I should mention this one time Jesse was doing the performative "Are there ANY trans philosophers who've even TRIED to give a theory of what gender is?" and one person was like "If you're really serious you could try Talia Bettcher" and he's like "Ok! You Bettcher!" So punchablehttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1377843308664250370 …
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I don't even think it's necessarily an agenda -- a lot of Jesse's opinions are in the same genre of crypto-conservative "PC cancel culture run amok!" shittiness, but he gets like this even about stupid, petty, trivial shit based on stuff he was completely randomly wrong about
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I think he's just straight up incapable of being humble He feels like having to be *actually sorry* in front of trans activists is having to lick boots, it's beneath his dignity So he goes rampaging in the other direction
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Like yeah sure I think he's honest about this one facet of his endless self-defensive self-pitying repeated rant It's not that people "disagree" so much as they have the temerity to be *mad* To act like this has *stakes*, like it *matters* beyond this ivory tower debate
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That his article did *tangible harm* and it doesn't matter what he thinks he meant by it, it matters what actually happened in the world as a result of him writing it He just absolutely refuses to think in those terms, it's a level of responsibility he refuses to take
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