Do not go and harass the OP. But there will 100% be more posts like the one the not OP (the person I’m quoting) is commenting on. Bc one of the functions of antisemitic hate speech is to manipulate/consolidate the speech of folks’ ingroup and you can do that easily on social media.

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The UK has turned into a censorious nightmare state because of transphobia

Though tbh it really should not be surprising that a white dude who systematically pushed questions of power out of what counts as “real” linguistics is fine having no analysis of power in his friends circles either

abolish geniuses

Today, I examine how the boundaries of the Nation are co-constituted by race, disability, and sexuality, but also---notably---gender and control over reproduction. And ask everyone to stop saying transfeminism is 'imperialist'. For fuck's sake. Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/understand...

Online political discussions are characterized by a minority of users dominate the discussion, while most remain silent. Those who perceived a discussion as toxic/polarized tend to remain silent: But toxicity engages power users (namely men interested in politics) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The only way this makes sense is when you understand health as a product sold to individuals. Once you turn health into a product and healthcare into a business, then you can blame individuals for not being able to afford their health(care) rather than look at the environment in which they live.

"incel" only holds weight if you agree that the value of a person is related to their sexual activity. calling Fuentes an incel does nothing to lower his standing among his peers but it does affirm and recirculate misogynistic logic. make of that what you will.

for the love of God - I really wish the elite liberal litigation establishment (if there is such a thing) - would give up the fantasy that using Republican legal doctrine will somehow convince this MAGA #SCOTUS to rule for then. It's the same fantasy of bipartisanship w see from Cong Dem leaders.

This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.

the thing about online queer discourse is unless you dig into things it's hard to tell if someone is speaking from a place of nuance and decades of lived experience or whether you're reading the untested absolutes of the most 15-year-old alive

how do I even start making a backup plan if I don't find an academic position before my postdoc runs out? I have to have more options than going back to being a custodian, right? 😭 feeling so underprepared for the Real World TM

🚨new article🚨 "Polarisation" has become one of those terms commonly used to discuss the dire state of politics and democracy today Here @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I argue that this simplistic framing is counterproductive 🧵Thread🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Post deleted, but preserved for posterity. IDK this Julian guy and maybe it was just a bad take, but if so that's a perfect example of how it's eugenics. Being able to reinforce cultural biases like taller=better in a lab would quickly become eugenics and is a thought anyone could have.

We need to come to terms with the fact that a lot of people fully support the principles behind eugenics.They might know the term "eugenics" refers to a bad thingTM. So they will never say they support "eugenics." But then will fully embrace all of the ideas and practices the term refers to.

One thing I always want to ask these masculinity entrepreneurs is why men can’t look to women as role models, and can’t see in women models of human virtue and thriving that are worth emulating. After all, women look to men for these all the time.

There's this constant discourse about how "the left" (whoever that is) has to stop being condescending and speak directly to men's issues. But these gurus are, without fail, more condescending to men than any feminist or SJW I've ever met.

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

the whole "Ms Rachel, antisemite of the year" thing illustrates how reactionary lobbies choose targets. Ms Rachel is clearly not antisemitic, but there's no point in attacking the most virulent antisemites because they are useful to the Israel lobby & are not vulnerable to this kind of harassment.

i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life

I hate to admit it but when I was a little freak conservative undergrad I deliberately wrote provocative things to try and get a reaction from my "lib" instructors - there is a lot of motivation in conservative circles to get attention this way. this is exactly what happened imo

"the essay sucks ass" is no doubt true, couldn't be bothered to read it, but consider that the essay may have been written to receive an F in order to instigate a campaign against the trans TA. in any case it's not a great dunk because this isn't about the essay, it's about purging trans ppl

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

I appear to be losing sleep over a collective inability to recognize what anti-gender movements look like in higher ed: the OU case matters not just bc it is targeting a trans instructor (emphasis on identity in targeting online by TPUSA, LoTT, etc), but also in the course material targeted—gender.

they will die mad that they've already lost because, crucially and irrevocably, they've already lost

OPINION by @milleridriss.bsky.social: “A gendered slur such as ‘piggy’ is meant to disparage, belittle and most of all put a woman in her place.” READ MORE: www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...

@geraldroche.bsky.social I still watch this video every so often. "History is full of depressing things that were defeated by people who did something." Full episode: becauselanguage.com/109-language...

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Appeasing the far-right gives the broader public the impression that their narrative is true. There is no way to stem support for Reform by endorsing their policies. Either you are fighting against them or you are, regardless of how you see yourself, fighting for them.

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

so tired of dems doing bong rips from the republican tailpipe. you have to be a chucklefuck to not understand that (1) conservatives fully manufactured this discourse on "identity politics" and (2) dems will always be on the back foot if they continually allow conservatives to make first strikes.

Again it’s not good that the most prominent leaders of the party keep insisting it’s a trap to talk about “identity” when the Trump administration is pushing white supremacy.

I refuse to believe that Ben Shapiro is only now realizing what his place in the rightwing media ecosystem has wrought

Excited to share that, with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social , we’ve published a new article in New Media & Society! We examine how far-right actors on X (formerly Twitter) instrumentalize wellness culture to spread reactionary ideology. Thread below 🧵

One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)

The overwhelming majority of "critiques" for things associated with queerness & feminism are just "it's cringe." "Girlbosses are annoying," "blue hair & pronouns are twee," "poly ppl are ugly," "feminists don't get fucked enough," etc

this! the AI industry and CS at large literally treats the human condition as a problem to be solved

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Our (with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social) introduction to the special issue is now available! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

applied for two positions today please do blood rituals for me

everyone should read Smalls (2021) Fat, Black, and Ugly: The Semiotic Production of Prodigious Femininities: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

hollering into the void: OCD is not shorthand for your fun lil quirks or hangups around organization, it's an irrational and sometimes dehabilitating condition that destroys your quality of life from the inside out

new gender triad: fellows, fellas and fellers

Reading about “the persistent link between contemporary far-right politics and ‘alternative’ health and wellness” while watching the MAHA agenda unfold in real time and cannot recommend this paper enough, even if just for the incredible lit review on masculinity, the body, and fascism

So a socio- #linguistics paper I wrote with Joe Walther (UCSB) just went live in Social Media + Society on how different social feedback signals feed subsequent #hatespeech on #Twitter. I wanted to take a moment and write about what that paper, and the older paper Rick Dale and I worked on, show 🧵

Yes. All the empirics on misinformation indicate that the way to defeat bad ideas is to mock and marginalize them. Constantly declaring "hey the far right isn't so bad" is a terrible strategy both morally and electorally. Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"

I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters. We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.