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Point being, there is no evidence in the historical record of Webb ever saying anything homophobic, or first-hand engaging in any homophobic activity whatsoever.Īs someone who has been a champion of gay rights for multiple decades, this issue with James Webb is a tempest in a teapot and a waste of time. Indeed, a historian who wrote a book on the entire Lavender Scare notes that “ he knows of no evidence that Webb led or instigated persecution”. It’s pretty obvious to me, reading the minutes of that meeting that he didn’t want to be there he said very little and tried to be as noncommittal as possible. Webb was forced to attend a meeting about the “perversion problem”. Heck, when Google had only 5,000 employees in 2005, it was a big deal that the president still signed off on every new hire the company had. Once an organization gets that big, there is no way its director is going to keep track of every single hiring and firing. Keep in mind: NASA had over 200,000 employees at the time. There has been no evidence presented that Webb was aware of this firing. In 1963, one Clifford Norton was fired from NASA for allegedly being gay.
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Once an investigation was done and it was proven Webb never said this homophobic statement, people who want to cancel Webb, instead of admitting their error, doubled down and decided there must be other evidence that Webb was homophobic. What’s happening here is that there was a very dirty and homophobic quote out there that was mistakenly mis-attributed to Webb. The problem is this: There are people who can not read and comprehend a scientific paper but who think they know more than the top scientists about the virus.įor the record, I publicly opposed homophobia in 2003, but this attempt to “cancel” James Webb has gone too far. Nextdoor finally had to delete the entire dumpster fire of a thread. If one believes that there’s a vast media conspiracy concealing hundreds of thousands of deaths (without any evidence this conspiracy actually exists), I have nothing to say to them.” Then we had another person who gave us the “well, the vaccine is killing a lot of people but they aren’t reporting the deaths”, at which point I said “People aren’t dying from the vaccine. They didn’t read the paper, because it clearly says “Individuals who were both previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and given a single dose of the vaccine gained additional protection against the Delta variant.”Īlso, when I gave them the “people need to get the vaccine to protect themselves from the risk of death of COVID-19”, their reply was a complete whoosh!, like they couldn’t care about protecting other people. You know, it’s really frustrating to engage in dialog with anti-vaxxers (or, these days, “I’m not anti-vaxx but”).įor example, in a recent thread on Nextdoor, one anti-vaxxer used a paper which encourages vaccinations to say “since I have natural immunity (but are you sure that was COVID-19), I don’t need the vaccine”.