20. If you go by Williamson's writings on abortion in National Review & words of his friends, this is a personal issue because Williamson sees himself as abortion survivor:https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/981984624871124992 …
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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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Philip N CohenVerified account @familyunequalReplying to @HeerJeetFrom the podcast: "Someone challenged my about my views on abortion, saying, 'If you really thought it was a crime you would support things like life in prison, no parole, for treating it as a homicide.' And I do support that. In fact, as I wrote, what I have in mind is hanging."20 replies 52 retweets 413 likesShow this thread -
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“A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.” “What does he need?” “Revenge.” “For what?” “Being born.”
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