# Who is Tanya Cohen? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 18, 2015, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-tanya-cohen/734972 "2015-10-18T02:09:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-tanya-cohen/734972/1 "2015-10-18T02:09:16Z")
[Tanya Cohen](https://web.archive.org/web/20150611172652/http://thoughtcatalog.com/tanya-cohen/) insisted that non – progressive speech should be banned. Many conservatives did not like these ideas until they realized that the author of the account was [Joshua Ryne Goldberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Ryne_Goldberg). Joshua Goldberg is a Conservative advocate of Free Speech. Many liberals would claim that the Tanya Cohen character never existed and Joshua Goldberg is a fraud. In my opinion, this is not exactly true. Tanya Cohen is not a lonely radical – she lives inside millions of liberals. Is it true? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-tanya-cohen/734972/2 "2015-10-18T02:27:32Z")
not worth the warning. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-tanya-cohen/734972/3 "2015-10-18T02:48:52Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > not worth the warning. This should have its own acronym for situations like this: NWTW. He does seem to be working hard on earning his own Pit thread. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-tanya-cohen/734972/4 "2015-10-18T02:51:15Z")
> [@ddsun](#): > > He does seem to be working hard on earning his own Pit thread. How? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-tanya-cohen/734972/5 "2015-10-18T03:06:25Z")
Doesn’t have the same ring to it as “Who is John Galt”. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-tanya-cohen/734972/6 "2015-10-18T03:09:37Z")
Also a fictional character > [@](#): > > John Galt is a character in Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged (1957). Although he is not identified by name until the last third of the novel, he is the object of its often-repeated question “Who is John Galt?” and of the quest to discover the answer. Is fictional the same as non – real? ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-tanya-cohen/734972/7 "2015-10-18T03:15:29Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > How? Doesn’t it strike you that your poll is tremendously insulting? ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-tanya-cohen/734972/8 "2015-10-18T03:16:44Z")
> [@ddsun](#): > > Doesn’t it strike you that your poll is tremendously insulting? Why? Do most liberals agree with ideas presented under Tanya Cohen’s name? ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-tanya-cohen/734972/9 "2015-10-18T03:20:04Z")
> [@ddsun](#): > > Doesn’t it strike you that your poll is tremendously insulting? Be nice. The OP has Depression and Autism. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-tanya-cohen/734972/10 "2015-10-18T03:24:58Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Be nice. The OP has Depression and Autism. Thank you – many great talents had/have Aspergers. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-tanya-cohen/734972/11 "2015-10-18T03:34:15Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > Thank you – many great talents had/have Aspergers. Ooooh, I wish this was the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-tanya-cohen/734972/12 "2015-10-18T03:56:58Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Doesn’t have the same ring to it as “Who is John Galt”. Although I did love Dagny Taggart’s answer, early in the novel: “We are!” ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-tanya-cohen/734972/13 "2015-10-18T04:07:01Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > Why? Do most liberals agree with ideas presented under Tanya Cohen’s name? No, it’s insulting because your OP states you believe that they do. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-tanya-cohen/734972/14 "2015-10-18T04:08:30Z")
I apologize to any progressive who believes in Free Speech. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-tanya-cohen/734972/15 "2015-10-18T04:15:41Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > I apologize to any progressive who believes in Free Speech. What proportion of progressives, in your estimation, would this apology be directed towards? ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-tanya-cohen/734972/16 "2015-10-18T04:24:15Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > \>\> I apologize to any progressive who believes in Free Speech. > > What proportion of progressives, in your estimation, would this apology be directed towards? I do not know. I have not seen any polls. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-tanya-cohen/734972/17 "2015-10-18T05:07:55Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > I do not know. I have not seen any polls. That’s why I said “in your estimation”. It was clear from your OP that you don’t really think progressives believe in true free speech. So then, when you later ‘apologized’ to “any progressives who believe in free speech”, it made you sound rather disingenuous. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-tanya-cohen/734972/18 "2015-10-18T05:51:09Z")
[A little bit of Devil’s Advocate here] Does it occur to all the respondents in this thread who are trashing the OP and his apparent views, that you are proving his thesis? [/A little bit of Devil’s Advocate here] ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-tanya-cohen/734972/19 "2015-10-18T05:51:49Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ooooh, I wish this was the Pit. You now know he has a mental disability, yet you still want to attack and hurt him rather than even try to explain the issue. You make me wish this was in the Pit, too. I don’t like the tone **Ambivalid** is taking (especially the first post that sounds sarcastic), but at least he’s trying to help him see the issue. (And the tone is completely lost on **CCitizen** , anyways.) **CCitizen** : I’ll get into your OP in a subsequenc post. But I want to explain why **Rick Kitchen** in upset. (And, no, it’s not a perfect explanation. It’s hard to put it all into words.) While it is true that many people on the autism spectrum have contributed to the array of human knowledge, your comment came off as you saying you think people with Asperger’s are better than neurotypical people. That comes off as arrogance, an undesirable trait. Furthermore, it came as a reply to a post where **Ambivalid** was telling people to be nice to you because you didn’t realize what you said was insulting. Yet your reply implies that you think he was agreeing with you. Until you learn the nuances, here’s some advice: always be ready to apologize for offending people, and don’t try to argue that what you said shouldn’t be offensive. And don’t go around talking about how smart people with Asperger’s are. It will come off as you talking about smart you are–and thus will sound arrogant. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-tanya-cohen/734972/20 "2015-10-18T06:02:01Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Does it occur to all the respondents in this thread who are trashing the OP and his apparent views, that you are proving his thesis? Not at all. Part of free speech is facing criticism for what you say. That’s other people with opposing viewpoints exercising the same free speech you have. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-tanya-cohen/734972.md?page=2)