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Fuck Puritanism - by P.E. Moskowitz - Mental Hellth

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Or, how Marx predicted tenderqueers and the whole Lockheed Martin thing in 1843 lol.

By now the scenario is so familiar that it has several names—the cancel-obsessed left, tenderqueers, identitarians. People (including me) complain of the feeling of always being one wrong phrase away from being told they are ableist or transphobic. The phenomenon exists everywhere—in activist circles, meetings are ruined when someone declares not only that they disagree with a certain proposal or line of thinking, but that it is “problematic” or “misogynist.” In classes I taught at SUNY Purchase last year, the students, mostly People of Color, and most from low-income backgrounds, told me…

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