[TAKIMAG] This week, we take a focused look at how the West’s most destructive superstition can grip the mind of even the most strident "rationalist," and what that means for those of us who don’t partake in the séance.
Penn Jillette, the tall half of the hugely successful magician duo Penn & Teller, is one of the entertainment industry’s most outspoken atheists. For decades, Jillette has smugly condemned all manner of religious, psychic, and pseudoscientific irrationality. He also has a fan base on the right, because as a self-described libertarian, Jillette’s often mused about how "taxation is theft" and government compulsion is bad.
Penn Jillette: a man with no gods, including government. A man who falls for no (to use the title of his Showtime series) "bullshit."
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Then his teenage daughter decided that she’s a man. And the world witnessed how quickly the "smug" vanishes from the rationalist when the bullshit hits too close to home.
About a year or so ago, Jillette’s daughter, Moxie Crimefighter (yes, that’s her name), decided that she’d been "assigned the wrong sex at birth." And she demanded that her parents no longer use female pronouns for her, like, ever.
Back in 2014, Jillette bragged on his podcast about how he’d raised Moxie to "laugh at God."
There’s an old saying I just coined: "When you laugh at God, He laughs back and best." Because now Jillette—Mr. "no pseudoscience," Mr. "no cults or flimflam"—has become the spokesperson for the biggest pseudoscientific cultlike flimflam of the 21st century. The guy who’s spent a career deconstructing magic ("no, the bouquet of flowers didn’t actually become a rabbit; it was sleight of hand") is now a true believer that a girl can actually become a boy overnight, by the sheer power of mentalism!
Abracagender!
In theory, none of this is our concern. What transpires in the Jillette household is solely the business of the Jillettes.
But Penn makes it our business.
As part of Jillette’s conversion to spiritualist, he’s publicly renounced his libertarianism (on CNN
...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network . Now who knows what it might stand for...
, no less!), he’s embraced burdensome government, and he’s thrown his support full-throttle behind Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant . Just look at the competent way he dumped Afghanistan...
and Gavin can't be Bee'd Newsom
 ...the Mitt Romneyesque mayor of San Francisco as it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of California as it transforms itself into Cinderland...
as they promote policies that strong-arm us to "see" Jillette’s spooks and spirits (Newsom in particular is arguably the most "compulsory" politico in the country when it comes to forcing people to accept tranny theology). Jillette supports politicians who want to force girls to shower, change, and go to the bathroom alongside biological boys. Those same politicians have eliminated cervical cancer smear test outreaches to women (because it’s a hate crime to say that only women have a cervix), and the Mayo Clinic—joining the madness—has scrubbed its cervical cancer awareness page of any mention of women.
To be clear, women will die from the elimination of targeted cervical cancer outreach, and girls will be, and have been, raped by boys playing tranny to infiltrate the girls’ bathroom. Jillette used to be a campaigner against "psychic surgeon" frauds who endanger people by pretending to cure their disease, thus prompting them to neglect legitimate treatment. Yet now he supports politicians who put women at risk because of a belief system no less irrational than psychic healing.
Jillette’s also pledged to ban gender pronouns from his CW series Fool Us:
I have tried to eliminate all gender pronouns from our show. That’s very difficult for me, because I’m uneducated. I have that autodidact, irritating quality of reading old grammar books. So it’s very difficult for me to use third-person plural as third-person singular, but I’ve done it. I used to say he or she a lot, but I learned the binary gender thing was impolite and inconsiderate.
Dude’s apologizing for being erudite (he literally says being well versed in grammar means being "uneducated").
Jillette’s also stopped using the term "female magicians" in favor of "people who self-identify as women in magic" (that’s not even remotely cumbersome). And most batshit of all, he supports the use of "gender-free playing cards," in which king, queen, and jack are replaced by "gold, silver, and bronze." It’s not even clear to me why a tranny would be disturbed by a face card; if boys who think they’re girls really are girls, and if girls who think they’re boys really are boys, then what’s offensive about seeing a female queen and a male king? They can identify with whichever one they feel like that day.
Yet Jillette asks no such questions (the "man of logic" is long gone). It’s not possible to overstate the magnitude of the "genderless deck" thing. Here’s a fella who’s devoted his life to magic, not just as a practitioner, but a historian. And yet he favors altering something that’s not only fundamental to his field but historical.
This is cultlike behavior; there’s no other way to put it. He’s obviously a loving father, but in his desire to support his daughter, he’s undergone a personality change. That’s not being a supportive dad; that’s being brainwashed.
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