Henry Wismayer
1 min readJun 22, 2018

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Hi Sherry — Thanks for this follow-up, which I appreciated right up until you inserted this completely unfounded jibe at the end. I was pretty sure I’d corresponded with everyone as befitted the tone of their responses. If I was terser with you than I was with alto, it’s because you were more antagonistic, not because you’re a woman! But then this is what relentless anger does, I suppose, warping our objectivity until we can only ever see shit through a jaundiced lens. I’ve done my best to explain the gap between my moral convictions and my sense of what might help to better propagate them, but I don’t think you’re really interested in anything beyond trumpeting your own moral superiority. I share all of your anger, and I have no interest in neutrality. But we are losing.

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Henry Wismayer
Henry Wismayer

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