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There are so many negative feedback loops operating at once and working against critics of gender ideology.
Just to name a few:
Just to name a few:
- Most progressive and mainstream outlets refuse to publish anything critical of gender ideology. To publish, critics have to go to right-leaning outlets (risking guilt by association) or self-publish or go to small/niche outlets (unreliable source, no one vetted this, etc.).
- Culture within trans activist circles of not engaging primary sources ("block and stay safe," trigger warnings, do yourself a favor and don& #39;t read this) and then taking distorted secondhand representations of what women wrote as what they actually wrote.
See how Rowling& #39;s letter has been spun out of all contact with what she actually wrote—to the point that it& #39;s a widespread view among trans activists that she hates trans people, doesn& #39;t want trans people to exist, and poses a threat to "trans" kids: https://twitter.com/chasestrangio/status/1287367457213161473">https://twitter.com/chasestra...
- When trans activists and people who& #39;ve been told repeatedly how evil TERFs are actually read what "TERFs" write, they often think they& #39;re not really TERFs because they& #39;ve been told what TERFs believe is so horrible and what they read doesn& #39;t fit that image...
- Or trans activists argue that the writer must be "cloaking" or misrepresenting their real views to trick clueless people into supporting a dangerous cause. TERFs sounding reasonable isn& #39;t TERFs being reasonable—it& #39;s just part of the deception.
- Severe social and economic sanctions for attaching your name to critiques of gender ideology means lots of people use anonymous accounts (see: mine), which are then discredited as fake accounts or opinions too toxic for anyone to claim. https://twitter.com/iamGrushenka/status/1297962700077588480">https://twitter.com/iamGrushe...
- And there& #39;s orthodox privilege at work: “If you believe there& #39;s nothing true that you can& #39;t say, then anyone who gets in trouble for something they say must deserve it.”
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Please add more—I& #39;ve got half a brain this morning after a sleepless night of thunderstorms.
How can we break these cycles? One-on-one, face-to-face conversation has worked the best for me. And one person at a time adds up—but slowly. What else?
How can we break these cycles? One-on-one, face-to-face conversation has worked the best for me. And one person at a time adds up—but slowly. What else?
