And apparently a real one, the creation of Democrat for an Informed Approach to Gender. Its website is here.
I wonder how that sign would go over in my neighborhood, where the standard woke virtue-signaling signs (“No human being is illegal”…”Love is love,” etc.) sprout like poppies in Flanders Field.
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Pointer: Dr. Emilio Lizardo
Ethics Alarms 
There’s a libertarian version of the sign with assertions such as
“Socialism is the Gospel of Envy”
and the last line is
“Liberty is everything.”
charles abbott
rochester NY
I must admit to skepticism here.
That’s a very slick website, and it suggests some serious money behind it. If one looks at the “About Us” section, one finds that the vast majority of the “us” are using pseudonyms. Only a few are not.
Without spending time doing a deep dive, a quick search suggests the following of those willing to sign their names:
Jenny Poyer Ackerman writes on Substack and appears sincere. But Substackers are a way for journos to make a buck without interference from mainstream media outlet editors. Good for them, but we should never forget that writers, like everyone else, need to feed themselves.
Jocelyn Davis is a writer who appears to be very good at online self-promotion. See above
Martha Wexler does appear to be something of a real-deal stringer for NPR, but hasn’t done anything for them since 2020, and the site makes a big deal over her NPR bona fides. Jack, I know your history with NPR, and that you may well be seeing a sistah-from-anothah-motha in this one.
Tena Zara is an attorney who works small-scale clients. I have no issue with that; I work a niche too.
I’m not saying that ANY of them are insincere, and I’m completely willing to believe that those hiding behind pseudonyms – the majority – have honest reasons for doing so. I also appreciate the concept – the more of this stuff, the better.
Even so: who’s funding this, and why? As the old saying goes, “follow the money.”
My personal bias is to believe and support their efforts. As Jack knows – and others here may, if they’ve been paying attention – I train people to deal with media for a living. And the first thing I teach them is that this is all a business, and they should thus be skeptical of EVERYTHING. What a pity. In the old days, editors would tell new reporters “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.”
We can’t take anything for granted anymore. I hope these folks are on the level. But if your mother says she loves you, check it out.
“Preference Falsification” is the technical term for “saying that you think something that you don’t really think,” likely because of social pressure or anticipated negative social outcomes if you say what you are really thinking.
It seems to be associated with the economist Timur Kuran.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_falsification
I’ll natter on here, focused on the “yard sign” issue, the original ones that many people still have up. Along with “Black Lives Matter” signs.
I wonder why people don’t take down some of their signs. As I see it, “Black Lives Matter” probably raised the homicide rate and got roughly 5,000 additional Black Americans killed since the death of George Floyd, if you calculate the increased homicide rate over the baseline. Call me cold blooded if you like , but that’s my hunch.
I think the general problem is “preference falsification.”
An interesting recent discussion is here. I’m not familiar with the substacker in question, found it from a search.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-146251855?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web