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“Consider the example of trans. There was a reason to linger over the difficult and poorly discussed issue of people who are born intersex. It was not for prurience but to make a point. As Eric Weinstein has observed, anyone genuinely interested in addressing the stigmatization and unhappiness felt by people who are in the wrong bodies would have started addressing the question of intersex first.”
― The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
― The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
“Chess isn't always competitive. Chess can also be beautiful.”
― The Queen's Gambit
― The Queen's Gambit
“Recently, police in the UK have been petitioning the general public to ‘report non-crime hate incidents’, which would incorporate ‘offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing’. In this new woke era, our law enforcement agencies are not content to police crime, but also non-crime. This is a huge relief, because for a long while now too many citizens have been not breaking the law and getting away with it.”
― Woke: A Guide to Social Justice
― Woke: A Guide to Social Justice
“If you don’t want to be censored, don’t say the wrong things. It really is that simple.”
― Woke: A Guide to Social Justice
― Woke: A Guide to Social Justice
“Take every opportunity to resist the plague of cultural appropriation. Racial boundaries must be strictly policed. Unlike gender, which is totally fluid.”
― Woke: A Guide to Social Justice
― Woke: A Guide to Social Justice
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