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I respectfully disagree. Put bluntly, even MLK progressives are now worried about the entire well meaning progressive movement being commandeered by Maoists using moral panic to drive the formerly liberal media, HigherEd the Democratic Party & Tech to undoing the enlightenment.
I appreciate your desire to reduce racism. I share it.

I am sure you appreciate my desire to avoid chaos and collapse of the progress made to date. And you likely share it.

We are divided by assessing the greater danger, and an assessment of where we are relative to the abyss.
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Some time in the next few days, we‘ll discover that Los Angeles has a state beach named after an obvious racist who used to make “entertainment out of a noose!” And we‘ll cancel Will Rogers on our way to deciding that Malcolm X was an Uncle Tom.

Please: Stop panicing each other.
I am not focused on NASCAR. I’m looking at tweets like this and it is breaking my heart that we are making ourselves hate and suspect each other at all times due to fanning the flames of race:

How does this woman know with such confidence what she is seeing? I would have guessed a rope for towing.

How does she come to feel so certain she knows it’s a threat? Am I insane for guessing a tow rope?
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Two weeks ago we had #shutdownstem. About black Americans. In Science.

Let me be clear: Lab heads explicitly refer to foreign students/postdocs as “Slave Labor”!! I have this on audio, *repeatedly*, from interviews with leading biologists I conducted years ago for @ASCBiology.
We don’t remember anything from week to week. We don’t connect the dots. We just argue emotionally like we are doing in these pictures.

Let me tell you what would likely happen in the absence of visa access. Salaries would go up & US blacks/women/minorities would be hired more.
In short, many of those cut outs would turn Into Black faces. And Latino faces. And mothers with kids would be seen. Higher wages for research families. Homes. Cars. Medical plans would get better.

Also, labs could shrink. Taxes might rise.

It’s real life folks. Not a good cry.
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Watching @slatestarcodex and others go off line, I’m changing tactics. I need to move to become unfirable and uncancelable. I can’t be vulnerable to my advertisers or even my employer if this pressure can be put on anyone at will.

It’s time to accept saying FU requires FU money.
I have been reluctant to put things behind paywalls and all that retail stuff, but I will now set something up to allow direct contributions. Many of you have asked me to do that and I didn’t feel right about it. Well that just changed. I really want Scott & @slatestarcodex back.
The individual is outgunned at all times. We cannot easily fight back. But this is ridiculous. So many great people gathered around @slatestarcodex. I want it back.
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