Post AhlCUyaTLLt0c3xaM4 by nina@neenster.org
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 (DIR) Post #AhlCUyaTLLt0c3xaM4 by nina@neenster.org
       2024-05-10T21:14:35.229813Z
       
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       New Heterodorx podcast(s)! Episodes 134 & 135: Is Brianna Wu Based? https://www.heterodorx.com/podcast/episodes-134-135-is-brianna-wu-based/*Is the ⁠video game developer⁠, computer programmer, ⁠GamerGate⁠ veteran, and ⁠aspiring politician⁠ “based” for ⁠recent statements⁠ against antisemitism? To find out, the Dorx invited Wu for an interview that lasted 2-and-a-half hours and is therefore broken into two parts (if you listen to only one, make it Part Two):PART ONE: A friendly conversation about eyebrows, makeup, Zionism, antisemitism, ⁠GamerGate⁠, ⁠WPATH⁠ standards, trans civil rights, binary vs. nonbinary, philosophical questions, the ⁠TERF-Tranny Alliance⁠, ⁠JK Rowling⁠, holocaust denial, ⁠India Willoughby⁠, illiberalism, ⁠Media Matters⁠, and the ⁠Harry S Benjamin Standards of Care⁠.PART TWO:An increasingly contentious discussion of ⁠Jesse Singal⁠, ⁠journalistic standards⁠, changing sex, allies, public policies that are cruel to trans people, identity, dehumanization, tolerance, prejudice, the N-word, swastika flags, fringe opinions, cognitive dissonance, cancellation, and the value of trans experience. It’s a long listen, but we think this episode gives a definitive answer to the title question.*
       
 (DIR) Post #Ahx8s3AEQPwhY2x6XY by softwarepagan@neenster.org
       2024-05-16T14:36:55.793764Z
       
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       @nina How you maintained your composure throughout this is beyond me.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ahx8ySOpVsVtYHprua by nina@neenster.org
       2024-05-16T15:31:32.309409Z
       
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       It was pretty awful. I can hear the stress in my voice after a while but I am glad others didn’t notice it so much.
       
 (DIR) Post #AhxedJpZND89QdJ6rw by softwarepagan@neenster.org
       2024-05-16T15:34:29.943991Z
       
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       @nina Oh, I can hear the stress but you never *lash out* like Brianna does. Corinna's efforts to keep some kind of levity are superhuman as well. Overall it really just makes Brianna Wu look bad, which isn't a hard thing to do.