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12 Feb, 5 tweets, 1 min read
The most annoying aspect of today's discourse is that this has to be spelled out.
Be about something ffs.
When you get to the point where you are characterizing a hard line against bigotry as unreasonably intransigent, given how popular bigotry has become, you have lost your fucking way.
If you showed these folks comparable takes from past eras, they would think themselves far above such things.

We all have historical counterparts. We should be mindful of who they are.
Tolerating bigotry, and treating it as normative, bc its purveyors have been such good recruiters, I can't believe I have to say this, but historically, that doesn't end well. If you want to dig up an example to prove me wrong, I'll wait. Please, take your time.

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We face the threat of autocracy whether Trump runs in 2024 or not. If he opts not to, or is somehow prevented from doing so, he will be a kingmaker in the eyes of his followers and they will follow the next would-be autocrat to the gates of hell. And that person could be smarter.
The trial still could have been quite valuable, in terms of instilling what happened in the public's memory. Having that galvanization to tap into could have meant something down the line, the way the stolen election narrative will have galvanizing power for the GOP.
The GOP will use the myth of a stolen election to fuel rampant voter suppression. The quiet part will become a battle cry. The Dems, by contrast, offer feckless, inconsistent rhetoric. They insisted the republic was at stake but couldn't be bothered with witness testimony.
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13 Feb
I still find what happened on here today re: Gina Carano super disturbing & incredibly harmful. I know anytime I say something is shifting in a bad direction someone jumps up to say we were already headed in a bad direction. But seriously, things are headed in a bad direction.
When liberals with large platforms start insisting that we have to be tolerant of cruel bigotry, and that bigots should be exempt from the consequences literally any of us would face if we embarrassed our employers, they aren't just tolerating that shit. They are privileging it.
And when those people start insisting that we have to let that stuff pass without consequence because so many people are doing it, seriously, I find that scary. That's people who are seen as progressive advocating for a moral and material surrender to that shit. Sorry, but it is.
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12 Feb
People turning the Carano situation into a cause are discarding facts to fit their arguments & I've been resistant to dig beyond that, bc I don't like filling in the blanks for people whose arguments are full of blank spaces, but... not all speech is equal. Right and wrong exist.
If your employee is all over twitter mocking people for wearing masks during a pandemic, you should get to fire them. If your employee posts anti-Semitic images, trades in transphobia or does any of the other terrible things Carano did, you should get to fire them. This is basic.
In this case, there was a contract that stated as much. But putting all of that aside, let's be plain: the fact that bigots have managed to popularize tf out of their views in recent yrs is not a reason to cede more ground to bigots. That's moral surrender, and I'm not into it.
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12 Feb
A TV actor repeatedly violated her contract by posting anti-Semitic content & other highly offensive material. Her bosses repeatedly confronted her about those violations and gave her chance after chance to stop. She said fuck that and kept alienating the audience. She got fired.
If you don't like how the business works, complain about that, but this was not a witch hunt. Disney is not some doggedly progressive or leftist entity lol. They would have fired anyone who kept violating their contract and alienating the audience the show is being marketed to.
I think the better question is why people have chosen Carano to rally behind in an industry where so many people have been fucked over for their politics, or just for naming abuse. I think the disturbing implications at work here can be found in that reasoning.
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12 Feb
I'm not "trained" in anti-Semitism and it was pretty clear to me. Also, plenty of people have been fired or otherwise punished for lefty politics over the years. Playing into the idea that Carano was the victim of some conservative witch hunt is dishonest and despicable.
Btw I expect dishonest and despicable content from Chait. But some of the folks lending him validation should be ashamed of themselves. Some of you have critical thinking skills that are not being flexed here in the least.
If anything, Disney gave Carano a lot of room to turn her situation around. She was generating a ton of bad PR for them (being mockingly anti-mask during a pandemic has the potential to turn a lot of viewers off) & not getting fired. She wouldn't stop, so she was let go. Boo hoo.
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I appreciate that the people in my life who have gotten the vaccine and experienced side effects have been open about what that was like. Even hearing about the nasty stuff some folks experienced is honestly reassuring, bc it's like, okay, if that's as bad as it gets, I'm good.
My sister had a pretty middle of the road experience as side effects go (no nausea or intestinal issues), so I'm hoping I'll have about the same experience.
Most of my sister's colleagues agreed the side effects made them feel like they'd worked out too hard and then drank too much the night before. Basically, not a great experience, but on balance, totally manageable.
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