Twitter Delenda Est

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Power Line

John Hinderaker

May 13, 2019

Twitter must go. It is a threat not only to our democracy, but to whatever sanity our body politic still possesses. The latest instance is that of Dr. Ray Blanchard, one of the world’s leading experts on gender dysphoria. Dr. Blanchard is one of the psychologists responsible for the discussion of gender dysphoria in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the standard reference work used by psychologists and psychiatrists.

In response to a question from one of his Twitter followers, Dr. Blanchard tweeted some observations on the optimal treatment of transgenderism, the cause du jour of the American left. These expressions of Blanchard’s professional opinions seem not especially controversial. You can see his tweets here. A sample:

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It may seem unreal, but this is the world of public discourse in which we live. Twitter’s “unreal” decisions to ban or suspend users are effective leftist tools. They always trend, of course, in the same direction.

Maybe conservatives should boycott Twitter and Facebook. Maybe we should start up competing platforms to Twitter and Facebook. Maybe the federal government should commence antitrust enforcement action against Twitter and Facebook. Maybe Congress should enact legislation that would turn platforms like Twitter and Facebook into regulated public utilities. These approaches all have advantages and disadvantages. But one thing conservatives–or, more broadly, normal people–should not do, is accept the status quo.