MacDonald: Apples, Oranges, Politics, and Child Abuse

If you have apples and oranges, no sensible person will try to tell you neither of them is a fruit, but neither can either one be the other.

An apple cannot be an orange, nor an orange an apple. This does not prevent someone from claiming otherwise, but the claim does not make it so. Nor does the claim, plus a political lobby, a political party, and a counterculture movement, make it so.

As I wrote here,

You can say it, pretend it, but in reality, it is a costume dependent on the willingness of others, who have no obligation to believe it.

But they will do anything to make you believe: coercion, intimidation, even violence.
As Orwell reminds us, “There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.”

But even if the whole of the people are convinced, cajoled, or emotionally and culturally hijacked, the apple remains an apple and the orange an orange. One is citrus, while the other is the genus Malus in the Rosaceae family.

People are similarly binary. The idea that sex can be non-binary is a social construct.

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