You aren't a rational person if you can't reason out the differences between two sides of a situation.

Something I posted in reply to someone on Facebook: 1) The entire hobby of genealogy requires an active and fully funded government at all levels. Genealogy relies almost entirely on access to records created by and maintained by agencies, courts, and offices of government funded by taxpayers.

If a genealogist votes Republican and thinks the Constitution only applies to citizens, we cannot trust them to correctly interpret and evaluate legal texts about our ancestors.

If a genealogist votes Republican and thinks it is easy to obtain documents needed to prove identity and citizenship, we know that they have not experienced the burden of obtaining vital records and other modern government documents.

If a genealogist votes Republican and thinks dead people and former residents appearing on voter rolls is a massive problem, how can we trust them to correctly evaluate the evidence from historic voter lists?

If a genealogist votes Republican and supports increased tariffs, how can we trust them to correctly evaluate the economic realities that impacted our ancestors?

It is clear that data critical to genealogy (and other disciplines) is being systematically stripped from federal websites. Census Bureau data IS being removed, and census data geeks at IPUMS verify and are taking whatever steps they can to preserve the data for the future. Scary times we live in.

I thought learning about the Weimar Republic and the rise of fascism in school was meant to be a warning, not a playbook.

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜

The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.

Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

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If a genealogist votes Republican and wants to outlaw abortion, how can we trust them to correctly interpret infant and maternal mortality evidence?

If a genetic genealogist votes Republican, how can we be sure they accept and understand that there are more than two biological sexes and gender identities and will interpret genetic results correctly?