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Reposted in this thread because the author again mentions me:

The idea that the author would accuse me of being a member of a group being paid to bully him into suicide is disgusting. I lost my father to suicide 15 years ago and battle with depression myself. From reading the other posts on this blog, it would seem that he does not have much regard for the feelings of anyone else and doesn't care what his baseless accusations might do to the people he is making them against.

Here's a little about me for the individuals who might read this comment. As I write this I am studying Civil Rights law to become an attorney after having watched several of my neighborhoods explode in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. I lived in Uptown Minneapolis while I was courting the woman who would become my wife. I saw waves of protesters flood past my old 4th story walk up on Capital Hill, where my wife and I lived while she was getting her MS in Conflict Resolution from the Jimmy Carter School for Peace Studies at George Mason University. I saw violent clashes happen in Portland, the city where my son was born.

And through all of this I thought, what can I do? How can I help?

So I quit my job as a phlebotomist (a job that I took to help people after I having donated blood plasma twice a week for 20+ years and seeing the need for people with steady hands), and I decided to go back to school to study law. I had plenty of time to do it too, since COVID had shut down all of my volunteer work including hours a week spent at the food shelf, helping with my son's local school district, and visiting the children's hospital, where I would dress as a wizard (and occasionally a superhero) and do magic shows for kids with debilitating illnesses.

What did the author of this blog do? Created a Twitter account and a Medium account and used them to attack people like me. Fortunately, Twitter and Medium both decided that he wasn't right for their platforms and removed his content and his ability to publish more. With his options limited, he came here to Substack, a platform with much looser content standards, a platform that gleefully promotes the most vile of misinformation like anti-vax sentiments and election fraud conspiracies.

My point is to just take the information that "Steven Jarvis" provides with a grain of salt. There is a reason multiple platforms have decided his content is too egregious to be shared by them, and a reason he does so from this specific one. He wants to control a narrative. He wants to paint people as monsters for disagreeing with him, for pointing out that he is wrong, and for defending themselves against his accusations.

That can be something you support or something you speak out against, and I know which side I'm on. If anyone would like to speak to me or ask me questions about the content of this comment, my twitter handle is in the body of his article. I have nothing to say to the author, because I find him as contemptable as Twitter and Medium do.

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