Crash Course: CPAC speaker says, "Transgenderism must be eradicated," while claiming it doesn't exist

Michael J. Knowles, a host on The Daily Wire, targeted the trans community on Saturday with genocidal comments [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRl5wlQP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvem5vMXA4Mzg4cC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWhiNDhnZnRuNnVXA3NwY0IKZAFShARkFC8W2VIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRl5wlQP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvdm1yMjg3NzBjOS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWhiNDhnZnRuNnUmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZAFShARkFC8W2VIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). CPAC speaker says, "Transgenderism must be eradicated," while claiming it doesn't exist During the second day of CPAC events, Michael J. Knowles, a political commentator and Daily Wire host, made a series of pointed comments towards the trans community that many are viewing as genocidal. Ramping up to his speech on Saturday, Knowles called for the banning of transgenderism entirely in a recent episode of "[The Michael Knowles Show](~/AASU4wA~/RgRl5wlQP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvem45Y3R4MTZyMi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWhiNDhnZnRuNnVXA3NwY0IKZAFShARkFC8W2VIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo)," adding that it wouldn't be genocide to do so as "It's not a legitimate category of being." Behind the podium on Saturday, he leveled up those initial remarks. "There can be no middle way in dealing with transgenderism," Knowles said in his CPAC speech. "It is all or nothing. If transgenderism is true, If men really can become women, then it's true for everybody of all ages. If transgenderism is false — as it is — if men really can't become women — as they cannot — then it's false for everybody too. And if it's false, then we should not indulge it." 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But now, after four decades sharing the highs and lows of her life on stage — and six since the last time she toured — the Emmy- and Grammy Award-nominated performer is back on the road with a "Live & Livid" show she promises was "tailor-made for these insane times." Cho joined me on "Salon Talks" for a candid conversation about surviving our current "storm of fear," the power of drag, and the one silver dress she had to share with [Karen Kilgariff](~/AASU4wA~/RgRl5wlQP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvNmI0ZG9xMW5xcy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWhiNDhnZnRuNnUmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZAFShARkFC8W2VIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) and Janeane Garofolo. 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When liberal institutions fail us: "Envious reversal" and the Hamline University debacle Everywhere we look, we're being failed by institutions that are "supposed" to protect us — and not just those, like the police, that progressives have good reason to distrust. Take the recent example of [Hamline University](~/AASU4wA~/RgRl5wlQP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvNWxtYnhlaG15ay8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWhiNDhnZnRuNnVXA3NwY0IKZAFShARkFC8W2VIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) in Minnesota, which firing an adjunct art professor, Erika López Prater, for showing her class a famous medieval Islamic painting of the Prophet Muhammad. 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And no one really knows for sure how it started, only how it was found. "The fire was first discovered in an abandoned coal stripping pit just outside of town," explains Dr. Stephen R. Couch, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Science, Technology and Society at Pennsylvania State University. "The pit was used as a trash dump. One theory is that spontaneous combustion caught garbage on fire, which ignited an outcropping of coal. Another is that a controlled burn of the garbage ignited the coal. Others recall an earlier mine fire in the area and think the coal fire ignited the garbage. We'll never know for sure what started it." 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