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Þommy
@thomaswebb.net

Okay, I do not like Ari Drennen at all, I have to defend her honor since Jesse Singal talked about her like she's on his side. No, she's a dumb liberal but actually on trans issues she's vastly closer to my views than Singal's. She's more about choosing your battles and not painting Dem […]

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Þommy
@thomaswebb.net

There is some parallel (I do want to be careful about making analogies between different groups of people) with the self-obsessed way white people tend to understand the civil rights movement. The debates among black activists weren't centered on the question of "moderation" aka white feelings […]

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Þommy
@thomaswebb.net

Or a better analogy because it's closely related would be the women's movement. The debates within feminism weren't really about "how much feminism should we have?" But non-feminists might think that's it. There's a reason why TERFism arose from actually sincere feminists and it has nothing to […]

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