Hi Rick, I'm not going to say is this a good or bad thing, and it seems like because you gave in for one mob the other one got angry now, but I think it's the smartest decision because no matter how you spin this topic, it's hyperbolic and polarising even if you're doing it out of good faith.

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There's been a small, steady movement that's been consistently criticising cancel culture from the left and the right for years; we're mostly center-left and center-right, don't like Trumpism, don't like cultural Progressives. We have plenty to say about Trump's abuses on this front too.

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"The problem with freedom of speech is that people think it means freedom from consequence". -Roxane Gay www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5J0...

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Here's the "director's cut" of my article in The Economist (read: too long and insufficiently edited) plus some opining on how hard (impossible?) it is to interpret youth gender research when there is no shared definition of "gender" jessesingal.substack.com/p/childhood-...

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1/ It's unrealistic to have a system where advocates can publicly argue that 5yos have a sophisticated understanding of sex vs gender id/expression -- an idea that flies in the face of effectively all research going back to like Kohlberg ~1966 -- but you can't publicly question their claim.

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