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Nothing is more depressing than watching young artists give other young artists advice like “only use one colour palette in everything you do to have a more recognizable brand” and “draw everything with a target audience in mind”
![A screenshot of a nested social media thread. At the top, user Benjamin Ryan comments that FIRE CEO Greg Lukianoff's observation about trans issues being "immediately radioactive" and a kind of "secular blasphemy" caused Harvard Law clinical instructor Alejandra Caraballo to attack him as "extremely transphobic."
Attached is a screenshot of Caraballo's post, which reads: "Here's the CEO of [FIRE] being extremely transphobic. Which side is the one criminalizing care and research? Which side is the one defunding all research? Which side is purging dissent? It ain't trans people."
Caraballo's post quotes Lukianoff's original statement, where he writes: "In my career defending academic freedom and free speech, I never saw anything become as immediately radioactive as views that ran counter to the narrative on trans issues. Papers were retracted, compelled speech was treated as normal, and people were canceled for saying things that would have sounded like common sense just a few years earlier. It seemed to become a kind of secular blasphemy overnight."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sefgphqp2xqwh2hawaixykwz/bafkreiat6lx54vr2nawquz62ov7lblck75f3c24hbhdlba2ootd4bmd2ei)
![think about my father being called
"boy", my uncle being called "boy", my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called "boy". So I questioned myself: "What does a black man have to do before he's given respect as a man?" So when I was 18 years old,
when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be called a man. I self-ordained myself Mr. T, so the first word out of everybody's mouth is "Mr."
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