"We see this sort of thing not infrequently. 'Wait, all of those people are angry at us. We’d better retract this paper and blame the author for slipping one by us'.” If cancel culture had been a thing in Darwin's time, would Origin of Species ever have seen print?https://twitter.com/BlanchardPhD/status/1255839455241527296 …
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Replying to @4th_WaveNow @Glinner
Darwin was so concerned about the reaction his work would receive, he didn't Origin published until after his death He published cos his hand was forced
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Replying to @rattlecans @Glinner
Probably wouldn't have stood a chance if religious zealots back then had the same kind of cultural power gender totalitarians do today in censoring heretics. It's especially bad in the US. UK major media cover the growing controversy over child transition--here, it's crickets.
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Replying to @4th_WaveNow @Glinner
The Church of England sits in the House of Lords. That's power. What he, and others had, was evidence. Guess what we have? Even more evidence than Darwin had Folk like Nettie Stevens, Barbara McClintock followed Darwinpic.twitter.com/F6zDuZ5XUr
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I'm not convinced that what yer seeing is more cultural power. I think what yer seeing is sheer cowardice
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Replying to @rattlecans @Glinner
Agree about cowardice, but where does the fear come from? Certainly some people have lost their jobs and status for questioning gender orthodoxy.
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Replying to @4th_WaveNow @Glinner
I think it's a failure to grasp the importance of what we learned at school tbh, a refusal to implement it. Your maths teacher didn't just tell you Pythagoras' equation, right? He proved it to you, walking thro the Proof, right?
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Replying to @rattlecans @Glinner
Right. But inconvenient evidence is suppressed by gender totalitarians (who do have actual power in the media, medicine/psychology, academia, judiciary). We're to the point where talking about biological sex in sexually dimorphic primates can get you canceled. Ask
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Cancelled? What does that even mean? Is it like being deported? Put in jail for 10 years? Or "Och, I don't like you.. not talking to you online any more"?
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Being fired or not able to get a job in your field? This happens. Among other things. Again, why is there cowardice? What's driving the fear?
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What's driving it? Middle class folk scared of having to live off the same pish pay (if any at all) and ZHC they dish out to the working class, that's what's driving it
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