Daily review 17/02/2023

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    A transgender women, ex non binary, cancelled as truscum explains what is wrong with cancel culture.

    The video has a beginning, her personal story and then her conclusions from 1hour 8 minutes.

    1. She has learnt to appreciate this wisdom from Ms Magazine 1976

    1 hour 13 minutes

    TRASHING: The Dark Side of Sisterhood
    by Joreen (Jo Freeman)

    This article was written for Ms. magazine and published in the April 1976 issue, pp. 49-51, 92-98. It evoked more letters from readers than any article previously published in Ms., all but a few relating their own experiences of being trashed. Quite a few of these were published in a subsequent issue of Ms.

    https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/trashing.htm

    1 hour 15-16min+

    2. She connects it all to "gnostic" dualism, "the good or the bad", binary thinking.(I would add, the divide and conquer approach used to manage people into identity groups (including religious and political).

    And thus the journey of how someone went from being a non binary person who became a transgender woman to being truscum, then a TERF and on trans twitter that means a Nazi. And how others had to agree or else, "join in condemning another to prove their own innocence?"

    References to Schulman and Ronson on this topic.

    Conclusion from 1hr 26min (more Jo Freeman quotes) about the risks of being a marginalised person in dependent on one group for support

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