If I ran the APA, sure, I'm a ban-happy Stalinist as we all know But I don't and I wasn't really advocating that Just, you know, the "free marketplace of ideas"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NotoriousAapje and
The argument I'm making here isn't that Scott is a racist, or even that being a racist makes him a bad psychiatrist I'm saying at the very least, HIS PATIENTS GET TO MAKE THAT DECISION
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NotoriousAapje and
His Black patients deserve to be able to read his "controversial blog posts" and make up their mind about them Being adult human beings with the right to autonomy, however low-IQ and crazy you may think they are
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NotoriousAapje and
I'm not even saying that "They have a right to know if their doctor is racist" You can't enforce that You can't MAKE a racist doctor write blog posts about it or keep them from burying their secrets deep in their hearts
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NotoriousAapje and
You can't even force them to make patients privy to their private conversations or their locked Facebook posts or their journal or the private notes they've written ABOUT THEIR PATIENTS All of that falls under their own right to privacy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NotoriousAapje and
And that's, you know, just life It sucks but probably tons of people have had racist doctors - and suffered for it - and they'll never know and there's no easy way to do anything about it immediately
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NotoriousAapje and
But guess what Doctors may have a right to privacy as human beings But that doesn't mean *I* have some kind of affirmative right to *help them keep their secrets*, to be drafted into their service shoring up their opsec
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NotoriousAapje and
Scott was absolutely trying to have his cake and eat it too He wants to be a nationally famous influential thought leader AND he wants it to be impossible for his patients to discover this fact
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NotoriousAapje and
He wants tech CEOs and politicians to know his cool edgy contrarian takes but not the vulnerable people he's treating at his practice - if THEY found out about it it would be terrible
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Replying to @arthur_affect @espiers and
When did he say that he wants tech CEOs and politicians to know his takes? Because just the other day he talked about the compromises that people have to make to gain that kind of influence and that he is not making those compromises. 1/2
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Lol sure SSC became a popular blog without any effort from him at all, just by accident, the masses lifting the reluctant humble hero out of obscurity entirely against his will
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