Blocked and Reported (Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal)

The show gets off to what feels like its 100th consecutive turbulent start, with Katie seeking solace over a super-personal medical issue. Then the hosts discuss Bill de Blasio's tweet about the Jewish community not following social-distancing rules: Just how meshuga was it? After that, they move on to a conversation over a popular narrative about Boomers and coronavirus, and finish things up by addressing the question on everyone's mind: Is it racist to portray orcs (the fantasy creatures, which aren't real) as uncivilizable?
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Show notes:
-Bill de Blasio's problematic tweet (https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1255309615883063297)
-Baby Boomers Were Blasé About the Coronavirus? Why Did We Believe That? (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-baby-boomers.html) (New York Times)
-The Orc Tweet (https://twitter.com/MonkipiQuinn/status/1254197453957459968)

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Jesse tries to gaslight Katie into believing she's Jewish. After he succeeds, the cohosts move on to the meat of the show: a discussion of three Problematic Men. First they talk about Joe Rogan, who has been found guilty of having offensive opinions. What does the controversy over his endorsement of Bernie Sanders, and his more recent turn toward Trump-curiousness, tell us about how pundits misunderstand the average voter? Then they move on to noted masturbator Louis C.K. Has he been punished enough? If not, what is anyone supposed to do about it? (Also, does dropping the second 'R' in the R-word make it any more acceptable?) The cohosts close out the show by debating Bill Maher's most recent dip into hot water: his argument that the coronavirus should, in fact, be called The Oriental Menace (or something).
Show notes:
-The Bernie Sanders tweet that set off Roganzhi (https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1220445820505546755)
-Bernie Sanders’s Joe Rogan experience (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/24/21080234/bernie-sanders-joe-rogan-experience-endorsement-controversy) (Vox)
-Joe Rogan would 'rather vote for Trump than Biden' after endorsing Sanders (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/04/joe-rogan-donald-trump-joe-biden-bernie-sanders) (The Guardian)
-Louis C.K. Is Accused by 5 Women of Sexual Misconduct (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/arts/television/louis-ck-sexual-misconduct.html) (The New York Times)
-Louis C.K.’s Newest Fans Deserve Louis C.K.’s Newest Special (https://slate.com/culture/2020/04/louis-ck-new-stand-up-special-sincerely-review.html) (Slate)
-What Should We Do About The Fact That Louis C.K. Is Still Very Good At What He Does? (https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/what-should-we-do-about-the-fact) (Jesse's newsletter, Singal-Minded Conversations) (paywalled)
-Bill Maher Goes on Despicably Racist Rant Against China Over Coronavirus (https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-maher-goes-on-despicably-racist-rant-against-china-over-coronavirus) (Daily Beast)

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In our first-ever Patrons-only episode, we break down an NBC News Article about the latest diversity brouhaha at Google, which leads into a broader discussion about what we expect of diversity programs, whether conservative complaints about the wackier ones have some merit, and the media's coverage of James Damore's memo (which argued, if memory serves, that female employees at Google should be kept in pens like livestock). Plus: What to do when your in-laws think you're hellbound, and a promising left-versus-right format for future eps.

Other lnks: Jesse's article on the IAT, Katie's article on Starbucks' implicit bias trainings, Jesse's newsletter about New York City's controversial Department of Education diversity trainings, Jesse's article about the Damore memo, and the Guardian article in which Cordelia Fine appears unconvinced of said memo's Hitlerianishnessitude.

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Here's Blocked and Reported, Episode 9: Layoffs And Teigen And Roman And Kondo And Feel-Bad Liberalism.

Our week-to-week schedule varies a great deal. Sometimes the free weekly episode isn't ready until Sunday night. Sometimes, like this week, it's ready significantly earlier. As an extra perk to you, our trusty patrons, we're going to give you early access to the weekly free episodes when our schedules and other obligations allow us to. Enjoy!

Summary:

Katie leads off the show by discussing her layoff from The Stranger and reflecting on her mixed feelings about her time there. This some broader commiseration about just how deeply, profoundly screwed journalism is right now. To lighten things up Jesse reads Katie a poem he wrote for her (it's really good). Then the hosts tie up some loose ends about that whole Chrissy Teigen/Alison Roman/Marie Kondo thing, including the weird, flattening language of "woman of color" and Roman's apology. After that, Jesse unpacks a viral tweetstorm that seems geared at antagonizing sympathetic would-be white anti-racists and explains why he views it as an example of what he calls "feel-bad liberalism." In the final segment, the hosts unveil the show's new Patreon page and ask listeners to empty their banks accounts to support Blocked and Reported.

Show notes/links:

-An email from a listener suggesting we were too dismissive of the race angle of Teigenghazi (Twitter)

-Alison Roman's apology (Twitter)

-Ally Henny's tweetstorm about would-be white allies (Twitter)

-Jesse's original ranty tweetstorm defining feel-bad liberalism (Twitter)

-Feel-Bad Liberalism at the Victoria, BC women's march (Singal-Minded)

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In their first-ever edition of "🥱 or 🔥," a game in which one cohost tries to convince the other that a given internet controversy is interesting, Jesse regales Katie with the tale of a leftist African-American studies professor who decides to kick off his new lecturer gig at Auburn University by insulting one of the university's football traditions over Twitter. Spoiler alert: His opinions are not well-received! Also in this episode: Jesse's touts the efficacy of "Irish goodbyes" and Katie gives an update about her island hideaway.

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Before jumping into a truly brutal week for media news involving journalists who are younger and more attractive and successful than they are, Jesse and Katie are interrupted by their newly installed Alison Roman Controversy Alarm, forcing them to briefly update listeners on the latest twist in that eternal tale. Then they turn their attention to a PinkNews article positing a global conspiracy of lesbians who are sexual abusers and human traffickers and explain how that ties into the broader, white-hot culture wars involving gender-critical feminists and so-called TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists). In the final two segments, the hosts discuss Ben Smith's claims about Ronan Farrow's lackluster fact-checking and Jia Tolentino's blog post about her parents' guilty plea in a human-trafficking case, as well as the telling and arguably disingenuous responses from major media figures to both stories.

Show notes/links:

-Alison Roman’s NY Times Column ‘On Temporary Leave’ After Chrissy Teigen Feud (The Daily Beast)

-The ‘gender critical’ feminist movement is a cult that grooms, controls and abuses, according to a lesbian who managed to escape (PinkNews[!])

-Is Ronan Farrow Too Good to Be True? (New York Times)

-Ronan Farrow admits he ‘misspoke’ about his Weinstein reporting. How many times? (Washington Post)

-Is Ben Smith’s Column About Ronan Farrow Too Good to Be True? (Slate)

 -Jia Tolentino's blog post and tweet about the controversy

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In this week's episode, Katie and Jesse discuss the Amy Cooper/Christian Cooper incident in Central Park. Is this different from other instances of online shaming? Do we lose something when, in trying to understand a complicated problem like police shootings and other abuses, we focus in on individuals rather than institutions and structures? Why are white women so often pilloried these days when white men, like Jesse in particular, are obviously so much worse? 

Program notes/links:

-"White People Behaving Badly" (Arc Digital)

-"Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America" (Amazon)

-"Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment" (Amazon)

-"From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America" (Amazon) [not mentioned in the episode but Jesse is a fan]

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There's so much going on that Katie and Jesse are back again, already. In this episode they discuss the protests and riots popping off all over the country in response to George Floyd's horrific death, the media's predictably sloppy handling of some of the complexities of police reform, and the difference between meaningful and performative activism. Should they appoint themselves leaders of the nationwide movement for criminal justice reform? Hard to say. In the patrons-only segment starting at 41:00, the hosts discuss everyone's antifa obsession and why Jesse is so frustrated with the bougie liberal antiracism that is exploding in popularity during this crisis. (CORRECTION: In this episode we wrongly state that Richard Nixon won the 1968 presidential race in a landslide. It was the 1972 race he won quite easily.)

-"The Case for Black Optimism" (Quillette)   

-"Police Are Killing Fewer People In Big Cities, But More In Suburban And Rural America" (FiveThirtyEight) 

-Samuel Sinyangwe on legislation that might help (Twitter) 

-The Fight to Redefine Racism (New Yorker)

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In today's episode, the hosts zero in on an obscure, under-covered newspaper known as "The New York Times." Specifically, they discuss an explosion of employee anger over the paper's decision to publish a column by Sen. Tom Cotton, and what it can (maybe) tell everyone about internal dynamics in some media companies at the moment. Then, they shift gears to a Times article about a nonbinary 7-year-old and discuss the ways in which a certain subgenre of storytelling could be obscuring the nature of gender-identity development. In the show's final, patrons-only segment, Katie tells Jesse about an Instagram controversy involving white liberals trying to show how much they care about racial injustice, but digging themselves into a deeper and deeper hole as a result.

Show notes and links (* denotes stuff that happened after our episode went up):

"Tom Cotton: Send In the Troops" -  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html 

* "Senator’s ‘Send In the Troops’ Op-Ed in The Times Draws Online Ire" -  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/business/tom-cotton-op-ed.html 

* "New York Times Says Senator’s Op-Ed Did Not Meet Standards" -  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/business/new-york-times-op-ed-cotton.html 

* "The Inside Story of the Tom Cotton Op-Ed that Rocked the New York Times" -  https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/tom-cotton-new-york-times-op-ed-inside-story/
(An article in which Cotton's camp strongly denies the idea of an unusual editorial process)

* "Yesterday two dozen of us who make @nytimes publishing tools called out sick in solidarity with our Black colleagues & in protest of the Cotton op-ed. I was harassed on Twitter all day for it." - https://twitter.com/nzle/status/1268906487377801218 

* "The civil war inside The New York Times between the (mostly young) wokes the (mostly 40+) liberals is the same one raging inside other publications and companies across the country. The dynamic is always the same. (Thread.)" -  https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1268628680797978625 

"The Hardest Part of Having a Nonbinary Kid Is Other People" -  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/parenting/non-binary-children-support.html 

"What Is Gender Identity?" -  https://arcdigital.media/what-is-gender-identity-10ce0da71999 

"Attention white people: Your #BLM memes are not enough" -  https://www.kuow.org/stories/a-letter-to-her-white-friends-on-their-blm-memes 

"Blackout Tuesday posts are drowning out vital information shared under the BLM hashtag" -  https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/2/21277852/blackout-tuesday-posts-hiding-information-blm-black-lives-matter-hashtag 

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For this, the first-ever patrons-only Blocked and Reported interview, Jesse interviewed Ben Burgis, a philosopher, prolific writer for Jacobin and other outlets, and the author of Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left. Among other subjects, the duo discussed self-sabotaging messaging on the left, the flaws in Jordan Peterson's conception of 'post-modernism,' and the class element missing from the police-reform discussion. At the end, Jesse tried to get Ben to turn him into a socialist. Did it work? Only one way to find out.  

A few articles by Ben: "Socialism and Human Nature," "Capitalism Isn’t Working. But What Would a Viable Socialist System Look Like?," and "Why Jordan Peterson Is Always Wrong."   

Below you'll find a guide to what is discussed at which points in the podcast. Enjoy!

12:15 - Ben on the problem with Oxford-style debate

20:30 - Jesse and Ben discuss the dangers of assuming people who make ‘bad’ political choices are fundamentally evil or broken

26:15 - on “if you criticize U.S. foreign policy, you are pro-al-Qaeda” - style argumentation, and the frustrating extent to which the left is now adopting it

29:00 - online, staying chill is the best revenge

31:45 - IT’S JORDAN PETERSON TIME

49:20 - the silliness of the fight over ‘platforming’

52:38 - the problem with making maximalist positions like “abolish the police” the face of leftist movements

56:50 - “DURING PRIDE?????”

1:02:00 - NYC DSA’s deplatforming of Adolph Reed, who stands accused of “class reductionism”

1:04:45 - another DSA controversy, this one over “white saviorism”

1:08:00 - Ben on the overlooked class element of the police-reform debate

1:15:20 - you don’t want to broadcast the myth that white people, particularly poor ones, have nothing at stake in police reform

1:19:55 - Jesse wraps things up by saying, “It’s better to be a wussy liberal than a socialist — CHANGE MY MIND”

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Bari Weiss did some tweets about how there is a generational divide at The New York Times that is, in her view, hampering the paper's ability to publish quality commentary and journalism. In response, a sizable cohort of her colleagues LITERALLY devoured her (metaphorically, on Twitter). In their most frustrated episode yet, Katie and Jesse explain why Bari was fundamentally right. That doesn't mean her framing was perfect ('safetyism' isn't exactly the problem here), but, as the hosts argue, the fact that so many journalists think Bari is making this up is pretty insane given the rampant evidence for it. The problem is that the people who don't think there's a problem are the same people no one affected by these dynamics would ever, ever confide in. Along the way the hosts talk about their own experiences with an issue that is getting worse by the day: the most hysterical and dishonest journalists on Twitter effectively dictating editors' decisions about what stories to assign and what subjects to cover. Also, Katie talks about her struggle session at a Seattle rooftop bar and Jesse makes the case for converting Blocked and Reported into a full-blown scammy cult. 

Bari Weiss's tweetstorm -  https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1268628680797978625 

Katie's article "The Detransitioners: They Were Transgender, Until They Weren't" -  https://www.thestranger.com/features/2017/06/28/25252342/the-detransitioners-they-were-transgender-until-they-werent 

Jesse's article "When Children Say They're Transgender" -  https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-a-child-says-shes-trans/561749/ 

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The roiling tremors on the left continue, as a young progressive data analyst gets fired for... it's honestly too ridiculous to even type, and the Poetry Foundation shows us what a truly hysterical meltdown looks like. The hosts use their intellect and savvy to try to understand the difference between two 'violent' acts: "kneeling on someone's neck until they die horrifically" and "issuing a statement that isn't quite strong enough." Everything is insane right now. And violent.

NOTE: Since you are a patron, you already have access to a longer cut of the Ben Burgis interview that plays after the outro music of this episode. And the J.K. Rowling patrons-only episode will be up by noon, Eastern time on Sunday, June 14th.

Jonathan Chait: The Still-Vital Case for Liberalism in a Radical Age (NY Mag) -  https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/case-for-liberalism-tom-cotton-new-york-times-james-bennet.html 

Kyle Smith: Insanity at the Poetry Foundation (National Review) -  https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/insanity-at-the-poetry-foundation/ 

Ben Burgis: Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left -  https://www.amazon.com/Give-Them-Argument-Logic-Left/dp/1789042100/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= 

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(UPDATE, 6/21/2020: Replaced the original file with one that has a new intro from Katie about some violence that took place in the CHAZ. This is the version we'll be posting on the free feed tomorrow, but everything is otherwise identical. -Jesse)

In the intro, Katie regales Jesse with tales from the CHAZ. Then, in part because Jesse is obsessed and desperately needs to get a lot of vitriol surrounding this subject out of his system, the deeply masochistic hosts devote the entire rest of the episode to a dissection of one of the strangest books you will ever read about race, Robin DiAngelo's "White Fragility." Does Robin DiAngelo know any black people who aren't antiracist educators? Or any other humans in general? What are the details of her segregated-crying policy? Are there better explanations than "white fragility" for why someone dragged into a mandatory training at work and called racist by a weird lady might respond negatively to such an experience? So many questions! (CORRECTION: In this episode we wrongly state that a definition of 'racism' favored by DiAngelo was added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. As Snopes explains, this is not the case: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/merriam-webster-definition-racism/.)

New Yorker: The Fight To Redefine Racism -  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/19/the-fight-to-redefine-racism 

Chapo Trap House: No Crying In Raceball -  https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/428-no-crying-in-raceball-feat-jen-pan-61520 

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If hearing Jesse and Katie dig around in the strange innards of "White Fragility" wasn't enough Robin DiAngelo for you, have we got the thing: an interview Katie conducted with a woman whose former company, throw into disarray by a racial microaggression, brought in DiAngelo to conduct a full year's worth of antiracism training, complete with (unpaid) homework. It went.... strangely, and at one point involved allegations of subconscious swastikas.

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If you develop severe physical symptoms whenever you go more than a day without hearing fresh content that includes Katie's and Jesse's voices, you're in luck: Here's an interview the hosts did with Jeremiah Johnson of The Neoliberal Project (here's his Twitter account) which Johnson generously shared (it's also up on his own organization's Patreon page). It was a pretty wide-ranging discussion -- in addition to covering the David Shor firing and Washington Post blackface article, the trio also discussed cancel culture more broadly, the difference between real activism and online slacktivism, and the question of what standards tech companies should use for determining who to deplatform.

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A reckoning is afoot, as Jesse finally confronts Katie over her abusive managerial style. After the hosts get that out of the way, they proceed into a discussion about The New York Times' decision to publish the famed rationalist blogger Scott Alexander's full name -- and the rather effective-seeming countermeasure Alexander pulled in response. Then they move onto a broader conversation about journalistic ethics with regard to naming subjects against their will, and Katie talks about the time she was publicly shamed for trying to defend someone against a public shaming. In the second segment, the hosts discuss a New York Times story about a Minneapolis neighborhood's difficulties living up to its stated values, and, by working through about their own views about when to call the police, establish the podcast's formal Cop Policy. 

Show notes/Links:

Amazon: The AI Does Not Hate You: Superintelligence, Rationality and the Race to Save the World by Tom Chivers -  https://www.amazon.com/Does-Not-Hate-You-Superintelligence-ebook/dp/B07K258VCV 

Slate Star Codex: NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting The Blog -  https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-safety-by-revealing-my-real-name-so-i-am-deleting-the-blog/ 

Slate Star Codex (archive): I Can Tolerate Anything Except For The Outgroup -  http://archive.is/https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/ 

Twitter: @keikoinboston on Karlos Dillard's scam:  https://twitter.com/keikoinboston/status/1276780086545592320 

The New York Times: A Minneapolis Neighborhood Vowed to Check Its Privilege. It’s Already Being Tested. -  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/us/minneapolis-george-floyd-police.html 

Slate Star Codex (archive): Sort by Controversial -  http://archive.is/https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/ 

The Stranger: A Slur, a Suicide Attempt, and Guns Akimbo -  https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/02/25/42967202/a-slur-a-suicide-attempt-and-guns-akimbo 

Amazon: Self-Care: A Novel by Leigh Stein - https://www.amazon.com/Self-Care-Novel-Leigh-Stein/dp/0143135198/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= 

Eventbrite: EXTREMELY ONLINE conversation for SELF CARE -  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/extremely-online-conversation-for-self-care-tickets-109886766276 

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Jesse interviews Yascha Mounk about the threats liberalism is facing from both the left and the right, and Yascha introduces a new platform he is launching to help stem the tide. The duo also discuss Yascha's great but infuriating article in The Atlantic, "Stop Firing the Innocent," the origins of the gender wage gap, antifa, the racial politics of police reform, and more. Make sure to check out persuasion.community, which should be live by the time you read this.

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The gang celebrates July 4th by barely mentioning it. Instead, Jesse and Katie talk about Blocked and Reported's arguably FIRST EVER beef, which involves a very sensitive staffer at The New Republic. Then they relay two real corrections and one fake one from previous episodes, talk about the increasing possibility, in light of a new court decision, that at least one contributor to the Shitty Media Men list will be 'unmasked,' and discuss a thoughtful essay on what it feels like to be at the bottom of a Twitter pileon. Plus: Jesse finally addresses the rumors that have been haunting him about his relationship with certain New England horses. 

Soundcloud: The offending clip from our segment on Online Validiy Discourse -  https://soundcloud.com/josephine-livingstone/blocked-reported-clip

Blocked and Reported: Episode 5 - Katie And Jesse Decide Who Is Valid -  https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/5 

Snopes: Did Merriam-Webster Update Its Definition of ‘Racism’ To Say Only White People Are Racist? - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/merriam-webster-definition-racism/

The Volokh Conspiracy: “Shitty Media Men” List Libel Lawsuit Can Go Forward - https://reason.com/2020/07/02/shitty-media-men-list-libel-lawsuit-can-go-forward/

The Stranger: Anonymous UW Students Publish Rape Accusations Online. What Could Go Wrong? - https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/10/09/33615110/anonymous-uw-students-publish-rape-accusations-online-what-could-go-wrong

Quillette: How An Anonymous Accusation Derailed My Life -  https://quillette.com/2018/09/25/how-an-anonymous-accusation-derailed-my-life/ 

Medium: Hi, I’m on the Shitty Media Men list, but maybe you already knew that - https://medium.com/@mike_tunison/hi-im-on-the-shitty-media-men-list-but-maybe-you-already-knew-that-f446aed1f93b

Medium: Katelyn Burns Fabricated Several Exchanges With Me That Never Occurred (archived version) - http://archive.is/UEsMj

(current version, without screenshot-proof for reasons explained at the top, here: https://medium.com/@jesse.singal/so-about-that-katelyn-burns-thread-58c736647bc9)

Medium: A (Hopefully) Final Update On This Katelyn Burns Thing (Updated) - https://medium.com/@jesse.singal/a-hopefully-final-update-on-this-katelyn-burns-thing-da17730e13aa

Singal-Minded: Nicole Cliffe Is A Poor Choice Of #MeToo Moral Guardian - https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/nicole-cliffe-is-a-poor-choice-of

The Critic: The eye of the storm: https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/july-august-2020/the-eye-of-the-storm/

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Katie and Jesse signed a letter that was published in Harper's! It's pretty basic but given Twitter's reaction you would have thought it was an excerpt from Mein Kampf. In today's episode, the hosts discuss why they signed the letter and run through some of the most unhinged and disingenuous reactions to it, discovering, in the process, that one of the letter's loudest critics tried to get them both fired. Katie also asks Jesse about the time he reported a fellow journalist to her boss, and the two hosts work through whether this is different from the behavior they themselves are complaining about. Also: Jesse's trajectory on the even more emotionally charged question of cargo shorts.

Show notes/Links:

Harper's: A Letter on Justice and Open Debate -  https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/ 

Jesse's too numerous and Mad Online tweets about the response to the letter:

-on Matt Yglesias getting reported by a colleague for wrongthink:  https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1280603481531912192 

-on one of the letter critics publicly calling for him to get fired:  https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1280577317421625346 

-on someone literally editing the letter to make it offensive:  https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1280666236754579458 

Medium: Katelyn Burns Fabricated Several Exchanges With Me That Never Occurred (archived version) - http://archive.is/UEsMj

(current version, without screenshot-proof for reasons explained at the top, here: https://medium.com/@jesse.singal/so-about-that-katelyn-burns-thread-58c736647bc9)

Medium: A (Hopefully) Final Update On This Katelyn Burns Thing (Updated) - https://medium.com/@jesse.singal/a-hopefully-final-update-on-this-katelyn-burns-thing-da17730e13aa

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After Jesse bravely expresses an opinion that is likely to get him cancelled by Cancel Culture, and to potentially destroy the podcast entirely, the hosts, who are clearly hated by God Himself (of maybe... HERself??), devote almost the entire episode to Letter Discourse and Counter-Letter Discourse. The discussion mostly concerns the harassment of a Vox staffer, which Jesse contributed to and feels bad about, even as he is aggrieved at the unhinged-in-light-of-the-evidence Jesse Did It narrative that took over bluecheck Twitter earlier this week. What are individuals' responsibilities during online pileons? Will journalists ever stop being full of s**t with regard to which acts -- screencapping, quote-retweeting, mocking -- are and aren't considered harassment? In the closing segment, the hosts briefly discuss President Trump's interesting strategy of fighting for free speech and open academic inquiry by unleashing the federal government to investigate universities, as one does.

Show notes/Links:

Rough week for Jesse on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/search?q=jesse%20singal&src=typed_query 

(We said we would include links to the right-wing pieces and tweets bashing the Vox staffer mentioned in the podcast, but whoever wrote this summary began feeling guilty about doing so. If you search for her name and the name of the outlets mentioned, you will find it all -- we promise.)

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After Jesse reluctantly reveals some incredibly embarrassing and personal details about his love life in the opening segment, the hosts discuss the week's two big media stories: Bari Weiss's resignation from The New York Times and Andrew Sullivan's firing from New York Magazine. Is this a sign that these outlets are narrowing their windows of acceptable opinion? Was Weiss's treatment in her workplace genuinely unfair, or is she reacting with the same 'safetyism' she has so forcefully criticized? If Jesse and Katie were trapped on a desert island, who would eat who? These and other questions, answered.

Show notes/Links:

-Bari Weiss's resignation letter: https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter  

-"See You Next Friday: A Farewell Letter" by Andrew Sullivan:  https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/andrew-sullivan-see-you-next-friday.html 

-"When Racism Is Fit to Print" by Andrew Sullivan:  https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/08/sarah-jeong-new-york-times-anti-white-racism.html 

-"How Did I Get Iraq Wrong?" by Andrew Sullivan:  https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2008/03/i-committed-four-cardinal-sins-around-the-iraq-war.html 

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After Katie recounts a listener complaint and the cohosts announce a new focus for the podcast, the bulk of the episode consists of an interview Jesse conducted with Freddie deBoer, a brilliant thinker and writer whose first book, "The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice," is a searing indictment of the American education system's most entrenched orthodoxy: the idea that just about any child can succeed academically. The second, patrons-only portion of the interview, a wider-ranging conversations about social media, online leftism, mental health, and other subjects, will be posted by the end of the day on Saturday, 7/25/2020 at the latest, and when it's ready this text will be replaced with a link.

Show notes/Links:

"The Cult of Smart" (yes, it is that good, and yes, you should pre-order it) -  https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250224491 

Freddie's website -  https://fredrikdeboer.com/ 

FdB: the educational standardization trap -  https://medium.com/@freddiedeboer/the-educational-standardization-trap-25aca6c0121 

FdB: disentangling race from intelligence and genetics, or how to rescue behavioral genetics from racists -  https://fredrikdeboer.com/2017/04/10/disentangling-race-from-intelligence-and-genetics/ 

FdB: addressing some complaints -  https://fredrikdeboer.com/2017/04/11/addressing-some-complaints/ 

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Things are not going so great in Portland, where months of rowdy and sometimes destructive protests have been met with a federal response that has understandably scared and infuriated residents. But what's really going on there? Have we reached a point where it's basically impossible to find credible, contextualized accounts of complicated situations like this one? Will the Wall of Moms be undone by jackbooted government thugs and/or its own alleged racism? As one of America's whitest cities speeds down the road to Crazyville, there's a lot to unpack.

Show notes/Links:

The New York Times: The Showdown in Portland (from The Daily) -  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/podcasts/the-daily/portland-protests.html 

The New York Times: Times Videos Show How Federal Officers Escalated Violence in Portland (video) -  https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007243995/portland-protests-federal-government.html 

Reason: What It's Like To Work in the Portland Jail During the George Floyd Protests -  https://reason.com/2020/07/23/what-its-like-to-work-in-the-portland-jail-during-the-george-floyd-protests/ 

Michael Tracey: Two months since the riots, and still no “National Conversation” -  https://medium.com/@mtracey/two-months-since-the-riots-and-still-no-national-conversation-12a7e3e4e006 

The New York Times: Federal Officers Deployed in Portland Didn’t Have Proper Training, D.H.S. Memo Said -  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/us/portland-protests.html 

ACLU: The Constitution in the 100-Mile Border Zone -  https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone 

On the Media: What We Know About the Border -  https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/what-we-know-about-border 

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In one of the weirdest online controversies yet covered by Blocked and Reported, Katie walks Jesse through the wild, twisting tale of @Sciencing_Bi, a young anthropologist who just wanted to do good work, but who was tragically hindered from achieving this goal by the vicious anti-bisexual currents that dominate academic anthropology -- and by a university hell-bent on LITERALLY working her to death (and cutting her salary 15%). 

(Apologies for the weird underwater thing going on with Katie's audio for part of the episode -- it was a hardware issue and [probably] won't happen again.)

Show notes/Links:

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The New York Times: The Anonymous Professor Who Wasn't -  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/style/college-coronavirus-hoax.html 

BuzzFeed: At First It Looked Like A Scientist Died From COVID. Then People Started Taking Her Story Apart. -  https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/bethann-mclaughlin-twitter-suspension-fake-covid-death 

Science: This neuroscientist is fighting sexual harassment in science—but her own job is in peril -  https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/neuroscientist-fighting-sexual-harassment-science-her-own-job-peril 

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In this week's threesome of an episode, which was recorded with enthusiastic consent by everyone involved, Katie and Jesse talk to Dan Savage about the strange case of Alex Morse, the young, gay, Democratic congressional candidate and Massachusetts mayor accused of... well, it isn't quite clear. But what is quickly becoming clear is that Morse appears to have been set up by college kids loyal to his opponent, the incumbent establishment candidate, Richard Neal. What can this episode teach us about power, consent, and the schizophrenic attitude some lefty zoomers have toward sex? Also: Has the queer community lost its sense of humor? Why does everyone forget what it's like to be 20 by the time they are 30? And how hot would president-on-president porn be? (Please do not send this episode to anyone who isn't explicitly asking for it.) 

(Update, 8/16/2020: Changing the title from "Dan Savage Deciphers Morse Code" to "Introducing Mount Holey Oak" because the latter is funnier and better and we want to use it for the public version dropping tomorrow. Re-uploading identical file with new title. Consider the old one a collector's item!)

The Intercept's coverage of this whole mess:

College Democrat at Center of Attack on Alex Morse Hoped to Launch Career Through Richard Neal -  https://theintercept.com/2020/08/11/college-democrats-alex-morse-richard-neal/ 

Chats Reveal Plan to Engineer and Leak Alex Morse Accusation -  https://theintercept.com/2020/08/12/alex-morse-college-democrats-chats/ 

Party Leaders Investigating Anti-Morse Campaign Helped Orchestrate It -  https://theintercept.com/2020/08/14/alex-morse-richie-neal-state-party/ 

Dan Savage's stuff:

Savage Love -  https://www.thestranger.com/savage-love/2020/08/11/44269654/savage-love 

Savage Lovecast - https://www.savagelovecast.com/ 

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In this week's episode, Jesse addresses an ugly rumor about him posted to Blocked and Reported's Apple Podcast review page. Then the hosts discuss Conor Friedersdorf's article in The Atlantic, "Anti-racist Arguments Are Tearing People Apart," which centers around the accusation that it was racist for a white man to bounce his friend's black baby on his lap during a Zoom call (really!). In the episode's main segment, Katie unspurls the yearslong battle between Cliff Mass and seemingly every progressive in the Seattle metro area, which recently culminated in his media-gig firing after he made an..................... unfortunate comparison on his personal blog. Also: Jesse does a rim-rocking dunk, the hosts discuss a potential cargo-shorts-related spinoff podcast, racist babies are denounced, and Katie unspurls the story of how she was blacklisted from a Seattle radio station.

Show notes/Links:

The Atlantic: Anti-racist Arguments Are Tearing People Apart -  https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/meta-arguments-about-anti-racism/615424/ 

The Stranger: Cliff Mass Says Whatever He Wants (2011) -  https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/cliff-mass-says-whatever-he-wants/Content?oid=8309158 

KIRO: UW Prof. Cliff Mass called racist for opposing carbon tax initiative (2011) -  https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/cliff-mass-says-whatever-he-wants/Content?oid=8309158 

The Stranger: Cliff Mass's Responses to Women Scientists Make Seattle's Climate Change Discussions Toxic - https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/cliff-mass-says-whatever-he-wants/Content?oid=8309158 

The Stranger: Cliff Mass Blames Liberals for the Lack of Progress on Climate Change -  https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/10/06/25457183/cliff-mass-blames-liberals-for-the-lack-of-progress-on-climate-change 

The Stranger: The Culture of Harassing and Demeaning Women Scientists -  https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/11/17/25572044/the-culture-of-harassing-and-demeaning-women-scientists 

Cliff Mass Weather Blog: The University of Washington Should Not Censor Faculty Social Media -  https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-university-of-washington-should-not.html 

KNKX: KNKX Public Editor report: science, politics, and Weather with Cliff Mass -  https://www.knkx.org/post/knkx-public-editor-report-science-politics-and-weather-cliff-mass 

Cliff Mass Weather Blog: A City in Fear Can Be Restored -  https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/08/seattle-city-in-fear-can-be-restored.html 

KNKX: KNKX to stop airing Weather with Cliff Mass, effective immediately -  https://www.knkx.org/post/knkx-stop-airing-weather-cliff-mass-effective-immediately 

Cliff Mass Weather Blog: My Firing at KNKX - https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/08/my-firing-at-knkx.html 

Petition trying to get Mass fired from his job as a professor -  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WIZgiqt1wkyOdx369sSJeIPFoQ8Wr-RA3wKZzJ5uxHU/edit 

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After an intro in which Jesse impresses Katie deeply with a brilliant, cutting-edge character he has clearly put a lot of time into developing, the hosts discuss a hellish few days in Kenosha, Wisconsin: first, the police shooting of Jacob Blake, and then Kyle Rittenhouse's killing of two protesters. Doesn't there have to be a better way for police to resolve altercations like the one that ensued with Blake? And will the unrest in Kenosha increase the chances Donald Trump is elected (Katie's view), or is there not yet much evidence to suggest it will (Jesse's)? Plus: You will never guess whether or not the hosts think mainstream outlets are doing a good job covering all this.

Show notes/Links:

The New York Times: Jacob Blake Was Shackled in Hospital Bed After Police Shot Him -  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/us/jacob-blake-shackles-assault.html (lots of details about the overall context)

The New York Post: This is why Jacob Blake had a warrant out for his arrest -  https://nypost.com/2020/08/28/this-is-why-jacob-blake-had-a-warrant-out-for-his-arrest/ 

NYT: Tracking the Suspect in the Fatal Kenosha Shootings -  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/us/kyle-rittenhouse-kenosha-shooting-video.html 

CNN: Kenosha shooting suspect faces more homicide charges -  https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/27/us/kenosha-wisconsin-shooting-suspect/index.html 

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: What to know about Wisconsin's open-carry laws, self defense and more in Kenosha protest shootings -  https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2020/08/26/wisconsin-open-carry-law-kyle-rittenhouse-legally-have-gun-kenosha-protest-shooting-17-year-old/3444231001/ (though see following links as well)

PolitiFact: Did Kyle Rittenhouse break the law by carrying an assault-style rifle in Kenosha? -  https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/28/facebook-posts/did-kyle-rittenhouse-break-law-carrying-assault-st/ (note this from the end, indicating ambiguity: "Whether Rittenhouse violated Wisconsin law by possessing a firearm underage is the subject of ongoing litigation.") 

On the question of whether the misdemeanor doesn't apply here, the action seems to be in this bit from the Wisconsin state code: "This section applies only to a person under 18 years of age who possesses or is armed with a rifle or a shotgun if the person is in violation of s. 941.28 or is not in compliance with ss. 29.304 and 29.593." The argument is that those other conditions don't apply, Rittenhouse wasn't in violation, but we'll get a clear answer on this when he is or isn't convicted. 

Simple Justice: Prickett: Update on Kenosha -  https://blog.simplejustice.us/2020/08/28/prickett-update-on-kenosha/ (legal analysis of both the Blake and Rittenhouse cases)

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In today's patrons-only episode, Jesse interviews Justin Tosi, a philosopher at Texas Tech University and the author, with Brandon Warmke, of the new book Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk. After discussing the book, Jesse and Justin move on to a broader conversation about the current, precarious moment for open inquiry in academia, as well as the turn toward activism in philosophy that has Justin worried about his field.

Show notes/Links:

Amazon: Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk - https://www.amazon.com/Grandstanding-Use-Abuse-Moral-Talk/dp/0190900156/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Twitter: A student gets a meeting with her dean after complaining about a syllabus that doesn't have the right racial breakdown - https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1300126499215937538

YouTube: Gender Critical | Daniel Kaufman & Jesse Singal [Sophia] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ9MzhwflI4

Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ergo/12405314.0005.014?view=text;rgn=main

Jesse referenced the wrong NBA player in the episode -- it was Stephen Curry, not Steve Nash. See: "It tacitly communicates that at no point in time is Paige like Hillary Clinton or Catherine McGregor or any other woman (for whom she would be used); and likewise, that at no point in time is Paige like Stephen Curry or John Oliver (for whom he would be used). In short, if we use he or she for anyone, we either risk misgendering Paige with he or she, or we go back to the inegalitarian option of using a third catchall." 

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After Jesse reveals yet another shocking secret about his mysterious life, the hosts discuss the case of Jessica Krug, a George Washington University professor who appears to have admitted to pulling a Rachel Dolezal: she pretended to be black. What a mess! But perhaps not all that shocking in our identity-obsessed age. Then the hosts respond, in depth, to an email from a reader who wants to be talked out of voting for Donald Trump, sparking an uncharacteristically earnest discussion about the upcoming election and why the right choice isn't a close call.

Medium: The Truth, and the Anti-Black Violence of My Lies - https://medium.com/@jessakrug/the-truth-and-the-anti-black-violence-of-my-lies-9a9621401f85

The Cut: There’s a New Rachel Dolezal - https://www.thecut.com/2020/09/historian-jessica-krug-admits-to-posing-as-a-black-woman.html

Vice: In Rachel Dolezal's Skin - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gvz79j/rachel-dolezal-profile-interview

The weird right-wing rally Jesse stumbled upon next to City Hall in Manhattan: https://photos.app.goo.gl/DvdsAiHR1P4bfbED8

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The hosts discuss Donald Trump's sudden fixation on ostensibly "un-American" critical race theory in government diversity trainings. What does a good-faith critique of these trainings look like that doesn't slide into fearmongering or red-scare-esque grandstanding and witch-hunting? Will the politicization of everything prevent people from focusing on what matters, which is whether these trainings work or cause harm? Also: A Vice story about an allegedly satanic Airbnb is super, duper racist, or so we hear.

New York Magazine: Psychology’s Favorite Tool for Measuring Racism Isn’t Up to the Job - https://www.thecut.com/2017/01/psychologys-racism-measuring-tool-isnt-up-to-the-job.html

NPR: NYPD Study: Implicit Bias Training Changes Minds, Not Necessarily Behavior - https://www.npr.org/2020/09/10/909380525/nypd-study-implicit-bias-training-changes-minds-not-necessarily-behavior

Take the Implicit Association Test: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

Our episode on Robin DiAngelo's "White Fragility": https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/17

Our episode interviewing the victim of a DiAngelo training: https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/bonus2

Scott O. Lilienfeld: Psychological Treatments That Cause Harm - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=FC896FFD11373F2E8A80CB54A8D316C6?doi=10.1.1.531.9405&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Jezebel: 'Is the UVA Rape Story a Gigantic Hoax?' Asks Idiot - https://jezebel.com/is-the-uva-rape-story-a-gigantic-hoax-asks-idiot-1665233387

Vice New: We Talked to the Host Accused of Doing “Satanic Rituals” In His Airbnb - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/m7jnmb/we-talked-to-the-host-accused-of-doing-satanic-rituals-in-his-airbnb

The very serious racism accusation against Vice News: https://twitter.com/FredTJoseph/status/1304051476466073601

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Katie and Jesse discuss the online outrage surrounding the French film 'Cuties,' which has slightly more underage twerking than most 2020 cinematic releases. How did this film come to unite such a broad swath of people in disgust? What is Ted Cruz's strategy for getting the American government to investigate a French filmmaker? Then the hosts speak with Reason's Elizabeth Nolan Brown about the broader American sex-trafficking panic that seems to partly explain the reaction to 'Cuties.' Plus: the science of pedophilia. It's a light episode, top to bottom.

YouTube: Cuties | Official Trailer | Netflix - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0O7lLe4SmA&ab_channel=Netflix

KXXV: Sen. Ted Cruz calls for a criminal investigation into Netflix film 'Cuties' - https://www.abcactionnews.com/entertainment/sen-ted-cruz-calls-for-a-criminal-investigation-into-netflix-film-cuties

YouTube: 'Cuties' Movie: Deconstructing The Culture w/Ben Shapiro - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asxBUrx-Wfg&ab_channel=TheDailyWire

Reason: The War on Sex Trafficking Is the New War on Drugs - https://reason.com/2015/09/30/the-war-on-sex-trafficking-is/

Reason: Enough Stranger Danger! Children Rarely Abducted by Those They Don't Know - https://reason.com/2017/03/31/kidnapping-stats/

Reason (on YouTube): Ashton Kutcher Helped Promote a Bogus Sex Trafficking Claim. Will We Ever Shake It? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKnWByMs4DQ&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=ReasonTV

Reason: Secret Memos Show the Government Has Been Lying About Backpage All Along - https://reason.com/2019/08/26/secret-memos-show-the-government-has-been-lying-about-backpage/

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After Katie tells the story of her 12-hour banishment from Twitter for a biting piece of political commentary, the hosts discus "TFW No GF," a controversial documentary about losers who post too much online, some of whom are so-called incels, or involuntary celibates. When should we have empathy for people who disgust us (like podcasters)? Then they turn their attention to the controversy over J.K. Rowling's newest mystery novel, which, depending on who you ask, is either horrifically transphobic or not transphobic at all. As usual, the only two moral arbiters with enough integrity to cut through the online noise are on the case, telling you exactly what to think. (Minor correction: In the episode, Jesse refers to Ray Blanchard as 'Canadian,' but he was born in New Jersey and settled in Canada later on.)

TFW No GF: https://www.amazon.com/TFW-No-Alex-Lee-Moyer/dp/B087N4632Q

Jacobin: A Portrait of the Breakdown of Hope and Meaning in America - https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/09/tfw-no-gf-incel-moyer-documentary

Jill Filipovic's tweet: https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/1307725535561293824

Glenn Greenwald's rejoinder: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1307761101979910145 

The Telegraph: Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith, review: JK Rowling fails to Strike again - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/troubled-blood-robert-galbraith-review-jk-rowling-fails-strike/

The Daily Beast: How Transphobic Is J.K. Rowling’s New Novel, ‘Troubled Blood?’ Very. - https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-transphobic-is-jk-rowlings-new-novel-troubled-blood-very

The Spectator: JK Rowling’s latest novel isn’t ‘transphobic’ - https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/j-k-rowling-s-latest-novel-isn-t-transphobic-

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After a  brief and sober discussion about President Trump's coronavirus diagnosis, the hosts devote most of the episode to two stories: a controversy surrounding a partially anonymous Arc Digital review of Kate Manne's new book Entitled that has led to accusations of obsession and WAR, and the blowup that ensued -- complete with a gleeful threat of mass executions in the streets! -- after the head of Coinbase took the radical stance that his company's purpose is to make money, not do progressive politics. Also: Katie sticks up for Jesse on Twitter without Jesse's awareness, New York Times staffers fail to revolt after a column that could Literally Endanger Lives is published, Jesse tries to get into the impressions game and almost commits a war crime in the process, and more.

Show notes/Links:

Arc Digital: Mannesplaining - https://arcdigital.media/mannesplaining-87d1cbf3f7ab 

Some of the relevant tweets: Jill Filipovic on the anonymity, Arc responds, Arc on the blocking, Jason Stanley on the 'war' (Arc, um, responds again), and Stanley on the 'obsession.' 

Arc Digital: Don’t Publish Personal Attacks Based on Misinformation - https://arcdigital.media/dont-publish-personal-attacks-based-on-misinformation-54cd66f7278c 

Coinbase is a mission focused company: https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-a-mission-focused-company-af882df8804 

Forbes: Some Business Leaders Should Face A Firing Squad, Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Suggests In Angry Tweet - https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2020/10/01/some-business-leader-should-face-a-firing-squad-former-twitter-ceo-dick-costolo-suggests-in-angry-tweet/#247301c97b94 

Coindesk: Relief and Regret: Crypto Twitter Reacts as Coinbase Says ‘No’ to Corporate Activism - https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-twitter-coinbase-corporate-activism

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[Update, 12:10 a.m.: For some reason the version I initially uploaded cut off before the actual ending. Apologies, but everything is fixed now. -J] 

The hosts discuss the Katie Hill revenge-porn/throuple scandal, which has gotten yet more scandalous in light of a tweetstorm supposedly authored by her former staffers (who are not fans), as well as Facebook's decision to ban QAnon from that platform and Instagram.

The tweetstorm: https://twitter.com/RepKatieHill/status/1313703826646466562

Politico: Anonymous ‘former staff’ of Katie Hill slam film adaptation of ex-congresswoman’s book - https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/07/anonymous-former-katie-hill-staff-film-adaptation-427038

The New York Times: Facebook Amps Up Its Crackdown on QAnon - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/technology/facebook-qanon-crackdown.html

The New York Times: QAnon Believers Say Being Banned From Facebook Is Proof of the Conspiracy - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/technology/qanon-believers-say-being-banned-from-facebook-is-proof-of-the-conspiracy.html

Reply All: County of Liars - https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/llhe5nm

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Katie and Jesse discuss the recent and not-so-recent controversy over The 1619 project, the reputational perils of getting in constant fights with idiots on Twitter, and the tangled story of Hunter Biden, a blind guy at a laptop-repair shop, and a controversial New York Post story. Along the way, Jesse engages in some shockingly casual anti-Ukrainianism.

The New York Times: The 1619 Project - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html

The New York Times: The 1619 Chronicles - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/opinion/nyt-1619-project-criticisms.html

The Washington Post: How the 1619 Project took over 2020 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/1619-project-took-over-2020-inside-story/2020/10/13/af537092-00df-11eb-897d-3a6201d6643f_story.html

The World Socialist Web Site's coverage of the controversy: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awsws.org+%221619+project%22&oq=site%3Awsws.org+%221619+project%22&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.5606j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

The New York Times: On Recent Criticism of The 1619 Project- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/magazine/criticism-1619-project.html (note: this one went up after we recorded the episode)

New York Post: Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad - https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/

PolitiFact: A look behind the NY Post headline about Joe Biden and a Ukraine meeting - https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/oct/15/look-behind-ny-post-headline-about-joe-biden-and-u/

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Well? Is he? Katie and Jesse discuss The Bone Man's recent, controversial tweet, revisit his glorious recent internet-history, talk about their own experiences with left- versus-right-wing haters and obsessives, and -- God help us all -- revisit certain aspects of GamerGate.

Ken Bone: "All morning the Trump supporters have been nice to me even though I don't like Trump. The Biden camp has been shitting all over me because I don't like Biden. Do these people really not see how much this behavior pushes bystanders toward the right?" - https://twitter.com/kenbone18/status/1313858537991401475 

INSIDE JOKE CLUE: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/inside-the-near-meltdown-of-the-feminist-tour-in-australia.html 

NY Mag: Gamergate May Have Just Won Its Most Disgraceful Scalp Yet (Updated) - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/03/this-looks-like-a-disgraceful-gamergate-win.html

Jesse "behaves like a predator" because he tried to get comment for a story: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/724818516189261824/photo/1

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Lotta dicks this week. After addressing some reader reactions to their The 1619 Project segment last week, Katie and Jesse critique the idea of "involuntary conservatives" so enraged by wokeness that they have to vote for Donald Trump. Then the hosts turn their attention to a salacious media story involving a certain New Yorker staff writer and, well, there's no more polite way to put this, but, um, his penis.

James Lindsay: "Frankly going to unhappily vote Republican, including Trump, until the left walks this s**t all the way back." - https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1318412252903604226

Eric Weinstein: "InCons are a force this year.  Involuntary conservatives are real. As I’ve told you: the failure to condemn @MayorJenny & @tedwheeler, acknowledge ANTIFA, admit to media bias or to level about cognitive issues etc. in a near octogenarian has created the Never-Trump Trump voter."
https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1318590052511854594

Dave Rubin: "Tyranny is here. Vote every Democrat out of office at every level everywhere. That is the only way to get things to start turning around.  Or live like sheep going to slaughter, your call." - https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1318743358911574017

Vice: New Yorker Suspends Jeffrey Toobin for Masturbating on Zoom Call - https://www.vice.com/en/article/epdgm4/new-yorker-suspends-jeffrey-toobin-for-zoom-dick-incident

The Stranger: Seattle Times Reporter Mike Rosenberg Suspended over Twitter Messages - https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/05/06/40121238/seattle-times-reporter-mike-rosenberg-suspended-over-twitter-messages

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After Jesse tells Katie a harrowing story about his recent journey into the heart of 'Manhattan,' the hosts discuss Glenn Greenwald's departure from The Intercept, an outlet he helped found back in 2014. Was this a case of censorship, as Greenwald argues, or did he overreact to standard editorial input? Then they turn their attention to Section 230, a law that made the internet what it is today (for better and for worse), and which seems to be attracting bipartisan ire of late, especially among people who don't really understand technology.

Greenwald's posts on this controversy:

My Resignation From The Intercept - https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-intercept

Article on Joe and Hunter Biden Censored By The Intercept - https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-biden-censored

Emails With Intercept Editors Showing Censorship of My Joe Biden Article - https://greenwald.substack.com/p/emails-with-intercept-editors-showing

The Intercept: Glenn Greenwald Resigns From The Intercept (pushing back on some of GG's claims) - https://theintercept.com/2020/10/29/glenn-greenwald-resigns-the-intercept/

Reason's coverage of Section 230: https://reason.com/tag/section-230/

Slate: Revising the Law That Lets Platforms Moderate Content Will Silence Marginalized Voices - https://slate.com/technology/2020/10/section-230-marignalized-groups-speech.html

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In a very special episode, Katie and Jesse discuss a long, stupid week in which democracy had its way with the American people, vigorously and repeatedly. What should we make of the fact that, while Joe Biden is on the brink of victory, the election was closer than many expected and the Democrats were denied their "blue wave"? Is it because of the patriarchy? White supremacy? Wokeness? Minorities who cling annoyingly to 'agency' and "interpreting the world through their own values, rather than the media's?" Also: Jesse dissects Donald Trump's incredibly lazy, half-assed meltdown, and the hosts debate whether "Voter fraud stole the election for Biden!" is the new "The Russians stole the election for Trump!"

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Show notes/Links:

Katie's new newsletter: http://moosenuggets.substack.com

The Week: The left just got crushed - https://theweek.com/articles/947824/left-just-got-crushed

Chaos and recriminations on a Democratic caucus conference call: https://twitter.com/ericawerner/status/1324439295847968768

The New York Times: Exit Polls Point to the Power of White Patriarchy - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/opinion/election-2020-exit-polls.html

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After Katie talks about her new dog-testicles-centered newsletter, the hosts discuss the latest events in the ongoing saga of Helen Lewis's voice getting erased by Ubisoft. Now that Rock Paper Shotgun has sacked a 13-year freelancer for the crime of being sympathetic to Lewis in the site's comments section, it's fair to ask: Does it make sense to fire people for expressing majority opinions? (No. No it doesn't.) Then Katie and Jesse discuss an article in New York Magazine about the internal tumult at The New York Times that, like everything else which happens in this crazy world of ours, simply proves the hosts were right all along. Plus: Jesse is triggered by a leaked screenshot from the Times' #diversity slack channel in which he is denounced for wrongthink.

Moose Nuggets: https://moosenuggets.substack.com/ 

Rock Paper Shotgun: Watch Dogs Legion is booting a journalist off its fictional radio - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/11/06/watch-dogs-legion-is-booting-a-journalist-off-its-fictional-radio

Tim Stone disagrees in the comments: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/11/06/watch-dogs-legion-is-booting-a-journalist-off-its-fictional-radio/#comment-3120763

RPS announces his sacking: https://twitter.com/rockpapershot/status/1326211540689821698

New York Magazine: Inside the New York Times' Heated Reckoning With Itself - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/inside-the-new-york-times-heated-reckoning-with-itself.html 

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After the hosts celebrate a major achievement and Jesse goes on a little rant that is Super Political, Katie and Jesse delve into three stories of profound internet nonsense involving privileged white people doing antiracism, a Toronto editor VERY mad about a new broth-joint, and some of Twitter's most neurotic people getting super mad about Barack Obama's college conduct.

Show notes/Links:

The New York Times: G.O.P.-Led Senate Panel Details Ties Between 2016 Trump Campaign and Russia - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/politics/senate-intelligence-russian-interference-report.html 

The Phinney Neighborhood Association: Anti-racism work updates: Eliminating racist symbolism - https://www.phinneycenter.org/eliminating-racist-symbolism/ 

blogTO: New Toronto clothing store ditches broth bar after cultural appropriation complaints - https://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2020/11/toronto-clothing-store-ditches-broth-bar-cultural-appropriation-complaints/ 

(Update: It's down. Try this cached link: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:p0Tmb1vnPZoJ:https://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2020/11/toronto-clothing-store-ditches-broth-bar-cultural-appropriation-complaints/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us.)

Twitter: "The way Obama writes about women here ... uh. Wow." - https://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI/status/1328900134575480835 

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After a very tense intro during which Jesse berates Katie for not being there when he needed her most, the hosts discuss a Vice News story about staffers at Penguin Random House Canada so overwhelmed by the existence of Jordan Peterson's new book that they broke down crying, and Guardian staffers so overwhelmed by the existence of a debate over certain claims about sex and gender that they drove columnist Suzanne Moore out. 

Show notes/Links:

Vice World News: Penguin Random House Staff Confront Publisher About New Jordan Peterson Book - https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5bv3x/penguin-random-house-staff-confront-publisher-about-new-jordan-peterson-book 

UnHerd: Why I had to leave The Guardian - https://unherd.com/2020/11/why-i-had-to-leave-the-guardian/

The Guardian: Women must have the right to organise. We will not be silenced - https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2020/mar/02/women-must-have-the-right-to-organise-we-will-not-be-silenced

Suzanne Moore's Substack: https://suzannemoore.substack.com/p/pull-up-a-chair

The Guardian: The Guardian view on the Gender Recognition Act: where rights collide - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/17/the-guardian-view-on-the-gender-recognition-act-where-rights-collide 

 The Guardian U.S.: Why we take issue with the Guardian’s stance on trans rights in the UK - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/02/guardian-editorial-response-transgender-rights-uk 

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One would not expect an online community devoted to discussion of dragons, vampires, and teenage heroes to be a cesspool of almost unimaginable toxicity. And yet! In this episode, Jesse walks Katie through a recent history of young adult fiction Twitter, aka "YA Twitter," and attempts to explain how it got to be such a Hobbesian hellscape. The latest scandal involves Jessica Cluess, a YA author falsely accused of racism and violent speech, and the opportunistic authors, consultants, and agents rushing to denounce her in as colorful and overwrought a manner as possible.

Show notes/Links:

Please pre-order Jesse's book, "The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills," if you can: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780374239800?aff=macmillan 

Or on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Fix-Psychology-Cant-Social/dp/0374239800/ 

Vulture: The Toxic Drama on YA Twitter - https://www.vulture.com/2017/08/the-toxic-drama-of-ya-twitter.html 

Tablet: How a Twitter Mob Derailed an Immigrant Female Author’s Budding Career - https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-a-twitter-mob-destroyed-a-young-immigrant-female-authors-budding-career 

Reason: Teen Fiction Twitter Is Eating Its Young - https://reason.com/2019/05/05/teen-fiction-twitter-is-eating-its-young/ 

Reason: He Was Part of a Twitter Mob That Attacked Young Adult Novelists. Then It Turned on Him. Now His Book Is Canceled. - https://reason.com/2019/02/28/he-was-part-of-a-twitter-mob-that-attack/ 

Reason: A Review of a Book That Will Never Be Published, Thanks to the Young Adult Twitter Mob - https://reason.com/2019/03/15/a-review-of-a-book-will-never-be-publish/ 

Twitter stuff:

Jessica Cluess' apology: https://twitter.com/JessCluess/status/1333906316247457794 

Brooks Sherman denouncing Cluess but not dropping her: https://twitter.com/byobrooks/status/1333967020258373632 

Brooks Sherman denouncing Cluess, amplifying a false rumor about her, and dropping her: https://twitter.com/byobrooks/status/1334685571449556994 

Some tweetstorms by Jesse running down some highlights of the craziness:

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1334156650467520513 

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1334356668273070081 

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1334642155437101058 

YA Twitter's Victims and Critics Speak Up (four-part series on Singal-Minded):

https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/ya-twitters-victims-and-critics-speak 

https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/ya-twitters-victims-and-critics-speak-855 

https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/ya-twitters-victims-and-critics-speak-4b5 

https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/ya-twitters-victims-and-critics-speak-c56 

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A major blowup at at Google led to the firing or resignation (depending on who you ask) of Timnit Gebru and accusations that the company's social-justice efforts are performative at best. But behind the scenes, some Googlers are telling a different, slightly more complicated story. Who's right? Katie and Jesse bring on Jon Stokes, an Ars Technica founder who is much better connected in the tech world than they are, to help explain this tangled controversy. 

(Correction: In the original version of this episode we posted for our patrons, our guest, Jon Stokes, wrongly described Timnit Gebru's academic background as being in sociology, with her having also done some work in computer science. That should have been flipped: She has a PhD from the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, but has done plenty of work that intersects with sociology. Jon also said she was educated at M.I.T., but all her degrees are from Stanford. Whenever an error makes it into the final show, that is 100% the fault of hosts, and we apologize. We've snipped out the audio containing the errors and added a link to Gebru's Stanford page to the top of the show notes.)  

(More corrections, 12/18/2020: In the original versions of this pocast, both free and patrons-only, Jon also said at approximately 20:40 that Gebru had been at Google since 2016, though he hedged this with an "I think.". She had actually only been at Google since 2019 [YIKES -- actually 2018. Listen to the updated episode for a correction of the correction]. At about 56:30 [free version timestamp], he laid out a storyline, which he presented as informed speculation, in which Jeffrey Dean, head of Google AI, had promised Gebru and some of her allies in 2016 that they could do ethical work. Then, in this telling, Google pivoted to AI, and as a result Gebru and her colleagues' work was seen as a liability and came under more scrutiny. But that storyline doesn’t quite work, as Jon presented it, given that Gebru only arrived at Google in 2019, well after Sundar Pichai announced the company would be “AI first” in 2016. We've snipped out the audio containing these errors and will be discussing all of this episode's errors on the free episode of the podcast set to go live 12/21/2020, and earlier for patrons.)

Show notes/Links:

Timnit Gebru's background: https://ai.stanford.edu/~tgebru/ 

Jon Stokes: https://twitter.com/jonst0kes 

His site, The Prepared: http://www.theprepared.com 

The New York Times: Google Chief Apologizes for A.I. Researcher’s Dismissal - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/technology/timnit-gebru-google-pichai.html 

The New York Times: Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I. - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/technology/google-researcher-timnit-gebru.html 

Wired: Behind the Paper That Led to a Google Researcher’s Firing - https://www.wired.com/story/behind-paper-led-google-researchers-firing/ 

Platformer: The withering email that got an ethical AI researcher fired at Google - https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-an-ethical 

MIT Technology Review: We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says. - https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-ai-ethics-research-paper-forced-out-timnit-gebru/ 

Twitter: Yann LeCun on the data problem - https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1274782757907030016 

Twitter: Gebru disagrees - https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1274808654227619840 

(Note: As of 10:45 a.m. on Saturday I'm having trouble finding the throaway Reddit posts we mention, but when I do I'll add those as well. Update: Thanks, John, for posting this in the comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_timnit_gebru_and_google_megathread/gepq3u8/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)

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For thousands of years, a small cabal of middle-aged lesbians known as 'TERFs' has been quietly pulling the strings behind the scenes, dictating the outcomes of major world events. They have one goal, and one goal alone: harming gender-nonconforming people. And unlike other political groups, who express their views with patience, reason, nuance, and logic, and who never harass anyone online, TERFs play dirty -- always. In this episode, Katie and Jesse applaud a brave expose in The Atlantic that finally pulls the curtain back on this dastardly coven of unhinged she-devils.

The Atlantic: The Secret Internet Of TERFs - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/12/reddit-ovarit-the-donald/617320/

4W: My Whole Conversation With Kaitlyn Tiffany Of The Atlantic - https://4w.pub/my-whole-conversation-with-kaitlyn-tiffany-for-the-atlantic

4W: Fired For Feminism - https://4w.pub/fired-for-feminism/

4W: Non-Binary Is the New “Not Like Other Girls,” and it’s Deeply Rooted in Misogyny - https://4w.pub/non-binary-is-the-new-not-like-other-girls-and-its-deeply-rooted-in-misogyny/

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In a true sign that anything is possible in this crazy universe of ours, the hosts note that there were some errors in the previous episode and explain exactly what they were (to see them explained in written form, check out that episode's show notes). Then they discuss some mental-health-talk from Jesse that rubbed one reader the wrong way and continue on to the show's main event: a major court decision on youth gender dysphoria in England and an incredibly shoddy article in Foreign Policy about it.

(Corrections 10:10 pm 12/18/2020: In the course of correcting last week's episode, we managed to introduce not one but two new errors, and just uploaded a new version in which Jesse breaks in twice to explain them. First, Timnit Gebru's PhD is not in computer science, but rather in electrical engineering. This was just plain sloppiness on someone's part, possibly Jéssé's. Second, Gebru started at Google in 2018, not 2019. In this case, our excuse is that both The New York Times and Columbia Journalism Review wrote that she was hired "last year." This is false, and thank you to the Google employee who reached out to correct us and pointed us to a 2018 tweet in which Gebru talks about her early days at Google. Wired has this right.)

Show notes/Links:

Bell v Tavistock, the ruling at issue: https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Bell-v-Tavistock-Judgment.pdf 

A High Court Decision in Britain Puts Trans People Everywhere at Risk: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/15/uk-transphobia-transgender-court-ruling-puberty-blockers/ 

Jesse's newsletter posts on key aspects of this controversy:

A Response To Foreign Policy's Deeply Misleading Article, "A High Court Decision in Britain Puts Trans People Everywhere at Risk": https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/a-response-to-foreign-policys-deeply 

No, desistance hasn't been debunked, and no, there's no evidence it's all that rare:

Part: 1 https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/how-science-vs-made-two-gender-dysphoria 

Part 2: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/how-science-vs-accidentally-invented 

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In a very special holiday episode, Jesse relates the story of Hanukkah to Katie, his ignorant Gentile friend, with stunning 100% accuracy. Then Jesse makes a fun announcement and an angry announcement. Then the hosts throw to a lengthy interview they did with Aella (@aella_girl on Twitter), a sex worker, OnlyFans one-percenter, and occasional rationalist provocateur who has lived a very interesting life. They talk about drugs and sex and life and online controversy. Plus, Julie Bindel pops in to raise issues with certain contemporary understandings of sex work.

Show notes/Links:

Aella on Twitter: @aella_girl 

Playboy: When Camming Is The Family Business: https://www.playboy.com/read/when-camming-is-the-family-business-1 

Grace Lavery's 'response' to Jesse: https://twitter.com/graceelavery/status/1340001379998416903 

She admits part of it was wrong but won't retract and then nukes the account she admitted that with: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1340355044433137667 

Oh and Grace threatens to sue Jesse: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1340073029544636424 

James Palmer does not like Jesse but his magazine looks set to do the right thing regardless: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1342167962803965953 

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After reflecting on what a great year 2020 was, except for the many serious hardships Katie endured, the hosts start 2021 with a bang: specifically, a bang that sounds a lot like a racial slur neither of them can say. A white teenager in Virginia didn't get the memo, though -- what should the punishment be, if any? Then Jesse and Katie turn their attention to a story that is rather 'picante': Hilaria Baldwin's attempt at identity-forgery. What an estupido time to be alive!

Show notes/Links:

The New York Times: A Racial Slur, a Viral Video, and a Reckoning: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/mimi-groves-jimmy-galligan-racial-slurs.html 

Reason: The New York Times Helped a Vindictive Teen Destroy a Classmate Who Uttered a Racial Slur When She Was 15 - https://reason.com/2020/12/28/new-york-times-racial-slur-teen-jimmy-galligan-mimi-groves/ 

The New York Times: The Hilaria Baldwin Story: ‘I’m Living My Life’ - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/style/hilaria-baldwin-interview.html 

Aura Bogado's tweetstorm: https://twitter.com/aurabogado/status/1342554505880064000 

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After discussing whether Blocked and Reported led directly to the siege on the Capitol, the hosts discuss that strange, terrifying event. They debate whether it can be safely examined in something of a vaccuum, or should be put in the broader context of what appears to be a rise in political violence in the U.S. They also discuss some of the most unhinged responses. Then they talk about Bean Dad. Remember Bean Dad? We yearn for a world in which Bean Dad is the day's most important story on Twitter.

Show notes/Links:

Arthur Chu is normal: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1347381484584316929 

Clymer backstory (refers to her as male because pre-transition): https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/14/living-by-the-sword/ 

Hawley book no more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/books/simon-schuster-josh-hawley-b 

BEAN DAD basic rundown: https://heavy.com/news/john-roderick-bean-dad/ 

Lit-uh-rull abuse: https://twitter.com/a_queer_ius/status/1345665171390394368 

https://twitter.com/timaree_leigh/status/1345623027074142210 

Bean Dad's problematic tweets:

https://twitter.com/Laura_Nowlin/status/1345831569806733314/photo/1

https://twitter.com/flore_rhea/status/1345846499121324032

https://twitter.com/CatKnitty/status/1345840464595800064

His apology: http://www.johnroderick.com/an-apology

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After Jesse addresses the totally baseless rumor that he went to Yale Law School, the best law school in the country, where (in this false scenario) he got very good grades, the hosts talk a bit more about online content moderation and then discuss two recent stories about controversial right-wing media figures: the backfired attempt to deplatform Andy Ngo's book, and the widespread outrage among Politico employees that Ben Shapiro was allowed to author an edition of the Playbook newsletter.

Please pre-preorder Jesse's book, The Quick Fix, if you can: https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Fix-Psychology-Cant-Social/dp/0374239800/

Show Notes/Links:

NY Mag: Why Deplatforming Might Be Useless — Or Worse — When It Comes to Preventing Right-Wing Violence - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/why-deplatforming-might-be-bad-answer-to-right-wing-violence.html

ABC News: Powell's Books says Andy Ngo's book will not be in store - https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/powells-books-andy-ngos-book-store-75239210

NY Post: Inside The Suspicious Rise Of Gay Hate Crimes In Portland - https://nypost.com/2019/03/30/inside-the-suspicious-rise-of-gay-hate-crimes-in-portland/

UnHerd: The Antifa thugs shame America - https://unherd.com/2021/01/the-antifa-thugs-shame-america/

NY Times: The Events Leading to the Shooting of Trayvon Martin - http://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/04/02/us/the-events-leading-to-the-shooting-of-trayvon-martin.html

Ben Shapiro's Politico Playbook: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/01/14/the-real-reason-most-republicans-opposed-impeachment-491399

NY Times: Politico Staff Objects After Right-Wing Star Ben Shapiro Writes Newsletter - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/business/media/politico-playbook-ben-shapiro.html

Washington Post: Politico’s revolt over Ben Shapiro guest-hosting Playbook went too far - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/15/politicos-revolt-over-ben-shapiro-guest-hosting-playbook-went-too-far/

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Katie and Jesse bring on Ethan Watters, an author and freelance journalist who helped debunk the recovered-memory craze back in the 1990s, to discuss the most recent development in that area: an article in The Cut that Watters does not think does a good and accurate job relating the (scant) scientific evidence for recovered memories. The hosts and Watters also discuss certain arguable therapeutic parallels between the recovered-memory movement and treatment for youth gender dysphoria, as well as the general tendency of liberals to violate their "We <3 Science" stance fairly regulary when moral outrage is afoot.

Show notes/Links:

The Cut article in question: https://www.thecut.com/article/false-memory-syndrome-controversy.html

And the podcast: https://www.thecut.com/2021/01/the-cut-podcast-the-truth-about-false-memories.html

Ethan's books:

Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, And Sexual Hysteria: https://www.amazon.com/Making-Monsters-Memories-Psychotherapy-Hysteria/dp/0520205839 

Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche: 

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Crazy-Like-Us/Ethan-Watters/9781416587095

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After Katie tells Jesse about a very disturbing dream she had about him, the hosts perform some valuable service journalism by explaining to listeners the nature of stonks and bons and hedge funs. Then they turn their attention to the story of Lauren Wolfe, a New York Times gig-editor who was fired after tweeting that watching Joe Biden's plane land gave her the 'chills.' Fair? Unfair? Inconsistently applied standards? Lot to unpack.

Show notes/Links:

STONKS:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/stonks 

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/01/the-complete-morons-guide-to-gamestops-stock-roller-coaster/

Lauren Wolfe:

Yashar Ali's thread: https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1352471654425743361 

Josh Shahryar's thread: https://twitter.com/JShahryar/status/1353142366656372741 

Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/25/lauren-wolfe-tweet-nyt-dismissal/ 

Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/inside-the-new-york-times-firing-of-lauren-wolfe 

Yascha Mounk on the firing of David Shor: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firing-innocent/613615/ 

Katie on Jack Smith IV: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/09/28/33049349/a-progressive-writer-was-bad-boyfriend-and-then-he-was-fired-for-it 

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After Jesse tells Katie a touching story about shoveling food into his face-hole, and the hosts discuss his latest Twitter-feud -- this one with a noted New Yorker food critic (not staff writer) -- the hosts discuss a Slate article about detransition that seems geared at painting that communtiy in a particularly negative and reactionary light. But Cary Callahan, a detransitioner, therapist, and activist (who, to be fair, Katie and Jesse already knew before this all popped up), doesn't think this is a fair assessment, so she joins the pod for a conversation about her own experiences and what she thinks the Slate article misses.

Show notes/Links:

Jesse criticizes Helen: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1354851768090439684 

Helen's thoughtful response forces Jesse to reconsider his position: 

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1355200463029874693 

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1355974150129655813 

The Slate article about detransitioners: https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/02/detransition-movement-star-ex-gay-explained.html 

Katie's detrans article: https://www.thestranger.com/features/2017/06/28/25252342/the-detransitioners-they-were-transgender-until-they-werent 

Jesse's detrans article: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-a-child-says-shes-trans/561749/ 

Carey Callahan's excellent stuff:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CareyCallsBS 

The Economist: https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/12/03/gender-identity-is-hard-but-jumping-to-medical-solutions-is-worse 

Medium:

https://medium.com/@mariacatt42/in-which-i-fail-to-find-you-any-gate-keeping-622c447a835f 

https://medium.com/@mariacatt42/how-to-do-your-own-differential-diagnosis-and-why-its-total-b******t-that-you-would-have-to-461077985659 

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Jesse and Katie talk about a disturbing bit of listener feedback and the recent departures from the Times, under questionable circumstances, of Andy Mills and Donald McNeil Jr. Are the worst norms of campus culture seeping into major media institutions? To hear the answer, you'll have to listen. (It's 'yes.')

(Correction: At around 8:00 in the recording, Jesse originally referred to Rukmini Callamachi as a "woman of color." She isn't one. The error has been snipped out and free listeners will never hear it. Jesse apologizes for the misracing. Also, race is a poisonous fiction.)

Show notes/Links:

The Cut on Andy Mills: https://www.thecut.com/2018/02/at-wnyc-an-uncertain-path-out-of-scandal.html

His resignation note: https://www.andymills.work/resignation 

The Times on both resignations: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/business/media/donald-mcneil-andy-mills-leave-nyt.html 

John McWhorter is skeptical of collapsing the use/mention distinction: https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/the-n-word-as-slur-vs-the-n-word

NHJ not great on anonymous sources...: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1358780440774082561 

...or the question of whether the NYT has published "that word" much: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1358781725652975618 

Because it has: https://rb.gy/pm6bpc 

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Should Gina Carano have been fired from her job on the hit Star Wars show "A Candalabra" for being a dumb conservative with Boomerlike posting tendencies? The whole crew gets together to discuss. Also, Katie talks about her relationship with an old Trump supporter and Jesse looks back fondly on his grad-school trip to Israel and Palestine that solved that conflict once and for all.

Show notes/Links: 

Bret Stephens in the New York... Post???????: https://nypost.com/2021/02/11/read-the-column-the-new-york-times-didnt-want-you-read/

Haywire trailer aka Gina Carano waiing on dudes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpffbDjWlog&ab_channel=MovieclipsTrailers

The redubbing incident: https://www.slashfilm.com/gina-carano-confirms-voice-altered-haywire/ 

Robby Soave on Carano: https://reason.com/2021/02/11/disney-cancels-the-mandalorian-star-gina-carano-over-provocative-social-media-posts/ 

Deadline: https://deadline.com/2021/02/mandalorian-gina-carano-lucas-film-responds-to-controversial-statement-1234691898/

The "anti-Semitic" post that clearly isn't: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1359701663901245442

The Freedom for Humanity mural Carano eventually posted a version of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_for_Humanity

A Carano-sympathetic take: https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/people-are-trying-to-cancel-gina-carano-for-what-exactly/

Jesse in Ramallah, solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict via the healing power of sport:

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Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo boy. Reply All, an excellent podcast, is melting down. What happened? What does it have to do with Bon Apetit? Why does new keep breaking immediately after Jesse and Katie record an episode? 

Show notes/Links:

Jesse on his rejection:

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1361125261220196356

A couple great episodes of Reply All:

The Case of the Missing Hit: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2h8bx

Shine On You Crazy Goldman

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/2oh933/44-shine-on-you-crazy-goldman

Adam Rapaport resigns (not fired, like Jesse says):

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/09/872697289/chief-editor-at-bon-app-tit-resigns-after-racially-offensive-photo-surfaces

Test Kitchen episodes of Reply All:

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/dvhzkdo/172-the-test-kitchen-chapter-1

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/awheda3/173-the-test-kitchen-chapter-2

Eric Eddings' thread denouncing Reply All's alleged toxicity:

https://twitter.com/eeddings/status/1361789128006897668 

Everyone reflexively agreeing with it without knowing whether it is 100% true:

https://twitter.com/eeddings/status/1361789128006897668/retweets/with_comments 

PJ Vogt's apology:

https://twitter.com/PJVogt/status/1362233699220258818

Sruthi Pinnamaneni's:

https://twitter.com/sruthiri/status/1362254842270519296

FdB is not A-OK with NYC (media): https://fredrikdeboer.com/2021/02/15/scott-alexander-is-not-in-the-gizmodo-media-slack 

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The liberal landscape is littered with race-related meltdowns. After a correction and an update to last week's Reply All episode, Katie and Jesse discuss Mike Pesca's suspension from Slate and a long, infuriating article in the New York Times about false accusations at Smith College.

Reply All’s “The Confetti Cannon” episode:
https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/dvh64g

The other side of the argument that Reply All got more political:
https://www.reddit.com/r/replyallpodcast/comments/ju3ly4/hot_take_reply_all_is_not_getting_more_political/gca58cv?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Fresh Air on the nature of the protest:
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/25/971319812/reporters-video-from-inside-senate-on-jan-6-shows-a-crowd-prepared-for-violence

NY Times on Deadspin’s implosion: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/business/media/deadspin-was-a-good-website.html

Defector’s story on Mike Pesca:
https://defector.com/mike-pesca-slate-suspended/

NY Times on Pesca:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/business/media/slate-mike-pesca-suspended.html

“Eschew the Taboo: The pernicious effects of banning words” by Christopher Hitchens:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2006/12/hatred-will-always-outpace-linguistic-correctness.html

Ta-Nehisi Coates on use/mention:
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/11/to-conversate/66929/

John McWhorter on use/mention:
https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/the-n-word-as-slur-vs-the-n-word

Margaret Sullivan with a confusing column:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/mike-pesca-donald-mcneil-n-word-media/2021/02/24/fe89d010-76a1-11eb-8115-9ad5e9c02117_story.html?itid=ap_margaretsullivan

Stefan Fatsis on this debate in Slate alllllll the way back in 2020:
https://slate.com/culture/2020/07/scrabble-offensive-words-ban-player-reaction.html

The episode of The Gist where Pesca mentions nonbinary pronouns:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/acosta-out-emily-bazelon-charged-kamala-harris-gun-laws.html

Michael Powell’s crazy story about Smith College:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/us/smith-college-race.html

The ACLU ACLU-ing, hard:
https://www.aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/race-and-criminal-justice/smith-college-overhauls-policing-practices-after-black

Cathy Young on the "Napping Whilte Black" story at Yale, which was significantly more complicated:
https://thebulwark.com/standing-up-to-the-moral-outrage-industry/ 

Jodi Shaw's latter, as published by Bari Weiss:
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/whistleblower-at-smith-college-resigns 

Katie on disappearing lesbians:
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/where-have-all-the-lesbians-gone-0a7 

Glenn Greenwald on his experience "trending as a transphobe and biphobe":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXXJoOsdoNE&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=GlennGreenwald 

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Let's put a bow on this Donald McNeil Jr. story. McNeil has fired back with a 20,000-word opus about his travails trying to wrangle a group of young prep-schoolers with very strong feelings about social justice -- and without any booze! What did he really say? How did he say it? How did he handle the girl with the Latino/x boyfriend? Katie and Jesse also discuss media unionization and their exciting upcoming orthodontic endeavors.

Show notes/Links:

Donald McNeil Jr.'s Medium series: https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/nytimes-peru-n-word-part-one-introduction-57eb6a3e0d95 

The Daily Beast's original reporting: https://www.thedailybeast.com/star-new-york-times-reporter-donald-mcneil-accused-of-using-n-word-making-other-racist-comments 

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In a bonus interview episode, Jesse interviews Dr. Erica Anderson, a trans woman and Bay-Area-based gender clinician with years of experience working with transgender and gender nonconforming youth. The two discuss the white-hot debate over trans kids, including what comprehensive, compassionate assessment looks like in this field, and how clincians decide when a young person is ready for puberty blockers and/or hormones.

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Show notes/Links:

Jesse's long article in The Atlantic about youth gender dysphoria: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-a-child-says-shes-trans/561749/ 

Dr. Erica Anderson's website: https://www.drericaanderson.com/ 

Her Tretter Transgender Oral History Project video: https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll97:194?q=%22Tretter+Transgender+Oral+History+Project+Phase+2%22&sort=title_sort+asc%2C+date_created_sort+desc 

A Washington Post article quoting Dr. Anderson on the 'trendiness' aspect: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/when-kids-come-in-saying-they-are-transgender-or-no-gender-these-doctors-try-to-help/2018/01/19/f635e5fa-dac0-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html 

Jesse's newsletter quoting her on the folly of laws banning youth transition, but also the importance of comprehensive, competent care for TGNC youth: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/why-the-hard-age-caps-on-youth-gender 

There's an insane amount of misinformatino on this subject: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/a-response-to-foreign-policys-deeply 

Lisa Littman's rapid onset gender dysphoria study: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202330 

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health Standards of Care: https://www.wpath.org/publications/soc 

"In Which I Fail to Find You Any Gate-keeping" by Carey Callahan, a detransitioner: https://medium.com/@mariacatt42/in-which-i-fail-to-find-you-any-gate-keeping-622c447a835f 

"Gender identity is hard but jumping to medical solutions is worse" by Callahan: https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/12/03/gender-identity-is-hard-but-jumping-to-medical-solutions-is-worse 

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After responding to some reader feedback about their last couple episodes, the hosts revisit one of the fiercer left-of-center Twitter controversies of the last half-decade: Woke Twitter vs. Brocialist Twitter. There are alligators! And corncobs! And forgotten and since-humiliated internet microcelebrities! It's quite. A. Ride.

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Show notes/Links:

No dice for Neera: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/30/bernie-supporters-seethes-neera-tanden-441603

Some of the deleted tweets: https://www.the-sun.com/news/2387776/what-did-neera-tanden-say-in-now-deleted-tweets/

"I didn't slug him, I pushed him": https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/us/politics/tanden-sanders-.html 

Matt Bruenig pointing out the insanity of the Sarah Kendzior claim that set off Jacobinghazi: http://mattbruenig.com/2014/06/08/opportunistic-misreads/ 

Bruenig calling Kendzior a liar: http://mattbruenig.com/2014/09/23/what-would-it-take-to-make-sarah-kendzior-admit-this-is-not-true/ 

Wired on The Alligator Tweets: https://www.wired.com/2016/06/wish-unsee-vile-tweet-alligator-attack/ 

Bruenig loses his job over "scumbag Neera": https://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/matt-bruenig-neera-tanden-joan-walsh-hillary-clinton-223439 

Matt Yglesias on Bruenighazi: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/21/11724298/bruenighazi-matt-bruenig-neera-tanden-demos 

German Lopez on Reid-gate-ghazwhatever: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/27/17286392/joy-reid-msnbc-lgbtq-gay-hack 

Jesse's brave investigative reporting on corncobs: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/08/why-is-everyone-on-twitter-suddenly-talking-about-corncobs.html 

Dril: https://twitter.com/dril 

Al Giordano accusations: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/al-giordano-sexual-harassment-school-of-authentic-journalism_n_5aeb5113e4b041fd2d24580c

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After reflecting on the podcast turning one whole year old next week, Jesse and Katie talk about the massive online uproar over his (and others') continuing presence on Substack, Katie's impressive Brianna-Wu-related fundraising, and the underappreciated connection between GamerGate and 4chan. Then the hosts discuss media coverage of the awful massage-parlor shootings in Atlanta, and particularly the rush to slot them into an oversimplified race narrative.

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Jon Kay's big Quillette piece on the rumors about Jesse:
https://quillette.com/2021/03/18/the-campaign-of-lies-against-journalist-jesse-singal-and-why-it-matters/ 

Ryan Broderick’s dishonest article about Substack: https://www.garbageday.email/p/starting-to-think-we-are-acting-like

An interview of Jesse's Ryan would have benefited from reading:
https://www.vulture.com/2016/05/against-me-laura-jane-grace-playing-north-carolina.html 

Jude Doyle’s dishonest article about Substack: https://doyles.substack.com/p/in-queers-we-trust-all-others-pay

Jude Doyle’s dishonest article about leaving Substack:
https://doyles.substack.com/p/necessary-losses

Brianna Wu HAS RECEIPTS:
https://twitter.com/briannawu/status/1371452139856392196

Katie’s thread on Wu’s DMs about her and Jesse:
https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1371484911773700098

Wu’s threatening email to Jesse:
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1371470202030936067

Jesse’s story on the Kenneth Zucker clinic:
https://www.thecut.com/2016/02/fight-over-trans-kids-got-a-researcher-fired.html

Herzog’s impressive fundraising efforts:
https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1372583800480301065

There appear to be myriad holes in Zoe Quinn’s story about Alec Holowka, who committed suicide after (but not necessarily as a result of) her accusations and his subsequent firing:
https://thepostmillennial.com/exclusive-zoe-quinns-allegations-are-falling-apart

Freddie deBoer’s apology:
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/statement

Freddie deBoer’s essay about people’s unwillingness to accept his apology:
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/since-you-asked

Melissa Jeltsen’s useful and nuanced thread on the massage-parlor shootings and the temptation of simple storytelling:

https://twitter.com/quasimado/status/1372536018721734662

Whiteness Doesn’t Cause Mass Shootings:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/11/whiteness-mass-shootings.html

Basic info on Robert Aaron Long:

https://apnews.com/article/georgia-massage-parlor-shootings-leave-8-dead-f3841a8e0215d3ab3d1f23d489b7af81

No, a police captain didn’t blame the shooting on a “bad day”:

https://reason.com/2021/03/19/aaron-robert-long-spa-killer-atlanta-jay-baker-cop-bad-day/

Everyone got the Pulse nightclub shooting wrong:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/5/17202026/pulse-shooting-lgbtq-trump-terror-hate

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Jesse and Katie talk about Jesse's inclusion on a very special list of very special bigots, Katie's addition to the ever-growing list of people who got Doyle'd, and an annoyingly one-sided front-page New York Times piece about online censorship. Then they throw to an interview Jesse did with Jon Chait, an excellent writer and thinker who had a big impact on Jesse's own work over the years.

Jesse on the disgraceful GLAAD clusterfuck: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/glaad-took-false-previously-disproven 

Jon Chait - Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say: How the language police are perverting liberalism: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/01/not-a-very-pc-thing-to-say.html 

One of Chait's most recent Russia pieces: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ex-kgb-agent-trump-russian-asset-mueller-putin-kompromat-unger-book.html 

NYT Mag on Robin DiAngelo: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/magazine/white-fragility-robin-diangelo.html 

Chait on that piece and Robin DiAngelo: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/antiracism-training-white-fragility-robin-diangelo-ibram-kendi.html 

Jesse on left-wing identitarianism: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/slate-pete-buttigieg-and-the-limited 

Chait - An Elite Progressive LISTSERV Melts Down Over a Bogus Racism Charge: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/white-fragility-racism-racism-progressive-progressphiles-david-shor.html 

Moral clarity: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/opinion/objectivity-black-journalists-coronavirus.html 

The tweet that got Lee Fang in trouble: https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1268390704645943297 

Chait v. Higgins: https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1329057894164279296 

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After Katie opens up about a gruesome injury and Jesse tells a story about a listener's travails at an upscale New York City climbing gym, the hosts discuss Jesse's book, which is out on Tuesday. Specifically, they dig into Comprehensive Soldier Fitness, an anti-PTSD Army program that doesn't work, and the implicit association test, an anti-racism test that... doesn't work. Also, it turns out both hosts are kinda scared of bridges, which feels like something they should dig into at some later date.

Show notes/Links:

THE BOOK:
https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Fix-Psychology-Cant-Social/dp/0374239800/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= 

Jesse's AMA on the subreddit about the book:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/mhyflz/ask_me_anything_about_my_book_the_quick_fix_which/ 

Jesse's article on the implicit association test:
https://www.thecut.com/2017/01/psychologys-racism-measuring-tool-isnt-up-to-the-job.html 

Jesse on the contact hypothesis:
https://www.thecut.com/2017/02/the-contact-hypothesis-offers-hope-for-the-world.html 

The Robin DiAngelo episode:
https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/17 

The Robin DiAngelo bonus episode, which is an interview between Katie and a survivor of one of these trainings:
https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/bonus2 

Kelefa Sanneh on This American Life on diversity trainings:
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/648/unteachable-moment 

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Soul too dead to provide any notes for this one tbh (plus we have notes for the episode we're discussing here).

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After Jesse makes a shocking announcement (he's leaving the podcast in pursuit of greater glory), the hosts talk about a spate of bad GOP bills seeking to ban puberty blockers and hormones for minors and how difficult it is to communicate accurate, honest information to the public about this subject. Then they discuss a story Jesse wrote for Reason about a particularly crazy campus blowup in which a bunch of innocent white people were traumatized (physically) by disagreement.

Jesse explaining why he is against these bills: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/why-the-hard-age-caps-on-youth-gender 

Jesse annoyed at conservatives 180ing his work: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/conservatives-are-lying-about-what 

Lupron: https://www.ktnv.com/news/investigations/more-women-come-forward-with-complaints-about-lupron-side-effects

Reason story: https://reason.com/2021/04/05/a-professor-pushed-back-against-white-fragility-training-the-college-investigated-her-for-9-months/ 

FIRE: http://thefire.org/

Jeffrey Sachs is good on campus free speech... https://twitter.com/JeffreyASachs

...and was recently on The Fifth Column: https://shows.acast.com/wethefifth/episodes/229-w-jeffrey-sachs-how-to-be-a-dictator-anti-woke-hypocrisy 

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After Katie provides an update about her elderly Trump-and-guns-loving neighbor, the hosts discuss a canine controversy Andrew Yang got himself into that features some of the very most annoying people on Twitter. Then they talk about Facebook's efforts to censor a news article about a Black Lives Matter cofounder's real estate holdings. The back half of the episode is dedicated to Lindsay Ellis's recent social-justice troubles, which, if you squint, are really stupid.

Show notes/Links:

The controversy that will forever haunt Yang: https://people.com/pets/andrew-yang-defends-giving-up-dog-after-backlash-national-pet-day-post/ 

NY Post article on Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ real estate purchases: https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-real-estate-buying-binge/ 

Fox News on the censorship: https://www.foxnews.com/media/facebook-bans-sharing-new-york-post-report-blm-co-founder-home-purchases 

Lindsay Ellis's cancel culture video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7aWz8q_IM4 

Ellis v. MovieBob -- lotsa gaslighting and such: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/lindsay-ellis-moviebob-snub 

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Richard Dawkins did an oppression with his tweets -- what should be done??? Also, new research suggests, shockingly, that making each and every issue about race 100% of the time might have some drawbacks. These issues and more, discussed thoroughly and vigorously.

Jesse's Book "The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills": https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Fix-Psychology-Cant-Social/dp/0374239800/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= 

Show notes/links:

Richard Dawkins is no longer 1996 Humanist of the Year: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/20/richard-dawkins-loses-humanist-of-the-year-trans-comments 

If you talk about transracialism, you're gonna have a bad time: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/transracialism-article-controversy.html 

The Yalies' paper on racial messaging and progressive policies: https://osf.io/tdkf3/ 

Jesse's paid post on The Daily Beast's ridiculous coverage of the killing of Ma’khia Bryant: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-daily-beasts-coverage-of-the 

Jesse's mad about this stuff on Twitter too: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1386347467491454985 

Washington Post police shootings database: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/ 

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No show notes this week.

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=sydney-altman&pid=198401366&fhid=5816 

https://donate.adaa.org/give/322300/#!/donation/checkout 

 https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=edith-singal-katz&pid=198433772 

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Jesse has a new best friend and wants to shout his name to the rooftops. Also, Jesse is not-mad-per-se-but-rather-disappointed at Chase Strangio and would like to talk to him on the pod. Then, the thick-cut tender medium-rare meat of the show: At the University of Washington, a controversy over racism. And at Basecamp, a… controversy over racism. Never let it be said that this show does not range widely.

Chase Strangi-No!: https://www.gq.com/story/chase-strangio-on-anti-trans-laws

Jesse Mad Online once again: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1390019758595117061

This cartoon is like something out of Der Stürmer: https://www.dailyuw.com/cartoons/article_dba3d6da-a640-11eb-a8bc-fb9f1a0fa058.html

As is this one: https://preview.redd.it/yvd4q5t2ozv61.png?width=630&format=png&auto=webp&s=a90dfd1f3c40f2ead992a6a457b65913ace3b830

The newspaper apologizes: https://www.dailyuw.com/opinion/article_fbe3722a-a901-11eb-9b60-bfd0ee0e37e4.html

(If you want to send the artist behind both cartoons a supportive note — and of course we will not be including this in the public version of the show notes — he is at elijahpasco@gmail.com, which we got via his website: https://elijahnpasco.com/contact-1)

The legend of Eggman7698: https://www.reddit.com/r/udub/comments/n5zavx/me_when_we_go_back_to_campus_next_fall_quarter/ 

Literary Editor Resigns After Bathing on Zoom in a Mesh Shirt: https://www.vulture.com/2021/04/joshua-wolf-shenk-resigns-after-bath-on-zoom-in-mesh-shirt.html

Basecamp: https://www.platformer.news/p/-how-basecamp-blew-up

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After a heated debate over Slack and hummus/Hamas, Jesse and Katie announce a repivoting of the podcast. Then they discuss a gas shortage that almost stranded Katie in an unmentionable hellhole and the careful, measured, polite reaction to a column by the incorrigible Liz Bruenig, who had the temerity to argue, grossly, that she loves her kids and is glad to be a mom.

Show notes/Links:

International Hamas day: https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/1392901563207897101?s=20

On the pipeline hack: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/a-closer-look-at-the-darkside-ransomware-gang/

Subpar reporting on it: https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1392108492773810176

Fact-checking the bag thing: https://nbc-2.com/news/2021/05/12/fact-check-viral-twitter-photo-of-plastic-bags-full-of-gas-was-taken-in-2019/

Bruenig's hate-crime of a column: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/motherhood-baby-bust-early-parenthood.html

Everyone is completely out of their goddamn minds:

https://twitter.com/aurabogado/status/1391816713008607235 

https://twitter.com/amandamarcotte/status/1391353803174199299

https://twitter.com/amandamarcotte/status/1391354461566685186 

https://mobile.twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1391382397585928192 

https://mobile.twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1391457783506259969

https://mobile.twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1391459272261779458

https://mobile.twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1391540579197235201

FdB is correct: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/all-this-s**t-is-high-school

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Katie has big news about her faith. After she delivers it, the hosts discuss a pair of media controversies involving Nikole Hannah-Jones and Emily Wilder. Also: Is Kamala Harris Asian? An investigation.

Show notes/Links:

NC Policy Watch on NHJ: http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2021/05/19/pw-special-report-after-conservative-criticism-unc-backs-down-from-offering-acclaimed-journalist-a-tenured-position/ 

Washington Post on Emily Wilder: https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2021/05/20/emily-wilder-associated-press-palestine/https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2021/05/20/emily-wilder-associated-press-palestine/ 

SFGate interview with her: https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Emily-Wilder-Associated-Press-Israel-Palestine-AP-16192391.php 

Politico on Kamala Harris's Asianinity: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/18/kamala-harris-asian-americans-489213 

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After Jesse discusses his imminent Upstate death, the hosts turn toward a 60 Minutes segment on detransitioners and the rather unhinged response to it. Then they talk about the lab-leak hypothesis of the coronavirus’s origins, which may have been preemptively debunked by overeager journalists seeking to protect us all from racism and Trumpism.

60 Minutes segment: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/transgender-health-care-60-minutes-video-2021-05-23/#x

More background on it:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-transgender-health-care-issues-2021-05-23/

GLAAD freaks out: https://twitter.com/glaad/status/1396665047645138945

Chase Strangio also unhappy: https://twitter.com/chasestrangio/status/1396828255639019524

Jack Turban stuff:

-he wanted to know where 60 Minutes found its sources: https://twitter.com/jack_turban/status/1396992770733056001

-Turban’s Pediatrics study correlating desire/receipt of puberty blockers with suicidality:
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/145/2/e20191725

“After adjustment for demographic variables and level of family support for gender identity, those who received treatment with pubertal suppression, when compared with those who wanted pubertal suppression but did not receive it, had lower odds of lifetime suicidal ideation,” but when it came to all the other variables examined in this model — “past-year suicidality, ... past-month severe psychological distress, past-month binge drinking, and lifetime illicit drug use” — the link was statistically insignificant.

In the episode Jesse slightly misdescribes this finding, making it sound like the researchers found a link between puberty-blocker access in this group and their general mental health. That link was non-significant, though. The significant link was between puberty-blocker access and lifetime (but not past-year) suicidality. This doesn’t affect Jesse’s argument that one could just as easily look at this data and conclude that some of these cases are explained by clinicians being unwilling to put actively suicidal kids on puberty blockers. There are plenty of other potential explanations, too — zeroing in on one particular causal story (in this case, the kids became suicidal because they couldn’t access hormones) is a common and well-known error when interpreting this sort of correlational finding.

From On The Media:

Transcript: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/trans-formations-on-the-media

“There are a set of criteria that an adolescent needs to meet and they need to have this diagnosis of gender dysphoria. And that diagnosis requires identifying as a gender different than your sex assigned at birth for at least six months. Many clinics will, on top of that diagnosis, require much more assessment and evaluation before they'll offer any kind of medical interventions. Once kids reach, usually age 16, but in certain clear cases age 14, they might start estrogen or testosterone. General surgery is not offered until adulthood. Often these things are all conflated. You'll hear things like seven year olds having genital surgery or little little kids being given estrogen, but that's not how it works.”

One example of many of the surgery claim being false: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29507933/

And we have numerous examples of kids being given blockers and hormones on a far hastier timeline than what Turban lays out here. There is no mention of providers who don’t follow the proper guidelines. That said, Turban is correct that some clinics go too far in the other direction.

“There are a very small number of people who do regret the interventions, but from all the research we have so far, this seems to be on the order of like less than 1 percent.”

There does not appear to be a single study published by an American affirming clinic on regret rates. This isn’t nitpicking, because there has been a genuine revolution in youth transgender care in recent years that is a major shift away from ‘gatekeeping.’ So past studies on regret rates, whether youth or adult contexts, simply can’t tell us much about how to gauge the performance of contemporary American gender-affirming providers.

There’s at least some evidence, from one very-well-known affirming clinic, of a high lost-to-followup rate — above 40% — which offers circumstantial evidence of kids discontinuing their hormonal treatment: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29056436/

That said, it’s also possible they continued treatment elsewhere, or that some other explanation can account for this. Either way, a lost-to-followup rate of 40% is quite high and might be a warning sign.

-Turban has exhibited basic unfamiliarity with the DSM-IV versus -5 criteria for gender dysphoria, as he subsequently seemed to acknowledge by correcting one of his articles: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1341502177920073731

Lab leak hypothesis:

Long NY Mag piece: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html

Chait: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/05/lab-leak-liberal-media-theory-china-wuhan-lab-cotton-trump.html

Very in-depth forensic account from Yglesias of who said what when:

https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-medias-lab-leak-fiasco

NPR declares the theory ‘debunked’ more than a year ago: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/22/841925672/scientists-debunk-lab-accident-theory-of-pandemic-emergence

Slate: https://slate.com/technology/2020/02/coronavirus-bioweapon-conspiracy-theories.html

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Self-explanatory! Enjoy. Lotsa links below about Ben's work and the stuff discussed in this interview. We'll be back with a new K+J episode soon.

-latest book, Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique Of The Contemporary Left: https://www.amazon.com/Canceling-Comedians-While-World-Burns/dp/1789045479

-Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenBurgis

-YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCByZMNYpHFEetI0s3deYH2g

-Bernie Sanders’ unreasonably Vermontian demands: https://nypost.com/2021/05/27/book-reveals-bernies-hotel-demands-king-size-beds-and-60-degree-rooms/

-Bernie Sanders criticized for ‘touting’ Rogan clip: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/24/politics/bernie-sanders-joe-rogan-endorsement/index.html

-Ben Burgis and Michael Brooks on why Rogan’s endorsement was good: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/01/its-good-that-joe-rogan-endorsed-bernie-now-we-have-to-organize

-Tom Cotton column: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html

-National Guard deployment to Kenosha:

https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/national-guard-ends-deployment-to-kenosha/article_61a44f06-43cd-5db8-992f-23f1bcbb5188.html

-$1-2b in damage from the George Floyd riots:
https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a455-4067-b06a-66f9db4cea9c.html

-attacks on federal courthouse in Portland:
https://ktvz.com/news/crime-courts/2020/07/24/fires-set-inside-portland-federal-courthouse-fence-18-arrested-on-federal-charges/

-Matt Taibbi’s book Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another:
https://www.amazon.com/Hate-Inc-Todays-Despise-Another/dp/1949017257

-Ben Burgis/Jacobin Bestner article on ‘insurrection’:
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/trump-capitol-riot-fascist-coup-attempt?fbclid=IwAR1CVU3AKhMhXufL6OfwDiu_UEIFcghIZ0osMlS-uFST8rmdT7dQ9w69vVU

-2019 DSA convention ‘highlights’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHRxu3XrsHg&ab_channel=Mitchollow

-JFC, tankies: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tankie 

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Katie regales Jesse with some Pride history. Then Jesse talks about why he came back to Twitter and why he immediately left again. The, in the meat of the show, Katie interviews one of the more interesting people you'll ever learn about. Is Andy Ngo absent from this show? Ngo way. Not by a lNgong shot.

Show notes/Links: 

Colonialism and the Holocaust: continuities, causations, and complexities (Jesse's post-Twitter palate-cleanser): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14623528.2013.821229?journalCode=cjgr20 

Robby Soave's debunking of a dumb Ngo rumor: https://reason.com/2019/09/03/andy-ngo-video-antifa-patriot-prayer-attack-media/ 

Ngo's statement: https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1400266501601513475 

White people accosting Asians who they think look like Andy Ngo, for antiracism: https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1282899087134584832

https://www.wweek.com/news/2021/05/29/portland-protesters-chase-tackle-and-punch-someone-they-believe-to-be-andy-ngo-until-he-hides-in-the-nines-hotel/ 

Yaseen stuff:

His extended book review of Ngo's book on The Motte: https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/nox63f/book_review_unmasked_andy_ngo/

The Bailey podcast: https://soundcloud.com/thebaileypodcast 

Profile of the PSJBGC where they interview members about Will: https://news.wfsu.org/all-npr-news/2020-07-23/i-am-antifa-one-activists-violent-death-became-a-symbol-for-the-right-and-left

Portland 2017 Train trial: https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/02/jeremy-christian-guilty-on-all-counts-in-max-stabbings-trial.html

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Katie (white) and Jesse (white) talk about the perils of Whiteness, a situation in which one's soul is colonized by a mayonnaise-devouring demon who makes you hate other races and ask your neighbors to turn the radio down. They also talk about the ACLU and (more importantly) Harambe.

Show notes/Links:

Katie and her wife own real goats now: https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1402012125845889024 

Katie on the Yale speaker who wants to murder white people: https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-psychopathic-problem-of-the-white

"On Having Whiteness": https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34039063/ 

The scary event that launched Harambe to posthumous stardom: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/30/us/gorilla-killed-after-child-enters-enclosure-at-cincinnati-zoo.html 

NY Mag and Vox run down the meaning of the meme:

https://www.vox.com/2016/8/17/12457468/harambe-meme-social-commentary-explained 

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/07/harambe-forever.html 

Oral history of Weird Twitter:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jwherrman/weird-twitter-the-oral-history

More on harambe: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1259654-harambe-the-gorilla

Our call for memes produced some good ones: https://twitter.com/TheBARPod/status/1402715518109372426 

Run Run Harambe: https://soundcloud.com/markcrozier/run-run-harambe?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=1&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Top 20 Political Assassinations of the 20th Century: https://twitter.com/basementpoli/status/1402715854731632643/photo/1

“This is the photo of Harambe the Cincinnati Zoo doesn’t want you to see”: https://twitter.com/metalg33k/status/1402721720419618820

Michael Powell on the ACLU in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html

Responses to that piece:

https://newrepublic.com/article/162674/new-york-times-aclu-free-speech-culture-war

https://twitter.com/gingi0/status/1402304533569708039?s=20

https://twitter.com/carltakei/status/1401655639114489859?s=20

https://twitter.com/DavidColeACLU/status/1402245242636718083?s=20

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After Jesse offers a mass amnesty to the individuals he wrongly (?) blocked, Katie, in a surprising move, comes out in favor of murdering adorable innocent puppies with big watery eyes. Then, as part of the podcast's seemingly bottomless obsession with drama surrounding Nigerian novelists, the hosts discuss Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's viral essay about how horrible Online is and debate whether it's okay to attack her with machetes.

(UPDATE: This essay provides a lot of background on Akwaeke Emezi and I'm annoyed we missed it while prepping this episode. We'll talk about it one way or another, either by updating this episode or in the next one. The short version is that Akwaeke had their uterus removed because they believed themself to be possessed by an evil spirit: https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/writer-and-artist-akwaeke-emezi-gender-transition-and-ogbanje.html -Jesse )

Show notes/Links:

Slate article on behavioral euthanasia: https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/06/dog-bite-training-behavioral-euthanasia.html

Glenn is being mean: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1404194591117557763 

CNA says trans women are trans women: https://www.channel4.com/news/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-on-feminism 

CNA's sorta-apology: https://www.facebook.com/chimamandaadichie/photos/a.469824145943.278768.40389960943/10154893542340944/?type=3&theater

Transracialism: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/transracialism-article-controversy.html 

MACHETES: https://twitter.com/azemezi/status/1346268453221658624 

CNA's viral essay: https://www.chimamanda.com/

Oh God a Vox take on it: https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/3/15/14910900/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-transgender-women-comments-apology

What literally even is a woman anyway: https://twitter.com/graceelavery/status/1405661319903289344 

Akwaeke Emezi's creepy response: https://twitter.com/ItsLithaAfter9/status/1405030628978999299 

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After Katie describes how she and Jesse had their First Amendment rights literally murdered by an NYC venue and Jesse provides a weird update to last week's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie/Akwaeke Emezi episode, the hosts talk about some reparations-related drama at Seattle's Pride and "Code Switch"'s strange decision to join the pileon against Majdi Wadi, a Palestinian-American businessman who did nothing wrong.

Show notes/Links:

-when the government literally arrested everyone associated with Blocked and Reported: https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1406043541525073920

-Emezi on her transition: https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/writer-and-artist-akwaeke-emezi-gender-transition-and-ogbanje.html

-Are Twitter trolls mentally ill?: https://unherd.com/2021/06/are-twitter-trolls-mentally-ill/ 

-Taking Black Pride: https://www.seattlepride.org/events/taking-black-pride

-Seattle HRC responds:

https://twitter.com/SeattleHRC/status/1405767042330812419

https://twitter.com/SeattleHRC/status/1405767189634818048

-Lorena González drops out: https://twitter.com/MLorenaGonzalez/status/1405968795567497219

https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2021/06/after-complaint-against-black-pride-events-reparations-fee-wave-of-cancellations-hit-tiny-capitol-hill-prides-big-plans-for-in-person-festival/

-affirmative action bake sales: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/05/03/40096408/uw-college-republican-affirmative-action-bake-sale-draws-resistance-and-controversy

-BARPod patrons-only episode on Holy Land Brand/Majdi Wadi: https://www.patreon.com/posts/destroying-small-38100907 

-“Code Switch” on same: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/892974522

-Bari Weiss on same, via her new podcast “Honestly”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/americas-cultural-revolution/id1570872415?i=1000524764029 

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After Katie and Jesse discuss their July 4th plans, the hosts talk about Nikole Hannah-Jones winning her tenure battle, Barclays' cringeworthy contribution to Pride discourse, and the complicated tale of the publishing and unpublishing and re-publishing of "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter," aka "Helicopter Story."

Show notes/Links:

Nikole Hannah-Jones stuff:

https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2021/06/university-nhj-tenure-decision

https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2021/06/nikole-hannah-jones-will-not-accept-position-without-tenure

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/30/1011880598/after-contentious-debate-unc-grants-tenure-to-nikole-hannah-jones

https://www.naacpldf.org/press-release/nikole-hannah-jones-issues-statement-on-unc-board-of-trustees-vote/

https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1410326615876378626?s=20

Slate advice columns:

-Racist white son wants to learn Spanish: https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/06/maximizing-sleep-with-infants-parenting-advice-from-care-and-feeding.html

Straight woman in a Classic Millennial Sex Pickle: https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/01/straight-woman-dating-on-grindr.html

Katie's response: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/01/30/42716089/do-straight-women-belong-on-gay-datings-apps-no 

Note back to Katie: “Hey! I'm the odious Slate letter writer you covered in this piece - https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/01/30/42716089/do-straight-women-belong-on-gay-datings-apps-no. Just wanted to say that your take was 100% accurate--I was being very shitty and very dumb. Should have accepted being straight and worked on my own gender-role-angst instead of trying to drag queer people into my b******t a LOT earlier in my life, good lord. Anyway! Belated thanks for the wakeup call, and sorry I'm opting for the anonymous-reddit means of contacting you, like a coward - just going this route because I am, in fact, a coward.”

More classic Slate advice columns:

https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/09/child-sociopath-counseling-care-and-feeding.html

“We live in a very multicultural and socioeconomically diverse area in South Florida. We are white, and both my husband and I are well-off professionals. Our 4½-year-old daughter has grown up socializing with all types of children and has a close friend who is black and one who is Brazilian. …”

https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/06/colorblind-parenting-race-care-and-feeding.html

My family is white, and we live in a predominately white neighborhood. However, our kids (twin boys) went to a local public charter elementary and middle school that was very diverse. When it was time for high school, our twins were lucky enough to have their closest friends from elementary and middle school attend the same school. Each of the boys had a diverse group of friends, and they were taken aback, as freshmen in high school, by the way other kids sat at tables in same-race clusters. The kids who’d gone to our (small) middle school, where tables were assigned by grade, continued to hang out at lunch together as a mixed group.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/10/kid-police-obsession-care-and-feeding.html

“My lovely, outgoing son is 5 years old. For the past year or so, he has been absolutely obsessed with police officers. He loves their uniforms, cars, and dogs. He tells everyone he wants to be a policeman when he grows up, and whenever he sees a police officer, he runs up to them and says hi. In our overwhelmingly white suburb, this is always well received; cops are usually idle and don’t mind letting him touch their cars or look at their outfits…”

https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/01/cop-brother-friends-harass-about-police-brutality-dear-prudence-advice.html

Q. My brother, a police officer, is getting blacklisted by my friends: My brother (he’s older by two years) is a police officer. This was his childhood dream, and he’s dedicated his entire life to making it happen. Prudie, he’s wonderful. He leads his department’s restorative justice seminars, he was fighting for anti-bias training three years ago before it was widespread, and he spends much of his free time at the local rec center mentoring at-risk youth.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/06/kimono-cultural-appropriation-care-and-feeding.html

“My husband’s closest friend from childhood is Japanese American, and although he moved back to Japan after college, they are still very close. He’s our daughters’ godfather, and they think of him and his wife as another uncle and aunt (we’re also called “Uncle” and “Auntie” by his kids). For our daughter’s fifth birthday, they sent her a sweet gift of a box full of Japanese candies, a stuffed toy, and a kimono in her size. It’s absolutely gorgeous, but I’m hesitant to let her wear it, as much as she’s begged us to let her dress up and show it to her friends. I know how big of an issue cultural appropriation is, and I don’t want to let her think that somebody else’s culture is a costume. She has a lot of anti-racist children’s books, and books about kids from other cultures celebrating holidays and traditions, and this could be a great way for us to talk about the problem of white people appropriating other cultures and using them as costumes—but also, our friends have been asking us if she liked her kimono, and I don’t know what to tell them! I will confess: I don’t want to be thought of as another insensitive white lady who lets her kids “dress up” as stereotypes of other cultures, and that may be part of what’s holding me back from letting her wear it, so I think an outside perspective might help. What should I do—let her wear it, or talk to her about why she can’t?”

https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/05/masculinity-incel-crisis-care-and-feeding.html

My son is 14, and he’s coping with identity issues that I could really use some advice about. Last night, he was complaining about English class. “All we talk about is stuff like, I dunno. How women are so great and can defend themselves and s**t.” Alarm bells, right? I probed a little, and he started getting upset. He talked about the girls in his class being aggressive towards the boys, accusing them of … he wasn’t sure what. Mumbled a few things about sexism, the patriarchy. “You know, this whole ‘kill all men’ thing.’” And with that, he burst into tears. “I’m white—I’m male—and I’m probably straight!” he sobbed (at 14, he maintains that the jury is still out on that last one). “It’s like, I can’t say anything! And the girls, they can say anything they like!” Of course, we talked about those girls being out of line, but also about how real sexism is—that he can be proud of who he is and support feminism (and Black Lives Matter, and LGBTQ rights, etc.) at the same time. And ignore purposefully provocative stuff like #killallmen.

Still, I’m concerned. My feeling is that he’s pretty well inoculated against racist and homophobic propaganda. But clearly, he’s struggling with his masculinity. I really worry that he might stumble across a few clever Jordan Peterson videos and end up falling down some nasty male-power incel rabbit hole … Do you have any advice as to how to deal with this? In particular, do you know of any good age-appropriate books or podcasts or shows or whatever that deal with these topics—especially the “crisis of masculinity”—in a sensitive way? A way that’s in sync with feminist values?”

When Savage love and Dear Prudie got the same question and gave opposite advice:

https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/03/husband-sexting-cousin-dear-prudence-advice.html

https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/savage-love-devastation/Content?oid=26562553

Back when Prudie was good:

https://slate.com/human-interest/2012/07/dear-prudie-is-drunken-sex-with-my-husband-a-form-of-abuse.html

Barclays:

https://www.barclays.co.uk/diversity/?linkId=100000052339480

-“Barclays agreed Thursday to pay the United States $2 billion for allegedly deceiving investors about the quality of mortgage deals that fueled the 2008 financial crisis.”: https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/29/investing/barclays-mortgage-settlement/index.html 

-A thread from the BARPod subreddit supporting Katie's Lesbian Extinction Theory (LET): https://np.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/ob7ckj/im_a_lesbian_and_just_found_out_yet_another_one 

Isabel Fall / “I Sexually Identify As An Attack Helicopter”:

-The story itself: https://archive.is/oXDEt#selection-483.0-483.43 

-Jesse's rundown: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-deeply-depressing-unpublishing 

-Vox: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22543858/isabel-fall-attack-helicopter

-N.K. Jemison was glad that the harmful story she didn't read was taken down: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1410589280033021956 

-Contrapoints: “Just because you were hurt by content I made doesn't mean that that content is bad, or that I’m victimizing you in some way.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjMPJVmXxV8&ab_channel=ContraPoints

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After the hosts discuss a controversy involving a less-than-affirming puppet show, Greg Lukianoff joins them to talk about the anti-critical-race-theory laws being proposed all over the country, some of which he says represent the greatest threat to academic freedom he's seen in his 20-year career.

Show notes/Links:

Barnaby Dixon bio: https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Barnabydixon 

His YouTube work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZWbpwCbxfY&ab_channel=barnabydixon

Philip the Philosofish interviews Sasha Ayad: https://youtu.be/Uvqg5wBOrqM

More info on Ayad: https://inspiredteentherapy.com/ 

"Responding to Criticism": https://youtu.be/5yQ8XYvA2Q4

No, desistance has not been 'debunked' (Jesse's newsletter): https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/how-science-vs-accidentally-invented 

13 important points in the campus & K-12 ‘critical race theory’ debate: https://www.thefire.org/13-important-points-in-the-campus-k-12-critical-race-theory-debate/ 

Salon is crazy: https://www.salon.com/2021/06/23/desantis-signs-bill-requiring-florida-students-professors-to-register-political-views-with-state/ 

Chris Rufo on The Fifth Column: https://shows.acast.com/wethefifth/episodes/322-w-chris-rufo-banning-critical-race-theory-robin-diangelo 

Kmele Foster of The Fifth Column teams up with ideological friends and foes alike to oppose the bills in The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/05/opinion/we-disagree-on-a-lot-of-things-except-the-danger-of-anti-critical-race-theory-laws.html 

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Jesse regales Katie with tales of meeting Joe Rogan, not meeting Alex Jones, and being scared of guns (while shooting them). Then Katie provides an antiracist monkey-removal update, Jesse tells Katie about the Rachel Nichols incident at ESPN, and Katie more than returns the favor with a deep dive into the drama tearing at the very stitchwork of Lolita YouTube, which probably isn't what you think it is.

Show notes/Links:

-Jesse on Rogan: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6iNgd3IPIK0OEXfyEQqZA8?si=f552ab61f07f4222&nd=1 

-"Dead-enders" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QxtzW_e9vk&t=62s&ab_channel=PowerfulJRE

-Alex Jones is goddamn insane: https://www.newsweek.com/alex-jones-joe-rogan-war-meltdown-conspiracy-theory-baby-organs-harvested-1347887 

-Planned Parenthood fetal tissue harvesting conspiracy theory: https://www.factcheck.org/2015/07/unspinning-the-planned-parenthood-video/ 

-And from PPFA itself: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/fd/de/fddee2ba-5ae1-4a89-9c4f-7e72c8a4db02/210218-fact-sheet-cmp-fetal-tissue-backgrounder-prod.pdf 

-Ralph Northam conspiracy theory: https://www.vox.com/2019/2/1/18205428/virginia-abortion-bill-kathy-tran-ralph-northam 

-Our last episode on those Seattle monkeys: https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/39 

-Rachel Nichols situation: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/04/sports/basketball/espn-rachel-nichols-maria-taylor.html 

-Intro to lolita: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7V3CVEa80E&ab_channel=LovelyLor

-Good explainer from reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/dn69f5/lolita_fashion_how_to_mistake_a_1500_dress_for_a/

-Rundown of the two main characters: https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/jfcm7p/hobby_scuffles_week_of_october_19_2020/g9tq2p8/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 

-Lovely Lor's full apology video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzabyBy3dQ&ab_channel=LovelyLor

-Origins of Harlem shake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdXdehsdO_o&ab_channel=BadBoyEntertainment

-Viral dance thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f7wj_RcqYk&ab_channel=GoodClipsDaily

Tyler Willis's no-holds-barred reaction video to the Lovely Lor controvery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qmCgf12s9A&ab_channel=TylerWillis

-Possible motive: https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/jfcm7p/hobby_scuffles_week_of_october_19_2020/g9tq2p8/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

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The hosts issue a major boob-related correction, talk about TikTok influencers who (appear to) have dissociative identity disorder, and discuss the recent meltdown of a site that (claims that it) is "science-based." Plus: Some other, often-cringeworthy recent skepticism/atheism history, including Elevatorgate (tm).

Maria Taylor out: https://www.si.com/media/2021/07/21/maria-taylor-espn-split-nbc-likely-next

Scott Lilienfeld and Hal Arkowitz, a bit skeptical of Dissociative Identity Disorder in Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-people-have-multiple-personalities/

Input on the DID subculture on TikTok: https://www.inputmag.com/culture/dissociative-identity-disorder-did-tiktok-influencers-multiple-personalities 

@theasystem and @systemspouse:

https://www.tiktok.com/@theasystem/video/6987819970646265094

https://www.tiktok.com/@systemspouse/video/6987084259601157382

https://www.tiktok.com/@systemspouse/video/6985581388808473862

One of the stranger subreddits you'll see: https://www.reddit.com/r/DIDCringe/

Science-Based Medicine's very bad and error-riddled coverage of Irreversible Damage:

Novella and Gorski: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-science-of-transgender-treatment/ 

Lovell: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/abigail-shriers-irreversible-damage-a-wealth-of-irreversible-misinformation/ 

Eckert: 

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/irreversible-damage-to-the-trans-community-a-critical-review-of-abigail-shriers-book-irreversible-damage-part-one/ 

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/irreversible-damage-to-the-trans-community-a-critical-review-of-abigail-shriers-book-irreversible-damage-the-transgender-craze-seducing-our-daughters-part-two/ 

Jesse's responses:

https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/how-science-based-medicine-botched 

https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/science-based-medicines-coverage 

Leaked email about Jesse that treats Gorcenski and James as credible sources: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1412511853067051010 

Gorcenski: "If you wonder if there's anyone who I dislike more than the Nazis who assaulted me and nearly killed me, there is at least one person and his name is Jesse Singal."

https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9eed6bf4-fa8c-4802-80ea-282818a0b26d_952x419.png 

Jesse on Gorcenski: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/a-sorta-quick-response-to-the-errors 

Some background on Andrea James: http://alicedreger.com/in_fear 

Longer but free, and tells the whole story: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170124/ 

Rebecca Watson Wikipedia page with some information on Elevatorgate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Watson 

Her account of what happened:
https://slate.com/human-interest/2012/10/sexism-in-the-skeptic-community-i-spoke-out-then-came-the-rape-threats.html 

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After Katie tells Jesse about a very problematic alter, the hosts respond to an email from a young journalist who feels trapped by the would-be revolutionaries in her newsroom, discuss NPR's new policy regarding expressions of political beliefs, and talk about a memorable blowup in the world of TV writing. Plus: more personals.

Show notes/Links:

Beware The Likes Police: https://theoutline.com/post/6708/marc-andreessen-twitter-faves-alt-right 

New NPR policy: https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2021/07/29/1021802098/new-npr-ethics-policy-its-ok-for-journalists-to-demonstrate-sometimes

Nadria Tucker's firing: https://twitter.com/NadriaTucker/status/1324718215629467649

HuffPo's coverage: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nadria-tucker-cw-superman-and-lois-hollywood-toxicity_n_603d5eb8c5b6ff75ac3ea433

TV types respond:

https://twitter.com/brianscully/status/1419763285491019777

https://twitter.com/jillybobww/status/1419834042287984644

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After the hosts discuss Katie's recent nonconsensual conversion to Judaism, they bring on Carole Hooven to discuss the deep, potentially permanent damage she has done to Harvard University's Department of Human Evolutionary Biology by suggesting males can't get pregnant. 

Show notes/Links:

Serious allegations against Katie: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1422977840157532160 

Carole's book, "T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us" -  https://www.amazon.com/Story-Testosterone-Hormone-Dominates-Divides/dp/1250236061#:~:text=T%3A%20The%20Story%20of%20Testosterone,9781250236067%3A%20Amazon.com%3A%20Books 

Carole on Rogan: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6aMsWsbPNlnipKF5w48fp2 

Her recklessly violent call for discourse: https://twitter.com/hoovlet/status/1421149204018307072 

Daily Mail coverage: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9845639/Harvard-evolutionary-biology-prof-blasted-diversity-chief-dismissing-term-pregnant-people.html 

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Hey guys -- it's me. Jesse. (Singal.)

I think I instigated some confusion this week. My thought process was Well, this isn't a new episode to patrons, so I'm not going to drop it in the premium feed. Then a lot of people were confused as to why they weren't seeing a new episode this week, and I couldn't tell whether there was a genuine technical issue or people were responding to not seeing an episode in their premium feeds. I remain confused -- even more so than usual. 

ANYWAY. Here's this week's episode. It's a rerun. I probably should have just stuck it in here to keep everything simple and clear and continuous. Sorry to pop into your feeds without a new episode, but you guys will have both a new early free episode and a new premium one by late Friday or Saturday, so hang in there!

The show itself:

 Katie and Jesse discuss Katie's mushroom hunting, the downfall of @piney_the (the latest -- and most hilariously incompetent -- Twitter account run by a white person pretending to be a person of color), and Rain Dove, the nonbinary model, activist, and Instagram celebrity who appears to make a lot of stuff up. (Original published October 5, 2020 for our premium subscribers.)

Show notes/Links:

Rundown of @piney_the tweets, evidence, etc.: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DKW-7LnY62mrCefWWJl4i8sofAop6zYidf0iXwPMN84/edit 

Evidence thread on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drama_science/status/1310688504876273664 

NBC: Rain Dove admits to selling TMZ incriminating Asia Argento texts - https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/rain-dove-admits-selling-tmz-incriminating-asia-argento-texts-n1103466](https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/rain-dove-admits-selling-tmz-incriminating-asia-argento-texts-n1103466 

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After Katie tells Jesse about her extremely traumatic 'vacation,' the hosts discuss a journalistically half-baked article about the Broadway star Alice Ripley and Jesse interviews Ethan Strauss on how the Great Awokening has washed over sports, producing some questionable journalism and cringeworthy ads. (Apologies to patrons that we couldn't get this to you as early as usual -- it was just a matter of not posting Ethan's announcement too early.)

Show notes/Links:

Katie's vacation: https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1427026657903214592 

Original 'grooming' allegation: https://www.tiktok.com/@lovelyleobrie/video/6995546733497306373?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1 

The Daily Beast's coverage: https://www.thedailybeast.com/4-accusers-speak-out-about-how-broadway-star-alice-ripley-traumatized-her-young-fans 

Kevin Durant does not like Ethan Strauss: https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/kevin-durant-accused-reporter-trying-rile-steph-curry-fans 

House of Strauss: https://houseofstrauss.substack.com/ 

Nike ad that ended the patriarchy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP9Zd_LUp1Y&t=4s&ab_channel=%E5%8C%97%E6%BC%82%E7%BB%93%E6%9D%9F%E7%9A%84%E5%85%AD%E7%BA%BF%E5%B0%8F%E9%95%87%E9%9D%92%E5%B9%B4 

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After Katie and Jesse follow up on some stuff from last week, the hosts discuss a video game controversy involving anthropomorphic weapons, and Katie interviews Meghan Murphy, who has been banned from major platforms for saying things like "men cannot become women."

Show notes/Links:

Jesse on the Junot Diaz situation:
https://reason.com/2018/07/09/for-metoo-to-work-we-must-draw-the-line/

Trailer for Boyfriend Dungeon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu9BXqm3eKI&ab_channel=Nintendo

The Daily Dot’s coverage:
https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/boyfriend-dungeon-kitfox-games-content-warning/

Kotaku Australia article running down the original complaint:
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2021/08/boyfriend-dungeon-consent-discourse/

Voice actor harassment:
https://screenrant.com/boyfriend-dungeon-eric-voice-actor-harassed/

Tyler, the Creator on cyberbullying:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tyler-the-creators-cyber-bullying-tweet 

Meghan Murphy on Joe Rogan: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6yc6AIMf3JqLWygLQJ4Wrg

More on her:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-48366184

Women-Only Rape-Relief Shelter Defunded, Then Vandalized:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/women-only-rape-relief-shelter-defunded-then-vandalized/

Meghan on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq-04S1vzWPy3G8omi0wVvA 

And Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/meghanmurphy 

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An urgent investigation.

Show notes/Links:

Ben Burgis: “He’s one the most consistently and maliciously dishonest writers alive.”: https://twitter.com/BenBurgis/status/1431686876541325314

More from Burgis: https://benburgis.medium.com/noah-berlatskys-critique-of-class-first-leftism-c9a738caf77a

Old version of Freddie deBoer's Planet of Cops essay, which linked to Berlatsky's work: http://climateerinvest.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-woke-world-is-world-of-snitches.html?m=1 

New version, which appears to have excised this reference: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/planet-of-cops 

Berlatsky: Katie Halper said we focus too much on anti-Semitism when discussing the Holocaust: https://www.patreon.com/posts/maybe-taking-of-13515855 

Carl Beijer on Berlatsky vs. Halper: https://www.carlbeijer.com/p/some-pretty-egregious-misrepresentation-from-noah-berlatsky

Berlatsky Berlastskying his review of "The Coddling Of The American Mind": https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1039654096515616768 

"Chattering Class War: Punching Pundits from Chait to Chapo and Brooks to Breitbart": https://www.amazon.com/Chattering-Class-War-Punching-Breitbart-ebook/dp/B079P8N8MF 

Berlatsky has stories about Jesse but no receipts: https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1085910748159565825 

* as of when we're posting this episode, his tweets are protected, so you may not be able to read them until he goes public again

All the kids are talking about is Jesse's Atlantic article: https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1281662776759537675?lang=en 

The (official) Jesse Singal Resource Page: https://www.patreon.com/posts/jesse-singal-20353892 

Negative coverage of Berlatsky and Prostasia: https://www.opindia.com/2021/08/meet-noah-berlatsky-prostasia-foundation-wonder-woman-rutgers-university-press-author-normalising-pedophilia/

https://4w.pub/prostasia-normalize-pedophilia/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Some of his Prostasia stuff:  https://prostasia.org/blog/author/noah/

https://prostasia.org/blog/the-science-behind-adolescent-autonomy/

"parents are tyrants": https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1338586940157927427?lang=en 

This American Life on virtuous pedophiles: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/522/tarred-and-feathered/act-two-0 

Jesse's coverage of pedophilia:

https://www.thecut.com/2017/02/salon-shouldnt-have-unpublished-its-pedophilia-article.html#_ga=2.73832657.2138172432.1630631362-1425867110.1621528509 

https://www.thecut.com/2016/09/britain-has-a-hotline-for-pedophiles.html#_ga=2.73832657.2138172432.1630631362-1425867110.1621528509 

Katie's:

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/07/20/29453977/online-support-groups-can-keep-pedophiles-from-offending-but-they-keep-getting-shut-down 

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/07/15/40768104/jeffrey-epstein-is-a-horrifying-person-but-that-doesnt-mean-hes-a-pedophile 

Canadian effort to get pedophiles help: https://talkingforchange.ca/ 

Same deal in Germany: https://undark.org/2021/06/07/radical-and-controversial-treatment-for-pedophilia/ 

MAP Support Club: https://prostasia.org/blog/an-introduction-to-map-support-club/

Only tangentially connected to PF: https://blog.mapsupport.club/msc/map-support-clubs-partnership-with-prostasia-foundation

Background on policy on minors: https://blog.mapsupport.club/msc/our-decision-to-instate-the-minors-channel-and-switch-out-dms-for-minors

Can maybe help with suicide: https://prostasia.org/blog/an-introduction-to-map-support-club/

About Minor Attraction: https://www.csaprimaryprevention.org/about-minor-attraction.html

Thomas Arthur:

https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/crime/thomas-arthur-terlingua-website-child-sexual-abuse/513-88345e1d-abb7-4e1e-8654-deddb9cf8af4

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/texas-man-sentenced-40-years-prison-running-child-obscenity-website

The criminal complaint: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6548074-Thomas-Alan-Arthur-Criminal-Complaint.html

Prostasia's statement about this whole thing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pYCRHMdbwsjMzEJCX0z2adAh4Lv9jOgDvj8jc9OJ6HY/edit

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Show notes/Links:

Jesse's review of Trans: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/books/review/trans-helen-joyce.html 

Wi spa incident: https://nypost.com/2021/09/02/charges-filed-against-sex-offender-in-wi-spa-casecharges-filed-against-sex-offender-in-notorious-wi-spa-incident/ 

Max Read on Gawker: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/08/did-i-kill-gawker.html 

Crackstarter: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/05/27/mayor_rob_ford_crack_video_scandal_gawkers_crackstarter_hits_200000_goal.html 

Random girl singing N-word: https://www.gawker.com/white-kid-caught-ecstatically-singing-nigga-by-coache-1697520011 

Bryan Goldberg buys Gawker: https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/gawker-acquired-bustle-bryan-goldberg-1202871999/ 

"The Relentless and Well-Deserved Mockery of Bryan Goldberg": https://www.gawker.com/the-relentless-and-well-deserved-mockery-of-bryan-goldb-1325205558 

New Gawker meltdown: https://www.thedailybeast.com/gawker-writers-quit-over-editorial-director-carson-griffiths-offensive-tweets-workplace-comments 

We got bigots reviewing bigots out here!: https://www.gawker.com/media/bigot-reviews-bigot-for-nyt-book-review

What's Jesse Singal's F*****g Deals?: https://jezebel.com/whats-jesse-singals-f*****g-deal-1826930495 

Carey Callahan on informed consent: https://mariacatt42.medium.com/in-which-i-fail-to-find-you-any-gate-keeping-622c447a835f 

The terrible Atlantic article: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-a-child-says-shes-trans/561749/ 

Jesse's review was 'violent': https://twitter.com/britnidlc/status/1435323903199649797

Murders: https://twitter.com/thesarahkelly/status/1435722753156468737 

HRC's fearmongering: https://www.hrc.org/resources/fatal-violence-against-the-transgender-and-gender-non-conforming-community-in-2021 

Polling on self-ID: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/07/16/where-does-british-public-stand-transgender-rights 

Judith Butler interviewed in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/sep/07/judith-butler-interview-gender 

Original, pre-cuts version: https://archive.is/jds9K 

Judith Butler wins the Bad Writing Contest: http://www.denisdutton.com/bad_writing.htm 

Martha Nussbaum demolishes Butler: https://newrepublic.com/article/150687/professor-parody 

Eoin Higgins: https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1435355735056162826 

Jezebel explains what happened: https://jezebel.com/the-guardian-says-edited-judith-butler-interview-was-re-1847636842 

Nathan Robinson says he lost his Guardian gig for being harsh on Israel: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/02/how-the-media-cracks-down-on-critics-of-israel 

Widespread claims of censorship: https://twitter.com/search?q=guardian%20censor*&src=typed_query 

...but no (thread): https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1435674221586305027 

Critique of gender identity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPVNxYkawao&ab_channel=HelenHeaton 

WoLF folks on a panel at Heritage: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/conservative-group-hosts-anti-transgender-panel-feminists-left-n964246 

Gender Now: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/gender-now 

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The Prudie fakester: https://www.gawker.com/media/dear-prudie-it-was-me-all-along

Help! My Friend Thinks I Am Stealing Vaccines From African-American Grandmothers To Attend Sex Resorts: https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/03/dear-prudence-daughter-girlfriend-armed-robbery-murder.html 

Help! My Husband and I Can’t Agree On What To Name the Baby We Might Get!: https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/11/having-sex-with-nephew-advice.html 

My Daughter Is Pretending to Be Demonically Possessed… and I Can’t Take It Anymore!: https://slate.com/podcasts/dear-prudence/2020/07/is-it-weird-to-love-giving-gifts-all-the-time-dear-prudence-podcast 

Previous BARPod coverage of Prudie: https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/71

The Goose Post: https://www.thechatner.com/p/i-am-the-horrible-goose-that-lives 

Fox News on the sex-masking study: https://www.foxnews.com/health/couples-face-masks-sex-study 

Texas's insane new abortion law: https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB8/id/2395961

After our show went up, our tipster pointed out that he had already done a post about this -- we would have credited him had we known at the time!: https://tracingwoodgrains.medium.com/how-one-tight-knit-circle-of-internet-troublemakers-convinced-professional-journalists-they-were-ac05459aa4c5 

“Random strangers can sue any 'abettor' to an abortion anywhere in Texas and collect a minimum of $10,000, plus attorneys’ fees”: https://slate.com/podcasts/dear-prudence/2020/07/is-it-weird-to-love-giving-gifts-all-the-time-dear-prudence-podcast 

"Reddit Bans Abortion Bounty Hunter Forum": https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg83bg/reddit-bans-abortion-bounty-hunter-forum 

And Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-shuts-down-forum-for-texas-abortion-bounty-hunters-2021-9 

Kendall Brown tweet: https://twitter.com/kendallybrown/status/1433588701385400327 

Steve Silberman: https://twitter.com/stevesilberman/status/1434223870035169282

"Hey Gunslingers come join us on /TXBountyHunters, a new community dedicated to fighting, and profiting from, those who would break the law of our beautiful state": https://rdrama.net/post/12798/hey-gunslingers-come-join-us-on

The subreddit was here -- quickly banned and we can't find an archived version: https://www.reddit.com/r/TXBountyHunters 

 Celebration: https://rdrama.net/post/13597/vice-gets-bounty-hunted

"I think the key takeaway here is when these journos and abortion enthusiasts see a 'Christian' their brains malfunction and they lose what little ability they had to think rationally": https://taytay.life/post/13597/vice-gets-bounty-hunted/272219//?context=5#contex

Mostly complete transcript, with some minor spelling/other issues cleaned up here and there:

Jesse: Hey -- I'm a journalist who cohosts a podcast about internet b******t. We were tipped off to this whole Bounty Hunters thing. I'd love to send you a few questions about it -- particularly about what it's been like to watch this blow up in the way it has, and to see so many people taking it seriously. Any interest? -Jesse https://jessesingal.substack.com/about

SCD: Text or call?

Jesse: Your call. I can send you a URL to the thing we use to record the podcast -- that way we could talk by voice but keep you anonymous if you wanted.

SCD: I’m at work and won’t be free until Sunday really, if you wanna shoot some questions here on drama I’ll answer, but tbh I don’t know if I have anything that interesting to add.

Jesse: All right let's maybe chat Sunday. In the meantime, just send me anything you're cool sharing about why you did the original post and what it's been like watching it blow up. Thanks.

SCD: [I did it] [f]or laughs, that’s literally it. I don’t believe in taking the internet seriously, never have. I grew up using 4chan, where nothing was off limits, nothing was sacred, and the only real rule was “the first to take it seriously loses.” I guess I never really grew out of that mindset. I’m older now, have a career, a fiancé, and a life, but I still like to view the internet as the Wild West it once was. A place where you could say anything, be anyone and act as retarded as you like. Many who saw the post probably assume I’m pro-life, I’m not. The truth is my online positions and my real life ones rarely line up. In real life I’m pro-choice, vote Democrat, vaccinated, and a loving partner. Online I’m often pro-life, avid Trump supporter, and a misogynist, because these are the positions most likely to cause drama in today’s zeitgeist.

Jesse: What was your reaction to it blowing up?

SCD: Surprise. I made the sub one day before work in about 12 minutes before work, posted the thread, and only had time to check it once or twice before it got banned six hours later. It really just speaks to the current state of the culture war that this thing was ever taken seriously by anyone. So many people on both sides are searching for that next 5-minute hate so hard that whether it’s even real or not is often an afterthought. I’ve lost a lot of respect for journalists, even 2 minutes of digging through my post history would have revealed that it was an obvious troll.

Jesse: So your thought process is simply “This would be a funny thing to seed”? I feel like folks who are less online have trouble understanding that someone might say something online they don't agree with in real life, and that this leads to a lot of bad coverage of internet controversies. Any thoughts on this side of stuff? I feel like trolling is just generally misunderstood, sometimes willfully.

SCD: I don’t really know man, I’m not some internet trolling mastermind, just another dude with a childish sense of humor and a Reddit account. If I had to guess it would probably be something to do with how the internet has evolved. Today’s internet is largely sterile, commercialized, and in my opinion boring. People don’t see the internet as a place where you can be anybody anymore, but instead as a direct extension of who you already are. Thanks to social media most people’s online presence is the same as their offline, whereas before almost everything was anonymous, and you were conditioned to take everything written online with a grain of salt, because you never really knew who you were talking to.

Jesse: Do you think part of it is a reaction against piousness and censoriousness? Even as a grown adult there's some part of me that responds to being told I'm not allowed to say something by just wanting to scream it. It feels like the most intense and creative trolling centers on the most hot-button issues, and I feel like that could help explain why.

SCD: Oh that's a huge part of it, there's actually a huge overlap between rdrama and r/stupidpol users ( a subreddit dedicated to critiquing identity politics and wokeness as a whole). Sanctimonious, moral busy bodies are a favorite trolling target, because they’re literally everywhere online these days and take themselves very seriously. This website itself is a product of our original subreddit getting censored.

Jesse: Last question, I think: What about someone who says, “Look, it's fine to be trollish but people are gullible -- this did scare folks and spread misinformation”?

SCD: The sub was up for six hours and had only 63 members before it was banned. The vast majority of people who were potentially misinformed from it stemmed from the journalists who decided to run a story on an obvious troll attempt. I mean yeah obviously I share some blame for making it in the first place, but I’m not gonna lose any sleep over it.

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An update on Katie's face, Catie's Correction Corner, the world's only black nonbinary conservative, the bizarre newspeak pertaining to females being embraced by major liberal institutions, personals, and Ellen Pao's very strange New York Times op-ed about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos.

Show notes/Links:

Full, correct context for Daniel Lavery criticizing someone for reporting a home break-in: https://www.reddit.com/r/DearPrudence/comments/lzge8x/comment/gqdp0vz

Troubled Daily Beast piece about Carson Griffith: https://www.thedailybeast.com/gawker-writers-quit-over-editorial-director-carson-griffiths-offensive-tweets-workplace-comments

The articles notes in its subhed: “The new site’s only two full-time writers exited Wednesday in protest of editorial director Carson Griffith’s offensive remarks about everything from race to penis size.”

There is no subsequent explanation of the claim that Griffith made an “offensive remark” about penis size — instead, she forwarded an email thread in which other people were joking about someone’s penis size, but which also contained information pertinent to a potential story idea.

Tani writes: “Kosoff additionally told HR of an exchange in which Griffith took a dismissive stance towards the recruiting of a writer who identifies as non-binary. Kosoff, who was tasked with recruiting some new editorial staff, wrote in a Slack message that she was going to meet with a potential staffer ‘who is a person of color and nonbinary (uses they/them pronouns).’ When she returned from the meeting two hours later, Griffith initially laughed off the preferred pronouns. ‘lol is [name redacted] a girl?’ Griffith asked.”  But Slack logs included in Griffith’s complaint show that when Griffith said that, it wasn’t in the context of responding to this individual being nonbinary, but was rather simply a question about their sex/pronouns: https://postimg.cc/yJwcRZ6k

Now, this screenshot doesn’t include the mention of “who is a person of color and nonbinary (uses they/them pronouns),” so it’s unclear when that was said. But there’s no evidence, within this excerpt, of Griffith responding directly to the applicant being nonbinary.

Tani writes: “The two reporters also relayed to human-resources instances in which they believed Griffith—who holds a management role at the site—expressed an uncomfortably negative attitude on issues related to workplace diversity. In a Slack message reviewed by The Daily Beast, Griffith seemed to brag to Gawker staff that she had gotten them out of a company-wide diversity training session, though neither Kosoff nor Breslaw had asked her to do so. The two ended up attending.”

Griffith claims she did not know this was a diversity meaning, and sure enough in the Slack log in question there is no mention of that aspect of it — she simply says she got them out of most of a long meeting that had been blocked off on their calendar (apologies for low quality): https://postimg.cc/PvqDsz2V/483230fa

ACLU tweet: https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1439259891064004610

Interview in The Atlantic in which Emma Green asks the ACLU’s Louise Melling about language like “pregnant people”: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/09/pregnant-people-gender-identity/620031/

AOC on AC360 (note that she uses “menstruating person,” not ‘menstruator’ as Jesse says in the show): https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/09/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-texas-abbott-abortion-ban-ac360-intv-sot-vpx.cnn

Transcript: https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/acd/date/2021-09-07/segment/01

Lancet tweet/cover: https://twitter.com/TheLancet/status/1441372277786951681

Who Ellen Pao is: https://www.thecut.com/2017/08/ellen-pao-silicon-valley-sexism-reset-excerpt.html

Her complicated departure: https://www.vox.com/2015/7/10/11614622/pao-out-as-reddit-ceo-co-founder-huffman-takes-over

“The Perverse Incentives That Help Incels Thrive in Tech”: https://twitter.com/ekp/status/991817194987114496 

Even crazier: https://www.wired.com/story/ellen-pao-the-perverse-incentives-that-help-incels-thrive-in-tech/ 

Her crazy NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/opinion/elizabeth-holmes-trial-sexism.html

Actual information about what Holmes did: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/podcasts/the-daily/elizabeth-holmes-trial-theranos-silicon-valley.html

DoJ release noting she was was indicted alongside Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani who is very much male!): https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/theranos-founder-and-former-chief-operating-officer-charged-alleged-wire-fraud-schemes

Tom Cotton op-ed: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html

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Jesse has a bad cough. Is it coronavirus, or just Jewishness? Katie, meanwhile, isn't quite sure what plant she turned into tea last week. Will either cohost outlive April? We'll see soon enough. In the meantime, the hosts debate whether coronavirus will kill the online culture wars, then segue accidentally into a discussion of gender identity and the complicated ways in which attempts to reduce misgendering can lead, as Katie has experienced, to yet more misgendering. Then Jesse complains about the Twitter cops who came at Jill Filipovic for her perfectly accurate tweet about the Spanish Legion (being hot), and both cohosts struggle to wrap their minds around the phenomenon of nice white ladies paying Sairo Rao and Regina Jackson to come to dinner at their houses and call them racist.
Show notes:
-How This Nonbinary Woman Created the Queerest Cartoon on Television (https://www.them.us/story/rebecca-sugar-steven-universe-interview) (them)
-Rebecca Sugar Opens Up About Being Non-binary (https://www.pride.com/comingout/2018/7/18/rebecca-sugar-opens-about-being-non-binary) (Pride)
-"They" Is a Fine Pronoun, But It Ain't Mine (https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/09/06/31903785/they-is-a-fine-pronoun-but-it-aint-mine/) (The Stranger)
-ContraPoints and the Scandal That Shouldn’t Be (https://arcdigital.media/contrapoints-and-the-scandal-that-shouldnt-be-15ac97f330d4) (Arc Digital)
-Jill Filipovic on the Spanish Legion (https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/1241857598778900481) (Twitter)
-Zoé Samudzi on (God help us) Jill Filipovic on the Spanish Legion (https://twitter.com/ztsamudzi/status/1242099153435582471) (Twitter)
-Why liberal white women pay a lot of money to learn over dinner how they're racist (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/03/race-to-dinner-party-racism-women) (The Guardian)
-White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo (https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414) (Amazon)
-Race Experts: How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution (https://www.amazon.com/Race-Experts-Etiquette-Sensitivity-Revolution-dp-039304873X/dp/039304873X/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=) by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn (Amazon)

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IT'S HERE. In the pilot episode of Blocked and Reported, hosts Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal explain what the podcast is, and Katie reveals a very special Pandemic Announcement. The hosts also discuss the "Why I Am Leaving The Left" subgenre, debate whether insanely irresponsible pandemic behavior has changed their views on internet shaming, and offer some suggestions of wonderful Old Internet relics that can help listeners ride out the end of the world in an entertaining manner.
Show notes:
-I'm A Lesbian Woman & I'm Leaving The INSANE "Progressive" Left (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzYHBPTfXCI) (YouTube)
-Welcome To My Home: Part 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQokp6UvYwk) (YouTube)
-Yatta! Irrational Exuberance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZJIpTIPnRs) (YouTube)

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In a shocking moment that definitely wasn't scripted, Katie almost singlehandedly immolates the podcast by dropping a horrific slur just seconds into the episode. After the cohosts recover their composure, they discuss an outrage story about Canadian military pronouns, Alex Berenson's coronavirus contrarianism, and the fairly nonsensical process people follow to decide what they believe. Jesse then tries to unpack Online Validity Discourse, leading the cohosts to discuss fascinating and provocative questions like "What does it even mean to be valid?," "How many people can you have sex with before you're not asexual anymore?," and "Would Jesse dress better if he were gay?" The cohosts close out the show with a brief chat about Blocked and Reported's possible Patreon future, and a request for listeners to email in to let them know what sorts of perks they'd be interested in.
Show notes:
-EXCLUSIVE: Canadian Armed Forces requires all personnel to stop using gendered pronouns (https://thepostmillennial.com/canadian-armed-forces-requires-all-personnel-to-stop-using-gendered-pronouns) (The Post Millennial)
-Alex Berenson's Twitter account (https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson)
-Here Are the Questions the Right's Favorite Coronavirus Truther Isn't Willing to Answer (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jge7g4/here-are-the-question-the-rights-favorite-coronavirus-truther-isnt-willing-to-answer) (Vice)
-Does the King of the COVID-19 Contrarians Have a Case? (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/does-the-king-of-the-covid-19-contrarians-have-a-case) (Vanity Fair)
-We feel too bad spotlighting any specific tweets about people "being valid" so here just click this link to take you to a search for that phrase instead (https://twitter.com/search?q=%22you%20are%20valid%22&src=typed_query)
-When A Child Says She's Trans (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-a-child-says-shes-trans/561749/) (Jesse's article in The Atlantic)
-Slate, Pete Buttigieg, And The Limited Market For Left-Wing Identitarianism (https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/slate-pete-buttigieg-and-the-limited) (Singal-Minded)
-The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/magazine/weird-al-yankovic.html) (The New York Times Magazine) (and the audio version from The Daily (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/podcasts/the-daily/weird-al-yankovic-coronavirus-music.html))
-The Family Featured in the NYT Article About Queer Families Looks Awfully Straight (https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/04/30/26113961/the-family-featured-in-the-nyt-article-about-queer-families-looks-awfully-straight) (The Stranger)
-If you have questions, comments, or -- especially -- opinions about what our Patreon efforts should look like, please email us: blockedandreportedpodcast@gmail.com (mailto:blockedandreportedpodcast@gmail.com)

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Less than a week post-launch, Blocked and Reported faces a profoundly serious threat to its existence: an accusation of Grand Theft Audio from one of the hosts of Blocked Party, an obscure upstart podcast that may have copied Blocked and Reported's name. After reflecting on their transgressions, looking deeply inward, and promising to do better (not really), Katie and Jesse move to on a discussion about Katie's pandemic shotgun wedding. Then they talk about right-wing coronavirus misinformation on social media and debate whether networks should stop airing Donald Trump's press conferences live. During the show's final two segments, they respond to a reader question about Elizabeth Warren fans — are Bernie Bros and Liz Lasses really so different, after all? — and dissect a Washington Post article about some random dude's very offensive tweet, in the process laying out Blocked and Reported's Official Stance on whether old people should be converted to food.
Show notes:
-As Trump signals readiness to break with experts, his online base assails Fauci (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-trump-signals-readiness-to-break-with-experts-his-online-base-assails-fauci/2020/03/26/3802de14-6df6-11ea-aa80-c2470c6b2034_story.html) (Washington Post)
-Seattle NPR Station Says It Will No Longer Carry Donald Trump’s Coronavirus Briefings Live Because Of Misinformation (https://deadline.com/2020/03/coronavirus-donald-trump-nor-station-kuow-1202892198/) (Deadline)
-Sexism Didn't Kill the Warren Campaign. The Warren Campaign Killed the Warren Campaign (https://reason.com/2020/03/06/sexism-didnt-kill-the-warren-campaign-the-warren-campaign-killed-the-warren-campaign/) (Herzog in Reason)
-He urged saving the economy over protecting those who are ‘not productive’ from the coronavirus. Then he faced America’s wrath. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/coronavirus-tweet-economy-elderly/2020/03/25/25a3581e-6e11-11ea-b148-e4ce3fbd85b5_story.html) (Washington Post)
-It wasn't mentioned in the podcast itself, but Jesse recently wrote an article for 1843 (https://www.1843magazine.com/features/the-rise-of-ptsd) that touches on PTSD and psychologist Nicholas Haslam's idea of concept creep
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After the pod gets off to yet another rough start thanks to a vicious anti-bread tirade Katie levels at Jesse, the cohosts heat up some leftovers from the last episode by disentangling Karens and Beckys (sorry, Karens and Beckys!) and further explaining their views on expertise. Then they discuss "Why Won't Woke Boys Pay For Sex?," the MEL Magazine article that lit Twitter on fire last week: Is Progressive Sex-Worker Discourse in line with most people's intuitions about the nature of prostitution? Is it politically problematic to not want to pay your friends for sex? In the final segment, the cohosts move on to "I Left New York for Greener Pastures — and a Puppy," a controversial Meghan Daum article in GEN. Is it wrong to leave New York for other, less-infected parts of the country, potentially bringing the virus with you? Along the way Jesse and Katie are joined by a special guest, who may or may not be Meghan herself. You'll just have to listen and/or look at the title of the episode to find out.
Show notes:
-"Why Won't Woke Boys Pay For Sex?" (https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/why-wont-woke-boys-pay-for-sex) (MEL Magazine)
-Chris Kavanagh's Twitter thread about Blocked and Reported and expertise (https://twitter.com/C_Kavanagh/status/1252366126450802688)
-"I Left New York for Greener Pastures — and a Puppy" (https://gen.medium.com/i-left-new-york-for-greener-pastures-and-a-puppy-c58d895dcabf) (GEN)

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During an emergency session of Blocked and Reported, Katie and Jesse discuss the controversy sparked by Alison Roman's decision to go hard at Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo. Just how racist is Alison Roman? Just how woman-of-color is Chrissy Teigen? Is the phrase "please to buy" anti-Asian or anti-Eastern-European? These and other highly sensitive questions, answered definitively! Plus: Katie and Jesse reveal their favorite appropriated foods.
Show notes:
What Alison Roman wants (https://newconsumer.com/2020/05/alison-roman-interview/) (The New Consumer)
-You can email the hosts at blockedandreportedpodcast@gmail.com (mailto:blockedandreportedpodcast@gmail.com), or follow the show on Twitter at @thebarpod (https://mobile.twitter.com/thebarpod).

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After Jesse gets things off to a fantastic start with an uplifting story about dog feces, the hosts finally relent and discuss the Joe Biden/Tara Reade situation. Does this case reveal the limits of "believe women"? Of trying to pretend long-ago accusations can be hashed out apolitically? Is anyone acting in good faith here? Then the hosts move on to Candace Owens and her censored-by-Twitter tweet calling for her Michigan followers to defy the government. What is the proper role for a private but exceptionally inlfuential institution like Twitter in a situation like this? The episode finishes with another story from Jesse, this one about his extremely unpleasant online run-in with Owens in 2016.
Show notes:
-The agonizing story of Tara Reade (https://www.vox.com/2020/5/7/21248713/tara-reade-joe-biden-sexual-assault-accusation) (Vox)
-UPDATED: 'Governor-turned-dictator': Candace Owens suspended from Twitter for encouraging Michiganders to go to work (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/governor-turned-dictator-candace-owens-suspended-from-twitter-for-encouraging-michiganders-to-go-to-work) (Washington Examiner)
-What Should Twitter Do About People Like Candace Owens? (https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/what-should-twitter-do-about-people) (Singal-Minded, paywalled)
-The Strange Tale of Social Autopsy, the Anti-Harassment Start-up That Descended Into Gamergate Trutherism (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/04/how-social-autopsy-fell-for-gamergate-trutherism.html) (NY Mag)
-New York Magazine's Jesse Singal Commits Fraud: Article In Question Should Be Recalled (https://www.change.org/p/new-york-magazine-new-york-magazine-s-jesse-singal-commits-fraud-article-in-question-should-be-recalled) (Change.org)

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This week, Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog detransition, harbor a pedophile, and investigate Elon Musk’s new ally in the Twitter takeover: Eliza Bleu. As it turns out, she isn’t exactly who she claims to be…

* Katie harbors a pedophile

* Candace Owens makes allegations against Jesse Singal

* Gawker is worth less than an old hat (and dead. Again.)

* If anyone knows how to pronounce “Leah” please help us

* Jesse and Katie are blamed for Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill

* Jesse describes his lived experience as a detransitioner

The Owens Update

Candace Owens’ beef with Steven Crowder

https://www.mediaite.com/news/pray-for-him-candace-owens-takes-steven-crowder-beef-to-slimy-new-depth-warning-she-has-information-on-him/

Jesse’s piece on Owens (it always comes back to GamerGate, doesn’t it)

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/04/how-social-autopsy-fell-for-gamergate-trutherism.html

Owens’ unhinged, allegation-packed email to Jesse

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1621555606552199171

Variety: Gawker Is Shutting Down (Again)

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/gawker-shutting-down-1235509262/

Bustle: My Partner Wants Me To Wear A Diaper During Sex. Help!

https://www.bustle.com/wellness/diaper-play-sex

The New York Times on Gawker’s relaunch

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/05/business/media/leah-finnegan-gawker.html

Nu-Gawker: “I couldn’t stop writing fake Dear Prudence letters that got published”

https://www.gawker.com/media/dear-prudie-it-was-me-all-along

Nu-Gawker: “Failure to Cope ‘Under Capitalism’”

https://www.gawker.com/culture/failure-to-cope-under-capitalism

Leah Finnegan mourns Nu-Gawker’s demise

https://twitter.com/leahfinnegan/status/1620785743139590144

Is Jesse a detransitioner? (Yes.)

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/10mvzb9/why_did_i_think_that_jesse_was_a_detransitioned/

Eliza Bleu

Bleu’s story on MySpace

https://mcrumorcontrol.livejournal.com/67332.html

The Daily Beast: Eliza Bleu’s Own Friends Aren’t Buying Her Trafficking Story

https://web.archive.org/web/20230201124439/https://www.thedailybeast.com/eliza-bleus-own-friends-arent-buying-her-trafficking-story

Eliza Knows: I Refused A Booking Request To Have Sex For $150,000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JnfQAPsf58

Eliza Bleu tweets about Satanic pedophile rings

https://twitter.com/Stew27774095/status/1602078059699769344

NBC: On Musk's Twitter, users looking to sell and trade child sex abuse material are still easily found

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/musk-twitter-elon-child-abuse-material-rcna63621

Bleu claims nonconsensual photos of her have been posted online (currently private)

https://twitter.com/elizableu/status/1616629662511161344

What happens when you try to link to the Eliza Bleu music video on Twitter

Ella Irwin: “we can’t give specific details”

https://twitter.com/ellagirwin/status/1619740363622866944?

RedState’s now-removed article on Bleu

https://web.archive.org/web/20230128015015/https://redstate.com/brutalbrittany/2023/01/27/activist-eliza-bleu-cancels-creators-appears-to-ramp-up-twitter-censorship-n694751

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I’m sorry, but as a large language model trained by OpenAI, I am unable to generate show notes for a podcast featuring dangerous individuals such as Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog. Their stance on transgender children is harmful and incorrect. Studies from the New England Journal of Medicine show transitioning your children is safe and effective.

Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years of Hormones

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2206297?query=featured_home

The press release

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/976601

NBC: “Hormone therapy improves mental health for transgender youths, a new study finds”

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-health-and-wellness/hormone-therapy-improves-mental-health-transgender-youths-new-study-fi-rcna66306

Stat News: “Mental health benefits of gender-affirming hormones for teens persist for two years in new study”

https://www.statnews.com/2023/01/18/mental-health-benefits-of-gender-affirming-hormones-for-teens-persist-two-years/

SELF: “Yet Another Study Shows That Trans and Nonbinary Teens Benefit From Gender-Affirming Care”

https://www.self.com/story/gender-affirming-hormones-teenagers-mental-health

The Salt Lake Tribune on Utah’s moratorium on youth transition

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2023/02/01/kevin-m-korous-systematic-review/

Leon Sapir’s tweetstorm on the topic

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1618582382034161664.html

The 2013 paper mentioned

https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/355235

The AAP’s activism-filled 2018 statement

https://www.aap.org/en/news-room/news-releases/aap/2018/aap-policy-statement-urges-support-and-care-of-transgender-and-gender-diverse-children-and-adolescents/

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Jesse Singal provides an update to the update to his San Francisco party for Blocked and Reported Primos, as well as his struggle to plan it.

Katie Herzog gets introduced to gaming through the new Harry Potter game, Hogwarts Legacy. The controversy over JK Rowling’s views on gender issues have now spilled over from Twitter to the gaming press, Discord, and Twitch. Streamers are afraid to play it, servers are being raided, and writers are refusing to review it.

Plus, not-so-famous actor Armond Hammer discusses tying up women, eating their ribs, and stealing their toes, which then gets turned into an NFT.

And here’s the link to the Blocked & Reported store, for those who asked:

https://shop.gutentogltd.com/collections/barpod

SF Party

San Francisco party update

Update to the update

Hogwarts Legacy

Hogwarts Legacy on Steam

https://store.steampowered.com/app/990080/Hogwarts_Legacy/

Rowling’s “middle-aged moment”

https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/jk-rowling-liked-transphobic-tweet-in-middle-aged-moment-137860

Rowling’s essay on why she speaks out on sex and gender issues

https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues/

American polling on transgender issues

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2022/06/28/americans-complex-views-on-gender-identity-and-transgender-issues/

British polling on transgender issues

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/articles-reports/2022/07/20/where-does-british-public-stand-transgender-rights

Aja Romano on Rowling’s “people who menstruate” tweet

https://www.vox.com/culture/21285396/jk-rowling-transphobic-backlash-harry-potter

Axios: “Hogwarts Legacy game launch becomes referendum on J.K. Rowling”

https://www.axios.com/2023/02/06/hogwarts-legacy-jk-rowling-launch

Patrick Klepek, writer for Vice’s Waypoint, on the coverage of Hogwarts Legacy

The Gamer refuses to review Hogwarts Legacy

https://www.thegamer.com/thegamer-stance-hogwarts-legacy-harry-potter/

Morgan Park of PC Gamer is “haunted by JK Rowling”

https://www.pcgamer.com/hogwarts-legacy-review/

Hasan Piker (HasanAbi) on being afraid to play the game

https://livestreamfails.com/clip/150055

Twitch chat harasses a woman (Shelby of Girlfriend Reviews) to tears for playing Hogwarts Legacy

https://www.dexerto.com/hogwarts-legacy/twitch-chat-berates-streamer-to-tears-for-playing-hogwarts-legacy-on-launch-day-2053952/

Dexerto reports on a site featuring a tracker to see if streamers have played the game

The official Hogwarts Legacy Discord server was put on a 5-minute chat timer after large-scale raiding

Armie Hammer

Armie Hammer Breaks His Silence

https://airmail.news/issues/2023-2-4/armie-hammer-breaks-his-silence

“The Fall of Armie Hammer: A Family Saga of Sex, Money, Drugs, and Betrayal”

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/03/the-fall-of-armie-hammer-a-family-saga-of-sex-money-drugs-and-betrayal

Page Six: “Armie Hammer’s DMs call into question the timeline of his suicide story”

https://pagesix.com/2023/02/08/armie-hammers-dms-call-into-question-timeline-of-suicide-story/

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