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I am taking at least a few weeks off this web site. Maybe longer. Please send urgent professional inquiries via my website (link in bio). 👋
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Oli London identified as trans for approximately two months after making a D-list Internet celebrity career out of getting lots of plastic surgery to look Korean. He is now being celebrated as a Wise and Knowledgeable Voice on Gender with a big-5 publisher book deal.
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Hey ! Board member here of the archive and museum in Berlin that collects and exhibits these histories: this is absolutely not true and borders on Holocaust denial. The Nazi persecution of trans people is documented history.
@StrewthQueen
But transvestites were largely tolerated by the Nazis as long as there was no "homosexual activity". There was a transvestite pass. What you're doing is appropriating what happened to others which is...awkward.
The Nazis kept meticulous records.
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PLEASE stop saying Dianne Feinstein is in heaven now or calling her a saint. She was JEWISH please respect our religion she will be reincarnated as wheat as punishment for performing idolatry by participating in Imperialisms & Colonialisms thus worshipping the American Nation
PLEASE stop saying RBG is in heaven now or calling her a saint. RBG was JEWISH please respect our religion she will be reincarnated as wheat as punishment for performing idolatry by participating in American Imperialisms and Colonialisms thus worshipping the American Nation
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The Atlantic when some college kids complain about the dining hall vs The Atlantic when the government bans books and ends academic freedom ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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It’s because they think it will fuck over immigrants (I’m not kidding)
41% of French population is in favour of a proposal to limit everyone to 4 flights in their entire life.
59% of 18-24 year-olds agree.
2 return flights. Not per year: per life.
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This is an absolutely wild take about what started as a story about a person going to the grocery store to yell at their underpaid app servant
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imagine if suburban white women had twitter during the peak years of the AIDS epidemic
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Actually she spent her SF career vetoing domestic partnership legislation and working to frustrate Milk’s political goals. She was his enemy, she was in the conservative bloc on the Board of Supervisors with his murderer, and she flew the confederate flag over city hall.
When Harvey Milk was assassinated, then-Mayor Feinstein checked the body and tried to revive him. She spent the rest of her career fighting for gay rights and gun safety. May her memory be a blessing.
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Antisemitic messages near a pro-Palestine sit in at Stanford turn out to have been written by someone trying to make the Palestine protest look bad.
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In anyone missed the greatest tweet of all time before it was deleted yesterday. Truly a complete and concise document of the diseases of the racist US liberal mind.
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The bar for the anti-trans cult is below the floor. There is no Nazi they won't hug, no misogynist clichè they won't cling to, no rapist they won't embrace, and no D-list Internet celebrity they won't, lying through their teeth, ret-con into a Former Trans, Whomst Saw The Light.
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“Donald Trump closes his re-election campaign with a supercut of himself dancing to a song about cruising for gay sex” is not an eventuality for which queer theory was prepared.
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The best analysis of what happened in Colorado Springs I’ve heard in any mass audience media outlet so far is
@willmenaker
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Absolutely incredible to encounter this in real life. (The obvious answer is YOU ARE THE LITERAL MUSEUM: BUY SOMETHING(S))
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A Romani activist who spoke last night was pushed onto the subway tracks on their way home from the demo after being called a “Hamas lover.” A Muslim woman was harrassed and assaulted by a German man at the demo and the police barely stepped in.
The police have detained two people for holding signs reading “stop the genocide in Gaza”
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140 people died on the inner-German border during the Cold War and each death is treated as an official tragedy that preaches the unspeakable evil of the Communist “Unrechtsstaat.” Meanwhile uncountable thousands are drowned by EU goons in the Mediterranean to resounding silence.
Photos of migrant boat taken by Greek coast guard helicopter on Tuesday indicates hundreds were aboard. Official death toll so far 79 with 104 survivors. Shipping Ministry official says boat sunk in spot where sea is 4,000 meters deep so retrieving other victims may be impossible
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"white gay men" as shorthand for "sex freak" as shorthand for "pedo" is how tenderqueers joyfully participate in a movement that wants to send us all to the camps
The Folsom discourse is crazy. I understand that young queers are quite reactionary, but something making you uncomfortable is not evidence that it’s HARMFUL.
Conflating discomfort with harm is not only lazy but it’s dangerous! It’s the foundation for many homophobic beliefs.
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Germany really is doing the worst possible version of lockdown right now — where it doesn’t work, the rules change every two weeks, and the moral panics are all about outdoor socializing and social contacts and not WORK and SCHOOL.
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There is also now, charmingly, a fast and easy path from D-list Internet celebrity to mainstream success and embrace by the media elite: pretend to be the kind of person who in reality only exists in their head.
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Reinstating the Hays Code banning interracial relationships, homosexuality, and depictions of or allusions to sex, all overseen by a Catholic bishop, but for social justice reasons
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The two people confirmed to have been murdered at Club Q by the grandson of a Republican state legislator were both the kinds of trans activists regularly described by a wide range of media personalities from right to center as a dangerous social contagion threatening your kids.
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SHE LITERALLY DID IT
Next week Sonia Sodha or Petronella Wyatt or someone will follow up their column “Why Do Woke Radicals Want Trans Rapists In Your Daughter’s Changing Area” with the banger “Woke New York Times Radicals Try To Smear Beloved Friend Nick Cohen Just For Doing A Little Sexual Assault”
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Defacing synagogues in protest of Israeli policy is wrong, full stop.
This kind of antisemitism––holding all Jews accountable for the actions of the Israeli state––is intensified by the insistence of so many politicians that Israel speaks for and represents all Jews.
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The police have detained two people for holding signs reading “stop the genocide in Gaza”
The police have intervened to prevent the protest from saying “stop the genocide.”
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The town where my family is from in Lithuania was destroyed by the SS, who shot everyone, dug a pit, burned the bodies buildings, pushed the ashes into a pit, and planted a forest on top. The Lithuanians who collaborated in that weren't complex heroic nationalists but murderers.
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One of Germany's only Black kids TV hosts was fired after a racist right-wing hate campaign scandalized his participation in in a peaceful demonstration for Palestinian kids and smeared him as an anti-Semite.
German "anti-antisemitism" is monstrously racist and antisemitic.
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assigning this text to my queer theory undergrads in the fall
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The Berlin police say they do not have enough resources to do anything about the wave of Nazi terrorist attacks in the district of Neukölln. But at this moment, they have 2,500 officers evicting a house in Friedrichshain that has been occupied for 30 years.
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Anyone nodding and smiling at the idea of limiting everyone to four flights in their entire life (and basically condemning immigrants to never seeing their family again) instead of eliminating private aviation/decarbonizing other transit is a right wing moron xoxo gossip girl
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In
@Deborah_Feldman
’s Guardian essay, the shocking revelation that a governing German politician said German hostages like Shani Louk were not “pure” Germans; those hostages have been used to justify unconditional support for Israel’s bombing of civilians.
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If you are a young queer person, I would like to assure you that mass public hysteria about two adult gay men with an age gap dating one another is going to be very bad for your prospects of living a full and happy life.
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straight people: gays are coming for your kids!
straight people: yummy yummy delicious, yummy teen boy blood. yum yum!
Bryan Johnson 45-year-old founder of Braintree Payment Solutions which also owned Venmo sold his companies to PayPal in 2013 for $800 Million. Johnson just revealed that he spends $2 million per year to retain youth and he uses his teenage son as what he calls his ‘blood boy.’
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BREAKING: leading politician in country that committed the Holocaust refuses to meet with the Jewish son of Holocaust survivors because she disagrees with his Israel politics
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One of the subjects the Nazis considered degenerate was TRANS IDENTITY and TRANS MEDICAL CARE (source: I am a historian of Weimar LGBT life and member of the board of one of the largest archives of that life at
@GayMuseum
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I refuse to believe that a nine year old on Sonnenallee wearing a keffiyeh presents such a clear and present danger to my life in Germany that he needs to be arrested by riot cops.
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The Atlantic when students don’t feel like ‘debating’ each other vs The Atlantic when politicians ban books and end academic freedom
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If you’re Arab in Germany the police break up any gathering as a “Jew hate rally.” If you’re Aryan you get to distribute Nazi leaflets in your youth and lead a political party, or be a TV ‘intellectual’ and say Jews are religiously permitted only to lend money & sell diamonds.
Nahostexperte Richard David Precht mit bahnbrechenden Judaistik-News: Orthodoxen Juden sei es von der Religion her untersagt zu arbeiten, „außer ein paar Dingen wie Diamanthandel und Finanzgeschäfte“. 🤔 Wessen Idee waren nochmal Berufsverbote und aufgezwungenes Geldverleihen?
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it is not to minimize the loss of AIDS to insist that we are not actually missing “an entire generation” of elder queers — these are living, complicated people with living, complicated politics and you can befriend them, organize with them, argue with them, and love them.
I wish we weren’t missing an entire generation of elder queers right now.
Those queens knew how to fucking fight for something.
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gain power and also a conscious effort to inspire stochastic violence that murders gay and trans people on the theory that there should be fewer of us.
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Google her family tree lmfao
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This is how it works. You spend years denying the Holocaust and spreading ethnic hate and then as long as you hug the state of Israel hard enough it makes the antisemitism problem go away
Marine Le Pen’s support of Israel seen as move away from party’s antisemitic past
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What these people want to take from queer and trans people, he said, talking about Daniel Aston’s parents who loved and supported him and his job at the club, is the right to a joyful and full life. And he told his straight listeners they must fight back however they can.
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Rashida Tlaib and Samantha Woll were, by all accounts, good friends and political allies who organized together. Yours is an inhuman and evil response to her murder.
Samantha Woll, President of a Detroit Synagogue, was stabbed to death outside her home today.
Her murder happened in Michigan which is represented by
@RepRashida
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In recent days, the congresswoman has been spreading anti-Israel rhetoric and falsely accusing Israel of attacking…
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“ You’re ablist if you think it’s bad to yell at underpaid app servants”
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Europeans visiting the US need to know that you need to tip 20% otherwise your server will likely not be making minimum wage. Yes it’s insane. Yes people are organizing against it. In the meantime tip 20%. Every time. Without fail. Not optional. Part of the price.
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Meanwhile these ghouls are now pretending their critics are threatening *them,* despite the blood from the murdered trans people’s bodies not having yet dried on the floor
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A taz journalist went to a Mykki Blanco concert, heard Blanco say “there’s so much I want to say but can’t,” decided that meant the destruction of Israel and everyone who lives there, and wrote that in an article in the newspaper.
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What happened is that someone bragged about going to the grocery store to yell at their underpaid app servant and someone else said “buy your own damn groceries.”
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1) impossible to overstate the degree to which this is not happening
2) you can always tell the people interested in fighting misogyny from the way they describe anyone they think of as being a woman as “a vagina”
"Gay men are being told, if you do not want to have sex with a vagina, you're actually a bigot." -
@SullyDish
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This is the key to why people are angry about how the media reports on trans kids: no news article about a hot-button issue in a reputable, fact-checked outlet should ignore peer-reviewed, large-sample-size research in favor of anecdotes.
The most recent data on transition regret for trans people over 18
Out of 3398 just 16 regretted surgery
Just 0.47%
BUT…
Of those 16,
10 detransitioned only *temporarily*
So just SIX regretted permanently.
A real regret rate of less than 0.2%.
Less than 1 in 500.
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Thank you
@willmenaker
for sending a concise, powerful, and direct call to action that is rooted in good analysis. It really means a lot.
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I think this is unfair to Loeffler, who proved that a farm girl with a dream can become a Senator simply by marrying the CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, posing with Klansmen, buying the seat, and using it to do insider trading on body bag stocks during a pandemic she denies.
There are a lot of reasons to care about tonight's results but Kelly Loeffler's humiliation should be one of them.
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Because in order to act to address any of the enormous and real problems or threats you DO have to have some conviction that you can do something
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Next week Sonia Sodha or Petronella Wyatt or someone will follow up their column “Why Do Woke Radicals Want Trans Rapists In Your Daughter’s Changing Area” with the banger “Woke New York Times Radicals Try To Smear Beloved Friend Nick Cohen Just For Doing A Little Sexual Assault”
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I am not threatening nor do I think anyone should threaten these people. I do strongly believe that their work contributes to the murder of trans people. I demand that they stop, and demand that hate which incites violence be named as such.
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these kinds of gays would check themselves into Buchenwald and sew the little pink triangles on their own camp uniforms
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an exhibit of Islamic art from the Middle Ages postponed because it might be “traumatic” — this would be laughable if it wasn’t being pursued by a big well funded institution and emblematic of broader trends in curatorial cowardice and Islamophobia
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I refuse to believe that armored riot cops stomping out vigil candles protects my life in Germany or fights antisemitism.
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Oyoun, a cultural center in Berlin, alleges that they have been put under pressure by the city government to cancel an event by a Jewish activist group that will include speakers who lost family in Israel last week because the city disagrees with those Jews’ position on the war.
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My position, for one, is that someone doing journalism in a major national magazine shouldn’t make charges of mass child abuse based off a single source’s unproven allegations; especially when those allegations are contradicted by the available peer-reviewed longitudinal studies.
@RottenInDenmark
I described the affidavit as unproven allegations, while giving reasons why it shouldn't be dismissed altogether. I take it your position is that the account is so wild and absurd no serious person would even consider that it might be true.
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some of you will not rest until the age of consent is 30
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please,
@wtyppod
. please,
@AliceAvizandum
. please do episode where big fish tank go boom
Bro what the fuck the fish tank of my hotel just exploded in the middle of the night WHATS GOING ON.
#radissonblu
#Berlin
#aquarium
#Explosion
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I think that with state governments banning books in schools we should constantly remind Mounck, Fredersdorf, Weiss, and the other people who told their readers blue haired college kids threatened free speech on campus of how hilariously, dangerously, totally wrong they were.
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4 of 5 Israeli Jews now considered antisemites by the German government
In a new survey, 4 out of 5 Israeli Jews believe the government and Netanyahu are to blame for Hamas's attack last week (that includes 79% of the government's supporters). A majority of Israeli Jews want Netanyahu to resign at the end of the war:
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What she’s describing is a politics of fake radicalism, a politics of “haha lol” on your phone 27 hours a day with app servants bringing you treats because why bother trying?
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Someone at the Jewish ceasefire protest was detained by the police for holding a sign reading “From the R— to the S—, we believe in equality.”
A big crowd on Unter den Linden tonight for ceasefire.
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With all due attention to the many ways gay men’s movements have failed at solidarity with women—gay men’s movements *did* ask why women are treated as inferior and gay men did *not* respond this way to Roe.
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Marry fuck kill Disney gay, Swiftie gay, Harry Potter gay
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In Germany is more publicly disqualifying to support Palestine than to have once been a neo-Nazi who made Auschwitz jokes
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Richard David Precht, saying here that Orthodox Jews are only religiously permitted to do jobs “like money lending and selling diamonds,” is considered less antisemitic by German remembrance culture than Bernie Sanders, son of Holocaust survivors, saying Gaza has civilians.
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The police have intervened to prevent the protest from saying “stop the genocide.”
Someone at the Jewish ceasefire protest was detained by the police for holding a sign reading “From the R— to the S—, we believe in equality.”
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@louisafloftus
On the grounds that mid demo the Jewish organizers were informed that the phrase “stop the genocide” is illegal to say at this demo
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Spending the morning after the mass shooting name searching yourself on Twitter to block your critics
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For international observers: Germany’s social democrats, greens and libertarians have announced a law that would allow researchers only three years (!) work post-PhD before having to leave the academy or become a full, chaired professor.
Die Eckpunkte des
#WissZeitVG
sind gerade vom
@BMBF
veröffentlicht worden.
@AmreiBahr
@AKellerGEW
@HRK_aktuell
.
@starkwatzinger
möchte Ende 2023 oder Anfang 2024 Novelle beschließen. Ein Gesetzesentwurf soll noch vor der Sommerpause eingebracht werden.
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Solche Fragen kommen immer nach Terrorangriffe in anderen Ländern und nicht, wenn eine Faschistische Partei 20 % bei nationalen Umfragen kriegt.
Die Gefahr kommt aus Sachsen, nicht Neukölln.
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Lede: The armed wing of one of the US’s two main political parties shot up a drag show this weekend after a years-long escalation of blood libel against gay and trans people, originating in but not confined to the far right.
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Was taken to a pub last night where young trans and queer people were dancing with pensioners dressed up for a night out and apparently everyone had been to a meeting of the radical tenant union earlier. Impeccable vibes in Dublin 👍
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He jokes but it is truly awful that just “making a good thing well” is an actively losing proposition in a world where VC want sky-high returns dependent on creating monopolies and scamming people
Their mistake was not making people pay a monthly subscription to continue using their pressure cooker
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Not because they’ll feel shame — they created a moral panic on purpose as part of the same political project banning books — but because some of their readers will hate what’s happening and we can peel those people off.
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We now have Germans "but, actually"-ing Bernie Sanders' family's Holocaust history.
His father moved to the US in 1921. His father's entire family were murdered by Germany in the Holocaust.
@benwritesthings
Bernies Mutter ist 1912 in New York geboren, Bernies Vater 1921 aus Polen in die USA eingewandert.
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When a wide swath of commenters from center to right –– from Hadley Freeman to Jesse Singal to Abigail Shrier to Chris Rufo to Matt Walsh to LibsOfTikTok –– repeatedly tell large audiences that gay & trans people are preying on innocents, people believe them and act accordingly.
"lone wolf" doesn't hold up as a model when there's a (small and focused) media environment directing mass shooter attacks against specific (in time and location, not just target demographic) events. this isn't just stochastic terrorism or incitement, it's ISTAR against queer ppl
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People like Frances — people who wave around fake “LGB” ally ship but who would 100% have been throwing us in camps and burning our books in 1933 — don’t actually care about the history, though. They care about eliminating trans people today.
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The intersection between this kind of homophobia and an understanding of body politics and intraqueer community power struggles learned primarily from Instagram card stacks…
i'm gonna say it... and some of y'all might get mad at me... but r tweets like these kinda not JUST homophobia
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*watching a twink smoke weed out of a banana pipe* wow this really says a lot about how crystal meth is normalized in our community
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remember when mpx was going to spread wildly through America from gay bar to elementary school? I do!
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I find it grossly offensive when know nothing Twitter transphobes start eliminating categories of people from Nazi persecution in order to avoid having to state their own selves in the mirror
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If Haaretz were published in Germany a broad coalition from the socialist left to the far right would be demanding the cops raid its offices and arrest its editors for antisemitism
Israel can’t imprison 2 million Gazans without paying a cruel price
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Because Nick Cohen was a keystone of the transphobic liberal caucus in British media, prominent British media feminists continue to participate in the downplaying of his serial drunken sexual assault of junior female colleagues
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this kind of Holocaust lie has become not just a right-wing but also a liberal imperative: applauding SS soldiers in Canada then saying "well not everyone in the SS was a Nazi," pretending today's Nazis aren't Nazis, insisting that pro-Palestine protestors are *worse* than Nazis
New ‘Douglas Murray unintentionally deeply antisemitic’ take just dropped: apparently the Waffen SS felt “really bad” about murdering Jews.
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@skeatings
spent the first 3/4 of this essay breathlessly awaiting Lynette Pics and man, they do not disappoint when they come
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One ruling German politician called Hamas hostages with German passports “not pure” Germans, now another ruling German politician mocks a Jewish philosopher for describing her experiences of antisemitism here. Is Germany ruled by antisemites?
This is how two prominent German academics (one also a high-ranking government official) respond when a Jewish philosopher they disagree with says they now feel unsafe in Germany—outright dismissal and contempt. Shame!
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