The Left’s Dumbed Down Tower Of Babel

If language corruption continues unchecked, the term “university educated” may soon signify useful idiot.

Robert Weissberg | October 30, 2026

Today’s cantankerous debate over “what is a woman” seems pointless. After all, it is easily settled scientifically—XX vs. XY chromosome—and human anatomy is unambiguous. Even toddlers can distinguish between males and females, so why argue? Hard to imagine a less contentious dispute yet, as the recent controversy in the WNBA (and elsewhere) illustrates, reaffirming the self-evident reality of sexual identity invites potentially career-ending condemnation, even death threats.

This “what is a woman” controversy also applies to sexual nomenclature. One medical-based compilation lists 72 distinct genders, including the adman gender, defined as “a gender that is indefinable or indomitable. People identifying with this gender refuse to be categorized in any gender identity.” Some prefer “birthing person” versus “mother” and “chest-feeding” rather than breastfeeding, while a 2021 Harvard Medical school journal article explained the serious harm from “misgendering”—using the wrong pronoun for an individual who now identifies as a different sex will make them feel invalidated and unseen while likely promoting mental illness.

What drives this “what is a woman” controversy? The answer is that the Left intends to undermine people’s own judgements about reality, and when people no longer trust their own beliefs about what is real, the Left will substitute their Marxist ideology. This battle over defining “woman” is part of this redefinition of reality. Recall those 2020 TV news reports of burning cars, periodic gunfire, and looters smashing storefronts characterized as “mostly peaceful demonstrations. ” For some viewers, looting and fire-bombing was now “political protest” and thus constitutionally protected free speech. As Groucho Marx once supposedly quipped, “Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?” The Left would like Americans to believe Groucho.

Getting people to deny reality is not as difficult as it might seem. In the famous Asch experiments the experimenters put an individual in a group and asked him to choose one of three lines of very different lengths that was closest in length to “a standard.” (One line was obviously identical to........

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