The neo-Maoist mobbing of Riley Gaines – spiked
On some fundamental level, every adult understands Gaines point. However, the indulgent and self-immolating West is now divided into three starkly different camps on the trans question: those who agree with Gaines and are brave enough to say so out loud (the smallest group); those who are ideologically captured, delusional and brainwashed into magical thinking (the loudest group); and those in the squishy middle. The latter category consists of mostly liberal centrists who look away, make excuses or allow themselves to be cowed by the baying mob. I understand these folks up to a point go along to get along, and all that. But their continued silence is now tantamount to capitulation and complicity after all, Gaines experience is only the latest in a long line of examples of trans activism turning violent.
Gaines was at San Francisco State University to talk about the importance of defending women s sports. Last year, Gaines was one of the swimmers on the University of Kentucky women s swimming team. She raced against University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, a male who identifies as female. Gaines and Thomas tied in that race, but when it came time for photographs on the podium, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) official informed Gaines that only Thomas would hold the trophy.