Ken Jennings just learned the oldest rule in the progressive playbook the hard way. No matter how loudly you cheer for the cause, the moment you fail to genuflect hard enough, the mob will eat you alive.
The Jeopardy! host, long a reliable voice for the transgender agenda, posted a harmless note on BlueSky about a little game he plays with his wife. They invent the day’s grossest-sounding word while solving the New York Times Spelling Bee. Innocent enough. Until a transgender user named Gwen Pepperoni decided that simply engaging with the Times was an act of violence.
“I wish people who care about trans people could understand that playing NYT games is an insult to trans people,” Pepperoni declared.
Jennings, instead of falling to his knees in apology, answered with the kind of dry sarcasm that once passed for humor among adults. “This may be true of others but I actually got express permission from the trans community to keep NYT games and recipes. I also have a news subscription, which is arguably worse, so I had to specifically send in a written request. Took 30 days but I got approved.”
That was all it took. The BlueSky pile-on arrived like clockwork. Jennings was suddenly “nasty,” “tone deaf,” a “transphobe,” and the kind of “cis man” who only cares about himself.
One user compared his quip to handing out permission slips for racial slurs. Another dragged in J.K. Rowling, because of course they did. The same people who called him a hero last year for vowing never to vote for Gavin Newsom over “trans kids” now treat him like a heretic.
Last summer Jennings reshared a post from Parker Molloy declaring zero support for Newsom. “This is correct,” Jennings wrote. “Any candidate cynically ‘triangulating’ on trans kids is a non-starter.”
The crowd cheered. Hero. Very cool dude. Fast forward a year and the same crowd is ready to cancel him for a word game.
This is not about a newspaper puzzle. It is about control. The New York Times has spent the last few years doing something journalists are supposed to do. It has reported on the medical scandal of puberty blockers, double mastectomies on healthy teenagers, and the biological reality that men do not belong in women’s sports.
That coverage has driven the most radical activists into a rage. Open letters from staff and celebrities accused the paper of “pseudoscience” and “editorial bias.” The Times defended its work. Reality does not care about feelings.
Activists responded the only way they know how. Boycott the paper. Boycott its games. Treat any subscription as collaboration with the enemy. Even an ally who has spent years platforming their cause must be purged the second he fails to treat every demand as sacred.
The purity spiral never ends. There is always a more pure position, a stricter test, a smaller circle of the elect. Jennings thought he had paid the toll. He had not. No one ever has.
Scripture saw this coming. “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” That is Isaiah 5:20.
When a man is declared an enemy of “trans people” for the crime of solving a word puzzle, we are no longer dealing with compassion. We are dealing with a demand for total submission to a falsehood.
Biological sex is not a spectrum. Children cannot consent to sterility. Women deserve single-sex spaces. These are not hate. They are observations available to anyone willing to look. The New York Times finally started looking. That is why the activists are furious. And that is why even a loyal host of America’s favorite quiz show can be declared unclean overnight.
Jennings will likely issue some careful statement and the outrage will move on to the next target. The rest of us should remember the lesson. Appeasement does not buy peace. It only buys time until the next purity test arrives.
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