Alex Wolf 🇪🇺

Economist, European.

[Alex Wolf 🇪🇺 @8ung3st]

@AndrewMakin20 @jk_rowling @AmnestyUK In the UK, that’s defined way too extensively. Still, even under UK law, I don’t believe this qualifies. It’s an expression of an opinion.

[DHH @dhh]

"The decline of Europe is not inevitable, despite how much Americans love to joke that the continent is doomed to be an open-air museum. Sure, it's things may have to get worse before they get better, but believing that 'it's over' is just loser talk." https://t.co/74IfQiIU6N

[Alex Wolf 🇪🇺 @8ung3st]

@JohnLoc94972445 @jk_rowling @AmnestyUK I think their reasoning was: "These single-sex shelters exclude trans women. Trans women are women and have a right (even if not legally, then morally) to be treated equally to all other women. This right is being denied to them."

[Alex Wolf 🇪🇺 @8ung3st]

@JohnLoc94972445 @jk_rowling @AmnestyUK Yeah, no. Not on board. I liked your early work though. From back when you were alive.

[Alex Wolf 🇪🇺 @8ung3st]

@JohnLoc94972445 @jk_rowling @AmnestyUK I do. But what's the plainly false claim here? In the context of a dispute about conflicting rights, what does it even mean when one side calls the other 'anti-rights'?

[Alex Wolf 🇪🇺 @8ung3st]

@JohnLoc94972445 @jk_rowling @AmnestyUK I would like to be able to criticise my opponents, poignantly if I see fit, even and especially when they disagree with my criticism. Conversely, I must tolerate their right to do the same.

[Alex Wolf 🇪🇺 @8ung3st]

@ZuleikaMccq @jk_rowling @AmnestyUK This is an opinion. What does anti-rights even mean? Everyone is against some rights. Amnesty themselves would seem to oppose certain sex-based rights. So argue with them. It’s a debate.

[Alex Wolf 🇪🇺 @8ung3st]

@FindingDore @jk_rowling @AmnestyUK It’s not a lie. It’s an opinion you disagree with.

[Alex Wolf 🇪🇺 @8ung3st]

@BobWhencer @jk_rowling @AmnestyUK I think he probably liked it. Maybe not as much anymore when he was ousted from power.

[Alex Wolf 🇪🇺 @8ung3st]

@roisenav @jk_rowling @AmnestyUK Lies? “X is an anti-rights group“ is an expression of an opinion. Disagree with them, call them anti-rights themselves, since they argue against sex-based rights.
Trying to have them punished is illiberal and petty.

[Alex Wolf 🇪🇺 @8ung3st]

@BobWhencer @jk_rowling @AmnestyUK Sounds like that Idi Amin quote.

[Alex Wolf 🇪🇺 @8ung3st]

@scottgrvs @Evolutionistrue I'm quite confident on the basis of this interview that the president of the AAA seriously thinks exactly that. And she is not alone.

[Alex Wolf 🇪🇺 @8ung3st]

@scottgrvs @Evolutionistrue Did you see this from the president of the American Anthropological Association? It might be on the wane, but the claim that sex (not just gender) is non-binary still has a great many influential adherents.
https://t.co/TiF785y38J

[Carl @HistoryBoomer]

Weirdly fascinating interview with the president of the American Anthropological Association.

Lee asks good questions, and Rouse answers... badly.

Here, she says we know there are more than two sexes because a Google search will tell us that there are. A Google search, oy.

[Alex Wolf 🇪🇺 @8ung3st]

@HistoryBoomer What’s just as fascinating about this answer is that she pretends this was about outsiders forcing or pressuring anthropologists to express the (correct) two sexes view, when in fact it’s about her association pressuring them not to.

[Alex Wolf 🇪🇺 @8ung3st]

When in Italy, I always make sure to enjoy the great works of art on display at the many local museums.

[Alex Wolf 🇪🇺 @8ung3st]

@leftie0 @AjaTheEmpress It describes someone who is attracted to people of their own sex, and not attracted to people of the opposite sex who have transitioned to their gender.
Pride think you have a sort of moral obligation to e.g. be attracted to trans men if you are attracted to men.

[Alex Wolf 🇪🇺 @8ung3st]

@Nrg8000 I think it's legitimate to have preferences for the cultural composition of your country.

[Alex Wolf 🇪🇺 @8ung3st]

@HS2ltd Notice how absolutely nobody actually does live nearby on either side of this extremely expensive tunnel.

[Alex Wolf 🇪🇺 @8ung3st]

@simongerman600 And with migration, it depends. It could help temporarily if those who come have high enough employment rates and earnings, or it could make things worse, adding even more people whose lives in expensive cities need to be tax financed. The latter is what we have in Europe now.