RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/June 2021

June 2021
The developer of Higan, Near, commits suicide following a 3 year long harassment campaign by Kiwi Farms. Near explicitly named the site in their suicide note, making them the fourth victim of the site's harassment. For their part, Kiwi Farms acts like no suicide happened at all and claims Near tried to extort them by threatening suicide. The Population Bomb Doomsday Scam: The narrative we’ve been force-fed for decades is being abandoned by its strictest adherents. Fulton v. City of Philadelphia: The narrow but awful decision, and the implications on how conservatives will attack LGBTQ rights in the future. [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/15/michel-foucault-self-individual-politics Today, the self is the battlefield of politics. Blame] Michel Foucault. An American computer student was doxxed by The Daily Heil for having the audacity to put forward a motion for the removal of a picture of Queen Elizabeth from a university common room. Israel-Palestine conflict exposes divisions among the US far-right. Godless grifters: How the New Atheists merged with the far right