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JWJH's avatar

One thing I'm surprised isn't getting more commentary, and which might explain the sudden disappearing act, is the source of the article Mohammad admits to having taken much of his wording and format from. It's from a "men's rights" subreddit, as Trace mentioned but doesn't really emphasize. Here Mo is trying, however clumsily, to make a point that's very friendly to the SocJus/Woke (or whatever we're allowed to call it this week, cf https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/please-just-fucking-tell-me-what ) memeplex, but he's admitting to drawing inspiration and even wording from an MRA.

Now granted, technically feminism and anti-racism, along with trans rights and other causes that sometimes fly that flag, are separate things, and it's possible in principle to support some of them and not others. But let's be real. The vast majority of the time, these things are encountered as a package deal (the very need for those verboten terms is proof enough). Maybe there's some internal divisions, but they are almost always presented publicly with a united front. There appears to be a very strong expectation by both people in that movement and its audience that people who support one will also (publicly at least) support all the rest.

Indeed, one way to identify people who accept some of these 'isms' and not others is that they - far more than people genuinely on the right who are more clearly their ideological enemies! - are precisely the ones "cancel culture" (yet another term we're apparently not allowed to use) sinks its claws into. Witness JK Rowling, or even Scott. Even with the most solid anti-racist credentials this side of Ibrahim X Kendi, admitting to having MRA sympathies would have put Mohammad into that bucket and been career suicide to at least the same degree as being caught fabricating an experiment like this. Likely as not, he realized this at the last minute, panicked, and burned down as much of the evidence as he could.

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DTrent's avatar

Maybe everyone got something they wanted, but at the cost of a perceived world further untethered from reality.

I greatly enjoyed the article, but I think you're being too credulous despite your skepticism: it seems unlikely the post was authored by a genuine academic.

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