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Wesley Yang
Personal blog · wesleyyang.substack.compoliticsculture
Wesley Yang writes Year Zero, a personal blog at wesleyyang.substack.com about politics and culture. Since 2021, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “The arc of history bends toward emotional support peacocks”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Wesley Yang's Substack posts cover gender medicine, transgender youth, the lab leak debate and the 'midwit' meme. HN commenters cite them as sources on these topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
An ongoing inquiry into the ideological fever that overtook the governing and chattering classes of America during the Trump years.
Most-linked posts?
- /p/the-dangerous-overreach-of-californias2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-01
- The arc of history bends toward emotional support peacocks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-12
What Hacker News says?
>What’s the problem with just leaving it for families and healthcare providers to decide for themselves? The problem is that self-identifying transgender children are being removed from families when the family has doubts about transition. Writer Lisa Selin Davis covers this extensively: https://lisaselindavis.substack.com/p/parents-are-being-inve... Parents are losing custody for refusing to use a child’s preferred…
Comment linking /p/the-dangerous-overreach-of-californias
on “TikTok videos leave teens thinking they have rare mental disorders (2021)”Submitted The arc of history bends toward emotional support peacocks as a story · 37 points
HN discussionThe President of the United States of America: https://nypost.com/2022/10/24/biden-calls-curbs-on-treatment... https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-transgender-youth-state... I have family and friends in K-12 education. If you question LGBTQIAP+ or fail to affirm a kids' gender self-identification, you are out of a job. Wesley Yang has covered this topic extensively, and is a good one to follow on Twitter: https://w…
Comment linking /p/the-dangerous-overreach-of-californias
on “Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture?”Submitted The Arc of History Bends Toward Emotional Support Peacocks as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThere is no gender, only sex, which is determined by biology. Biological categories have nothing to do with religion. Trans people are free to be trans. But they should not falsely claim the category of a biological sex that is not theirs. Each of us is born to a sex that is immutable. The belief that gender exists, or that we have a gender identity that somehow infused the wrong body, is a profoundly religious idea…
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on “I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup”Submitted How Ideological Coups Happen as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI can't find it but I remember a midwit meme circulating with the lab leak theory on the tails when people were shouting down the idea and thought that that iteration of the midwit meme would never be topped. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/iq-bell-curve-midwit Edit: ahh here it is https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/the-midwit-meme-and-the-ri...
Comment linking /p/the-midwit-meme-and-the-rittenhouse
on “I Asked Leading Covid Scientists, Off the Record, About the Lab Leak Theory”Submitted Taught for America as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/ftm-and-back-again In 2006, some researchers in the Netherlands tested an experimental treatment that would stop the development of sexed characteristics at puberty. A single study of 55 of these patients is the entire basis for the practice of what has come to be known as “gender affirming care.” more invasive changes The puberty blockers and hormones are a funnel not an alternativ…
Comment linking /p/ftm-and-back-again
on “After 30 years, a father is exonerated in 'Satanic panic' case”Submitted The Glass Delusion as a story · 1 points
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