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1/ There's a thing I'm calling moral spotlighting (maybe someone else has a name for it) that I think is harmful. One example came after 9/11. To many people, it

I really don't understand why NPR made this decision. Reading this is painful. It's like watching a friend flail at an open mic. I am sure a bunch of Twitter

1/ A woman named Sasha White got fired from her job at The Tobias Literary Agency after some on Twitter reported her to her employer for tweets they saw as

Rowling has one particular argument she has made about one particular policy (self-ID). Vox, like many other outlets, is collapsing things so pro-self-ID = pro-trans-rights. This isn't honest or informed

Just to be clear, this is a completely made-up claim. I never threatened Katelyn Burns with legal action, and I never threatened http://Rewire.News with legal action. It is a lie.

1/There's definitely a major epistemic breach opening up on the left and honestly Covington was what really revealed it to me in its full gravity for the first time. I

1/ The Vox writer I criticized is getting really bad harassment. Because this is how online bullshit works, within about 30 seconds of things really kicking off, she'd likely received

Another big lesson of today -- maybe of every day -- is what a scam Twitter is. This ended up being about a million petty slapfights rather than the letter

A friend points out that this definition of "trans woman" in Merriam-Webster's would likely confuse readers (doubly true in light of MW's own definition of 'woman'). But this definition *wasn't

This is incredibly irresponsible on every level. 2/ If NHJ thinks there is credence to this incredibly unlikely-seeming conspiracy theory, she has every right to either report on it herself,

Interesting example of what happens when, for ideological reasons, you decide to pretend that biological sex isn't a thing that exists and is pretty deeply baked into who we are.

A 3,000-word, two-byline investigation informing you that a woman you have never heard of, who is not a public figure (until now!), wore an offensive Halloween costume two years ago