The Post-Partisan Emporium

Media Lies & the Sacred Rites of the Vaccine Cult The coverage Szilveszter Csollany’s death shows you being called an “anti-vaxxer” is more about what you think, than what you do. Kit Knightly The Independent has put out an early (and strong) entry for “Worst Journalism of the Year” award, reporting yesterday the death of Hungarian gymnastics coach Szilveszter Csollany under  the headline : Anti-vax Olympic gold medalist Szilveszter Csollany dies of Covid, aged 51 The glaring issue with this headline becomes clear just three paragraphs into the article [our emphasis]: While Csollany had, according to [Hungarian newspaper  Blikk ], expressed anti-vaccination views on social media,  the six-time World Championship medallist had been vaccinated  to allow him to continue to work as a gymnastics coach. The journalism is terrible, criminally bad. The evidence supplied for Csollany’s supposed “anti-vaccination views” is non-existent. Second-hand hearsay, at best. No dir...

The Folly of Pandemic Censorship As the latest anti-Substack campaign shows, more and more people are forgetting why free speech works Matt Taibbi Earlier this week, in the latest in a series of scolding campaigns, a Britain-based group called the Center for Countering Digital Hate gave a sneak peek at a research report on Substack to  The Guardian  and  The Washington Post . Both outlets came out with their scare pieces this morning. From  The Guardian : A group of vaccine-skeptic writers are generating revenues of at least $2.5m (£1.85m) a year from publishing newsletters for tens of thousands of followers on the online publishing platform  Substack , according to new research… Imran Ahmed, chief executive of CCDH, said companies like Substack were under “no obligation” to amplify vaccine skepticism and make money from it. “They could just say no…” The  Post,  citing “some misinformation experts say” — the pandemic version of “people familiar with th...

We’re Lesbians on the Autism Spectrum. Stop Telling Us to Become Men J Peters If there was ever a case for a trans child, I was it. Let’s take a look at the  DSM-5 guidelines  and its diagnostic definition of gender dysphoria, followed by descriptions of my own experience: A strong desire to be of the other gender or insistence that one is the other gender. When I was in kindergarten, my teacher called home to express serious concern that I was developmentally confused, due to my insistence on lining up with the boys to go to the bathroom. Well into adolescence, I went to great pains to “pass” as a boy and even got reprimanded for going into women’s restrooms. I liked this, considering it a sign of my success. A strong preference for wearing clothes typical of the opposite gender. When I was in first grade, I began refusing to wear my hair long or to dress in anything other than boys’ blue jeans and polo shirts, or similar attire. This “phase” lasted through my junior year of ...