From the archives: "I’ve managed to avoid scandal & outrage almost entirely by offering nuanced, non-partisan pieces that explicitly warn against the risks of Us vs. Them thinking...until I touched the third rail of transgender identity," writes McGill University psychiatry professor Samuel Veissière.

https://quillette.com/…/a-surfeit-of-empathy-and-an-absenc…/

"Something like a hate crime hoax would make no sense in an honor culture. You might falsely accuse someone of insulting you so that you have a chance to display your honor, but you’d be trying to get them to engage in a duel or some other kind of fight. You’d be trying to demonstrate strength, to show you can handle your conflicts on your own. The last thing you’d want to do is claim to be a victim in need of help."