the people who are coming out to defend jesse singal really say a lot
jesse's defenders include: andrew sullivan, in a short piece on how great singal was and how nicole cliff is so ~mean~ for pointing out what a creep he is nymag.com/daily/intellig…
the great thing about that piece is that it's basically a PS on an op-ed about how the best thing we can do for the kids being separated from their families and put in concentration camps is capitulate to Trump on the border wall
i also want to add this to every thread involving andrew sullivan
his other defenders include bari weiss
if you don't know who she is, she's been spearheading the shit that is making the NYT op-ed section such a pile of shit lately. you may also remember her from the time she posted a dumb hamilton reference referring to an asian-american athlete as an immigrant
people pointed out that this was inaccurate and also racist and she completely lost her shit over it and every thinkpiece writer in america wrote a column about how mean twitter was to her and how this is leading to the collapse of america or some shit
megan "let's not be too hasty on trying to prevent poor people from being burned alive" mcardle
ken zucker, a former conversion therapy guy who got his clinic shut down because he kept abusing children 
you may remember him from the study asking people to rate the attractiveness of shirtless six year olds that he did
jonathan haidt, one of the #1 people pushing the "college campuses are coddling our students" narrative and railers against safe spaces and trigger warnings
haidt is one of the primary people who has been lending legitimacy to the idea that "sjws" are squashing "viewpoint diversity" on college campuses by doing stuff like stopping white supremacists from talking at them sometimes
4thwavenow, an organization for "gender critical" (read: TERF) parents that advocate against treatment for trans kids, have been promoting his piece *hard*-- because he interviewed some of them for it
more info on why that group is wrong and the growing trend that we're seeing of this "gender critical" stuff that is just conversion therapy with a new topcoat for cis parents advocate.com/commentary/201…
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meghan murphy, a straight up actual terf who you may remember from that time she threw a tantrum about a planned parenthood twitter account using the word "menstruator" to refer to people who menstruate
you may also remember her from the time she wrote a deeply transphobic and anti-sex worker piece on laverne cox back in 2015-- she's been doing the full swerf-n-terf thing pretending to be a feminist on a clickbait site, feminist current, for a few years
because you know when people refer to trans people as a cult they're totally not transphobic at all
The Federalist bought the "protect the children" moral panic bait hook line and sinker thefederalist.com/2018/06/19/tra…
noah wrote about the way that this qualifies as a moral panic really well
here's some more pieces by the guy who wrote the federalist article in singal's defense
he also was Scaramucci's one and only fan for a while
the federalist did a SECOND blog post praising singal's piece yesterday (first screenshot), the screenshots after that are some other stuff the same guy (the federalist's token gay quisling) has written. they pull him out every time they need an "i'm gay, so i can say it" take
t-slur / here's that writer using a transphobic slur
Graham Lineham, a terf
cathy young is a troll with a rap sheet about a mile long but in recent years she's largely been known for being one of those anti-feminist writers that hitched her wagon to gamergate, trading giving some of her credibility to their hate movement for their audience
oh and speaking of anti-feminists who hitched their wagon to gamergate
there are a bunch more but i think i'll just wrap this up with ian miles cheong for now
