Pretty wild stuff
2/I think the easiest way to sum up what's going on here is a weird form of backward reasoning where if a sentiment is expressed by (someone seen as) a TERF, it is, by definition, bigoted, and something something something white supremacist. The dot-connecting needn't make sense.
3/ I'm sure somewhere there is a followup question where AHP asks her to name an example (or even two!) of a contemporary feminist thinker who believes in this idea. Just haven't gotten there yet.
4/ This is just completely made up. Completely. It's a meaningless statement untethered from any intellectual movement. And it sucks we're in a moment where AHP, despite being a prominent and intelligent writer and thinker, has to pretend otherwise and can't push back on it.
5/ Read the responses to this eminently reasonable comment to understand how vast swaths of people who spend time in progressive spaces online end up sounding like drones repeating the same catch phrases endlessly.
6/ I'll stop after this but these are just really toxic spaces where any form of dissent is met with "Have you perhaps considered that maybe you are infested by bigotry/Whiteness??" manipulation posing as I Am Just Helping To Educate You
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