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Feb 22 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
1/
 This person resigned from a journal over a "transphobic" article.
The article says discussing the effects of biological sex out weighs any harm trans-people might feel hearing about biological sex

She calls the article, I kid you not, "injurious scholarship"

It gets worse...
2/
 She claims the article harmed trans people because the it said the harm of not discussing and accounting for biological sex outweighs any harm trans people might incur from hearing about biological sex.

THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE ARTICLE IS THAT THE WOMAN WHO RESIGNED IS WRONG
3/
 How in the hell is anyone supposed to challenge this womans views, or test her hypothosis, or critique her reasoning.... WHEN SHE DEMANDS THAT ANYONE WHO CHALLENGES HER VIEWS MUST NOT BE PUBLISHED.

Watch how circular her reasoning is:
4/
 1. Trans people are harmed by discussing biological sex

2. The article claims discussing biological sex outweighs any harm this causes trans people

Therefore:

3. We can't publish the article because

1. Trans people are harmed by discussing biological sex.

It's a circle
5/
 In other words:

We can't let people say discussions of biological sex outweigh the distress trans people feel hearing it because letting people say discussions of biological sex outweigh the distress trans people feel hearing it....would harm trans people.

See that? A circle
6/
 Wokist: "you can't say that."

You: "Why?"

W: "It harms trans people"

Y:"I disagree."

W: "You can't"

Y: "Why?"

W: "Disagreeing that your words harm trans people...harms trans people"

Y: "Can I disagree with THAT"

W: "No"

Y: "Why?"

W: "that also harms trans people."
7/
 The woke have adopted the view that anything that is harmful must not be published, and any disgreement with their most cherished values is harmful. This means that no one can ever publish anything that disagrees with their most cherished values becuase...that would be harmful
8/
 It'a circular reasoning all the way to the bone, and if we don't stand up to these people, and fast, they're going to break all our institutions if they haven't already.

Fin/

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