Michelle Goldberg and the art of the Big Lie – The Spectator World
Putting some blame on the girl and suggesting that transgenderism isn t really part of what happened is Goldberg s way of reframing the story to minimize the quotient of left-wing politics that has come into sharp focus for many Virginia voters. The trouble is that the school authorities and the school board plainly did act on left-wing dogma when they sought to hide what happened and then lied about their cover-up. Behind their actions was their determination to protect and advance the idea that transgenderism is a positive option for the students in their charge.
Big Lies apparently aren t as a big as they once were. In fact quite a few of the ideas that now are nominated as Big Lies are just awkward facts. There are, of course, Big Lies aplenty if you care to take notice of the left s shibboleths ranging from pseudo-scientific claims huddled under the banner Trust the Science! to pseudo-historical claims about the origin of America and the persistence of racial oppression.
But we can t deal with everything at once. Right now we should drink some tea and enjoy the irony that the nation s newspaper of record has found its guiding conceit in the writings of the twentieth century s most notorious madman.
What the NYT did with this story is just appalling.