I mean, why wouldn't they get involved, in the most toxic way possible, in trans issues as well? They would have to really suck at their jobs to pass up an opportunity like this.

I wonder if the Russian troll farms have been helping.

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I mean, they gravitate toward any divisive issue in America (e.g. amplifying the most extreme fringes of *both* black lives matter and blue lives matter

And if the Black political leadership falls asleep at the wheel you might even be able to pull a Rachel Dolezal and get away with it. The fun thing about postmodernism is once you get rid of labels and generalizations anybody can be anything. There is no limit except chutzpah.

You could be all kinds of marginalized. Almost everyone is non neurotypical in some way, dig deep. Also you could claim to be a lesbian mistakenly born in a straight man's body.

I hoped topics at the hard science end of the spectrum would be seen as politically neutral but who knows if they have the patience or skills to distinguish them.

I.e. the overhead taken from the NIH funding of faculty that is not up for renewal yet will be used to bail out the faculty who will not be fundable by the new NIH. At least the ones who have tenure or name recognition. Early career researchers will be screwed regardless of their research topic

The most compelling argument each side has is that the other won't rein in its zealots who don't care about good faith discourse, individual freedom, or civil society.

There's a huge difference between me wishing you would care about how you impact others versus wanting you to be silenced by the government-- that's just right wing wokeism and currently a bigger threat than left wing wokeism.

*the, not three

For all three understandable reasons you have for hating me, at least this isn't one. We all voted Harris. Because holy fuck ...