Does this account for the shifting baseline in people’s views where they and so many go hard to the right that centrist positions are viewed as hard left?

Speaking as a Brit 🇬🇧, universal healthcare is not some socialist hard left thing.

The centre, who cares about the economy realises that the economy benefits from better health in the workforce, enjoys the cost saving of not having to fund health insurance and improves on the increased liquidity of Human Resources where people can swap jobs as they are not locked in on insurance.

Healthcare is human equivalent to roads, where everyone benefits and the cheapest way is through government monopoly. Yes, cheapest as a cost to business.

Healthcare is NOT left wing! It is only questioned by those obsessed with not helping people or businesses and I can only think of one thing that’s about. #Racism

Featured story: "The conservative campaign to harass the libs out of academia has already sent a chill through #Texas’ world-class public universities, making professors and administrators so fearful of setting off the lunatics in charge at the Capitol that they censor themselves—in scholarship or in their communications with students and the public."

From Editor-in-Chief @gabrielarana: https://www.texasobserver.org/mccarthyism-texas-am-journalism-freedom/

#schools #diversity #racism #education #journalism #FreeSpeech #essays

McCarthyism Rides Again at Texas Universities

A&M’s shameful treatment of Kathleen McElroy is the start of a backward-turning era for higher education.

^{Gabriel Arana (The Texas Observer)}

Content warning: fediblock tech[dot]lgbt for racist harassment on top of history of racism and antisemitism Click to open/close

tech[dot]lgbt has had a history of antisemitism and racist behavior as documented by Weirder Earth, before the existence of LGBTQIA+ Simchadon on the fediverse. See this post https://weirder.earth/@WeirderAdmin/109814556541559784. In the following months Tech LGBT claimed to be attempting to make improvements to their moderation to ensure these sorts of situations would not happen again; however, poor moderation behavior from the instance has continued. See https://rage.love/@admin/111042599173615822 for some more information, where Tech LGBT has allowed a user who makes harassing reports to remain on the instance and seems more concerned about that user's safety and giving them another chance than the safety of others on Tech LGBT and the rest of fedi. On top of this, a mod from Tech LGBT kickstarted a racist harassment campaign, and while the mod themselves has shown personal regret for this action the admin of Tech LGBT is still in defense of these original actions. Additionally, we have now found out today that a known racist serial harasser has an account on Tech LGBT; we sincerely hope that this can be addressed promptly.

While we were not around for the original offenses from Tech LGBT, it is clear to us that even if they are trying to correct course − or even if there are members of the mod team who do want to correct course − that this is far from happening. Upon examination of their current behavior and reconciling it with their past behavior over this last year, we are moving to suspend Tech LGBT. Tech LGBT is our biggest source of connections and we will be giving 6 weeks, or until Tuesday, October 24 2023, until defederating.

#fediblock #antisemitism #racism

Rage.Love Admin

2023-09-10 19:53:17

Though the user voluntarily identified themself in their report and tech.lgbt confirmed at my request that the identification is correct (the account is now suspended from r.l), I have redacted the account information from the screenshot because the mods feared my publicly posting about the user will cause this user to be harassed. This led me to consider the account information confirmed for internal purposes only and not for general release, hence the redaction.

Nevertheless, you may judge for yourself who tech.lgbt considers worthy of protection from harassment by retaining anonymity, while leaving anyone who interacts with this user open to potential harassment or unknowingly interacting with a harasser. This approach may have its merits in giving the user a chance and many may well agree with it, but may not be compatible with all instances' moderation policies. It certainly is not with ours.

Latest comic: Self-parodic Sages

#gender #racism #transgender #media #feminism #patriarchy

This week's comic: Makeover for a Takeover

#media #fascism #racism #journalism

Latest cartoon on "contrarian" pundits who pretend to care about freedom of speech.

#media #education #college #speech #fascism #lgbtq #racism

Content warning: Armenian Genocide Click to open/close

Today in Labor History April 24, 1915: The Turkish government arrested 250 Armenian intellectuals in Istanbul. This marked the beginning of the Armenian genocide. The Ottomans slaughtered one million Armenians during World War I, or 90% of the Armenian population. The genocide also destroyed two thousand year’s-worth of Armenian civilization in Asian Minor.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #armenian #genocide #ottomans #turkey #racism

Content warning: JK Rowling and anti-trans (and anti-POC) crap Click to open/close

This is JK Rowling showing who she truly is. She retweeted a photo of a Progressive Pride flag with the trans, black, and brown stripes scrubbed out and “get your shit off our flag” written on it.

She’s anti trans but also a racist piece of shit.

If you continue to give money to Rowling by paying for #HarryPotter stuff, please reconsider. You’re supporting an evil person.

#Rowling #AntiTrans #Racism #Nazi