This is an important tweet. The question of whether we judge an adult based on acts as a child is not a gendered question — I’ve advocated my view countless times in the past in other contexts. This is how a mature, rational person engages divergent viewpoints: https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/1297953011474542596

When I argued this same view — adults shouldn’t be judged by their bad acts in childhood — to defend the African-American football player Kyler Murray & a young female political consultant, nobody yelled misogyny. Establishment Dem media people cynically weaponize these terms: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1296592442742001666

Another common deceitful tactic embedded in elite media and academic discourse: pretend that only straight white men advocate the view you want to attack, in the process crudely erasing minority voices.

That’s how so many female & POC Bernie supporters became “Bernie Bros”: https://twitter.com/thomaschattwill/status/1297946672836816896

Anyway, as hard-core Israel defenders learned the hard way - by cynically screaming “anti-Semite” so often against Israel critics that the tactic lost its sting - overexploiting these vapid accusations for cheap insult points in lieu of substantive debate isn’t working anymore.