The Bifurcation on the Left of Progressive Ideology

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Roxanne Jones: It's really interesting watching this bifurcation on the left of people who are, I think I think there's three camps. And that camp is similar to the cyclist that you just discussed. He says like, you cannot negotiate with this ideology because the basis of this ideology is an erasure of women. JK Rowling waded into this issue when a tweet went out about menstruating people. She was like, what if we used to call those? What were those? If only we had a word of that. We used to call them women.

According to conservative commentator Bethany Mandel, “the Left is waging an all-out battle on the American family, particularly the youngest members. If they can make our children miserable, lead them to question every building block of society, and rebuild their entire concept of reality, then the Left and their woke indoctrinators will consider that a victory.” She firmly believes “Our children’s lives and the survival of our families are at stake.”

In this honest conversation, Dr. Shermer disagrees with some of Mandel's conclusions, agrees with others, and pushes back against certain aspects of her worldview.

Shermer and Mandel discuss: • anecdotes vs. data about children and politics • What is a woman? What is a man? • sex and gender • woke medicine • transgender affirming care • libraries and publishers of children’s books • abortion: pro-Choice or pro-Life? • support for children: government or private?

Bethany Mandel is a columnist for Fox News and a homeschooling mother of six. She has written for the New York Times, Newsweek, Spectator, and more. Her new book is Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation.