If El-Sayed’s Arguments Don’t Scare The Hell Out Of You, There Is Something Fundamentally Wrong With Your Character And Intellect.

The contest for the stupidest political argument ever aired on national television has a spectacular new entry.

During a 60 Minutes exchange about biological males in girls’ locker rooms, Abdul El-Sayed’s defense boiled down to this: Kids can see male anatomy on the internet anyway.

Holy shit. By that logic, schools might as well install Pornhub kiosks beside the drinking fountains.

After all, pornography exists online. So do executions, drug deals, and videos of people setting themselves on fire. Shall we add those to the seventh-grade curriculum, Abdul? Perhaps replace the fire drills with live demonstrations? The internet has already done the screening, apparently.

The stupidity becomes more breathtaking the longer you examine it.

A girl looking at something on her phone exercises a choice. A girl changing clothes at school deserves privacy. The existence of the first doesn’t magically erase the second, regardless of how enthusiastically some politician waves his ideological bullshit around.

Imagine applying this magnificent principle anywhere else.

Children can watch fistfights online, so why prohibit fighting in classrooms? They can find explicit material with three clicks, so why maintain boundaries in school facilities? Hell, they can watch people rob banks. Does that mean the school treasurer should leave the vault open?

Every example exposes the same ridiculous premise: Online availability somehow makes real-world boundaries irrelevant.

And there’s the larger absurdity. We’re endlessly lectured about consent, personal boundaries, and respecting discomfort. Yet when girls’ locker-room privacy enters the discussion, suddenly an internet search history is supposed to settle the argument.

What a magnificent intellectual achievement. An entire debate about privacy reduced to the reasoning of a teenager explaining why his parents shouldn’t bother with parental controls.

Washington already produces enough spectacularly idiotic arguments without importing this one.

The United States Senate has 100 seats. Surely the nation can survive without dedicating one to the proposition that Google Images is a substitute for common sense.

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