Jason Colavito has been sqwawking "Islamophobia! Transphobia!" recently. I find this a bit rich, from him.
Colavito came to my attention in the first place for posting against claims made by... Muslims. This very blog has made use of Colavito's crusade against Hamidullah.
As for the "transphobia", I'll spot him that Colavito is no transphobe. Interestingly enough, neither are the Muslims! The Islamic Republic of Iran has pushed sexual reassignment surgery - in its own jihad against homosexuality. It seems we can have "transgenderism" or we can have gays and lesbian bars - for that latter matter, we can have female athletes. We must pick a side, like Iran has. Maybe this is Colavito's redemption-arc... homophobia. And misogyny.
Or: keep on keepin' on preaching power to truth. It sure is a lot easier to call your opponents Deplorable names than to address the issues. You lose something of your stature as a scholar, though.
The reason I still go there is because Colavito gets it spot-on right on the Ancient Alien memes. I'd even say he's doing the Right a real favour, like in 2013 he did a favour to the Muslims (whom he felt the same way about). The Right has gone insane and it must abandon, for a start, Q. (Cf, Rod Dreher.) Note that this is to do everyone else a favour as well. As even Jon Scalzi has pointed out, you cannot keep going Left forever; there's going to be a point where you have to stop and think about what the Left is trying to do. You'll want the (hopefully improved) Right as allies.
If you can quit namecalling them long enough.
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