In today’s world, people have cellphones and because people have them, when someone makes an extraordinary claim, a common response is “Where is the video of that?”
Recently, I heard a claim that some schools, where children are identifying as cats, have been accommodating them by providing a litter box in the hallway.
This claim (which has been circulating on social media in Canada and the U.S. for a couple of years and is not true) raised some red flags for me.
It sounded like an identity politics dog whistle.
I don’t like dog whistles, regardless of who is doing them, because it increases tribalism and marginalization in society by pitting people against each other.
When marginalization increases, the risk of individuals feeling society has abandoned them increases, which can result in suicides, mass shootings, terrorism, and other horrible events.
Going back to the (false) litter box in schools claim, a sensible question to ask is, “How is it that no student, or anyone else, took a video of this on their cellphone?”
If a school actually implemented a policy of litter boxes for so-called cat-identified children, the likelihood it would have been recorded on a smartphone by a student, posted to social media and thus become international news would be a near certainty.
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