It's too easy to dismiss Pao as a petty grifter with a dangerous streak, someone who'd be running the badger game one week and breaking ankles for loan sharks the next in some earlier time. She _is_ that, but the career she's fallen into is new.
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Pao's trying to inflame something like the Red Scare -- a moral panic loosely steered by a set of policy goals. Except there really were communist infiltrators in FedGov back then, not just a handful of isolated losers.
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And as you noted already, this is nonsensical if you actually want to address real harms in an effective way. However, it makes perfect sense if you want to create the administrative equivalent of overlapping fields of fire.
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If you want to pathologize and police group X, One Cool Trick is to demonize (X && Y) && (X && !Y). Sex-having bros are a menace; so are virgin dudes.
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On an administrative level, this just provides deniability for crushing X, but it's deeper than that. On an individual/psychological level, this is called a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bind … and it's authoritarianism/cult brainwashing 101.
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