Of Course She Is

Yes, apparently white masculinity is a thing. It has been open season on Caucasian people since the days of Obama. Apparently white people are to blame for literally everything from income inequality, Islam and Trump, to the melting polar ice caps and the end of civilization as we know it. Again, the Left (with their identity politics) is showing some real mental gymnastics, jumping down a hole we shall make fun of here; because they give us so much to work with it is not even funny… and yet it is.

Independent conservative women just don’t exist.

On Sunday, December 15th, Megan MacKenzie wrote an op-ed piece for abc.net.au, posing the question of, “Is the reason why Climate Change is not as widely accepted as it should be due to fragile masculinity?” ABC is literally Australia Broadcast Channel. It is a public broadcasting and online publication service that is funded by Australian taxpayer dollars. Let that sink in, Aussies. A quick Google search will show her website, and on her Twitter profile, you will read that Megan MacKenize is a “Professor of Gender and War,” because of course she is.

The Premise

The article from MacKenzie starts off postulating the reason for this strange assertion is due to a man’s need to compensate by putting “truck nuts” on the trailer hitch of his diesel and/or gas guzzling truck. It’s this idea that they need to compensate for their, shall we say, “fragile masculinity.” She then says “coal rollin’” is another avenue that halts the progress of climate change policies because, according to MacKenzie, white males [all of them] generally buy trucks, and do not want to see their way of life go by the wayside.

And so it is “white males” who team up together to make policies that hurt the environment. She uses every rhetorical trick in the book to create the illusion of a zero-sum game where nothing a guy does will be right. Is she claiming that testosterone makes one stupid? She claims a man can’t drive a truck due to the kind of stigma it carries, but to leave fossil fuels in the ground is taken as an insult, and so signifies the fragility of masculinity. This article goes all out to stomp on men, even going the AOC route and attacking meat.

White Masculinity: Her Conclusion

After much trivial jargon, blaming and shifting everything onto white men globally who “love trucks,” she even goes so far as to state leaving fossil fuel in the ground is a symbol of loss to them. MacKenzie proposes three points to help curb this stigma. Here is what she states:

“First, it would be easier to treat fossil fuel extraction and climate denialism as a pathetic expression of petro power and masculinity. Second, this shift to calling out fragile leaders would allow us to treat climate denialism as a form of delicate resistance, a desperate clinging to power in the face of efforts to dramatically change environmental practices. Third, it would be easier to see through the ways that virility is linked to combustion and consumption (think “drill baby drill”) and environmental protection is pitted against economic development and “real” jobs for (mostly white) men, like mining.”

There is no real winning with MacKenzie because she’s lumping her apocalyptic presumptions upon a failed premise – that white men are to blame for the coming end of days. Anyone with any common sense can see that MacKenzie is literally indicting herself as she whines and virtue-signals about what she calls science but is, in fact, only political consensus.

Others Like Her

It appears so many like MacKenzie are following suit with this rationale that fragile masculinity is the reason for the barrier to effective climate change policies. Even more, many reports are claiming Conservative white males make it ever more apparent they are at fault in the “climate crisis.” A report from the University of Colorado entitled “Cool Dudes: The Denial of Climate Change among Conservative White Males in the United States” presents the conclusion that “the unique views of Conservative white males contribute significantly to the high levels of climate change denial in the United States.”

Please note the idea of climate change is a scientific one, but those who understand science know that it does not come to any conclusion based on “consensus.” The moment someone says, “There is a scientific consensus…” you know that there are many scientists who disagree. The minute that language comes pouring out of their mouths, a quick interruption to snap them back to reality is needed. “That’s not science, that’s politics!” quickly ensures a pause as you watch the synapses fire when these folks process what was just said. MacKenzie is only presenting her own form of cognitive dissonance and expects her readers to agree with her delusion.

Pseudo-Intellectuals: The Cause of Most Societal Damage

MacKenzie’s unapologetic racism and hypocrisy as a white liberal, while touting her pedigree as a professor, makes her unbelievably blind to the realization there are other races and other nations in the world which are doing much more harm to the environment than the United States. She is a person who, like many liberals, has a need to assert a position of undeserved authority and scientific prowess.

This is how Thomas Sowell describes them: “pseudo-intellectuals who harp on and weaponize emotions over facts; but they’re the ones who do the most societal damage in terms of race, class, economics, science, and politics.” At any rate, a cursory inspection will show that India and China (and other VERY non-white countries) are emitting much more CO-2 than America. You can see the breakdown here. But this fact is lost on people like MacKenzie.

MacKenzie never explains how a sufficient majority of conservative “white males” who live in fly-over country managed to gain so much power. Why can’t Californians and New Yorkers outvote them easily? It must be a conspiracy. And what about the women who support them? Very simple: independent conservative women just don’t exist.

White Masculinity: Our Conclusion

It’s quite clear where we stand on Megan MacKenzie’s presupposition of white masculinity as the cause for climate change. We very highly disagree! The fact that her position is racist just in its own right is rather telling. Her assertions are painfully similar to other attacks on minority populations throughout history.

To blame Caucasian men for the icecaps “melting” (just a quick word of note, they aren’t to the degree climate change consensus are vomiting), is just shortsighted considering China and India and others are doing much worse in terms of emission rates on their own national levels. Let’s also not forget that some of the most polluted rivers in the world are generally in African and Asian countries, but don’t tell Megan MacKenzie. She might just get a cramp and her mind might melt from her own biased privilege.

Another conclusion is that the science is just not there to actually support the assertions that are being made, or to plan a sane strategy to curb any climate change. Solutions range between the IPCC’s report that vaunted AOC’s Green New Deal (which has proven to be just grossly inaccurate and laughable), the recent outbreaks of climate change activism that birthed Greta Thunberg (she who shall not be named on YouTube) and the latest “Extinction Rebellion,” which plays on hysteria rather than science and data.

Consensus: Science vs. Politics

Again, consensus is not science, it is politics. We need to recognize that once a consensus (such as white masculinity) is promoted as proof, the discussion has left the realm of science, which is what we are seeing with the climate change ideology. A wholesale rejection of the matter is also not healthy, as there might be some legitimate concerns about man-made pollution and its effects. Again, there needs to be a concerted effort on viewing the actual data.

Once we have conclusive evidence, then policies should be implemented. But actions should not be on a legislative or governmental level. Just take a look at Germany’s abhorrent means of using green energy! Sometimes they have a loss of power and sometimes they have too much and need to slough it off at a super fast rate!

“Don’t blame green energy!” their authorities say; but when you rely on unreliable weather patterns as your source for power, you get unreliable power input/output. And when people who require the use of electrical energy have it provided by an unreliable power grid that utilizes unreliable sources of energy like weather, you get Germany.

Speaking of White Masculinity

Let’s not get started on how badly the Left wanted Green Energy but then did not want it, either. Remember how some Green Energy wind power folks wanted to construct some turbines, but Left-wing environmentalists threw a hissy fit about how the windmills will affect the migratory patterns of birds? Or how about when Ted Kennedy did not want turbines built because it would adversely affect the view from his house?

So considering the disparity between “white males adversely affect climate change efforts by denying climate change” and “we must prohibit green energy alternatives because, birds.” Megan MacKenzie will need to address the fragile masculinity of Ted Kennedy, because the wide open ocean is a symbol of his need to assert his toxicity as a straight white male in America. But again, don’t tell her that, because Ted Kennedy is a white liberal himself. We should probably just let them cannibalize each other, like they always do!