rebug this if you’ve known a trans or queer person get fired recently
i know at least like five and it genuinely feels like it’s “get rid of the queers” blowback season
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any lmao but you know which ones (tech and associated fields)
it doesn’t matter which when it’s all the same capital driving it
yeah but they don't usually telegraph it as much as the last two years, starting with the dhh "the buyout of Twitter will show the DEI movement has less power than it thinks and the layoffs will further reduce it's hold" longpost in dec 2022
and every other post that's used DEI pejoratively since (and, you'll notice, DEI was used as a more generalized right wing talking point two years later when the bridge was hit recently)
so, yeah, i wonder how coördinated it is under the hood
like most forms of blowback- i doubt it is coordinated so much as it is 'vibes'
most forms of bigotry is by way of passive (and thus 'deniable') systemic variety. but yeah, after a certain point a pattern stops being random and coincidental if it becomes consistent enough.
I don't mean coordinated in that way, I guess, but more targeted dissemination with intent to link the various otherwise detached narratives and labor pools.
yeah i understand now
all it takes is a few subtle bad actors to culture war backdoor a few key pieces of social infrastructure to knock out access for groups. the US is basically that for several hundred years lol
I guess a better way to state it is that to me they're trying to manufacture the illusion of a majority by standardizing language and targets