Episode description

After reflecting on the podcast turning one whole year old next week, Jesse and Katie talk about the massive online uproar over his (and others') continuing presence on Substack, Katie's impressive Brianna-Wu-related fundraising, and the underappreciated connection between GamerGate and 4chan. Then the hosts discuss media coverage of the awful massage-parlor shootings in Atlanta, and particularly the rush to slot them into an oversimplified race narrative.

Please consider preordering Jesse's book The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills: https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Fix-Psychology-Cant-Social/dp/0374239800/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= 

Jon Kay's big Quillette piece on the rumors about Jesse:
https://quillette.com/2021/03/18/the-campaign-of-lies-against-journalist-jesse-singal-and-why-it-matters/ 

Ryan Broderick’s dishonest article about Substack: https://www.garbageday.email/p/starting-to-think-we-are-acting-like

An interview of Jesse's Ryan would have benefited from reading:
https://www.vulture.com/2016/05/against-me-laura-jane-grace-playing-north-carolina.html 

Jude Doyle’s dishonest article about Substack: https://doyles.substack.com/p/in-queers-we-trust-all-others-pay

Jude Doyle’s dishonest article about leaving Substack:
https://doyles.substack.com/p/necessary-losses

Brianna Wu HAS RECEIPTS:
https://twitter.com/briannawu/status/1371452139856392196

Katie’s thread on Wu’s DMs about her and Jesse:
https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1371484911773700098

Wu’s threatening email to Jesse:
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1371470202030936067

Jesse’s story on the Kenneth Zucker clinic:
https://www.thecut.com/2016/02/fight-over-trans-kids-got-a-researcher-fired.html

Herzog’s impressive fundraising efforts:
https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1372583800480301065

There appear to be myriad holes in Zoe Quinn’s story about Alec Holowka, who committed suicide after (but not necessarily as a result of) her accusations and his subsequent firing:
https://thepostmillennial.com/exclusive-zoe-quinns-allegations-are-falling-apart

Freddie deBoer’s apology:
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/statement

Freddie deBoer’s essay about people’s unwillingness to accept his apology:
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/since-you-asked

Melissa Jeltsen’s useful and nuanced thread on the massage-parlor shootings and the temptation of simple storytelling:

https://twitter.com/quasimado/status/1372536018721734662

Whiteness Doesn’t Cause Mass Shootings:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/11/whiteness-mass-shootings.html

Basic info on Robert Aaron Long:

https://apnews.com/article/georgia-massage-parlor-shootings-leave-8-dead-f3841a8e0215d3ab3d1f23d489b7af81

No, a police captain didn’t blame the shooting on a “bad day”:

https://reason.com/2021/03/19/aaron-robert-long-spa-killer-atlanta-jay-baker-cop-bad-day/

Everyone got the Pulse nightclub shooting wrong:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/5/17202026/pulse-shooting-lgbtq-trump-terror-hate