Ben Appel was a nontraditional student at Columbia from 2017 to 2020. He watched the wokening of the campus. Ben is a gay man who found himself on the wrong end of the new oppression hierarchy and had to unlearn his prior political assumptions. We discussed self-acceptance and sobriety, the role of transgenderism in the progressive omnicause, and his review of the film Conclave. We also talked about the Trevor Project, GLAAD, and how they violate their own best advice by hyping suicide risk.
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