More Idiocracy: California Assemblyman Luó Dálún Wants Gender Neutral Retail

While it’s best to filter out as much of the madness as possible in California where I live, it was impossible to ignore this week’s headline from Northern California, “New California bill would require gender neutral sections in retail stores,” which led me to research California Assemblyman Evan Low.

When visiting the website of Evan Low (Luó Dálún), the first thing one may notice is that Chinese characters complement the English presentation. One might interpret bilingual presentation as homage to Low’s Chinese heritage, a nod to globalism or something else — it may fall in line with the idea that simply being an American anymore is somehow insufficient for the public life. Today, as Tucker Carlson has noted more than once on his top-rated eponymous cable show, one is now defined by one’s immutable characteristics.

Low represents an area of almost half a million people in the southwest corner of Silicon Valley. He became mayor of Campbell, California, a town of about 40,000, in 2009. According to Wikipedia, “Low became the youngest openly gay, Asian American Mayor in the nation.” To the insufficiency of simply being American, we have learned, rapidly in recent years, that deciding who to hire or who to elect to office based on actual skills is now often secondary to those aforementioned…