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   Nora Reed (nora@blob.love)'s status on Sunday, 23-Feb-2025 02:31:45 JST Nora Reed

   the basic belief that underlies these fascists' policies is that they think straight white cis men are actually better than everyone else and that anyone who is not a white cis man doing jobs that they think white cis men should be doing is a drain on the system. because they are white supremacists

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     Nora Reed (nora@blob.love)'s status on Sunday, 23-Feb-2025 02:32:01 JST Nora Reed

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     they're wrong, of course: attempts to correct for bias against marginalized groups as well as to correct for societal conditions that reduce opportunities makes everything work better, because evening out the playing field means talented and skilled marginalized people get opportunities to excel

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     Nora Reed (nora@blob.love)'s status on Sunday, 23-Feb-2025 02:32:17 JST Nora Reed

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     the attack on diversity programs, along with the explicit resegregation of the government, literally only makes sense in the context of entrenched mediocre cis straight white con men like trump and musk creating a facile defense of their political power based on white supremacist/kyriarchical values

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     Nora Reed (nora@blob.love)'s status on Sunday, 23-Feb-2025 02:32:27 JST Nora Reed

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     this is really, really basic stuff but a lot of people are just waking up for the first time and the news media is fully pretending they don't know any of this so it seems worth restating the 101 shit