Tuesday, March 10, 2020

When fear of the plague displaces fear of political correctness

From Why the new coronavirus may kill more men than women. A sentence which is so bare a statement of plain commonsense that it could only be uttered with the prospect of a global plague. Under normal circumstances, the social justice, postmodernist, critical theory twitter mob would be up in arms.
"We make these broad sweeping assumptions that men and women are the same behaviorally, in terms of comorbidities, biology and our immune system, and we just are not," he said (Rabin, New York Times, 2/20; WHO fact sheet, accessed 2/25).

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