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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

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

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

and frankly her having to deal with some light heckling at her public speaking is getting off light for the harm she's done

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"

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

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

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