Joy Reid made some blog posts 12 years ago that today’s Woke standards are transphobic and anti-gay.  She and MSNBC are claiming that her website – and the archives of it – were hacked.  This is obviously some first level bullshit.

Tucker Carlson asked the question, why not admit that her opinion has changed over the last 12 years.

That’s the kind of thing that an adult would do, right?

The answer to Tucker’s question is: Joy Reid knows the rules her team plays by and is desperately trying not to get destroyed by them.

Take the case of the statue of James Marion Sims.  Doctor Sims is the father of gynecology.  He invented a medical tool still used today and pioneered the repair of vesicovaginal fistulas.

Vesicovaginal fistulas were a common complication of childbirth in which a hole would open up between the vagina and bladder causing… problems.

At the time, treatment of women’s medical issues was not done, it was considered immoral.  A man does not look down there on a woman, even is he is her doctor.  The most revolutionary thing Sims did was address gynecological care as medicine and not a taboo.

He saved lives.

However he did his first procedures on slaves.  It was Alabama in the late 1840’s.  These were women who already had the condition and he needed patients to develop his technique on.

This is how the Washington Post chose to frame the issue: “The first patient to endure James Marion Sims’s experimental surgery in 1845 was named Lucy. Lucy, an enslaved black woman in Alabama, remained on her hands and knees on top of a table for more than an hour as Sims sought to repair a hole between her bladder and vagina...”

Oh my god, what a Mengele he was.  Oh wait, maybe not.  But he didn’t use anesthesia because he was a racist.  Well, int he 1840’s very few doctors used anesthesia.  It was in its infancy and patients were as likely do die from that as from the surgery or post-op infection.  In the beginning of the Civil War, soldiers were undergoing bullet extraction and amputation without anesthesia.  Only because of the incredible number of casualties did doctors have the ability to learn how to anesthetize patients without killing them and the use of anesthesia become wide spread.  So a doctor performing surgery in 1849 without anesthesia was the norm.

But none of this mattered.  “Why a Statue of the ‘Father of Gynecology’ Had to Come Down.  J. Marion Sims’s advances in medical science were made through experimentation on enslaved women.”  So the man who pioneered a field of medicine, making women’s care respectable, developing live saving procedures has to be memory holed because he did things that were socially acceptable in the 1840’s.

Welcome to woke feminism.  It is better that women be allowed to suffer from genital trauma and death for another half century until middle class white women would volunteer for experimental procedures than perform successful surgeries on 12 of 13 slave women (one died of infection).

So if a revolutionary doctor can be obliterated by society 169 years after his contributions to women’s health care for racism, a low rating TV host can be thrown away for her 12 year old anti-LGBT statements.

These are the rules Joy Reid played by and now that she might fall victim to them, she is like a rat in a sinking ship desperate to avoid being tied to a less than perfectly woke history.

I have no sympathy for Joy Reid because I loathe the world she lives in.

She is priming America for a norm in which person might hear from HR “yes, your credentials are good and your work history is excellent, but because you made a disparaging comment about a  a gay classmate on Facebook 32 years ago, we are going to have to pass you over for a management position.”

And that should frighten the fuck out of everybody.