I've disagreed with boodleoops and Jane Clare Jones before but I'm not generally disagreeing with people who take moderate views on this but the extreme ones that I set out. I said that in the essay.
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This is tribal thinking "You criticise any of us, you criticise all of us." So I get told that I shouldn't argue with extreme identitarian loons on the left when I could be arguing with people who want national health care. Think in terms of ideas, not tribes.
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You're my favourite person Helen. :)
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the problem is when the "extremes" creep into mainstream discourse/culture, as you rightly pointed out with "pregnant women", pussy hats and the Vagina Monologues. What to do when reasonable liberals are called transphobes and publicly shamed?
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Argue with them. I write essays about it personally.
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