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nights Welcome to Media Roots Radio, Siding, Radio, sitting down with Connor Habib, and sex worker, amazing author, find him on Twitter at Connor Habib just at Connor Abib right

Connor yeah C-O-N-N-E-R-H-A-B-I-D-A-D amazing um so Connor you are jack-of-all

trades but I want to start off by talking about your recent article it was pretty

provocative it says if you're against sex work, you're bigot. Why?

Well, I didn't come up with the title, but the, but the title is basically apt. What it's

about is a certain group of activists who they refer to themselves as for debate, but they refer themselves as feminists,

or neuroscientists, social scientists, that sort of thing that are against porn and sex work

of any kind. My problem with them is not that they have some sort of ideology or point of

view. It's that they don't. And the way that you can

see that this is true, that they don't actually have an ideology, is you just sort of pick apart

their tactics. They use the same exact tactics as racist, homophobes and Islamophobes and other bigots.

And so it was really an article examining their rhetoric,

not examining the sort of laundry list, which just goes on and on of fake facts, fake statistics,

all these things that they cook up, but rather the kinds of tactics and strategies they use

to attack sex workers and to attack sex work in pornography in our culture.

It's interesting because I've definitely noticed that there's a schism in the left, people who

support sex workers and want them to be recognized by the state and given resources

and more independent so they can manage their own work. And then there's another rift that kind of just

says no sex work is legitimate. It's all kind of this manifestation of the patriarchal society that

we're living in. We're all women, I mean, basically like, if you look worldwide, you know,

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