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@wesyang
Sep 14 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
There was always going to be a gender gotterdammerung and it’s only just getting started
By defining “misgendering” as a form of “violent erasure” of a self whose existence depends on the affirmation of others, the movement primed its adherents to treat any withholding of the movements demands as fascist, even genocidal, and to respond with due force.
The Democratic party that spent a decade feeding these delusions in an army of disturbed young people they pumped full of hormones now must choose whether it is prepared to wage the war and conduct the inquisition they promised they would wage on their behalf
It will as a matter of certainty mean justifying future murders

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Wesley Yang Profile picture
Sep 14
Millions of people now have an unshakable belief in the false claim that Charlie Kirk's killer was a far right Groyper who killed Kirk for being too moderate.

There was a period there where one couldn't rule this out but that period has closed. It doesn't matter to the millions whose self-regard depends on this piece of viral misinformation being true.
The only reason the far right Groyper claim was remotely plausible is that murdering someone in cold blood is in itself evidence of a break with reality and thus we can’t rule out the possibility this Hyper Online person had lost his marbles and glommed into a very esoteric intramural right wing dispute as a pretext for acting out.
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Sep 14
Last month, the governor of California said something that his entire party spent a decade exerting all its powers to prevent anyone from saying. Image
Why did the party exert s much energy preventing anyone from saying it?

Because once you hear it, the spell is broken.
You have to revisit the history of the Soviet Bloc, the Cultural Revolution in China, or North Korea to come up with brainwashing at this scale
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Sep 11
DC comics canceled a planned series authored by this trans-identified male author whose prior works includes a novel featuring the death of JK Rowling, murders of TERF's, and a killing executed by the removal of a black woman's womb while she is still conscious. Image
thewrap.com/dc-comics-canc…
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Sep 11
I'm skeptical that the man who writes songs about his desire to see someone dead is the same man who actually commits the murder, but this is (one more piece of) evidence of the desire among trans activists to see those they deem their enemies murdered and their total lack of inhibition about it
"Trans activists who have published murderous fantasies about public figures" just doesn't narrow the category down very much
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Sep 10
Wondering if this piece is the first and only appearance of the term "Luigi Left" in the mainstream media?

It ran two days ago, was criticized by some as the ramblings of someone Too Online, but now it seems pretty timely.
The Luigi Left
"Why are you ranting about Luigi Mangione in a piece about 'abundance'??"

"Oh."
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Sep 8
1.) These are statistically rare events. There were 428 black-on-white stranger-on-stranger killings in 2019 -- 3 percent of all murders.

2.) They are far more common than the police killings of unarmed black men that became a national obsession in the 2010's. There were 12 killings of unarmed black men in 2019 as the Black Lives Matter movement ramped up to its crescendo.

A narrative can easily be fashioned online by exploiting the "availability heuristic" that causes the subconscious mind to confound the vividness and memorability of events for their incidence. That is what right wing accounts focusing on the black-on-white stranger killings are doing.

Which is of course what the whole of the media did from 2015-2020 for police killings of unarmed black men, culminating in a nationwide freakout that put American cities in flames and resulted in the deaths of 30 people.

This created a pent up interest in re-establishing the salience of 2.), the goal of which is not a nationwide street freakout but simply the changing of prosecutorial polices that allow the catch and release of repeat violent offenders.Image
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Yes, 30 deaths directly attributed to violence in the riots and the largest two year spike in murder deaths in American history resulting in thousands of excess deaths above the prior baseline as law enforcement was delegitimized for several years

Even amidst this spike, the rate remained lower than its peak in the 1990's, though, because crime had been so thoroughly reduced in the prior three decades (while instances of police violence had also declined drastically, a kind of public policy miracle nearly unprecedented in modern history)
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