This, but unironically.

Snapshots:

1. This Post - archive.org, megalodon.jp*, archive.is*

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TIL that the phrase 'male genitalia' enacts violence and perpetuates harm.

"The result has been an eruption of complaints from a number of philosophers and other academics, expressed mainly on Facebook and Twitter."

Emphasis mine. God, if you exist, end social media. Also, if your Facebook criticism starts with,

1. It uses vocabulary and frameworks not recognized, accepted, or adopted by the conventions of the relevant subfields

then I already mistrust you. You'd be surprised to learn people outside of your sphere can discuss shit! And can be wrong about it! Amazing.

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Nymag has also covered this issiue - This Is What a Modern-Day Witch Hunt Looks Like

I am glad that the the feminist scholars behind the open letter have for the most part ignored the accusations of witch-hunting, mob-mentality and instead chose to focus on the real problem with the letter (Archive link)

Note from statement writers (added 5/1, at approximately the 520th signatory): "We acknowledge that this statement should have named anti-Blackness directly. The statement is not an exhaustive summary of the many harms caused by this article. We hope it will at least serve as a way to register that harm and issue a demand for a retraction. This is one step in the direction of seeking accountability for the harms committed by its publishing-- and to begin a conversation about the larger problems with our discipline it represents. And we thank Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (and others) for pointing out the dangerous erasure of anti-Blackness and the erasure of the Black labor on which the rhetoric of our own letter is built"

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Its like a name from some sort of dystopian tumblr future.

she's a theoretical physicist, apparently. http://www.cprescodweinstein.com/

I'm glad she is applying her skills to the study of Quantum Gender.

I don't have anything witty to say, I want these people to stop breathing asap.

This is the Orthodoxy of Radicalism. Suddenly thrown to the out-group because she didn't comply with the current Orthodoxy. It is the Inquisition, practiced by the heretics.

how can violence against trans people be real if trans people aren't real?

If these people are so upset they should just write their own thing to respond to her article, not make some shitty petition to get it removed. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. They're in academia, they should be able to rationally respond to an opinion they don't agree with smh.

Just burn academia to the ground. Start over with just math and, like, astronomy or something.

Its offence and hurt feelings all the way down fam.

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