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Alright everyone, I've taken a couple days to cool down, and I want to apologize for some of the things I said in the immediate aftermath of the Singal affair.
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But it's by no means the case that all or even most of my critics were calling me a traitor or a TERF or any of that shit. Most people had much more measured complaints, and for me to paint them all as a bunch of hysterics was bad and wrong.
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I personally have gotten along very well with @jessesingal. But I fully acknowledge that he's been kind of an asshole to a lot of trans people. And he has a tendency to frame all criticism as a "look how crazy these trans activists are" type narrative.
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Which is, in effect, what I myself did when I was criticized for working with him. And that sucks. Because this really isn't a "trans activists are crazy" problem. It's a "some people on Twitter are assholes" problem. And regrettably I'm just another one of those assholes.
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So yeah, some people were mean and unfair to me. But in response I was mean and unfair to all of my critics, including many who didn't deserve it. And I'm the one with the spotlight and influence here, so I have a responsibility to be better than that.
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I don't want to become like Dave Rubin, who ignores all reasonable criticism but retweets everyone who calls him a Nazi.
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So I particularly want to thank those of you who have criticized me in a measured way. I want to listen to what you have to say and I want to try to do better next time something like this happens.
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So what you’re saying is Singal has no problem with individual trans people, just international transgendery
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It seems to matter a lot more whether people are nice or mean to you, than who those people are and why they take the stance they take.
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You've gotten along well with him because he is using you to further a transphobic agenda.
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