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Briefly, “Elevatorgate” involved feminist atheist blogger Rebecca Watson, who described online an unwelcome pass made at her late at night in an elevator at an atheist conference. She advised atheists against such behaviour, and the resulting online debate got remarkably heated. Blackford does at least mention one source for details of the case (pp. 224-225), but if he is not going to lay out the facts himself, he has no business bringing up the example at all.
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Stone, P. Russell Blackford: The Tyranny of Opinion: Conformity and the Future of Liberalism. Ethic Theory Moral Prac 25, 389–391 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-022-10284-x
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