After Google fired their sexist memo-writer, the guy went on Twitter comparing STEM diversity initiatives to an attempt to hire Santa Claus.
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Which. Of COURSE you think that, if you're in the habit of confusing strength with violence. You didn't see that strength was always there.
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And now that fascist calls for violence are being met with vocal plans for retaliation, that's being conflated as two equal platforms, FFS.
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As though the act of opposing something inherently equalises you to it, either in terms of power or moral equivalence!
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Following that logic, anyone who fights ISIS is as bad as ISIS, and a gang of adults who torture a puppy are justified if it bites back.
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But yeah, sure. Let's keep pretending that "enduring, subverting and getting around sexist fuckery" isn't a form of strength w/o violence.
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Let's keep pretending that it's possible to write stories that aren't in any way informed by politics, whether the world's or the writer's.
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Or we can acknowledge that the worlds we make are universally products of the one we inhabit. Cross-pollination is inevitable, powerful.
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As Miss Giddy says, sooner or later, someone always pushes back. We are not things. FIN.
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I want to like this tweet a hundred times.
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I think it comes from the frustration of feeling like anarchocommunism is good, but not being backed up by history or economics or logic.
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