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expected from these two IDW grifters, and their Bluesky skeets are no exception.
I didn't see these skeets on Bluesky myself because both Jesse Singal and Razib Khan have blocked my Pinkerite account there. But one of my followers on Bluesky gave me a heads up (thank you, you) and I was able to confirm on Clearsky.
These cowards would never attack me except from a safe space.
I suppose they are interested in me now because I recently noted that racists Claire Lehmann and Khan rushed to defend Jesse Singal who has the most-blocked account on Bluesky at 64,312 and counting.
I suppose they are interested in me now because I recently noted that racists Claire Lehmann and Khan rushed to defend Jesse Singal who has the most-blocked account on Bluesky at 64,312 and counting.
(Update December 21: 77,011)
I do want to thank Singal for the inadvertent compliments. "Darkly fascinating internet micro celebrity" - go me. Alas he makes me sound far more glamorous than I am. But I had no idea the IDW gang considered me even a micro-level celebrity.
And as for "tenacious" - I wish. I like to think of Pinkerite as an aid to journalists, but I'm afraid I only do a half-assed job.
Few journalists make a crusade of an issue the way Jesse Singal does with trans healthcare, turning it into a controversy that was used by Republicans to help get Trump elected. He's even writing a book about trans healthcare as revealed by his Bluesky profile.
But when most journalists select a topic, they do some research, write an article or book, then move on.
I like to think that Pinkerite gives them some useful background on various IDW grifters, since I write about even their less-outrageous activities and statements and I keep track of IDW alliances, as when Claire Lehmann and Razib Khan came to Singal's defense. Or Colin Wright admitting what an important influence the oafish James Lindsay was on his grifting career. Or Steve Sailer claiming he's been a big influence on Steven Pinker. Or Steven Pinker selecting a garbage article by Sailer to include in the long-forgotten volume, The Best American Science and Nature Writing of 2004.
And now Singal and Khan teaming up to attack me.
But as you can see in the archives at the bottom of this blog, there are some years when I don't even manage one hundred posts on Pinkerite. I've never posted more than 209 posts in a year. Not even one post per day on average. So basically I write about the IDW gang only now and then.
It's Jesse Singal who is truly tenacious.
As far as Razib Khan, well of course he's full of shit. But I am impressed he restrained himself from calling me "retarded." In the recent past that is his go-to word for anybody he disagrees with.
That's the kind of activity that makes you a celebrity intellectual of the American right wing, as James "your mom" Lindsay demonstrated.
Now as far as "stalking" - you can't stalk someone merely by writing about their public statements. Stalking is an obvious libel here.
As far as "obsessed" - sure I've written about Razib Khan now and then over the years, but only because he's spent almost two decades promoting race pseudoscience.
So you might call Razib Khan tenacious, too.
And there's an example of the Pinkerite mission - although in this case at my personal blog, before I started Pinkerite: thanks to me writing about Khan, Jamelle Bouie found my post about Khan's racist public commentary and referenced it while protesting the New York Times intention to hire Khan. (Wow almost ten years ago now.)
And it's thanks to my blogging about the IDW gang of grifters - before there was an official IDW - that I know that Singal and Khan have been allies for years.
Both Singal and Khan have been devoted to their projects for years - Khan to race pseudoscience and Singal questioning trans self-determination.
Why does my tenacity - no greater than their own - in criticizing those who promote race pseudoscience and anti-trans campaigns seem to baffle them? What exactly am I doing that makes them call me crazy and wild-eyed and darkly fascinating?
It's probably the money.
Khan and Singal get paid to promote their "obsessions" and I do not.
I mean, yeah, I have Google ads here, but I rarely make more than like a buck per month. I make far more on my other website and I spend no more hours working on that one than I do on Pinkerite. I don't even ask for donations like the somewhat comparable, albeit far more successful blog, We Hunted the Mammoth.
I think that Singal and Khan would not devote their lives to hateful right-wing political campaigns except for the money, which is why they are grifters.
And they cannot comprehend someone who would oppose right-wing political campaigns on principle. After all, where's the profit in a white, cis-gendered individual opposing race pseudoscience and transphobia?
Could this be an example of Evil Cannot Comprehend Good?
I just love this.
