Dr. Katharine Dickson

I missed this from a couple of weeks ago, but if you're an NIH-funded investigator, please read.

Peer review will exist to make things look legitimate, but can, and will, be over-ruled. Funding decisions, ultimately, will be done by political appointees.

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… and he SERVED ✨

States Push Back Against Trump DOJ Lawsuits Seeking Millions of Voters’ Private Data Read more here.

Officials from both parties have refused to turn over sensitive voter information, insisting they will protect the data entrusted to them — no matter how many lawsuits the Trump administration intends to file. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I understand your point that in a less authoritarian system, they'd be better off relationally or materially (as, frankly, would we all), but white supremacism's influence and structure would still have been pervasive under a Harris presidency.

This doesn't refute my point, you're just shifting the frame. Global and cross-state comparisons add extra layers of comparison but within the US & other white-majority societies, the local incentive structure favors white men - even when they incur moral/relational costs they keep structural power

This is misleading framing. Many white men pay relational and moral costs under this system, but they're often seen as manageable compared to the structural leverage they get. Everyone else faces coercion and constrained agency. The incentive structure is still overwhelmingly in white men's favor.

He especially dislikes a Black woman who’s more competent than he’ll ever be.

Yes, it is true that this cost is disproportionately borne by women of color.

My point is that I disagree that white supremacism generates a net benefit *even in the short term* for white women.

You, a South Asian man, are overstating the benefit of whiteness and understating the cost of womanhood.

Here's the accurate take:

White women do receive material benefits from white supremacy but pay psychological, bodily, and existential costs that are far larger yet harder to quantify. Their compliance is secured not by benefit but by fear, grooming, and conditional protection.

If white supremacist patriarchy were beneficial to WW as claimed, there'd be no massive white female burnout, skyrocketing antidepressant use, high IPV, WW leaders of #MeToo, evangelical women rebelling, suburban women defecting politically, and WW turning to LGBTQ/feminist communities for safety.

Also, only some white women benefit from this.
Who doesn't? Childless women and women who refuse motherhood; queer, ambitious, feminist, and trans white women; white women who outshine men.

Many white women comply because they fear losing the partial protection patriarchy offers them, not because they “benefit more.”

I STRONGLY disagree and here's why: white women benefit socially, materially, and politically from their whiteness but only if they are trapped in a specific gender role that subjugates them to white men.

The costs to us from misogyny are massive, just hidden in plain view.

yup these are not particularly well-read people, just the sort who are so fearful they'll organize and build an entire psychologically childish and rigid movement out of it

"How do I make my boss happy?" is the question that dominates the mind of every little authoritarian, and they instinctively assume it's on everyone else's mind as well.

adult masculinity accepts protectiveness without ownership from women at the same time as it gives protectiveness without ownership

100%, predatory men are far less likely to mess with well-resourced and well-boundaried women with a strong community

white supremacism depends greatly on female compliance

feminist cishet women also benefit a lot from living in community with feminist LGBTQ people - if a feminist cishet woman has a large enough group of friends behind her back, a cishet man is in a lot more material danger if he gets out of pocket

literally everything comes down to their bizarre reproductive anxiety and coercion system

yep! to fascists women are wombs, wombs-to-be, used-up wombs, or (because they do not have a working womb) some kind of aberration

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Let's be clear: white men of any age are the only ones with the capacity to ever get in on the con.

They do have to pay a far steeper price than many of them are willing to acknowledge, though.

White women:

To a white supremacist, you are not a person, but a womb.

relatedly: white women should be FAR more terrified and enraged about white supremacism than they are in the aggregate

Trump administration says Europe faces 'civilisational erasure' European politicians have begun to react, with Germany's Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul saying his country did not need "outside advice".

The Trump administration is now explicitly declaring white supremacism an official ideology of the state. We must fight against it even harder.

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Again the thing that just boggles my mind about all this is that economically immigration is a net win. Even with little to no restrictions. If someone is willing to pack up and haul themselves over to your country, they are tautologically a productive worker.

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WE ARE HEARTBROKEN THAT OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN THE TWIN CITIES ARE BEING TARGETED AND TERRORIZED BY THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION. THESE ARE REAL PEOPLE THAT ARE BEING USED AS POLITICAL PAWNS AND IT'S APPALLING. REGARDLESS OF THEIR LEGAL STATUS, THERE ARE SO MANY LATINOS & SOMALIANS WHO ARE AFRAID OF BEING DETAINED DUE TO MISTAKEN IDENTITY BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY MIGHT NOT GET DUE PROCESS & A FAIR TRIAL. THEY WILL JUST END UP IN DETENTION CENTERS & A LEGAL PROCESS THAT HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS A BLACK HOLE. WE STAND IN SUPPORT OF OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY, WHO ARE THE BACKBONE OF THIS COUNTRY. WITHOUT IMMIGRANTS, AMERICA IS NOT THE SAME PLACE. STAY SAFE OUT THERE & TAKE CARE OF YOUR NEIGHBORS. LOVE, HOLA AREPA & HAI HAI (5/5)

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded: