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To be an attorney and former criminal investigator who analyzes criminal cases on social media is to receive scores of insane messages daily from right-wingers with no legal education, knowledge, or experience condescendingly telling you how to interpret a criminal investigation.
We rightly say that certain categories of people—for instance, women—have a much harder time than others getting treated with respect on social media, including when speaking on an area of expertise. What we should add is that the Right no longer believes in "expertise" at *all*.
Were I willing to lower myself to the level of discourse employed by right-wing social media users and *also* insist publicly on my belief in "expertise"—an idea right-wingers once not only believed in but venerated—I'd be writing "fuck you I'm a lawyer" on Twitter 100 times/day.
