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jen segal's avatar

Your eloquent rejection of being a meme with more melanin is fantastic! So too do I reject being summed up by my skin tone. Jeez why do we have a brain at all? Get past it, people.

What matters is how you treat your fellow humans. Are you willing to see the dignity and humanity of every person you encounter? Dignify the individual and stop hiding behind skin color tropes.

Did you catch Bari Weiss’ Amy Cooper piece? Man was she set up and typified (and destroyed) by the mob. I say f*uck mob justice. No sense in that at all.

We aren’t binaries. We are all much much more than the easy calculus.

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Steve QJ's avatar

"What matters is how you treat your fellow humans. Are you willing to see the dignity and humanity of every person you encounter? Dignify the individual and stop hiding behind skin color tropes."

It's genuinely crazy to me that some people are moving further away from this simple truth instead of closer to it.

Though that said, I did see Bari's Amy Cooper piece, and though I think Bari is great, I think she dropped the ball on that one. Amy didn't deserve to be destroyed (as nobody does), but she wasn't set up. And, in fact, there was a *second* 9-11 call where Amy doubles down and expands upon her lies (Bari's piece doesn't mention this or a few other pertinent details). It was this call that got her charged for filing a false police report.

I actually wrote a piece going over the case in detail. Are you still on Medium?

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jen segal's avatar

I thought I’d found all your pieces on medium!

Medium cancelled my account because I dared question the narrative of vaccine mandates (being a firm believer in ‘my body, my choice’) and suggested that some level of immunity following covid infection should be researched and evaluated.

Seems free thought isn’t really free there…and some ideas are more welcome than others.

So while I refuse to give them another dime I still get a few free looks and use that time to seek out your articles…

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Steve QJ's avatar

"Seems free thought isn’t really free there…and some ideas are more welcome than others."

This is really starting to worry me. I'm hearing more and more people say they've had their accounts cancelled or they've received warnings because of comments they've made on Medium. Really sorry to have lost your voice there. I think that's a huge mistake on their part.

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Mark Monday's avatar

After multiple warnings to my Frostjax account due to comments I made, I just decided to end my membership. It actually was a freeing decision; I still get to see the maniacal article titles in my daily notification, but only get to read and comment on 4 free articles a month. I usually save that allotment for you and the Penguin, instead of wasting those 4 spots on crazy-making nonsense. And I get a lot less agitated at the start or end of my day when my ability to even read agitating nonsense has been removed!

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Steve QJ's avatar

You too? What the hell is Medium doing?!

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