know how autism affects kids/adults.
Proverbs 31:8-9
8 Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves,
for the rights of all who are destitute.
9 Speak up and judge fairly;
defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Chris, can you elaborate on the string of comments from yesterday’s post concerning the legality of the whistleblower status, the HIPPA laws that may have been violated by Haim and the timing of Haim’s reporting (whether the law that the hospital had allegedly broken had actually gone into effect? I’m terribly worried for Haim and Sivadge. Please continue to post their GiveSendGo link. I hope they have excellent representation.
Haim's lawyers believe that they will prevail in court. He was not motivated by malicious intent and he redacted all of the information before transmitting it. There is an open question about access, which will be part of the court proceedings. Sivadge has not been contacted or indicted by prosecutors, so she is currently not in any legal trouble, which I hope continues.
https://givesendgo.com/texas_whistleblower
Sounds like a reasonable practical step, Chris.
You are into the practicalities of fighting WOKE. This angle is very necessary, of course.
I am into understanding the mental/emotional causes driving the WOKE perspective and WOKE behaviours. From this understanding, hopefully, will come further successful practical steps.
So we need to blend our approaches.
I will absolutely email them today. Nicely, politely, but directly. Thank you for all your efforts!
Thank you!
Good idea, Chris. Hopefully many Texans and others who frequent TCH facilities will join in this effort. They won’t budge unless something threatens their funding.
Great, Chris. Just sent an email to them all. See also: "A high-ranking Biden administration official, Assistant Secretary for Health Dr. Rachel Levine, directly interfered with these supposedly evidence-based WPATH recommendations." The rest is in Barri Weiss' "The Free Press" today (Substack). I knew that guy would do as he is doing. It was like knowing Obama was hanging around with these radical pro-Palestinian academics and the Dems saying to you he'll be neutral when he got in office in 2008. Now we've got the push for the Iran deal, the gaslighting about it and the alliance with the mullahs on the part of our Dem national security apparatus ... Levine is the same, a pernicious influence and a man who wields power with completely wrong and foolish ideas ...
Speaking of such, it is generally not well known that Alexandre Troodo, brother of Canada's tyrannical PM Justin Troodo, worked for years on making documentary films for the Iranian regime. You might have said he was their PR man in the West.
And going back a generation before Justin and Alexandre, their step-father/father, former PM Pierre Troodo, was a self-avowed Communist and eugenicist. Friend of Mao and Fidel Castro. And the UN operative, Maurice Strong. Member of the ill-begotten Club of Rome. In fact, you might say that Justin himself was ill-begotten too.
You misspelled their family name. It's Castreau. :)
😁 Alexandre is probably a Troodo, but Justin is a Castreau for sure!
In Canada, they now call him Wacko.
These are medical professionals who are violating “do no harm!”
Absolutely, that's correct.
Yes, but in the same way that the Nuremberg Code was ignored during the authoritarian jabs of the COVID years, unless an edict is written as solid and enforceable law rather than a nice cozy but toothless "code".....there will be persons who toss it aside when convenient.
Nuremburg Code? "Authoritarian jabs of the COVID years"? Man, come back to Earth.
Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth. Not providing care is sentencing them to death.
I think the numbers are more correctly 58% of trans or questioning youth have considered self-ending to 57% of all youth and 26% have attempted it compared to 31% of anorexic preteen white or asian girls. Boys who don't make the varsity football team actually commit suicide at a higher rate than all of them combined.
The number of actual juvenile deaths from self-ending (suicide is so negative!) has decreased from 588,207 in 1986 to a mere 322,427 today thanks to gender affirming care.
ICYMI, I got my 'stats' from the same dark hole that you got yours!
That is part of the system of established WOKE lies....and you're sticking to it. Right, Theresa?
I've got to laugh at the last three posts. Look at the mix of nonsense and desperation! As if we don't see through them.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32345113/
A mere 322,427...
Thank you, Chris!
Here is my wording of the letter in case anybody finds it useful:
Esteemed members of the Board of Trustees of the Texas Children’s Hospital!
I am writing you today to request that you shut down the pediatric sex-change clinic, which has been operating at your hospital in violation of the Texas State Law.
Without getting into the details of the scientific arguments for and against such procedures, suffice it to say that we don't allow young children to drive until 16, to vote until 18 and to drink or smoke until 21. I believe that assisting young children in making life-altering decisions before the age of maturity is violating the Hippocratic Oath. I urge you to follow a more cautious approach taken my multiple European countries in addressing this serious medical issue.
In addition, I ask that you terminate the employment of Richard Roberts and David Paul, the “gender-affirming” doctors who spearheaded the treatment of minors and who are currently under investigation for alleged Medicaid fraud.
Thank you!
Well done.
I will tell them all that they will be remembered forever as the professionals that destroyed the lives of thousands of children and their families. That they will be remembered not for their courage or skill, but their depravity. And that when they stand before the God they do not fear now, they will tremble and cry and beg for the mercy they did not show these children.
First comment, 16 members of the BOD, makes sense why they kept the money mill going. Great work Chris. Now lets see if the BOD has any sense of decency or honor.
Love the practical steps. However, some guidance on who these people are and maybe who we should prioritize might be helpful. This is a long list!
Would recommend copy-and-pasting the same message to all of them.