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 @BlamKaboom and
One obvious and kind of genuinely pitiful thing about Glinner is it's always been relatively easy to throw him under the bus because he's such an OBVIOUS creep and his being a straight man upsets the TERF persecution narrative
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BlamKaboom and
So Jesse isn't doing anything that special here "I think he's right about most things but he's an arse" is a cheap tactic to look moderate, it's why Glinner got kicked off of Spinster (along with people thinking it was an "XX-only" space before they found out a dude ran out)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BlamKaboom and
The more relevant issue is that Jesse rubs elbows with people who are truly awful - people who are just as vicious as Glinner but with a modicum more tactical savvy - journalists like Sarah Ditum and academics like Jane Clare Jones
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BlamKaboom and
At least have the decency to let
@janeclarejones know you are using your platform to call her vicious.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
She's blocked me, so apparently she doesn't want to know, but feel free to tell her
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