Yep. They've been hiding and nurturing their grievances in plain sight, and recruiting away with open signaling (like👌) as they gaslight the public (like arguing "it's the circle game" or "the number 3") and abetted by media credulity, normalization, and open denial.
https://twitter.com/kathleen_belew/status/1347170592080994304
Easy to call people like me crazy when we're talking about eugenics and seemingly meaningless strings of numbers (1488 etc.) because that is what the signaling and gaslighting is intended to do -- smear those raising alarm bells as biased or batshit. It's an old, old tactic.
It's been complicated by the enormous number of grifters who have already styled themselves experts on just this, who make sweeping pronouncements and claim insider knowledge where none exists, which is one of the reasons I work hard to cite all my sources and own my mistakes
It's been further complicated by social media's commitment to allowing all of this play out -- I believe that we're going to explicitly find out in coming months just how filthy @Facebook's business model has been, for example -- which is why I've gone to the mat with them, too
It's really important to me that people understand that every decision I have made and every wild thing I have said has been motivated by concerns that exactly this would happen in the United States, because -- you must understand -- this is exactly what happened in Myanmar
Continues to happen really. @Facebook has done nothing in the way of reparations. But look at the tone and tenor of the rhetoric. Substitute whatever familiar racial epithets you like and it may make more sense thediplomat.com/2020/08/how-fa…
Something like yesterday's events were exactly what I was picturing when I wrote this, for example
https://twitter.com/brooklynmarie/status/1242218890001666048
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