lost in space  the adventures of an activist who is scared of
people  0 notes  moving the conversation forward  so Stephanie
Zvan has put up a wonderful deconstruction of some bile from
Justin “Vacuous” Vacula. Ophelia Benson has also provided some
thoughts. feminist and otherwise pro-social justice skeptics
posting amazing rebuttals to regressive assholes engaged in
baseless smear campaigns has become a somewhat regular
occurrence over the past year and a half…almost two years now.
I think we’ve started to lose sight of the forest for the trees.
from my perspective, the prominent pro-SJ skeptics have gotten
themselves scarily close to a war of attrition with the smear
campaigners, with little effort to take a step back and unpack
the campaign itself. we can learn things from this, but that
won’t happen if we confine ourselves to just rebutting the smear
campaign.  at this point, I would like to observe that the
political Right engages in such campaigns with regularity. Fox
News and worse radical-right outle