I think he fell into a trap with journalism where being seen as a contrarian on some issue, of being seen as speaking "truth" to a perceived "cultural power", was a good beat for generating attention and so he inflated the clickbaity side of things
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Replying to @life_minutiae @AsaZernik and
So you are questioning his motives? Can you think of anyone who recently wrote published pieces on detransitioners, who did a good job on it?
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Replying to @MichaShrine @AsaZernik and
I'm not questioning his motives, I'm questioning his published article. I don't ultimately think it's that important what's in one guy's head, he's a working journalist and I think it's best to engage with his actual output. I'm criticizing the structure of his Atlantic article.
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Replying to @life_minutiae @AsaZernik and
Okay well he's been recently accused by blue-checkmark journalists of being anti-trans to the point of being responsible for suicides that happened. Does that seem reasonable to you?
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Replying to @MichaShrine @AsaZernik and
I mean I suspect the way I would model it was by doing some Fermi calculation - would start by estimating if his journalism caused a certain magnitude of shift in the willingness of some combination of families and doctors to support some number of trans kids
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Replying to @life_minutiae @MichaShrine and
then I'd try to model the data around how much transition care for trans kids reduces their suicide probability in aggregate, and multiply them together, and subtract some (likely much smaller because of the numbers) reduction on the detransitioner side
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Replying to @life_minutiae @MichaShrine and
and that would lead to some modeled actuarial value of how many suicides his work (not his motives, but his sort of body of work and public engagement as a working journalist) is responsible for, which could be substantially less than 1, or greater than 10, or some other number
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Replying to @life_minutiae @MichaShrine and
that sort of calculation is what would indicate whether such a statement would be "reasonable", I presume, but I could imagine someone making a statistical argument that the number is greater than 2
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Replying to @life_minutiae @MichaShrine and
I haven't seen anyone personally accuse Jesse of causing a specific death but I have seen personal accusations that his article derailed their lives and the lives of people they care about
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
And honestly that's a good enough reason to hate him, even if you believe he had all the best intentions I can't believe the arrogance it would take to scold someone whose parents stopped them from transitioning because of this article not to blame Jesse
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Like to take a specific example when Jesse pulled that breathtakingly arrogant maneuver saying "Tim Faust secretly agrees with me and just can't say it" and Tim actually turned on him going "SHUT THE FUCK UP DUDE" and he's like "Yeah but it's true though"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
The reason Faust said he was so angry IIRC is that he had a young cousin whose transition plans were derailed by Jesse's article convincing his parents to "wait" And he and the other "woke" members of the family were terrified for this kid's welfare but didn't know what to do
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