> I am very glad that I don't have anyone with opinions similar to hers in my immediate vicinity, because I am pretty sure that if I did, my brain would constantly be running a scared loop in any social interactions with them. [...] I think it's important that people can write essays that are as far outside my personal Overton window as hers is outside it (because sometimes they're correct and I should update, even though I don't believe this is an instance of that)
https://www.newsweek.com/we-need-balance-when-it-comes-gender-dysphoric-kids-i-would-know-opinion-1567277
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+https://trickymothernature.substack.com/p/one-long-cum
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+I want to focus on the speech angle!
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+L (Zero)—
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+> an extremely generous perspective of who should be banned, considering that Capitol insurrection apologists of many forms are getting banned many places but Tailcalled is still a friend of the blog
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+Um. I think you're _deeply_ misunderstanding where Tailcalled is coming from.
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+Emma—
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+> r/GCdebatesQT [...] basically a hate sub dressed up as a debate sub. I can see and basically agree with the attitude of just removing the whole GC movement from the platform as a whole rather than trying to salvage some parts of it.
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+So, I'm having trouble reconciling this with [your earlier claim that](/2021/Jan/link-unnatural-categories-are-optimized-for-deception/#isso-93)
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+> anti-trans campaigners like to _talk_ about "debate" a lot but don't actually make much room for it. My opinion would be that actually coming in with an attitude of "entering into a debate" would have to entail at bare minimum: [...] willingness to listen with openmindedness to the other side's reasons for believing what they believe, and making equal room for the other side to voice their side of the debate.
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+Dan T.—
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+I'm noticing an interesting psychological reaction in myself where I find myself having a negative reaction to your comments while simultaneously emphatically agreeing with their literal content. I think it's a tone thing?
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+Yes,
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+https://twitter.com/Docstockk/status/1357616731523608576
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+> Have just seen truly cold, bitter, shaming thread about trans men from followers of mine. I've soft blocked everyone I could on it, and if that's you, I urge you not to refollow me again—our politics are not the same.
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+https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2020/5888158/chase-strangio/
+https://twitter.com/chasestrangio/status/1357323996547723264