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Here's something I've wanted to say for a long time: the leftist taboo against engaging with the problematic world beyond the cloister is a form of collectively enforced wing-clipping.
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But many people on feminist/leftist Twitter were ready disown her in an instant over this. They were ready to excommunicate one of their best writers simply because she ventured too far into enemy territory.
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This is so much worse than useless. You're sitting atop your cloister tower, lobbing rocks at your own best advocates, people on the front lines doing the difficult work of studying and engaging with society at large.
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I'm not saying my work is as important as Laurie Penny's, or that I am the most important person involved in this conversation by any means. My work is mostly limited to the weird little world of YouTube—or at least it was until I got some mainstream press coverage yesterday.
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But if you're someone who's going to disown me over engaging with problematic people or debating with "the enemy," I do not need you around. Please unfollow me now. I solemnly swear I will never stop disappointing you.
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And what about the those organizing against the far-right? Or the PoC who are vulnerable of Nazi violence? They're also on the front lines
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Not everyone has the ability to cozy up shoulder to fascists. In fact, white cis men and women are pretty the only people who can do this
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The people who are actually on the front lines are places like
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What Laurie Penny did was profile Milo as a quirky man first, and as a fascist second. That's the exact wrong way of doing things.
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I do take exception to being called "cloistered" though. That's really not a fair description of our position.
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I have not gotten to be cloistered from their views. I understood what my dad said when he threatened to "beat the faggot out of me"
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...This incredibly presumptive of you to think that you are on the front lines in any respect
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What you go through as a public trans woman is something I couldn't imagine, but come the fuck on, let's not get full of ourselves hair
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