i did the biggest update of the year on thinkpiecebot yesterday because i was so mad about bari weiss and then she publishes thishttps://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/971508079392116736 …
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the person she's defending was one of the major figures who attempted to legitimize gamergate, the hate movement that was instrumental to the rise of the alt-right and which provided the blueprint that the alt-right used to elect donald trump
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she isn't "demonstrably non-fascist". she's literally been involved with a hate movement for years now, and she was a piece of shit before that now
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Sommers should *absolutely* be tossed "into the slop bucket with the likes of Richard Spencer". she was literally instrumental in the movement that gave people like Spencer a following
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and frankly her having to deal with some light heckling at her public speaking is getting off light for the harm she's done
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she also defends Dan Savage, who spent years legitimizing the idea that bisexuality and asexuality aren't real, writing sex columns about how disgusting vaginas are, and talking about how people owe their partners oral sex and people who are uninterested in it are "broken"
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that's in addition to the transphobia that he spent years pretending couldn't be a problem because he regularly promoted the work of one (1) trans performer
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protesting his speech when he was one of the major people responsible for poisoning the well of sex-positive feminism in a way that it has still not recovered from doesn't even silence him
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for decades his column was the only thing that people in overwhelmingly sex-shaming and heteronormative places had as a view into a world where sex is normal and okay and then he turned around and pathologized the bisexuals, asexuals and trans people
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having some people who aren't just fucking prudes standing up and saying that he's full of shit on a bunch of stuff can be powerfully validating for the people who read him and then felt like shit for being the Wrong Kind of Queer
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but people like
@bariweiss will always have more empathy for paid speakers than they will for people who give enough of a shit about something to use their free time to protestShow this thread -
because people like
@bariweiss only actually believe in free speech when it's done by well-connected assholes with national columns and regular speaking gigs. us peons with signs need to hush, they're busy speaking over usShow this thread
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