Carlos Santana is one of the best electric guitarists who ever lived.

I am, if anything, one of the least cool people on Earth, and even I know that. He is an exceptional artist and has been a fixture in the American musical scene since the 1960s.

He is, apparently, a raging transphobe and deserving of cancellation because he holds the unacceptable view that men are men and women are women.

Quelle horreur!

Santana, in the midst of a concert a few months back, went on a bizarre transphobic rant” (we are told) by making the unforgivable statement that biological sex is real.

How bizarre? How transphobic? Watch and be horrified.

It is difficult to believe that the crowd didn’t storm the stage and hang him.

The alphabet mob did come for him though, and he has since apologized for his outdated and anti-scientific rantings.

Wow, so Carlos Santana has been castrated by the mob too, huh? Did you not believe the words you spoke on stage, @SantanaCarlos? And if you did, then WTF is this groveling apology? 👇 How shameful, mate, can't even defend your own principles in the face of the Commissars. Gross. https://t.co/lPsIHyFefF pic.twitter.com/Vv9rKUNYNa

— Theo Jordan (@Theo_TJ_Jordan) August 25, 2023

The alphabet mob has done a great job of spinning his rather anodyne comments that biology is a real thing, and even worse God made us to be male or female.

It wasn’t just bizarre. It wasn’t just transphobic.

It was literally the “most insane” thing people had ever seen.

Nobody apparently died, but rumor has it that many people were “erased” because their existence was denied. Not so erased that they were unable to attack and intimidate Santana into a rushed apology, but erased enough to get the entire entertainment media to go after Santana and intimidate him into recanting his remarks.

Society has been saved, although Santana himself will be branded forever with the Scarlet T, for TERF or Transphobe.

Another user who attended the show said, “It was very uncomfortable, especially the guy shouting ‘Amen’ throughout. It was weird that he went on about how we are all special and unique after.”

Santana apologized for his comments in a statement shared with The Chronicle expressing his “respect” for personal beliefs.

“I am sorry for my insensitive comments,” he said in an email on Thursday, Aug. 24. “They don’t reflect that I want to honor and respect all person’s ideals and beliefs. I realize that what I said hurt people and that was not my intent. I sincerely apologize to the transgender community and everyone I offended.”

This is very disappointing. Of all the cultural figures Carlos Sanatan has perhaps the greatest ability to get away with speaking a basic truth. He is not young–he is 76–and one of the most respected artists of our age. Whatever shade can be thrown his way he can easily handle because he is about a million times cooler than any obnoxious alphabet activist.

He is Santana. They are blue-hair, facial tattooed harpies who whip each other in public while sticking their tongues out.

The musician, best known for the hits “Black Magic Woman” and “Smooth,” added, “Here is my personal goal that I strive to achieve every day. I want to honor and respect all person’s ideals and beliefs whether they are LGBTQ or not. This is the planet of free will and we have all been given this gift. I will now pursue this goal to be happy and have fun, and for everyone to believe what they want and follow in your hearts without fear. It takes courage to grow and glow in the light that you are and to be true, genuine, and authentic. We grow and learn to shine our light with Love and compliments. Have a glorious existence. Peace.”

Santana, a 10-time Grammy winner and Woodstock veteran, is the subject of the forthcoming documentary by the Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Rudy Valdez, “Carlos: The Santana Journey,” set to premiere on Sept. 23.

Santana also has moral authority. He was sexually abused by a man when he was 5 or 6, and while he has reconciled with his past and forgiven the offender, he has personal experience with sexual deviancy.

Santana often speaks of God and kindness, and his “bizarre” and “insane” rant was hardly unkind. He didn’t go on a Matt Walsh critique of transgender ideology (I love those, by the way). He simply spoke a basic truth in a very kind way, and his great sin was being obviously correct.

Almost everybody believes this, and the superpower of left-wing ideology is to simultaneously proclaim the virtue of kindness while beating the hell out of people who disagree with them. They weaponize empathy, convincing people that the only kind thing to do is mouth false platitudes, and intimidate almost everybody else into complying lest they be canceled.

It is a neat trick if you can pull it off.

It is disappointing that Santana gave in to the mob. I don’t want or expect him to be a culture warrior. It isn’t his particular role in life.

He could and should have simply asserted his right to speak his mind, and asked that others respect his opinion.

But I, for one, forgive him his temporary bout of cowardice in the face of the mob.

He is, after all, a million times cooler than me.