img: left: 10-year-old Harper Lillian Moyski; right: 8-year-old Fletcher Alexander Merkel
To call last week’s mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a “tragedy” would ignore the culpability of the shooter, Robert Westman - a man who identified as “Robin,” a woman.
Victor Davis Hanson explains why this was not simply a tragedy, but an act of evil, and why the media and political leaders refuse to have an honest discussion about the factors behind it on this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”
“They won't have any discussion over transgenderism.
“This falls in the broader category of exempt DEI woke topics, but I think we should talk about this.
“This is the 4th or 5th incident - I don't even like the word "incident" - occurrence of transgendered shooters who are protected by authorities.
“We were told, ‘Be careful about Big Pharma. Be careful about Big Med.’
“All of those worries and prohibitions and cautions were thrown out the window, as were SSRI antidepressants.
“These were selective serotonin prohibitors. In other words, they altered the chemistry of the brain, supposedly, to correct mental disturbances, depression, bipolarity.
“But they're very dangerous drugs. But when it came to the exempt topic of transgenderism, suddenly the society was supposed to accept that this was not a mental disorder.
“It was not a rare occurrence. It was a national crisis where large percentages of the population were transgendering.”