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The NY Times is evil

silverharp · 2020-06-23 15:35:44

NY Times threatening to doxx one of the good guys on the Internet, a well known blogger who goes my the name Scott Alexander, I believe its his first and middle name. He is a psychiatrist by profession so wants to keep some distance from the real world in his blog. The NY Times were doing an article on him which was going…

23-06-2020 4:35pm

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NY Times threatening to doxx one of the good guys on the Internet, a well known blogger who goes my the name Scott Alexander, I believe its his first and middle name. He is a psychiatrist by profession so wants to keep some distance from the real world in his blog. The NY Times were doing an article on him which was going to be positive but according to them they have to run his real name because its "the rules".

Hopefully sense will prevail, Scott has deleted his blog which is a loss but if they go ahead with this it will affect his patients possibly.

https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1275406500492697601

https://twitter.com/SwipeWright/status/1275318412051275782

A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer

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