Wow. OceanGate, the company that owns the missing submersible, fired an employee a few years ago after he filed safety complaints against them. The employee specifically said the sub was not capable of descending to such extreme depths before he was fired. newrepublic.com/post/173802/mi…
(!!) The submersible “was only built to a certified pressure of 1,300 meters, although OceanGate intended to take passengers down to depths of 4,000 meters. […] OceanGate refused to pay for the manufacturer to build a viewport that would meet the required depth of 4,000 meters.”
We haven’t even gotten to the worst part:
“Paying passengers wouldn’t know or be informed about Lochridge’s concerns, according to his complaints. They also wouldn’t be informed ‘that hazardous flammable materials were being used within the submersible.’”
Oh and when the former OceanGate employee expressed his concerns about the “safety and quality” of the submersible and its materials, the company told him that the technology to carry out certain safety tests didn’t even exist.
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Just to put a point on it: When anti-vaxxers compare doctors & scientists to Nazis, and invoke events like the Holocaust as a comparison to vaccination, they are legitimizing using violence against vaccine proponents.
Comparing vaccine scientists to Nazis or drawing false equivalencies to an atrocity like the Holocaust — or, say, lynching — is away of signaling that using violence is against them is not only justifiable, but honorable. link.springer.com/chapter/10.100… journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…
This is how the anti-abortion movement has legitimized using violence against abortion providers: By portraying them as murderers, & convincing anti-abortion activists that violence is justified in order to “save the children.” chrestomathy.cofc.edu/documents/vol2… researchgate.net/publication/29…
Elon Musk is harassing another one of his own users — this time, a scientist who has already been subjected to several years of severe harassment & threats due to his role in promoting COVID-19 vaccination.
Jesus Christ some of you are absolutely insane and need to work your issues out in therapy, not in my mentions.
Look, we all know Elon Musk was not looking to send Peter Hotez a bunch of love with that tweet, and we all know what happens when he singles someone out. I don’t really care about your opinion on the testosterone fest going on with Rogan — it’s shitty to harass people, period.
A 19-year-old Michigan man who allegedly idolized Brenton Tarrant and expressed explicit neo-Nazi & antisemitic ideologies online, was arrested Friday by the FBI for communicating threats. He was stockpiling weapons & allegedly planning a mass shooting. abcnews.go.com/US/teen-arrest…
This tweet links to a thread from March, which contains social media photos of the man who was just arrested for allegedly plotting a mass shooting. He appears to have ties to the military, based on the photos.
There are also a variety of characteristics of the victim & perpetrator that influence our helping decisions. This builds on extensive research showing that people often don’t help victims of intimate partner violence b/c of victim-blaming & DV myths. 10/ citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid…
I have written about the various dynamics that can make women blame other women who are victims of sexual assault or harassment. It can often be a self-protective reaction — a way of feeling less vulnerable by blaming the victim for “asking for it.” 11/ playboy.com/read/victim-bl…
Victim-blaming by women can also be a response to sexism — a way of demonstrating that they’re abiding the “rules” that sexism proscribes, whereas the victim is portrayed as having violated those rules, which makes her unworthy of protection & deserving of what she gets. 12/
If you joined my first Twitter Space this week, you heard me talk about a concept called “Bystander Intervention”, which is an evidence-based set of strategies used to help people recognize harmful situations — harassment, abuse, assault, bullying — and respond in a helpful way.
I was extensively involved in bystander intervention training while getting my PhD. I helped implement & evaluate the state’s first theory-based bystander intervention program for sexual assault prevention on college campuses. That’s when I learned how to be an ally. 2/
There’s a lot of controversy around the story of the woman whose murder was said to have inspired the bystander intervention model. The story has been relayed inaccurately, but the underlying dynamic — the bystander effect — has stood the test of time. 3/ theguardian.com/society/2016/a…
Threats & attacks against journalists are on the rise in the US; last year, at least one journalist was murdered for doing their job, and the NV politician they were covering was charged with their murder. In nearly all of these cases, online harassment preceded offline crimes.
According to Amnesty International, women journalists & politicians in the US and UK received an average of one abusive tweet every 30 seconds in 2017. decoders.amnesty.org/projects/troll…
And according to a 2019 survey of female & gender non-conforming journalists, online harassment was seen as the biggest threat or safety issue by 90 percent of U.S. respondents — because the threat doesn’t stop when they leave work: