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Dylan Mulvaney Latest Flashpoint in Growing Culture War
The brew-haha is more emblematic, than causative, of a fissure driven by identity politics.
Before last week, I had never heard of Dylan Mulvaney. Born a biological male, Mulvaney identifies as a woman. This alone has bought Mulvaney instant celebrity. There are no astounding lifetime achievements, no evidence of great artistic talent. But there are millions of social media followers, billions of video views, and a growing bevy of advertising deals built exclusively on gender identity.
Announced deals with Bud Light and Nike have thrust Mulvaney further into the mainstream spotlight. The deals have also prompted visceral responses from right wing activists, like Kid Rock, who expressed his disapproval of Budweiser by buying a bunch of its products and then using it for target practice.
The brew-haha (pun intended) is the latest flashpoint in a burgeoning culture war – more emblematic, than causative, of a fissure driven by identity politics.
Is our current cultural divide the product of decades old design?
It's worth stepping back and examine some historical philosophies that may be at play in American culture today.
Chances are that you have heard of Karl Marx. The German 19th Century philosopher was the father of Marxism. Marx believed that all of human history was a class struggle between the owners of the means of production, the bourgeoisie, and workers, the proletariat. Under his formulation, the bourgeoisie were oppressors, and the proletariat, the oppressed. Marx believed the working class was destined to rise up against the owner class, assume control of the means of production, and usher in an era of socialism.
His ideas found a home near the turn of the 20th Century in Russia. The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 saw Russian people rise up against a feudal system governed for generations by Czars and bring down the Romanov Dynasty. Vladimir Lenin ushered in a governing philosophy built on Marxism, a system that became known as communism. Communism spread beyond the Soviet Empire, taking root in China under Mao Zedong, and as close to home as Cuba under Fidel Castro.
Unfortunately for adherents, it did not bring about utopian prosperity. One group of autocrats was exchanged for another group of autocrats. By the turn of the 20th Century, communist governments had overseen an estimated 94 million unnatural deaths from genocide, famine, and the systematic killing of political dissidents.
It bears noting that while a system designed to lift up workers caused unprecedented human suffering in the communist world, the supposedly oppressive free enterprise system embraced in America and beyond led to unprecedented prosperity, even among disadvantaged classes of people.
In the early days of communism, an Italian philosopher offered a different packaging of Marxism. Chances are that you have never heard of Antonio Gramsci, but his ideas permeate the present struggle for the American consciousness.
Like Marx, Gramsci believed that an “oppressor versus the oppressed” framing was the key to disrupting power structures and bringing about socialism. Unlike Marx, Gramsci did not believe that economics was where the battle lines should be drawn. He looked at capitalist societies and saw economic mobility that meant people could move from the category of oppressed to oppressor. Instead, Gramsci thought the battle lines must be drawn around characteristics not subject to easy change. Combatants needed to be tethered to their army.
Gramsci also did not think the Bolshevik Revolution offered a good example of how to destroy capitalist power structures. He theorized that overthrowing a government alone in a capitalist society would have little impact, since most power in these societies was held outside of government in cultural institutions. Instead, he believed that socialists needed to infiltrate the church, the media, universities, and even corporations.
Gramsci characterized his strategy as a “war of position” versus a full-frontal assault on capitalism and western democracy. It was later dubbed as “the slow march through the institutions.” But the goal was always the same: to subvert western culture. Gramsci's ideas found homes in the writings of people like Saul Alinsky and on college campuses throughout the United States. He is now thought of as the father of “Cultural Marxism.”
The Weaponization of the Past
Too often, conservatives seek to whitewash the unpleasant portions of America's past. We bolster the principles of the founding – the equal rights of humankind to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – without grappling with the fact that those rights were denied to entire groups of people at various points in our nation's history. America is not perfect. Our track record is complicated.
Failing to reckon with the past in an honest way presents openings for people who would exploit it to undermine the institutions that have historically bound us together as a nation. It's one reason that I think that policy efforts to combat ‘wokeness' by restricting access to challenging ideas are a mistake.
Conversely, America's past is not wholly bad, nor is it exclusively defined by those instances in history that deviated from the high ideals of our founding.
While it may be useful in waging a culture war predicated on “oppressors versus oppressed,” portraying all of American history as a racial, gender, or economic struggle is dishonest. It ignores that as a people we are not homogenous in thought, motivation, or adherence to moral codes. This is true not only across our diverse population, but within both racial and gender subsets. Not all white males think alike, just as not all black women think alike. We are first individuals. What's more, in the course of our lives, experiences change the way we think and behave.
Most of us intuitively know this from our own life experience. In our daily lives we have witnessed good people, of all races, creeds and colors, doing good things. If this doesn't ring true to you, take a jaunt into a disaster zone, like Rolling Fork, and see people of vastly different backgrounds lined up shoulder to shoulder helping one another.
The retelling of American history as one rooted wholly in subjugation of entire classes of people also ignores the tremendous progress – the arc toward justice – that we have experienced as a nation. It further ignores the prosperity we collectively enjoy compared to other nations and cultures.
But this retelling is tactically useful through the lens of Gramsci's philosophy. Because if people can be lead to see other people not as individuals, but as members of tribes based on immutable traits, then it is much easier to draw battle lines. A person can become an ‘enemy,' a ‘racist,' a ‘sexist,' a ‘misogynist,' or a ‘-phobe' simply by virtue of their own race, gender, or sexual orientation, and regardless of what they actually think or believe. Tribal identity politics allows us to ascribe evil to people based on traits they had no control over at birth.
Most people do not want to be considered any of those inflammatory labels because most people are not those things. The fear of being labeled, and the consequence of being labeled in a culture quick to virtue signal by “canceling” people, becomes a silencing factor, and not just on delicate questions of race or gender. Those labels are weaponized in modern discourse to silence viewpoints on policies that are race and gender neutral. Oppose a policy that expands government or redistributes wealth? In modern debate, that makes you one of those nasty ‘-ists.'
The tribal groupthink has infiltrated every institution in the country, to the point that corporations would forego productivity and profit to create “equity,” which is a concept much more akin to socialist thought than it is the American value of equality, or to signal alliance with small subgroups of the population. In this sense, Gramsci's playbook seems to be coming to fruition in America.
So, about Mulvaney
In one respect, Dylan Mulvaney is a perfect example of identity politics. Mulvaney's worth is almost solely tied to gender identity. The use of that identity by corporations is arguably a form of cheap tokenism, one that further entrenches battle lines.
Truth be told, though, I do not care how Dylan Mulvaney identifies. I do not care whether Bud Light or Nike make Mulvaney wealthy with endorsement deals. (I don't drink Bud Light because it's bad beer. I don't wear Nike because I like New Balance.)
What I do care about is ascribing ‘goodness' to a Mulvaney because of chosen gender identity or ‘badness' to someone who questions the science of treating a person whose every cell is marked with the male ‘XY' chromosomes as a woman, or who has sincerely held religious beliefs about gender. If Mulvaney's gender identity was not a choice, then it is a peculiar thing to celebrate. If it was a choice, unlike immutable characteristics like race, then there should be room to disagree with the lifestyle. Either way, in a pluralist society, there should be a place for both reasoned debate and grace.
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By: Russ Latino
Title: Dylan Mulvaney Latest Flashpoint in Growing Culture War
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Published Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0000
My friend Jarrod is dying after an eight year battle with cancer. He's lived a life worth celebrating, one that has drawn people to Christ.
I was going about my business this week when I received a text that stopped me in my tracks. A college friend was being moved to hospice care.
Jarrod Egley was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in early 2017. In the fall of 2018, tests revealed the cancer had spread to his lungs and Jarrod's cancer was classified as Stage IV.
For almost eight years from the date of the original diagnosis, he's fought. Through surgeries, radiation, endless rounds and cycles of chemotherapy, and experimental immunotherapies, he's fought.
Last year, I flew out to California and spent some time with Jarrod and his wife, Emily. We sat outside one night. He acknowledged to me that it was not a question of ‘if', but ‘when' the cancer would claim his life. I told him I was sorry, because what else is there to say?
We talked about our faith, about the trials of Job, about Jacob wrestling with God, about Paul's affliction. But mostly we reflected on our time together in school, on the good things, and the mundane things, that happened since.
Jarrod and I met at Tulane University. One Sunday morning in the Spring of my freshman year, I rose from my dorm room bed, dressed, and began walking down Saint Charles Avenue in New Orleans with no particular agenda. I walked until I came across First Baptist Church and the thought flickered in the vacuous recesses of my brain to enter.
Some would say it was a lark. The Calvinist in me says providence. The walk that morning changed the trajectory of my time at Tulane and my life on the whole. Intervarsity Christian Fellowship and the Baptist Collegiate Ministry became central to my life and put me in regular league with Jarrod. I met him first at the BCM and we ultimately ended up attending church together.
Jarrod was a faithful servant on and off campus. He helped organize a group of us that would weekly make our way down to the Esplanade seawall on the backside of the French Quarter to feed the homeless. On Friday nights, he could be found at chapel with a small cadre of students foregoing Bourbon Street for early 2000s worship music.
Jarrod was a loyal friend in those years. Never rude or biting. Not prone to an insult for an easy laugh. Persistently encouraging. An engineering student, his mind worked linearly and was oriented to problem solving. There were never a lot of wasted words — always a lot of deliberative questions when he disagreed or did not understand a point. He exhibited intelligence, empathy, and the kind of moral conviction that sets someone apart.
He also had a wry and dry sense of humor and a penchant for beating people at Madden football. He was fair-to-midland on the ultimate frisbee pitch. Along the way, there were crawfish boils, Mardi Gras outtings, poorly attended Tulane football games, and more than a decent amount of wing eating.
After college, I lost touch with Jarrod. He moved back to his home state of California. He got married to his college sweetheart, who could not have anticipated her husband's journey, but has been a steady and constant helpmate throughout. Jarrod became a very successful engineer and a bourbon connoisseur. One of his bucket list trips took him to Kentucky, where he got to meet and became friends with bourbon “Hall of Famer” Freddie Johnson of Buffalo Trace acclaim.
Sitting in his backyard nearly 20 years after graduating from Tulane, I saw many of the same qualities I had grown to admire when we were students together. I saw a husband who doted on and supported Emily's passions. But I also saw someone whose body had been beaten to hell and back, who was tired, and who, like Jacob, had been wrestling with God. We quickly fell back into friendship, which perhaps is the mark of good friendship.
We all have aspirations in our youth — for the kind of spouse or parent we might be, for what we might accomplish, for what we might experience. Along the way, dreams are satisfied, modified, or they die on the vine. The clock inevitably works against all of us. That night in Oceanside, California, Jarrod, a numbers guy, saw that time was not on his side. He believed, as we all would, that he still had more to give, more impact to be made, and more things to see and experience.
After that trip, Jarrod and I stayed in touch, most frequently triggered by news of his cancer. It has been mostly the bad variety in recent months. Now spread throughout his body, down to his bones, he has lived in constant pain for months. Not even a steady diet of morphine and an implanted pain pump solve for it. Jarrod's been hospitalized twelve times just in 2023.
But his matter of fact sense of humor and way of seeing the world remains in tact. So too does his faith that despite these trials, he has always been safe in the hands of Christ.
There are people in the world who believe that life is random, disordered, and without reason. I am not among them. I think my friend is staring mortality in the face at Christmas for a reason.
For thousands of years before Christ came, there was darkness and despair. Sin and shame gripped the hearts of men. Until one holy night, God, in His infinite love, mercy and wisdom, sent His son to save. Jesus is the light of the world and the hope of man. He has won victory over death and Jarrod's will not be the exception. Jesus came for Jarrod, and for you.
For thousands of years since Jesus's death, burial, and resurrection, His disciples have been used as divine instruments to point the way to God. Jarrod is among them. If life expectancies were the measure, Jarrod would be at the midway point for most people. He's made a lifetime of impact for the Kingdom and on other people.
So, to my friend Jarrod, you were placed here with a purpose. You have run your race. You are loved. And when this chapter closes, you will hear “well done, my good and faithful servant.” There is no greater evidence of a life well lived.
While Jarrod and Emily have been fortunate to have health insurance, their portion of the medical bills so far in 2023 have eclipsed $30,000, and Emily is facing additional uncovered expenses during Jarrod's hospice care, including a night nurse that costs over $400 a night. If you would like to help defray the cost, a contribution can be made at their Go Fund Me page.
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By: Russ Latino
Title: Staring mortality in the face at Christmas
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Published Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2023 15:05:22 +0000
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Important state and national stories, market and business news, sports and entertainment, delivered in quick-hit fashion to start your day informed.
In Mississippi
1. Laurin St. Pe' named CEO of Singing River Health System
The Board of Trustees of Singing River Health System announced the immediate appointment of Laurin St. Pe' as the Chief Executive Officer on Thursday.
“We are thrilled to announce Laurin St. Pe as the new CEO of Singing River,” said Steve Ates, Board President in a statement. “His wealth of healthcare experience and proven track record make him the ideal leader to steer our health system toward its next phase of growth and success.”
St. Pe', who has been serving as Interim CEO since July 2023, said he is honored to assume the role of CEO at Singing River. He has worked at Singing River as Administrator of Singing River Health System's Pascagoula Hospital and Gulfport Hospital, in addition to overseeing program service lines throughout the entire system to his subsequent appointment as Chief Operating Officer of Singing River.
The health system says St. Pe played a crucial role in the financial revitalization of Singing River Health System while steering the organization toward financial stability.
2. Gulfport-Biloxi airport, Stennis evacuated after threats
The Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport was evacuated on Thursday morning “out of an abundance of caution,” airport officials said, after receiving an emailed threat to certain transportation entities across the state.
The airport was thoroughly security swept, cleared and reopened in just over two hours. Gulfport-Biloxi is now operating regularly.
The threat was also sent to Stennis International Airport. Their staff and personnel were also evacuated until the facilities could be swept and cleared.
Any passenger whose travel was affected by the evacuation is encouraged to contact their respective air carrier.
3. Cassidy arrested in Iowa for beheading Satanic Temple statue
Former Mississippi congressional and legislative candidate Michael Cassidy was arrested this week in Iowa for beheading a statue at the state's Capitol erected by The Satanic Temple.
Cassidy reportedly decapitated the statue and turned himself to police on Thursday. He was charged with fourth degree criminal mischief. He then started an online legal defense fund where he's raised upwards of $20,000 as of Thursday night, according to his X account.
4. “Serial fraudster” ordered to cease offering investments into companies
According to the Mississippi Secretary of State's office, on October 26, 2023, Secretary Michael Watson and the Securities Division issued an order against Stephone N. Patton. The SOS says Patton is a serial fraudster with multiple criminal convictions in Mississippi and Florida.
Through business filings with the SEC and Mississippi, Patton has held himself to be the CEO of various companies, including Star Oil and Gas Company, Inc., North Gulf Energy Corporation, Inc., Patton Oilfield Services, Inc., and Patton Farms, LLC.
The SOS says using these business filings and company websites, Patton claimed to have raised hundreds of billions of dollars through investment opportunities. Through investigative efforts and collaboration with the SEC, the SOS discovered none of Patton's companies are operational, have any assets, or generate any revenues. Account records show Patton spent investors' funds almost as soon as he received them on personal expenses. The total amount of known investments made to Patton's fraudulent companies is over $80,000. Further, none of Patton's investment offerings have been registered or notice filed with the Mississippi Secretary of State's Office.
The SOS order requires Patton to cease and desist from offering investments with his companies, requiring Patton to permanently deactivate his companies' websites to prevent any further dissemination of his false or misleading information. Patton is also ordered to pay an administrative penalty of $25,000 to the Mississippi Secretary of State's Office for these violations, in addition to restitution owed to all his Mississippi investors.
National News & Foreign Policy
1. Congressional retirements mounting as 2024 election cycle nears
Retirement and departure announcements are piling up ahead of the start to the 2024 election cycle. The New York Times has developed a Retirement Tracker that currently shows 22 Democrats and 11 Republicans who are in Congress now will not be seeking re-election next year.
“Dozens of members of Congress have announced plans to leave their seats in the House of Representatives, setting a rapid pace for congressional departures, with more expected as the 2024 election draws closer,” the NY Times reports. “Given Republicans' razor-thin House majority, the wave of exits has the potential to lead to a significant shake-up next year.”
You can find the tracker here.
2. Texas, Daily Wire, The Federalist sue U.S. State Department over media censorship
The U.S. State Department's Global Engagement Center has come under fire as Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton along with The Daily Wire and The Federalist have filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the department funded technology that could “render disfavored press outlets unprofitable.” They claim that the department has helped social media – Facebook, YouTube and X (formerly Twitter) – to censor free speech while funding technologies used to censor right-leaning news outlets such as theirs.
New Civil Liberties Alliance is representing The Daily Wire and The Federalist. Paxton and the outlets claim the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a British think tank, received a $100,000 grant from the State Department in 2021, and NewsGuard, which rates the “misinformation” levels of news outlets, received $25,000 from the State Department in 2020, according to the lawsuit.
According to the State Department's website, the Global Engagement Center's mission is to direct, lead, synchronize, integrate, and coordinate U.S. Federal Government efforts to recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, security, or stability of the United States, its allies, and partner nations.
As reported by Reuters, the lawsuit cited a GDI-produced list from December 2022 that ranked The Daily Wire and The Federalist as among the 10 “riskiest sites” for news while the least-risky included The New York Times, Associated Press and NPR. Reuters notes that the lawsuit alleges such “blacklists” are reducing revenues to The Daily Wire and The Federalist along with their visibility on social media and ranking results from browser searches.
Sports & Entertainment
1. SEC releases 2024 schedules
Wednesday evening, the Southeastern Conference released the 2024 football schedules for its member schools, including of interest in the Magnolia State the schedules for Ole Miss and Mississippi State.
It is the first schedule that includes new conference members University of Oklahoma and University of Texas, bringing the conference to 16 schools. Each SEC team will play eight conference football games plus at least one required opponent from the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac 12 or major independent, each team will have two open dates.
The 2024 season will be the first year the SEC will play a schedule without divisional competition since 1991. The top two teams in the league standings based on winning percentage will play in the 33rd SEC Football Championship Game in Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Saturday, December 7.
2. White, Jesiolowski, Jones honored by MAIS
The Midsouth Association of Independent Schools (MAIS) in Mississippi, comprised of non-public schools, announced this week that Madison-Ridgeland Academy's senior quarterback John White was named the 6A Player of the Year while Hartfield's Reed Jesiolowski and Hartfield Chris Jones were named the MAIS 6A Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year, respectively.
All three have committed to play college football at the University of Mississippi.
White is Mississippi's all-time leader in career passing yards with 15,259 yards, a record he broke during the 2023 season.
MAIS, like the Mississippi High School Activities Association (MHSAA) for public schools, is broken down into classifications, from 1A to 6A. However, MHSAA added a 7A this season.
Markets & Business
1. Consumer retail sales up as energy, gas prices move down
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this week that the Consumer Price Index rose 0.1% in November after being unchanged in October. Retail sales rose 0.3% in November after rising 0.2% in October, meaning consumers continue to spend at the start of the holiday season.
The CPI or inflation rate is 3.1%, higher than the Federal Reserve target of 2% but below the 9% peak in 2022 which reached a 40-year high.
As for the energy index, BLS reported that it fell 2.3% in November after decreasing 2.5% in October. The gasoline index decreased 6% in November, following a 5% decrease in the previous month.
The index for fuel oil fell in November, decreasing 2.7%. However, the natural gas index rose 2.8% over the month after rising 1.2% the previous month. The index for electricity also rose 1.4% in November, after increasing 0.3% in October.
The energy index fell 5.4% over the past 12 months. The gasoline index decreased 8.9%, the natural gas index declined 10.4%, and the fuel oil index fell 24.8% over this 12-month span.
2. Week's market rally continues into Friday
At close of trading on Thursday, the U.S. markets continued the week's rally, pushing the Dow up 158 points to 37,248 while the Nasdaq and S&P also made gains, 27 points and 12 points, respectively, to close at 14,761 and 4,719.
The record high for the Dow on Thursday moved futures up 102 points.
According to CNBC, the major averages are headed for their seventh straight positive week. As of Thursday, the Dow is higher on the week by 2.8%. The S&P 500 is up by 2.5%, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 2.5% this week.
Stocks rallied after the Federal Reserve left rates unchanged this week while members look towards cuts in the new year and beyond.
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Title: Magnolia Mornings: December 15, 2023
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Published Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0000
Interim Third-Party Director Ted Henifin said this week that only about 59% of the City of Jackson's water customers are paying their bills.
JXN Water has announced new rates and fees coming in 2024. Those who are not paying will be at risk of shut offs.
The company, which was established by federal appointed interim Third-Party Director Ted Henifin, has been overseeing the city's water system for the better part of a year.
Officials estimated that the average cost for water in the city was $76 per month for residents. Henifin clarified that JXN water will not attempt to recoup any charges prior to November 29, 2022, and will work with those who have failed to pay since that time.
He said only about 59 percent of the city's water customers are paying their bills.
“You can't forgive bills, so we have to be creative in how we part that,” said Henifin in reference to Mississippi's laws that prevent giving away water.
According to a release by JXN Water announcing the rate changes, residents in single family households with small meters that use up to 748 gallons daily would see a bill increase of roughly .30 cents per day. Research indicates that the average U.S. family uses 300 gallons per day.
SNAP customers will have a new rate tier that could lower their bill by up to .69 cents per day, on average.
“Those who need to save the most benefit from saving money by drinking tap water. This new rate structure makes water affordability possible for 12,500 JXN Water customers who receive SNAP benefits,” said Henifin in the release.
Read more about the anticipated rate changes here.
New fees will also be implemented, including a new service fee of $50, service deposit of $100, returned check fee of $25, service restoration fee of $100, and meter tampering charge of $500.
JXN Water has continued to encourage residents to use the water, with Henifin going on the record in a federal status hearing saying that the water “was safe to drink.”
More conversation regarding the billing process is expected to come at next week's Jackson City Council meeting.
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By: Sarah Ulmer
Title: New water rates expected in Jackson come 2024; those who don't pay face shut off
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Published Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 20:00:00 +0000
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