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6 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
People don't have sex at pride. I believe that would be illegal in most if not all places. If it's ever happened, it would be an outlier event. Focussing on outlier events as representative of a whole is a typical trick of cultural conservatives & sloppy thinkers more generally
Also confounding LGBTQ expressions of body + sexual positivity w/ public sex is another tactic of cultural conservatism.
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People are responding with "folks do hook up at Pride." Sure. Many people--regardless of sexual orientation--hook up at events like parades and concerts, etc. But they do so in private places. It's not part of the event itself.

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7 Jul
What can the U.S. do about this? Can Congress act? Can the U.S. government buy the doses and sell them at cost to other countries?
Even if you do not have humanitarian impulses, you should be deeply invested in vaccinating the whole world. Every person is a possible vector for a new mutation. New mutations can translate into increased transmissibility, mortality, or, worst case: vaccine resistance
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If you want military members to be able to leave their bases in foreign countries, they will need to be vaccinated. Many countries w/ bases already have travel restrictions that require vaccination & others will follow suit.
Vaccines protect military members &, importantly, protect local communities. Many vaccines are already required. For example, here is a list for Africa Command. Most of these overlap for all Commands, tho some require extra vaccinations, like Japanese encephalitis
I've gotten the impression that the GOP likes to argue that countries universally welcome the US military. Regardless of how true that currently is, it certainly won't be the case if they become vectors of a disease that causes mass death, cripples hospitals, & crashes economies
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4 Jul
I wrote about George Packer's "4 Americas" & how it erases Black Americans & their diversity. White Americans get to be patriots or "social justice warriors," whereas Black Americans have no patriotic space of their own alternet.org/2021/06/four-a…
To be clear, I assign no positive/negative value to patriotism, though I do assign negative values to how it is often employed in white American culture. I am not, myself, patriotic.
I do not think--nor would it be my place to think--there is greater value in Black American patriotism than in any other estimation of the U.S., either neutral or negative

I *do* think it is reprehensible that Black American patriotism is erased from our national narrative
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4 Jul
I wrote a piece for @johnastoehr about how many non-conservative analysts are adopting a derisive view of modern social justice, resulting in depictions of the social left that are both inaccurate & ominous. Many of these critiques contain similar errors. stoehr.substack.com/p/that-the-gop…
These critiques begin by acknowledging that real social problems—such as racism—exist. However, after this concession, almost every critique devolves into a hodgepodge of vague stipulations disguised as a concern for the state of liberal debate. "There are problems, BUT. . . . ."
Commentators frequently frame responses to bigotry—such as protests, boycotts, or “cancelling”—as somehow a threat to free speech when, in fact, most of these responses are typically tantamount to *more* speech and consist of social consequences, not legal censorship.
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3 Jul
Anyone who is concerned w/ St. Louis's high murder rate should mention the fact that Missouri just passed an even more permissive gun law that Democrats & some law enforcement officials believe will have a chilling effect in combatting and investigating gun-related crime.
Within the U.S.--including many major cities--murder rates fluctuate from year to year. St. Louis is a case in which we can see a clear trend of increasing homicides over the course of several years. This is indeed concerning.
The majority of victims of homicide in St. Louis are Black. Democrats should not shy away from stating there is a real issue. However, we, unlike the GOP, are offering real solutions, wheres the GOP is passing legislation that will make the problem *much* worse.
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3 Jul
People keep telling me that some female athletes partially went thru "male puberty" & this should weigh into their qualification for the women's category. There is a huge amount of variation in many aspects of puberty & not a sharp line dividing all girls from all boys.
I don't think athletes should be eliminated based on testosterone levels in the first place. Given this rule exists, we should note it 1. only affects female athletes (cis or trans) & 2. is selectively applied to *testosterone* & not any number of other physiological differences
If the logic is that some women produce too much testosterone & that this gives them an unfair advantage over other women, this same rule should be applied to men. Men vary widely in testosterone production. More testosterone confers certain advantages.
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