Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@jessesingal I did not say "on par with Nazis" anywhere! Not anywhere! Now, to your point: I think what's offensive in the first excerpt is her *characterization* of trans identities. Let's zoom in on the second graf. https://t.co/ipKIuzVDEj — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@jessesingal I do need to do real work this morning and can't go down a long rabbit hole on this question, I really can't. I only engaged because I was saddened by the personal nature of the allegations from someone I've had a good relationship with! — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@jessesingal I'm still somewhat baffled as to why we're talking about this, though. You called me "dishonest;" I provided evidence to back up my interpretation and you disengaged on that claim. Now we're talking about something I believe is only tangentially related! — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@jessesingal I meant "woman" earlier — that first tweet was imprecise. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@jessesingal That is, a cisgender woman can believe their biology is part of what makes them, personally, a woman — so long as they do not assert that this is the only way one can be defined as a woman. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@jessesingal No, it's not — and I'll put precisely and in the language of formal logic. To my mind, it means taking a view of femaleness that is an exclusive rather than inclusive "or." — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@jessesingal But come on, man. I'm reacting so negatively because you called me "dishonest!" We've known each other for a long time and had, I think, many thoughtful and extremely pleasant interactions. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@jessesingal I actually don't think that's the key question. I think the question is whether they think that makes them *more legitimately female* in some sense than trans women. That, I think, is bigotry. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@seanilling oh no sean i'm so sorry!!! — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@jessesingal I mean, she says she's for trans equality in theory and then vicious attacks "trans activists." I think that justifies me describing her as hostile to "the movement for trans equality," which is an actual and non-hypothetical thing. That phrasing was very deliberately chosen. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@jessesingal Wait, don't motte-and-bailey this. You accused me of being "dishonest" and "uninformed!" You may disagree with my interpretation of what Rowling wrote, but it's neither of those things. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@jessesingal She is making an argument that the actually-existing trans movement harms the status of cis women (excerpt 1) and is working to harm women (excerpt 2). 1) is independent of self-ID; in 2), she explicitly makes her critique one of "trans activists," not just one particular policy. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@jessesingal Jesse, this is really unfair and I wish you had asked me about this before tweeting it. Here's the passages in her piece that I think more than adequately justify the characterization in my piece. https://t.co/v0P1vhNoHl — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

I genuinely cannot figure out how Cathy got this conclusion from these passages from my piece. It's truly baffling! — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

RT @karaswisher: This is just a great piece by @zackbeauchamp: The “free speech debate” isn’t really about free speech https://t.co/DKB6eKM… — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@olivertraldi @rinireg I’m glad! I looked at your writing as an example of the best of its kind, and was thinking about it when writing those steelmanning grafs — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Free speech is not under attack in America — and pretending that it is prevents crowds out discussion of new, important, and extremely difficult issues https://t.co/hWu7ICH4JA — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@cjcmichel The McKinsey detail in your piece, good lord — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@cjcmichel I've worked on this issue — done podcast episodes on it, among other things — and even for me, the full details of the horror haven't been clear until relatively recently. A testament to how little attention this gets more than anything else. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

RT @cjcmichel: @zackbeauchamp It's somehow even worse than that Daily Mail write-up. https://t.co/M1JqCtRHYv — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

I think a lot about how people managed to ignore or downplay the Holocaust while my family was being locked up and slaughtered. Seeing how little political interest there is in the plight of the Uighurs, I'm starting to understand. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Daily Mail, so caveat emptor, but if even a quarter of this is true than the Uighur situation is so much worse than most people understand https://t.co/xQbh2SWZ3w https://t.co/qImXzP8CpY — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@moiragweigel @jbouie @Harvard_Press @_sen_sharmila i would also like one of these please — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@JeffreyASachs Jeff, get out of my brain https://t.co/0oEMAGFxXA — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@PaulBlu what is a trial on the galactica but an organized outrage mob — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Free journal article title: "All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again:" Political correctness, cancel culture, and Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence in post-Cold War Western public discourse — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

This excerpt describes my position on the current mess to a T. The fact that it was written in 1994 makes it all the more telling. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@rinireg As a believer in Objectivity, I've just always taken for granted that The Shameful Conclusion is true — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Wife: Our sink is spraying water everywhere, maybe you should go get some CLR to fix it Me: Not sure why you think Marxist theory will help this situation but I'll give it a shot Wife: <stares daggers, looks up DC divorce rules> — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@DavidKlion @EliClifton try talking to him about palestinians, it's revealing — PolitiTweet.org