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4 Feb, 12 tweets, 13 min read
@FBI - I have been marked as a target by alt right already - my #GOTV work is what #MarjorieTaylorGreene spreads hate on - citizen rights of minorities. The violence that smashed the skull of #OfficerSicknick on Jan 6 was about effective #votingrights work of @staceyabrams
(Deleted tweets cuz the posted link was wrong - gah. I hate deleting tweets but the meaning totally changed.)
What I threaten is the power differential in #healthcare -by my identity & work - all bullying is about power first & foremost. Yes, I threaten bullies & their sidekicks. I open, expand, include vs paranoia to exclude, block.

Other Muslims like me, shot: dailytarheel.com/article/2020/0…
Hospitals are NOT safe. QAnon aside, anger vs a doctor led to this. Dr. Davidson was described as kind, caring, generous yet shot dead.

QAnon staff working in the same hospital or workplace as me may believe #MarjorieTaylorGreene - want me dead?

bostonmagazine.com/news/2015/06/3…
Workplace violence is very real in America as is violence vs women. #nashvillebombing could have killed people. #CapitolRiot has resulted in identifying police, ex-military, legislators as perpetrators or complicit. We know QAnon is inside #healthcare:

nytimes.com/2021/01/04/us/…
I spoke on rise in overt #racism in #healthcare #hospital #meded vs patients & trainees here in @becker_sbecker #podcast. At the time focused only on #clinical #quality #safety rather than express true extent of concern (fears)

Am speaking plainly now

go.beckershospitalreview.com/scott-becker-i…
I have worked in many settings in Boston & chose not to identify the location of those incidents (one was a trainee afraid for me to report on his behalf). @The_BMC @mghfc @MGHMedicine @BostonChildrens please screen your staff for QAnon to prevent:

lawandcrime.com/crime/pharmaci…
We know anti-vaxx & racism co-exist in QAnon ideology. I’ve seen both in all settings of #Boston #healthcare

In one hospital setting in Boston, staff perceived compliance with #hospital #vaccine policy as “bullying”

Need to engage pro-science #nursing #physician #leaders vs
#ethics in #healthcare that are too “flexible” harm #safety #quality as well as reputation

In today’s world of videos & screenshots, no way to hide what happened. We know VIPs are allowed to bend/violate rules while others harshly policed

Double standards harbor QAnon too
Am tough as nails - worked ED #Boston #marathonbombing & lived thru war

rarely express the true extent of my deepest concerns

(I have learned people do not believe WOC until harm is already done & visible)

I am speaking this plainly with @ because I am THAT worried right now
#healthcare administrators become part of the problem as perpetrators of non-physical career violence vs faculty like @ayshakhoury @uche_blackstock so will not drive accountability or protect vs QAnon in hospitals any more than we just saw in Congress. Listen to your Cassandra
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So can their data improve health equity?

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3 Feb
Some outcomes are for best. I considered 2 jobs in CT in recent years. (As a kid, lived in Cheshire & Branford)

Got one offer. Other, hiring manager wanted to hire me but person to sign off heard I was “activist” so passed on my candidacy. Maybe cuz:

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We had a lovely house in Cheshire w/ a big yard & fireplace, right near my school

the realtor told us that it had been suddenly put on the market because a black family had moved in next-door

I bet when we also moved there it was seen as a negative?

I made friends quickly
My sis, in high school, had it rough. Really rough. Girl groups make up bizarro rules to police belonging.

My sister actually saved me from stuff I did not even know she had saved me from - like the girly girl dress in the last tweet? Mom’s choice.

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3 Feb
Not only experience, which is important, but clinical #research does not parse out the Japanese man or woman from the South Asian man or woman on heart disease risk, epidemiology, treatment.

#EBM lacking for us then

#MedTwitter #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter
And then there is the question of who is white.

Iranian/Persian & Arabs are white on census.
Does the rest of America agree?

Racists & xenophobes tend to use loophole to say being anti-Muslim (whom they consider to all be Arab) is “not racist.”

latimes.com/projects/la-me…
Proving again: race is a social construct

Not until 2020 Persians really started to call selves “POC” (for self protection)

Have lots of Persian friends
Urdu culture has Farsi roots

But let’s be honest: Persians have seen selves as superior race, apart

wbez.org/stories/renewe…
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3 Feb
Oooooh.

Yes, riling up Scotsmen & women, expecting them to back down, from a fight seems
SO logical
SO aligned with Scottish history & spirit

*makes popcorn*

Between this & trending #seashantytok what is not to love about our kilt wearing neighbors across the Atlantic?
On the #seashantytok #Seashantytiktok in case you were not up to speed

I would like to point out I was already following him & had watched all his videos, long before he got the 7 million views, record deal, or noticed by Kermit or Andrew Lloyd Webber

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2 Feb
Also, if you notice a pattern of certain women who are very concerned about “cancel culture”, these are often women whose income, power, position comes from those men who avoid/fear accountability.
There is no reason to be afraid of women if one already was doing the right thing. Have good ethics yourself and have a good radar for that yourself. I have NEVER had problems with male mentors as we align on values/mission first. We work through trust.

hbr.org/2019/03/advice…
If you are playing a dirty game or don’t have standards to who you hire, do business with, etc (or no standards to own behavior), yeah, I get why you are paranoid.

Drain your own swamp then.
Not all women are pawns in a man’s game like:

apnews.com/article/donald…
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2 Feb
Those of us who affirmed our own agency and power by learning from and with our moms. My mom’s stories are her own but she and I together have unpacked many cultural myths to learn better self compassion, willingness to identify racism, less perfectionism.
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This is a type of trauma many WOC/POC experience. My mom’s hair is extremely thick, textured. I recall her being very fixated on making sure her own hair & our hair was always incredibly neat.

More recently I’ve come to understand this matches an experience of having black hair.
The so-called “model minority “is taught to align with white culture, to suppress oneself in order to layer under & serve white supremacy.

I have worked to remove internalized racism, colorism, self hate & learned from #blackexcellence on:

chalkbeat.org/2020/1/16/2112…
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