{"id":74808,"date":"2026-06-01T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=74808"},"modified":"2026-05-31T09:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:24:33","slug":"qotd-the-progressive-idea-of-an-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/06\/01\/qotd-the-progressive-idea-of-an-american\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The progressive concept of an “American”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>… the Left’s version, which insists that an “American” is a CisHetPatWhite gun nut. And rayciss, obviously, which somehow encompasses all that, but is distinct from it. Like the famous filioque<\/em> controversy<\/a>, the true relationship between them probably can’t be determined on this plane of existence, but it doesn’t really matter. But the terms are worth a little “unpacking”, as the grad school term d’art<\/em> was back in the days:<\/p>\n

“Cis” is “cisgender”, the radical notion that your “gender expression” has some systematic relationship to your chromosomal sex. In other words, an “idea” so uncontroversial that it has to be in quotation marks, because try explaining what “gender expression” means to even the most brilliant mind of, say, fifty years ago. He’d laugh right in your danger-haired, tattooed, multi-pierced face.<\/p>\n

“Heterosexual” ties in with “cisgender”, in that it means “the observed sexual behavior of 99% of humanity in all times and places, because it is a biological necessity for the species to thrive”.<\/p>\n

“Pat” means “patriarchal”, and see above, it’s the observed behavior of 100% of all human societies that have ever existed heretofore. As I like to quip to obnoxious atheists, I’m the only guy I know who really<\/em> believes in evolution. Ever seen monkeys in the wild? I have. No society is more based than a chimpanzee troop. They’re so patriarchal, Iceberg Slim weeps salty tears of joy at the thought. It’s hardwired.<\/p>\n

“White” of course means “chromosomally Caucasian”, and it’s very important to note that of the earth’s teeming billions, White folks are only a small fraction.<\/p>\n

“Rayciss” is worth exploring, if only because they never get around to defining it. Do I believe other human subpopulations are inferior<\/em> to mine? Heavens no. But see above, about being the only guy I know who really<\/em> believes in evolution. It’s simply a fact that subpopulations evolve in response to environmental pressures. So are some subpopulations better adapted to their environment<\/em> than others? Hell yes. Not only do I believe this, it’s a stone cold fact, one so trite that they don’t even bother putting it in the biology textbooks anymore.<\/p>\n

Severian, “What’s an American?”, Founding Questions<\/em><\/a>, 2022-07-04.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… the Left’s version, which insists that an “American” is a CisHetPatWhite gun nut. And rayciss, obviously, which somehow encompasses all that, but is distinct from it. Like the famous filioque controversy, the true relationship between them probably can’t be determined on this plane of existence, but it doesn’t really matter. But the terms are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,41,13],"tags":[130,254,1020,99,1462],"class_list":["post-74808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-evolution","tag-gender","tag-progressives","tag-racism","tag-severian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-jsA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74808"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102777,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74808\/revisions\/102777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}