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Most of the postmortems of trans activism focus on the approaches and policies that caused such fierce backlash, but very few examine how and why the trans movement became so radical to begin with:
Jamie Paul 🍝
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Jamie Paul 🍝
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- The fact that "Catturd" is trending on the sidebar almost every day tells you basically everything you need to know about the direction Twitter has gone in the past two years.
- When Andrew Yang declared his candidacy in 2017, no Democrat would touch universal basic income. It wasn't a well known idea, and it didn't poll well. True leaders don't follow the polls and trends. They move the zeitgeist and Overton window themselves. #YangGangEmerson College Polling/@7News Iowa Poll: Would you be supportive of a Universal Basic Income of $1000 a month? 53% yes 30% no 17% unsure @AndrewYang emersonpolling.reportablenews.com/pr/iowa-2020-s…
- Replying to @wesyangWe are told that speech is violence, but not smashing storefronts and setting blocks on fire. 🙃
- .@AvansoBia tells the tragic, heartfelt, and ultimately uplifting tale of how Italian reality TV star Zeudi Di Palma became a global phenomenon. She may have lost the battle, but she'll win the culture war. In @QueerMajority. #zeudi #zeudiners #zeudineres queermajority.com/essays-all/zeu…
- The thing about Andrew Yang is that some people love him and some people don't, but everyone who hates him, I mean really *hates* him, is an asshole, down to an individual. Whether or not you despise Andrew Yang is as good a litmus test as any for toxic online leftist assholism.
- Replying to @jessesingalThat guy's reply struck me as a dickish (and so very Twitter) way to respond to a simple mistake.
- I wrote about the show Dead Boy Detectives and the incredible lengths its fans have gone to in an effort to save it from cancellation. I'm rooting for them. In @BiDotOrg.
- Replying to @thomaschattwillThat article was middle-school-level melodrama. The irony is, the white guilt he so derides in his piece is the *only* reason this LiveJournal entry was run in the New York Times.
- Replying to @mtraceyMatt Taibbi put it best when he recently referred to Rupar as a "DNC organ grinder."
- @InYourFaceNYer You could say the sky is blue, and you'd get somebody telling you how insensitive you were being to colorblind people.
- Replying to @thomaschattwillUnprincipled people will reliably exploit the constraints of more principled adversaries. It's the intellectual equivalent of using human shields in armed conflicts.
- The Dead Boy Detectives fans found my piece on tumblr too. Nice to be in a fandom's good graces. 😄
