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11 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
This isn't unity. This is overt racism and sexism. And it doesn't get more mainstream than out of our soon-to-be President's mouth.
I don't think Biden is himself a racist and a sexist, but the policy articulated here absolutely is.
You don't use realities that occur at the population level to determine who gets what at the individual level. You simply look at need based on an individual's unique situation, and base aid on those factors.
It may be the case that women and POC are disadvantaged on average compared to white men. And if so then they will receive more assistance that white males anyway. But you don't use race and sex as a proxy for disadvantage, you just use the actual measures of disadvantage.

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This is 100% pseudoscience.
If you want to understand exactly why it is pseudoscience, see my essay below: quillette.com/2020/06/07/jk-…
Here is the most relevant section, but see the whole article for the complete picture.
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2) Students were told that all white people are racist because they're white, and that black students should "be free from discipline regardless of their behavior."
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1/ 🚨ALERT: CA moves to change insurance language on double mastectomies for gender dysphoric females from "cosmetic" to "reconstructive" to ensure no age limit for the procedure. Normal breasts are reclassified as "abnormal structures of the body caused by congenital defects."
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2 Jan
Biden wants to repeal the HIV Discrimination Act that requires people who know they have HIV to disclose it to sexual partners.

Meanwhile, in NY, Dems are trying to pass a bill that will allow the gov't remove & detain people who may be "potentially dangerous" to public health.
It's amazing how different viruses are treated differently based on politics.
CORRECTION: There is no "HIV Discrimination Act." Biden wants to sign a "REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act" that will attempt to revamp state laws requiring disclosure of HIV to sexual partners & those they may share needles with.

Sorry for the error, though substance is unchanged.
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28 Dec 20
1/ I am not an expert on viruses or vaccines, but many people seem confused about what's being said here.

There's a difference between being "infected" (i.e. testing positive for the coronavirus) and having symptoms.
2/ The vaccines appear to prevent you from getting COVID-19 (the disease caused by the virus), but we don't know whether they prevent you from being infected and/or transmitting it to others. You can be "infected" with a virus without showing symptoms.
3/ For instance, you could test positive for human papillomavirus (HPV)—the virus that causes genital warts—and not have warts. Likewise, you may still spread HPV even if you don't have physical warts. And a person you transmit HPV to could develop warts when you never did.
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28 Dec 20
1/ Many activists claim their view that sex is a spectrum helps prevent intersex surgeries from taking place since male and female aren't seen as fixed categories and thus in a sense we are all intersex to some degree.

It tries to solve a problem by queering everyone.
2/ Despite being a factually inaccurate way to view biological sex, I fail to see how portraying intersex as not being fully male or female, but rather somewhere in between because *we all are*, would actually prevent intersex surgeries on infants from taking place.
3/ Rather than telling parents that their intersex infants are not fully male or female, which seems to me would only *increase* the likelihood that parents would pursue "corrective" surgery, the truth seems far more likely to prevent unnecessary surgery on infants.
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