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So the reason this letter is no good is because it was signed by J.K. Rowling and doesn't mention the fight for LGBTQ rights? So Noam Chomsky is guilty by association? All American communists were Stalinist mass murderers by association?? All black men have to answer for a black rapist? All gay people have to answer for a single child molester? (or a mass murderer like Juan Corona) All Jews have to answer for Benjamin Netanyahu? After reading this piece, I re-read the letter very carefully to see where it denied the reality of trans people. Couldn't find it .... Even THE BELL CURVE should be attacked and refuted ---- not burned or taken out of a library --- When Steven J. Gould refuted it, he first READ it!! The writer seems to be asserting that the letter is wrong because it implicitly (or specifically) defends the right of anti-trans bigots to assert that there is no such thing as a truly trans person (ridiculous idea but there are plenty of them) --- but all it really does is caution the rest of us to resist the urge to PUNISH "wrong" speech -- that's what the OTHER SIDE does all the time and we should not give them ammunition .... https://lithub.com/freedom-means-can-rather-than-should-what-the-harpers-open-letter-gets-wrong/ > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
