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Give me data, not condolences

Give me data, not condolences

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Virginia Heffernan
Jan 28, 2022
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I’m extremely grateful to ⁦the Brookings Institute for doing this careful analysis of the sexualized online attacks and death threats that ⁦Taylor Lorenz and I got after Tucker Carlson attacked us on his show. I can’t explain how much data is preferable to condolences when this happens.

It’s not that I don’t appreciate good words. It’s that my suffering …

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