I don't care if 0.0001% of people are trans, or if 1% are. I don't care if 0.0001% of trans want to detrans, or if 99% do. What I DO care about is that these topics are taboo, that there are "right" answers, and that people can get cancelled for debate. https://twitter.com/peaktransit/status/1370479138113351683 …
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3/ More generally, I'm more gray tribe than red tribe. I find the object level <poke> <poke> <poke> of "your sexual minority is depressed / depraved / grotesque / AIDs-riddled" to be tedious at best, and grotesque at worst. There's an actual debate to be had on questions like
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4/ is X behavior equally healthy as Y behavior? is X equally good at building societal cohesion and wealth as Y? etc and there's a time and place for those debates ; they should DEFINITELY be allowed.
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5/ But the <poke> <poke> red team culture war is stupid, and you make yourself stupider if you participate in it. WWJD? "Laugh at people with a high suicide rated" Hmm
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6/ If you're fighting on EITHER side of the object level culture war, you're a body in the grip of a egregore. I don't want to be a product of s̵o̵c̵i̵e̵t̵y̵ egregores ; I want s̵o̵c̵i̵e̵t̵y̵ egregores to be a product of ME.
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