10. Williamson is a public writer, so people can reasonable judge him by his wriitng. It's normal to judge writers, even controversial ones (say Ta-Nehisi Coates or Noam Chomsky) based on their writing without interviewing them.
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21. Here's the basic argument from Williamson's friends: Williamson is a former fetus & abortion survivor so he feels passionate about issue. It's self-defence! That's why he talks about hanging women.
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22. I have to confess, I find the argument about being an abortion survivor puzzling on a metaphysical level. It doesn't account for the radical contingency of being.
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23. I mean anyone who understands biology should realize that the fact that any of us are here is a immense miracle.We all survived abortion, or miscarriage or premature ejaculation. Why get mad at hypotheticals?
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24. It's true that if Kevin Williamson's mom had aborted him he wouldn't exist. Also true that if his dad had prematurely ejaculated he wouldn't exist. Should we hang men who prematurely ejaculate? Where does this anger come from?
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25. To clarify My point is that if Williamson's dad had prematurely ejaculated another sperm, not Williamson-homunculi, have impregnated egg. https://twitter.com/JohnnyDramamine/status/988156233545728000 …
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26. I mentioned this before but Williamson's anger at his mom (who, for the record, did NOT abort him) often calls to mind Jack Kirby's weirdest creation, Paranex, The Fighting Fetus.pic.twitter.com/Ds1QEteVHH
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27. The point of all this is that, as he admits, Williamson doesn't have a "public policy" position on abortion. He has a visceral feeling: that women need to be punished. That's psychologically interesting but something that Atlantic was rightly wary of.
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28. One last thing: in keeping with Trollish Three-step, whenever Williamson is in safe-space of right-wing media, he reverts to fantasizing about hanging women:https://twitter.com/familyunequal/status/988155422602420224 …
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I don't buy this angle. I haven't seen anyone talk about how his mother seriously considered an abortion, which she could have done illegally at the time. Seems to me that this is a defense that people have built around his toxic position on this issue.
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This notion of "abortion survivorhood" gets my goat. (I was adopted as an infant in 1974.) Obviously, no one has accessible memories of fetal experiences. Nor do we know how to imagine them. So we cannot imagine what it would be to be an "abortion victim."
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And as you say, if the point is that Williamson is an "abortion survivor" because he would not have existed if his mother had aborted, then it is equally true that every one of us is an "abstinence survivor."
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