Specifically, whenever you see any instance of a white man like Jesse barging into a fraught conversation saying "I have no personal stake in this matter, I'm just a brainy nerd who loves science and facts!", you should immediately ask what the personal stake is
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BlamKaboom and
Jesse even admitted it, in one of those long in the weeds threads arguing about the philosophical basis of trans identity "If you're trying to argue everyone has a gender identity in the way you mean then that affects me too!" Yeah no shit
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BlamKaboom and
Something I realized recently about Jesse is that he's practicing adversarial journalism, which is good when it's pointed at the powers that be, but doesn't really make sense pointed at trans people. But other adversarial journalists (Glenn) phalanx around him nevertheless.
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Replying to @tchwk @BlamKaboom and
And he never, ever points that adversarial lens at TERFs, even as he claims to be some kind of neutral party opposed to the extremes of both sides
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Replying to @arthur_affect @tchwk and
You might have missed his stuff about Glinner this week.
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Replying to @BlamKaboom @tchwk and
What, you mean when he said he had problems with the interpersonal cruelty of Glinner's "approach" but that the man has nonetheless "broken important stories"? Yeah whatever
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Replying to @arthur_affect @tchwk and
Hey man, you said he never directs his criticism against terfs. He said the guy's a cruel, mean spirited bully.
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Replying to @BlamKaboom @arthur_affect and
He said he never points an adversarial lens at TERFs. If someone kills a million babies and he's like, "Seems like a bad guy," that's not an adversarial lens. It's just a regular lens.
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Replying to @BlamKaboom @arthur_affect and
Yeah, you are. He's like, "This dude doesn't apply an adversarial lens at TERFs," and you're like, "Well actually, someone killed a million babies and he called that bad. So you are technically mistaken in your assertion. So there."
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It's not even that, it's "This guy tells the truth but he does it in a shitty way" He never *picks apart* what TERFs have to say about the world as they see it the way he deploys "facts and science" against trans activists
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Replying to @arthur_affect @eggynack and
I knew exactly who you were talking about from this tweet alone, without reading any of the thread for context. He certainly has a...tactic, I guess is the best term I can think of.
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