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Liberal Currents

"Fascist leaders claimed to embody the general will of the nation and its 𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘬, but insisted only unchecked power would allow them to realize the national will without nebbish #barriers like individual #rights and endless democratic #debates getting in the way." liberalcurrents.com/the-origin

Liberal Currents · The Origins of Right Wing PopulismThe intellectual history of this seemingly contradictory political tendency.
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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦

I'm convinced that laziness as a concept isn't valid. When someone doesn't do something, there is going to be a reason. Laziness as a concept prevents a deeper understanding of the causes for someone's inaction.

This becomes more obvious when you're mentally ill.

You aren't lazy, and it is more helpful to ask why something isn't being done than to shame yourself or others. Laziness is not a reason.

#Society#Psychology#MentalHealth
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Tek

Every federal agency in the U.S. is currently trying to figure out how to purge forbidden words from documents posted online, in a desperate attempt to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order to purge “DEI” from every facet of American life. And nowhere is that effort more bizarre than the National Science Foundation, which is currently combing through websites and research papers for a long list of words that include #female, #disability, and #LGBT, among a host of others.

The review comes in response to a memo sent out Jan. 29 from the Office of Personnel Management, written by acting director Charles Ezell. Every agency has interpreted the memo a little differently, but at NSF they’ve compiled a list of words that need to be found, which will initiate a review to see if it’s allowed.

According to the Washington Post, a word like #women appearing will get the content flagged, but it will need to be manually reviewed to determine if the context of the word is related to a forbidden topic under the anti-DEI order. 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.

Some of the terms that are getting flagged are particularly eyebrow-raising in light of the Nazi salutes that Trump supporters have been giving since he took office. For example, the term #hateSpeech will get a paper at NSF flagged for further review. Redefining terms like #hateSpeech is obviously part of the fascist project.

Darby Saxbe, a professor at the University of Southern California, tweeted the list of banned words on Monday, including a decision tree she says had been sent to all program officers at NSF.


Forbidden keywords that initiate a review at NSF, according to Saxbe:

#activism
#activists
#advocacy
#advocate
#advocates
#barrier
#barriers
#biased
#biasedToward
#biases
#biasesTowards
#BIPOC
#BlackAndLatinx
#CommunityDiversity
#CommunityEquity
#CulturalDifferences
#CulturalHeritage
#CulturallyResponsive
#Disabilities
#Disability
#Discriminated
#Discrimination
#Discriminatory
#DiverseBackgrounds
#DiverseCommunities
#DiverseCommunity
#DiverseGroup
#DiverseGroups
#Diversified
#Diversify
#Diversifying
#DiversityAndInclusion
#DiversityEquity
#EnhanceTheDiversity
#EnhancingDiversity
#EqualOpportunity
#Equality
#Equitable
#Equity
#Ethnicity
#Excluded
#Female
#Females
#FosteringInclusivity
#Gender
#GenderDiversity
#Genders
#HateSpeech
#HispanicMinority
#Historically
#ImplicitBias
#ImplicitBiases
#Inclusion
#Inclusive
#Inclusiveness
#Inclusivity
#IncreaseDiversity
#IncreaseTheDiversity
#IndigenousCommunity
#Inequalities
#Inequality
#Inequitable
#Inequities
#Institutional
#LGBT
#Marginalize
#Marginalized
#Minorities
#Minority
#Multicultural
#Polarization
#Political
#Prejudice
#Privileges
#PromotingDiversity
#RaceAndEthnicity
#Racial
#RacialDiversity
#RacialInequality
#RacialJustice
#Racially
#Racism
#SenseOfBelonging
#SexualPreferences
#SocialJustice
#Sociocultural
#Socioeconomic
#Status
#Stereotypes
#Systemic
#Trauma
#UnderAppreciated
#UnderRepresented
#UnderServed
#Underrepresentation
#Underrepresented
#Underserved
#Undervalued
#Victim
#Women
#WomenAndUnderrepresented

#Trump #ForbiddenWords #DEI #ExecutiveOrder #NationalScienceFoundation #NSF #Women #LGBT #Disability #MAGA #HateSpeech #Fascism #Censorship #PoliticalAgenda #WokeCulture #SocialJustice #IdentityPolitics #USPolitics #GenderEquality #CivilRights #PoliticalControl

gizmodo.com/the-list-of-trumps…

Gizmodo · The List of Trump's Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSFIt's fascism, plain and simple.
#exposed#aEvl
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Jens Oliver Meiert

Accessibility friends, how do you think about the following?

If a barrier affects everyone…

(Some context right after this toot; this poll supersedes the one shared the other week, and I’m curious whether I’ve reworked it well enough.)

· 20 people · Closed
#accessibility#a11y#barriers
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Jens Oliver Meiert

[❌ Edit: This needs more clarity—will rework and share a new poll. Thanks to who has voted, shared, and responded!]

Accessibility friends, how do you assess the following when it comes to work in our field (independent of regulation, which I’d like to check on afterwards)?

If a barrier affects everyone…

· 13 people · Closed
#accessibility#a11y#barriers
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Likely Jan Lukas

@meganL

I cannot successfully navigate the alley's sidewalk breach with a #rollator.

I suspect the same holds for most folks using wheelchairs (excepting perhaps someone athletic enough to both tip sideways on one wheel and also go down/up and irregular slope on the remaining wheel???).

One could likely get through with a tiny umbrella #stroller, but those aren't #AssistiveDevices nor would they be able to be used as one.

13/x

#yeg
#slope
#barriers
#sidewalks
#intersections

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David Wakeham

My old haunt UoA have made a bad decision.

Students who feel a sense of belonging in educational settings more likely to engage in #learning, persevere through #challenges, and ultimately achieve academic success.

It’s absolutely vital for students who are #neurodiverse, #disabled & #FirstNations + marginalised groups facing extra #barriers to #inclusion.

#Education #OnlineLearning #Accessibility #Belonging

linkedin.com/posts/david-wakeh

www.linkedin.comDavid Wakeham on LinkedIn: Belonging in the Classroom and on Campus Is More Essential Than EverHard to disagree with this. So it is quite strange to see that my old haunt the University of Adelaide is preparing to ditch face-to-face lectures, some…
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