"A couple of years ago I had a similar, but much lower-status, brush with insane overreaction to stating simple biological reality..So I’ve put together this guide for the cancelled, and those contemplating it."
https://twitter.com/OldRoberts953/status/1405463113139433477
"1. Total unwavering public support. I had plenty of this on social media and in the physical world from readers and viewers who liked my work, but nobody in the ‘industry’ did this."
"2. Private support, public silence. By far the largest group.. If even the most timid expression of personal regard for someone stating common facts could lead to Armageddon, then what does that leave us with?"
"3. Said nothing at all but disappeared. The more terror-stricken version of category 2. A small set who suddenly melted away like convective clouds."
"4. ‘Don’t mention the war’. People who didn’t say anything at all in public or private but just carried on being colleagues and/or chums. "
"5. Full denunciation. I only received this — what we might call the Daniel Radcliffe Reaction — a couple of times, and their identities frankly I could have predicted..These were people fully signed up to ‘social justice’, who had to publicly denounce to keep themselves pure."
"6. Private support and enthusiastic public support of the exact opposite to their own private opinions. This was another very small set, but I find it the most psychologically fascinating of them all.. These are the people I’m genuinely scared of, and that I do blame...
...They are uncanny, and have me reaching for the crucifix and the garlic. It’s these kinds of people, I think, who are largely responsible for the unholy cultural mess we find ourselves in. Beware Category 6!"
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