Notices by "You do you" is Eu-gen-ics. (beadsland@disabled.social), page 8

A year later, remembering:

https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/110829907398862806

Somehow HHS was able to share data below radar, perhaps because they weren't public face #PublicHealth agency serving to promote the Impact Research line:

https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/110330236547365406

Ain't just that a requirement for mandatory reporting has expired.

Is that with such expiration, #CDC was able to wrest control of public data sharing away from HHS, so to give said data the sanitized pastel/Levels treatment.

Statistics, as always, are structural.

@inquiline @abolisyonista

As with "defund" (weak-sauce!), we must perhaps liberate the prefix. "Do the de-!"

Seriously, though, complaint against the term degrowth is one's foot in the door.

"People want growth and we should..." Okay, stop, before that other bit, tell me more about that first bit. Why do people want growth?

Who are these "people", exactly? No, let's get specific. Let's talk lives, not abstractions.

"Last week, I resigned from my post at the United States Department of the Interior, becoming the first Jewish politically appointed administration official to publicly resign in protest – and in #mourning – of President Biden’s endorsement of genocide in Gaza, where more than 35,000 Palestinians have been murdered."

~ Lily Greenberg Call

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/28/biden-israel-gaza-policy

It is time for a politics of mourning.

Mourning is a place of power.

Must resist the liberal impulse to educate in response to a question that evidences constraints of imagination.

Must. Resist. That. Liberal. Impulse.

@deilann #MakeItWas

Many of us told you in 2020 what was in store.

Ya'll didn't want to listen.

Just as so many of us are telling you what is still in store in #PublicHealth and #Palestine and U.S. policing.

Please don't with the revisionist history now about how "we all" thought different.

We all ain't you all.

The collective work of #mourning unfulfilled retrofuture promises has never been more urgent.

Insecurity about ignorance is gonna keep on killing…

https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112509300197147217

Until we all do that work.

@AnthonyJK @PatrickoftheG

Disinclined to analogize apartheid state in question with 1940s Europe, as manifest destiny settler colonialism goes further back than that, and the German lawyers modeled their approach on the breaking of treaties with indigenous peoples, Jim Crow, and Progressives' eugenics of then contemporary U.S., but otherwise, yeah.

The Israeli government knows their window is poised to close.

They're only gonna accelerate the carnage from here.

@PatrickoftheG

Biggest fear is that a 47 might follow lead of a right-wing populist elsewhere (and/or a right-wing populist elsewhere might be inspired by 47 in Oval), who's done the math to realize that rather than tamp down antisemitism with jingoist Islamaphobia, the tides of global public opinion have turned sufficiently to make it politically advantageous to instead unleash that antisemitism full force.

At which point, we go from weapons sales to Israel to weapons deployed against Israel.

@PatrickoftheG

Not so sure about that.

A 47 can mean countries presently sitting on their hands getting actively involved just to perform on the world stage their opposition to the color orange.

Meanwhile, a 47 might readily halt arms shipments if he believes it will energize his base as a demonstration that he's the one in charge, not them.

White liberals (including those vehemently in support of Israel now) will get far more aggressive in their disruptive direct action, again cause orange.

One need not invoke 1940s Europe to discuss contemporary fascism.

Indeed, to do so only serves to alienate those sympathetic to cause for liberation, while at same time ceding ammunition to one's opponents, even as it empowers fascists of another ilk.

Today's fascism is not the fascism of WWII. Its ethnocolonial roots predate those events by decades and its geopolitical dimensions transcend that moment in history by ideology.

Conflating today with yesterday only ensures we learn from neither.

'Muricans, I tell ya.

Who remembers the 2020 primaries?

I mean yeah, twas four years ago, so fact that history is such a damnable challenge for most Usians gonna be a thing. But try 'n think back anyways.

The reason we got Vibe'n as Democratic nominee was that so many of that party assumed that he was the only candidate their peers would vote for.

Strategic voting based on the presumed ignorance of other Usians is how we got into this mess.

Using a lever to lock in injustice is abdication.

But the whole idea that using a lever of power, in and of itself, is good: this is the insidious line.

Society is full of folk using levers of power at the behest of power.

Is how the trains kept running on their way to the camps.

Operating the machine that is killing folk in the name of protecting other folk from their discomfort at being ignorant of how they, like you, are complicit in the killing… Is. Not. Virtuous.

This is anti-CRT argument: don't teach history, it'd make white kids sad.

This is just another bad take on the trolley problem, which ironically speaks to unfamiliarity with that history:

https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112493751449198315

If the problem is that many Americans feel insecure about how little they know, how exactly does advocating for choice that affirms their ignorance help anyone?

To be clear, this question is not meant as a liberal exhortation to educate folk. The problem isn't ignorance, it's insecurity.

That insecurity about one's ignorance: that's the problem to tackle.

We'll not fix any of this for citing to the problem as our justification for doubling down on making things worse.

The problem is... Right. There.

Focus on the problem.

Enough of the distractions.

To put it more bluntly, let's stop with the least-common denominator politics of overconfident mediocre white men.

They ain't need their levers pulled any more. Let them stroke their own engines.

We've got serious work to do. It's us against the machine and its levers and its switches. The politics of picking your opponent ain't gonna get that work done:

https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112317240283259815

Nor, even, is the politics of criticizing the opponent:

https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112376160859030686

Time for a politics of #mourning.

Foreign policy, foreign schmolecy. Call is coming from inside the white man's house. Problem is whiteness.

If the problem is that folk are insecure in their ignorance, if the problem is that folk are unprepared to process tough emotions, then the solution is to work on fostering emotional resiliency.

Forget force-feeding facts to folk. Put away appeals to certainty of logic.

Teach self-empathy. Model sitting uncomfortably with doubt. Develop strategies for public acts of collective #mourning.

@tqwhite

Apparently, you are not reading.

Or perhaps you missed that this is part of a thread?

Anyway, please take your intellectual ableism to someone else's mentions.

@tqwhite

If you took "lazy" away from what is written here, then yes, you are not reading.

What about "contemplates organizing as a steady state, where only the conditions change, and organizing does not change in relation to those conditions" translates to "lazy"?

You know what? I don't care.

"I don't understand how you can think what you say" is signal that you don't want to understand—you want to call out my thinking as unacceptable.

You've been asked to go elsewhere. Will not ask again.

Solidarity happens when interests converge.

Unfortunately, favorite chariot racing team is one such interest.