Stephen D. Shenfield | Author and Translator
Politics of the Trans Cult
- Published on 27 July 2021
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Until about the turn of the century, ‘transsexualism’ – male individuals identifying as and wanting to become females and female individuals identifying as and wanting to become males – was a rare disorder. Its treatment was entrusted to physicians and psychiatrists, who sought to avoid, or at least delay and minimize, resort to drugs -- puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones -- and surgery, for several good reasons:
Waste and want: Grapes of Wrath revisited
- Published on 01 August 2010
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In his famous novel The Grapes of Wrath (Chapter 25), John Steinbeck described how food was destroyed during the Great Depression:
Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground.
The people come for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges… A million people hungry, needing the fruit – and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains.And the smell of rot fills the country.
Burn coffee for fuel in the ships… Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out [with nets]. Slaughter the pigs and bury them…
And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificates – died of malnutrition – because the food must be forced to rot.
Because our hair is red!
- Published on 06 July 2021
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Down through the ages we red-haired people have been helpless objects of superstitious dread and loathing, feared as dangerous creatures of fiery passion.
Just to catch sight of one of us is enough to bring bad luck. Sailors shun us. No redheads allowed on board!
Letter from India: turning a deaf ear to misery and despair
- Published on 12 February 2021
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Note: The author, Professor Pramod Ranjan of Assam Central University, wrote this essay in reaction to India's Budget for 2021-2022. The non-Indian reader needs to know that in Indian English a lakh is 100,000 and a crore is ten million.
As in most parts of the world, life was on a stand-still in India for the past almost one year, courtesy of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, the poor and the middle class are in a miserable state. Crores have lost their jobs and lakhs have faced savage reductions in their income. Amid this crisis, the Government of India presented its annual budget in Parliament on 1 February 2021.
Based on the statistics on global hunger, published by the UN during the lockdown, Oxfam had estimated that by the end of 2020, hunger linked to the lockdown may start claiming the life of six to 12 thousand persons every day. The naked dance of death has commenced and without much fuss, it is spreading over a larger and a still larger area. Deaths due to poverty far exceed deaths attributable to Covid-19.1
Who assaulted Jews at a Los Angeles restaurant?
- Published on 21 May 2021
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May 20, 2021
Today the press reported an assault on Jews dining outside a restaurant in Los Angeles. The assailants were Zionist agents cunningly posing as supporters of the Palestinian cause.
Now, before you dismiss me as a total nut, let me explain. I do not consider it likely that these guys were paid by Israel or consciously acting in its interests. Subjectively they were probably not Zionist agents (though I don’t exclude the possibility altogether). They were probably just ignorant fellows, distraught at the torments inflicted on fellow Palestinians and accustomed to identify the tormentors simply as ‘the Jews.’ They may have been worried sick about relatives in Gaza under the Israeli terror bombing. And as men they had been conditioned not to break down in tears but to react violently to acute distress and anger.
