Good job of turning it around including admitting that you didn't handle the debate as well as you might.
So hey, didn't know you were a flaming conservative, Steve :) So am I to hear some tell it...one Mediumite even called me a Handmaid. LOL.
I understood exactly what you meant when I first read the line about how black racism writing needs to emphasize nothing but suffering. When you sarcastically refer to the people who write Four Words You Should Never Say To A Black Person I know who you're talking about...several whos :) It's the chronic perma-victim mentality, and as you don't live life perpetually under attack by the Klan, I don't live my life being raped all day long by The Patriarchy, so I feel your frustration.
It was interesting to see how the argument started off hot but then slowly cooled down over the course of several exchanges. You're a better one than I...but I get what you're saying about the need to engage with people if you can, or for as long as you can, to try and end the divisiveness. I have a nurse friend here in Toronto who told our weekly Virtual Cocktail Hour a few weeks ago that she doesn't argue with people. When they say weird or offensive things, she asks, "Really? Why do you feel this way? Why do you think this person said blah?" She tries to understand why they said or reacted the way they did to something rather than saying, "You vile deplorable!"
BTW I'm no longer on Medium...I got suspended last week for....well, I still don't know exactly what as they haven't told me. But I haven't begged for my account back yet and they never answered my initial query. If I had to put money on it I'd say my defense of Dave Chappelle and harsh words toward transactivist extremists. Apparently, I'm not the only one threatened on Medium for taking on the Transquisition as I call them :) I'll be here on Substack, where they don't give a shit what you write as long as you don't actively call for anyone's death, and I'm working on getting up and running on Vocal. Looking forward to your next piece.
"BTW I'm no longer on Medium...I got suspended last week for....well, I still don't know exactly what as they haven't told me. But I haven't begged for my account back yet and they never answered my initial query. If I had to put money on it I'd say my defense of Dave Chappelle and harsh words toward transactivist extremists"
No way, really?! Have they still not gotten back to you? As much as I try to ignore conspiracy theories about "censorship", I've noticed that articles that Medium seems to take a very hard line with ant criticism of trans ideology, however polite or reasonable. Critical articles don't do well either it seems. I have a few things to say over the next few weeks so we'll see how that goes😅 Hope you get back there soon.
I won't be. I reminded them again they never told me why it was suspended, just quoted the chunk of the community guidelines which always seems to be about 'hateful' rhetoric and inciting violence. The first article they took down was White People Who Hate White People Are Racist which was a takedown of white self-hatred (but I never called on Black LIves Matter to kill all the idiot liberals, lol) and the one I wrote suggesting that if we accept gender-switching at face value, if we can accept that a man can become a woman and vice versa, what's so terribly about race-switching like Rachel Dolezal? And I noted black people can do it too and I cited Michael Jackson as evidence that black people *can* become white if they have the money for it. Whether Jackson was trying to look more white or not, he had vitiligo but I've never been convinced that was the sole reason, black people *can* go white if they want. And then the Dave Chappelle thing was the last straw. (What the hell else would it be?) I'd already decided that if they suspended my account I was out of there. I have to be free to say what needs to be said and it's clear from my experience and some details others have shared with me that Medium DOES have an unofficial anti-trans-critique policy there.
So as a consequence I've gotten VERY interested in the science behind transgender issues, the mob takedowns of any scientist who doesn't support their ideology, and especially The Trans Taboo That Must Not Be Named, autogynephilia, which seems to explain a LOT about why transactivists act and speak so much like traditional, old-school, garden variety misogynist cis-het men, oozing with entitlement and more willing to attack women/feminists who stand up to them, rather than the male attackers of transfolk who are the REAL problem.
Feh, we all get triggered.
Good job of turning it around including admitting that you didn't handle the debate as well as you might.
So hey, didn't know you were a flaming conservative, Steve :) So am I to hear some tell it...one Mediumite even called me a Handmaid. LOL.
I understood exactly what you meant when I first read the line about how black racism writing needs to emphasize nothing but suffering. When you sarcastically refer to the people who write Four Words You Should Never Say To A Black Person I know who you're talking about...several whos :) It's the chronic perma-victim mentality, and as you don't live life perpetually under attack by the Klan, I don't live my life being raped all day long by The Patriarchy, so I feel your frustration.
It was interesting to see how the argument started off hot but then slowly cooled down over the course of several exchanges. You're a better one than I...but I get what you're saying about the need to engage with people if you can, or for as long as you can, to try and end the divisiveness. I have a nurse friend here in Toronto who told our weekly Virtual Cocktail Hour a few weeks ago that she doesn't argue with people. When they say weird or offensive things, she asks, "Really? Why do you feel this way? Why do you think this person said blah?" She tries to understand why they said or reacted the way they did to something rather than saying, "You vile deplorable!"
BTW I'm no longer on Medium...I got suspended last week for....well, I still don't know exactly what as they haven't told me. But I haven't begged for my account back yet and they never answered my initial query. If I had to put money on it I'd say my defense of Dave Chappelle and harsh words toward transactivist extremists. Apparently, I'm not the only one threatened on Medium for taking on the Transquisition as I call them :) I'll be here on Substack, where they don't give a shit what you write as long as you don't actively call for anyone's death, and I'm working on getting up and running on Vocal. Looking forward to your next piece.
"BTW I'm no longer on Medium...I got suspended last week for....well, I still don't know exactly what as they haven't told me. But I haven't begged for my account back yet and they never answered my initial query. If I had to put money on it I'd say my defense of Dave Chappelle and harsh words toward transactivist extremists"
No way, really?! Have they still not gotten back to you? As much as I try to ignore conspiracy theories about "censorship", I've noticed that articles that Medium seems to take a very hard line with ant criticism of trans ideology, however polite or reasonable. Critical articles don't do well either it seems. I have a few things to say over the next few weeks so we'll see how that goes😅 Hope you get back there soon.
I won't be. I reminded them again they never told me why it was suspended, just quoted the chunk of the community guidelines which always seems to be about 'hateful' rhetoric and inciting violence. The first article they took down was White People Who Hate White People Are Racist which was a takedown of white self-hatred (but I never called on Black LIves Matter to kill all the idiot liberals, lol) and the one I wrote suggesting that if we accept gender-switching at face value, if we can accept that a man can become a woman and vice versa, what's so terribly about race-switching like Rachel Dolezal? And I noted black people can do it too and I cited Michael Jackson as evidence that black people *can* become white if they have the money for it. Whether Jackson was trying to look more white or not, he had vitiligo but I've never been convinced that was the sole reason, black people *can* go white if they want. And then the Dave Chappelle thing was the last straw. (What the hell else would it be?) I'd already decided that if they suspended my account I was out of there. I have to be free to say what needs to be said and it's clear from my experience and some details others have shared with me that Medium DOES have an unofficial anti-trans-critique policy there.
So as a consequence I've gotten VERY interested in the science behind transgender issues, the mob takedowns of any scientist who doesn't support their ideology, and especially The Trans Taboo That Must Not Be Named, autogynephilia, which seems to explain a LOT about why transactivists act and speak so much like traditional, old-school, garden variety misogynist cis-het men, oozing with entitlement and more willing to attack women/feminists who stand up to them, rather than the male attackers of transfolk who are the REAL problem.
Seen this? https://medium.com/the-bad-influence/medium-we-have-a-problem-9f388f84466f