you can love a work of fiction without loving the author you know
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Replying to @rivkaehh @IAmDeathRay and
I still re-read Batman: Year One, The Dark Knight Returns, and Daredevil: Born Again about once a year, but I wouldn't piss in Frank Miller's eyes if his face were on fire.
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Replying to @autogynamelia @rivkaehh and
I know I know. No one can separate the author from the art anymore, which is one of the reasons lefties have become so damn brittle.
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Replying to @IAmDeathRay @rivkaehh and
Much like your assertion that trans people don't get fired for being trans, this is demonstrably untrue.pic.twitter.com/c7OF6j7S8y
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Replying to @autogynamelia @rivkaehh and
Well, I did explain that if and when a trans person is fired for being trans it is politically motivated, which is what Arthur was denying. I didn't say it was not over being trans, but specifically over being trans in a political manner. Arthur is not very nuanced.
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Replying to @IAmDeathRay @rivkaehh and
Protected classes are a fundamentally different legal concept from being protected from being fired over "opinions" and indeed the two concepts are fundamentally at odds (my race being a protected class means I am protected FROM the opinion my race is inferior)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @IAmDeathRay and
This is not a hard concept, nor is it a particularly contested one in the law as it actually exists
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Replying to @arthur_affect @rivkaehh and
This doesn't relate to anything I said. I claimed that expressing oneself as being trans is inherently political in a world where it is contested, and I stand by that. You seem to be denying it.
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Replying to @IAmDeathRay @rivkaehh and
Of course it's "political" in that sense of the term, and it's precisely because it's political that it's unconscionable to take this neutral stance "All political views are valid and must be protected"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @rivkaehh and
I never said that all political views should be defended, simply the right to say them. I would think a journalist would agree, but then... you were a bit split on the subject of gunning down the employees of Charlie Hebdo. I am a cartoonist. You picked the wrong fight.
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You have the freedom of expression to say whatever you want and I have the freedom of association to never hire you for a job because of it, and my own freedom of expression to say no one else should either
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Replying to @arthur_affect @IAmDeathRay and
There's a narrow issue around government employees' rights to free speech, but it's not applicable for this one. The equivalent point here is that you have to buy books you don't like.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
Otherwise, you can have and express whatever opinions you want, political and otherwise, and people can decide whether or not to associate with you. You can be fired from Taco Bell for saying their food tastes nasty.
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