{"id":255301,"date":"2017-11-17T10:25:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T15:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=255301"},"modified":"2017-11-20T16:15:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T21:15:54","slug":"caller-if-people-can-choose-gender-can-i-chose-not-to-be-an-irishman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/11\/17\/caller-if-people-can-choose-gender-can-i-chose-not-to-be-an-irishman\/","title":{"rendered":"Caller: If People Can Choose Gender, Can I Chose Not to Be an Irishman?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: This is Pat in Houston. Great to have you. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, thanks for taking my call. It\u2019s an absolute honor, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Appreciate that, sir. Thank you.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>CALLER: My question for you is if 77% of college educated Democrats believe that sex is not determined at birth<\/a> and the laws of science and biology just continue to be demolished every day, I\u2019m curious as to your take as to what this means for some of the other traits of a person\u2019s life that are assigned at birth, things like paternity or maternity, sibling relationships, or how ethnicity and heritage come into play. I mean, I\u2019m largely of Irish descent. What\u2019s to stop me from saying, “I\u2019d rather be and today I\u2019m from Australia, or maybe I\u2019m from Africa,” or whatever I want to be. Do you think those are the next dominoes to fall as the left continues to push here their agenda —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me ask you a question. Are you purposeful being creatively facetious, or are you serious?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m serious. I think when you look at the proven science, like male and female organs, when that becomes a farce, but things like unproven science of global warming are accepted as a gospel, I can\u2019t really see where is the march that the left is taking us on besides pure anarchy, wherever —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Good. Because I thought you were serious and I wanted to answer the question on the basis of your asking it. And I agree, if you look at what is happening with progressives and liberals, it\u2019s all about how they\u2019re feeling that day. If you look at the transgender issue, “I identify as a man today.” So if they want to be a man, if they\u2019re born a girl but they want to feel like a man, “I feel like I\u2019m a man today.” If that becomes the basis on which your self-esteem hinges, “I would feel better if I were Hispanic.” I wouldn\u2019t put anything past them. They\u2019ve already proven that they\u2019re irrational and deranged.<\/p>\n

Rachel Dolezal. Rachel Dolezal wanted to be black and so became black even though she isn\u2019t and everybody went along with it rather than hurt her feelings by calling her a lunatic and committing her to an asylum where they could help her. Now, hang on here a minute, Pat. ‘Cause you\u2019ve really swerved into something here.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now we gotta get back here to Pat in Houston. Your question, remember — in fact, folks, the first part of his question — you may have missed this — there was polling data, 77% of four-year college educated Democrats think that sex is not determined at birth. Now, stop and ponder that for a minute. Seventy-seven percent of college educated Democrats think sex is not determined at birth. If it isn\u2019t, then where is it determined and how?<\/p>\n

And so Pat\u2019s question is, if they can just randomly decide that they were born a man when they don\u2019t have the equipment, then what else can they imagine themselves to be or not be in order for their self-esteem to triumph? And you look at Rachel Dolezal, who, for some reason, wanted to be black. I think in her case she thought it was cool to be a victim, she identified with victims. She wanted black people to know that she wasn\u2019t a white racist, so she became, in her mind, black. And she did everything she could with her physical appearance to become black, and everybody knew she was white but let her be black for her self-esteem. And that\u2019s exactly what you\u2019re talking about. Now, you say what if somebody wants to be Irish and they\u2019re not?<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: Well, the Heritage yes, so I\u2019m Irish. What if I want to be something else, or what if I say that my mother is no longer my mother because I choose that today? When the left continues to push and push and you have three-quarters of college educated people who ignore something as seemingly absolute as gender it tells me that they\u2019re not done and there\u2019s other things out there that they\u2019re gonna continue to push for. I just don\u2019t know where it ends.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Not only that, they are supposedly the party of science. Look at the science they don\u2019t believe and look at the science they accept. The hoax and myth science of climate change, they accept it, they relish it, but the real science of birth and gender, they reject it, \u2019cause they don\u2019t like it. You know, Democrat self-esteem and being who you want to be and liking yourself and being who you are has led us down this path. It\u2019s fascinating to contemplate. Where do you think it could end up? I mean, you\u2019ve obviously been applying some thought to this. What are the potential pitfalls of this?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know, that\u2019s where I\u2019m going. And then you start to think of other absolutes. So age, the year that somebody was born, the year that somebody was born, that goes back to Christ. And so if age is no longer relative, you think about, well, is a 16-year-old and a 22-year-old and a 45-year-old, how do you start to get these absolutes of science that are there and they start to break down and the end is just absolute anarchy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why stop at science? What happens if you commit a crime but you don\u2019t think you did because you didn\u2019t want to and it really didn\u2019t happen? And you go to court on the basis, “Well, I know you got that picture of me, but I didn\u2019t want to do it, so it shouldn\u2019t count.” Think of the most ridiculous example, and you can imagine it coming true with these people.<\/p>\n

And keep in mind how do they even get to this point? Somebody has to be teaching them this stuff. Somebody has to be raising them this way. You don\u2019t come out of the womb this deranged and disillusioned. And that\u2019s also a pitfall. Okay. IPhone gift time, if you want to one. Do you have a preference?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, you have a heart of gold. I would love the X.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What do you know about the X?<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: I\u2019ve done my research. It\u2019s pretty much like the 8 Plus but it\u2019s just a little smaller phone, the display LED, and it\u2019s on the cutting edge with the facial recognition.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, let me tell you something. You\u2019re absolutely right. The iPhone 8 Plus, I used one before the iPhone Xs were released and I have to tell you it\u2019s the best iPhone that they\u2019ve ever made until the X. It\u2019s got all the guts except Face ID. It\u2019s got incredible battery life. It\u2019s an absolutely beautiful phone, and its display is bigger. The iPhone X is just as tall but it\u2019s not as wide. As you put the two side by side, you can definitely see the difference in display, but the X with the Face ID, it\u2019s more than just the Face ID.<\/p>\n

What the iPhone X has, if you can remember when you got of your iPhone, whatever it was, your very first iPhone and you can\u2019t believe how you could pinch it and zoom it and change the screen size and size of anything on the screen, that kind of stuff you got used to over the course of having iPhones, you take it all for granted. The iPhone X reintroduces the whole delight, surprise, “wow” factor, “Whoa! Look at this.”<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve reinvented the phone, almost, with the X. And the Face ID is much more than just unlocking the phone. Once the phone\u2019s unlocked and you\u2019re looking at it. Let\u2019s say you log into a website that is password protected, well, all you have to do is be looking at the phone and it automatically logs you in.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t have to stop and touch the fingerprint sensor. It just automatically logs you in. If you\u2019re online and you want to pay for something, if you\u2019re looking at the phone, it logs you in and pays. It\u2019s stunning. And it\u2019s fun to use. It\u2019s a work of art. So you\u2019re making a wise, wise choice. Who\u2019s your carrier? I need to know that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: AT&T.<\/p>\n

RUSH: AT&T. All right. Now, in addition to the phone, I\u2019m gonna include a one-year subscription to Limbaugh Letter newsletter and the Rush websit<\/a>e. We\u2019ll comp that for you and that gets you a new tumbler, too, the Tervis tumbler that is free to every new subscriber. So it\u2019s Christmas in November for you, Pat.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you so much, Rush, appreciate you and everything you do every day.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hang on for Mr. Snerdley to get the address and get everything to you, and we\u2019ll do our best to get all of this out next week. And again, we\u2019ve only given away three here, but every one of you — I\u2019ve had people say, “How can you give a phone to people without knowing the carrier?” Every phone I\u2019m giving away is unlocked, so it will work on any — well, just trust that the phone I send you will work on the carrier you give me.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s unlocked, all you have to do is swap SIM cards if that\u2019s what you want to do. Or take it to your store, Verizon or AT&T or Sprint or T-Mobile and you tell \u2019em it\u2019s a gift and you want to transfer your number and it\u2019ll work. The phone\u2019s not locked to any carrier or contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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