Opinion piece by: Errol Naidoo
Article source: familypolicyinstitute.com
Gaslighting is described as a “form of psychological manipulation where a person makes you question your own reality, sanity, and memories, often to gain power and control over you. It’s achieved through tactics like outright lying, denying events happened, trivializing your feelings, and making you feel like you’re overreacting – to erode your self confidence.”
The liberal media have adopted this tactic to deceive the public into believing that what they see and hear is not true. For example, Phillip van Niekerk, writing under the banner, “Defend Truth” claims, the massacre of tens of thousands of Christians and the burning of churches in Nigeria by Islamic terrorist group, Boko Haram – is not Christian genocide.
In a classic case of gaslighting, he labels “Donald Trump’s outburst about genocide in Nigeria as dangerous and absurd.” Van Neikerk’s flawed argument posits that Boko Haram’s massacre of Christians cannot be defined as targeted Christian genocide – because they kill Muslims as well. Boko Haram means the book (the Bible) is forbidden.
That’s like arguing the Nazi’s extermination of European Jews during the 2nd World War cannot be defined as genocide because they murdered German citizens as well.
Another left-wing activist masquerading as a “journalist” and writing under the same banner “Defend Truth” claims, “shadowy Russian and US groups are pouring billions into the systematic destruction of women’s rights.” Rebecca Davis warns, “transnational organizations are promoting right wing politics under the insidious guise of family values.”
The left has imposed abortion, LGBTQ and sexual rights ideology on the world for decades under the guise of equality and human rights. This agenda is funded by leftist groups like George Soros Open Society Foundation and other truly dark and shadowy organizations.
Davis attended the “Fourth Ministerial Conference on Feminist Foreign Policy” in Paris. Several countries signed the “Ministerial Conference on Feminist Diplomacy’s political Declaration” – to ostensibly protect women’s rights to abortion & sexual autonomy.
Davis contrasts the Paris document with the “Geneva Consensus Declaration”– signed by among others, the US and Russia – as a threat against women’s rights. However, this document entrenches women’s rights to make their own choices on life, health and family.
The “Geneva Consensus Declaration,” first signed in 2020 and reaffirmed in 2021-2025, seeks to expand health and thriving for women, and protect the sovereign right of nations to support health, life, and family through national policy and legislation.
In contrast, the ‘Feminist Declaration’ views marriage as an antiquated social construct, motherhood as a burden, the murder of unborn babies as “sexual and reproductive health,” the two-parent biological nuclear family as outdated, and children as wards of the state.
Leftists have sounded the alarm on the rise of the “right wing ultra conservative movement in Africa that aims to see church doctrine reflected in laws and policies.” In other words, the pro-family movement in Africa is gaining ground, advancing its values and pushing back against the left’s agenda of abortion, LGBTQ “rights” and sexual indoctrination of children.
Feminist and LGBTQ activists have joined forces to advance the sexual rights agenda across the world. The European Union (EU) has used its wealth and promise of aid to manipulate African, Caribbean and Pacific countries to support its anti-family agenda.
The EU is using the EU-ACP Treaty to create a dominant voting bloc at the UN to advance its agenda. That’s why, despite rampant ANC corruption and the gross mismanagement of state resources, EU investment in South Africa has soared. The ANC are useful idiots.
While the left shrieks about the “erosion of women and LGBTQ rights,” they demand men and women be stripped of the unique distinction of monogamous heterosexual marriage. The ANC’s gender-neutral “Marriage Bill” will abolish the terms, husband and wife to appease global LGBTQ radicals who label man, woman marriage as discriminatory.
Feminism’s six-decade assault on marriage, motherhood and the family have resulted in the bitter harvest of “Demographic Winter.” Ironically, most signatories of the “Ministerial Conference on Feminist Diplomacy’s political Declaration” are dying EU nations.
An increasing number of women in EU nations are not getting married, delaying marriage or not having children. Almost every EU country’s fertility rates have plummeted leading to declining populations. Spain, a signatory to the ‘Feminist Declaration’ is aborting its future.
‘Stop Demographic Winter’ warns, “In 2023, there were 100,000 fewer births in Spain than the previous year and 43,000 more deaths. There were also 103,097 abortions that year. Spain’s plummeting fertility rates & soaring abortions is dooming the nation to extinction.”
Feminist and LGBTQ groups claim to fight for women’s rights while attempting to erase women altogether. Biological men pretending to be women dominate women’s sports. The UK’s “women of the year” Glamour magazine featured nine “trans women.” The left can no longer define what a woman is. How, then, can they claim to protect their rights?
The EU and UN agencies are working to make “Comprehensive Sexuality Education” (CSE) compulsory in every nation. It denies parents the right to determine the values of their children’s education. As a result, a mother’s right to protect her child will be abolished.
Social data consistently indicates, marriage between a man and a woman remains a social good for all people. It is the cornerstone of society. The two-parent biological family remains the foundation of every strong, stable and prosperous society. It represents life.
The culture of death promoted by feminist and LGBTQ groups do nothing for men, women and children. As the alarming “Demographic Winter” stats indicate, when fewer people marry and don’t have children – nations die. And women’s rights don’t matter in death.
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Date published: 04/11/2025
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