• Shawdow194@fedia.io
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    Trump and his fellow fascists use terms like DEI to describe anything they don’t like, which means that the word “women” is on the forbidden list while “men” doesn’t initiate a review.

    Straight white men are seen through the MAGA worldview as the default human and thus wouldn’t be suspicious and in need of a review. Any other type of identity is inherently suspect.

    It’s still not clear what happens on the other side of all this. But when they’re flagging words like “women” and “trauma,” less than three weeks in, it can’t be good.

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      They’re flagging words that have scientific applications that have nothing to do with anything divisive but are also used with things they find divisive. You can’t use “barrier” or “historically” or fucking “polarization.”