This is very similar to arguments I've heard transphobes make about why articles "calling into question" the fundamental humanity of trans people should be published. Such articles ARE violence. They do legitimize and encourage the dehumanization and persecution of trans people.https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1268551525506433028 …
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It's always marginalized people who are threatened by these opinions. It's always in pursuit of an "objectivity" that centers cisnormative heteronormative capitalist imperialist white supremacist patriarchy as the norm.
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And yes, I know dude is gay, but you have to feel totally insulated from the very real consequences of hateful or fascist rhetoric to think about it in this way. You have to be thoroughly disconnected from the suffering, the violence, the loss of life that such rhetoric supports.
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Oh, absolutely! I never read him but I certainly found myself seduced by some elegantly written arguments and narratives that I'd find reprehensible today.
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