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because those people don't have a history of betraying their much more leftwing former audience with NB phobia, associating with medicalists like buck angel, or hanging out with the clintons?
Look, i agree with that criticism, i've just been over all of these problems with little miss truscum in the last contrapoints hate thread we had two days ago, but i don't think that's why you people are so obsessed with her. Hexbear has, to give one example, zero qualms constantly riding the dick of openly transphobic anti-woke crank Norman Finkelstein, so if you people can tolerate that anti-BDS, anti-black, misogynist piece of shit but can't tolerate a piece of shit who is transfeminized, i know what's the actual problem.
There's plenty of anti-genocide intellectuals who aren't disgusting transphobes that this website doesn't pay any attention to. Why the specific fixation on the White Jewish Transphobe who constantly dooms about Palestine anyway?
He's a reactionary crank, hexbear loves that aesthetic so much that they can even forgive the fact that he's a "moderate" zionist.
I really never pegged him for a transphobe or racist but I’ll defer to you on this. I hold him in high regard so reading about him in this light is kind of odd.
He’s fantastic at what he does, studying and chronicling the Palestinian genocide and the region’s history. One of the more powerful voices when it comes to this, and he’s distilled it for the western audience in a way few others have. It’d be extremely disheartening and disappointing if it did turn out that he’s actually a massive bigot against trans and black folk. I’ve seen him make jabs at woke before but I never really attributed it to a deeper reactionary vein in him. I just need to see it for myself
For the record, while I'm not actually aware of the racism though I find it believable, the transphobia isn't really hidden.
https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/transgender-cult/
In the book he's excerpting from he goes into even further and more overt detail in the broader transphobic rant - his general opinion seems to be a rehash of the old 'homosexuality is bourgiese decadence' thing, but applied to being transgender instead.
It's really quite obvious and heinous in the book, there's even a moment where the conceptual connection is made clear and he went so far as to plausibly-deniably imply that being homosexual should still be considered a mental illness.