But this is a lie The article he shared in 2018 and the comments he made in 2018 - and has repeated sporadically since - are NOT specifically about Mermaids mishandling funds or engaging in individual misconduct or whatever They are against Mermaids' core goal
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Replying to @arthur_affect @itsallariddle and
Thorn was much more polite than he needed tú be about this - Webb was dodging to avoid being held to account for a position he obviously holds He said in so many words he was a "gender-critical feminist" and tried to pretend this has nothing to do with Thorn or his daughter
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Is that Thorn's remit, to challenge his guests about their views on contentious issues? Passive aggressive more like. What did he want RW to say? He wanted him to say something, what was it? To repent? To explain himself? To discuss a very complex issue on what was meant 1/
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I don't think anyone who's attacked gender-affirming parents should expect to sit down and have a talk with a gender-affirming parent in any context and not be challenged
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Oh please. Did Thorn say before the interview, 'just to let you know I'm a gender-affirming parent, just in case it comes up'? Does everyone have to declare everything about themselves before an interview now, just in case? What nonsense.
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Hey, you know what, sometimes if someone yells out an insult to a large group of people on Twitter, they end up being surprised by random people they know being in that group and trapped in awkward situations That's what happens when you're an asshole in public
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Replying to @arthur_affect @itsallariddle and
The idea that Jesse Thorn was obligated to give some kind of fair warning here, that he's acting out of turn "Hey pal before we start the interview I think you should know, I may not look it, but I'm Asian"
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Yes, actually an interviewer who asks people on to talk to them can be criticised for ambushing the interviewee with a personal agenda. Why didn't he let him know he was going to ask him about it, knowing how sensitive the issue is? 1/
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Replying to @itsallariddle @arthur_affect and
itsallariddle Retweeted Arthur Chu
And that is YOUR suggestion that people shouldn't talk to people if they don't want to talk about things that are personal to the interviewer, as if they know all the things that are personal to the interviewer, or if it should matter. Not me. https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1382719545551454208?s=20 … 2/2
itsallariddle added,
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My suggestion is that Webb should have to live with the possibility that he'll be awkwardly confronted about this matter, every day, until the day he apologizes for it
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I'm not giving him some kind of guide on how to avoid this situation in the future Like, he can try - it wouldn't have taken much effort to find out Thorn has a trans daughter and go "Oh this interview is a bad idea" - but it'd just make him a bigger asshole
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