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Some #security / #infosec people really annoy me.

#Marginalized and #vulnerable groups use what is actually available, when they can't use what should be available, but isn't. It isn't available because the majority failed to provide, enforce, or protect it, due to privilege, ignorance, or malevolence.

Pointing to what should be available, and chastising people for clinging to what is actually available, however imperfect that may be, does not make sense. It's like reprimanding those persecuted during the Third Reich for hiding in basements and attics, despite basement window curtains and attic doors being no real impediments for the Gestapo, in your "opinion".

Nobody needs your lecturing on how curtains and doors allegedly "give a false sense of security". Such false sense of security does not exist, people do not feel safe at all, precisely because they are aware of the deficiencies.

Nobody welcomes your sarcasm ridiculing curtains and doors, and your smart-alecky advocacy of having them removed, because they don't "guarantee" protection "anyway". If you have to offer anything that actually guarantees protection, to everybody in need of it: just do so. Until you've made it available, just shut up, and leave the curtains and doors alone.

Also, a historical note on the Third Reich: people in basements did not only hide there. They planned, organized and executed resistance. Armed with weapons, and with culture. They were able to operate under an depressing amount of ambiguity, danger and uncertainty that you couldn't stand for a day.

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@EINS_Institute That being said I'd not be surprised if #Trump, who evidently does "speedrun Hitler" would #exile and #denaturalize #opposition members and #marginalizes folks.

Espechally since this ticks "all the scary boxes" I learned about in school and beyond

Infosec ExchangeRyan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (@ryanc@infosec.exchange)Content warning: :boost_ok: please boost: US expats, USpol, TikTok, potential disinfo, requesting clarification.

It's always hard to see people attack their own #class.

Any #marginalized group should understand that other marginalized groups are not the enemy.

We're the product of a system that needs to divide the exploited majority into smaller partitions so they're easier to oppress and exploit.

We're told #poc are stupid, that #autistic people are violent, that #women are submissive, that #jews are greedy, etc.

None of this is true. Its just so you dont look up and see the enemy.

Just a reminder that I've got low tolerance for white #cis folks who claim to be trying to be allies/be helpers towards #BIPOC & #LGBTQ2S marginalized communities but are quick to tell us that they know better. No. You fucking don't know better than us, the marginalized peoples, ourselves. Stay in your lane & learn to actually listen to #marginalized voices instead of telling us that you know better than us, when we are living the fugly realities that you're privileged enough to not endure, multiple times throughout your life.

I made a post on the #MetaDemon finally telling my story of betrayal and abuse to process trauma and my chronic attachment trauma

The result - my abuser who had been anonymous (except among my close friends who have witnessed part of the abuse) self disclosed and is threatening me

Such is the life of the #marginalized

I haven't been able to ask for #CommunityCare to stay housed as a result please help, we're very behind

$479 needed by 11 AM ET tomorrow

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Medical Gaslighting - Warum Frauen länger auf eine Diagnose warten
youtu.be/9_IRVbUbxyk

Und die beiden Frauen in der Reportage sind weiß, gebildet & nicht finanziell schwach.

Je marginalisierter desto scheiße.

Es gab dazu von betroffenen Frauen schon genug Posts, Artikel, ja sogar ganze Bücher....

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#ForcedSterilization of #DisabledPeople Isn’t a Relic of the Past

In a majority of states, #eugenics-era laws still let doctors sterilize disabled patients against their will.

by Julia Métraux
February 27, 2025

"'In order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence,' Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote for the majority in 1927’s Buck v. Bell, the state could—and should—'prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.' Forced sterilization, the court held, was not only legal but laudable.

"In 1924, 17-year-old Carrie Buck was institutionalized, having been deemed 'feebleminded' on the grounds of 'promiscuous' behavior. In reality, Buck was raped by her foster family’s nephew. Three years later, with the Court’s blessing, Virginia’s 'State Colony of Epileptics and Feeble Minded' sterilized Buck against her will. The decision, passed at the height of the 20th-century eugenics movement, has never been overturned.

"'There’s a very different standard being applied to disabled people’s autonomy.'

"To this day, 31 states and #WashingtonDC, still have laws on the books that allow for the practice—and just two, #Alaska and #NorthCarolina, have laws that fully ban the #nonconsensual #sterilization of disabled people, according to a 2022 report from the National Women’s Law Center. There’s no official account of just how many disabled people have been sterilized under those laws.

"Some of these laws aren’t even that old. In 2019, #Iowa and #Nevada passed new forced sterilization laws that applied to people under #guardianship. Both bills passed unanimously, and the end result is consistent with laws on the books in other states. There was no discourse among politicians—let alone objections—about the ethics of sterilizing disabled people without their consent.

"Sterilization and Social Justice Lab co-director and founder Alexandra Minna Stern said that early IQ tests, which sought to measure intelligence in part on the basis of class- and culture-based questions involving Beethoven’s sonatas, the early United States, and college athletics, were 'used to categorize people who would then be targeted for sterilization,' generally those who were '#marginalized or maligned in some way': in #California and the #Southwest, often #MexicanAmericans; nationwide, #Black, #Indigenous and #poorer white Americans, particularly women. The people behind the tests, Stern says, were 'white, #elite men who wanted to create a certain type of society in their own image.'

"NWLC senior counsel for health equity and justice Ma’ayan Anafi, who is also disabled, told Mother Jones that “forced sterilization laws are a really powerful example of how violations of disabled people’s bodies and rights are baked into our legal system today.”

Read more:
motherjones.com/politics/2025/
#USPol #reproductiverights #Fascism #BodilyAutomony

Mother JonesForced sterilization of disabled people isn't a relic of the pastIn most states, eugenics laws still let doctors sterilize disabled patients—even against their will.

#FactCheck #PSA to get ahead of some #Misinformation...

#HellenKeller was a real, #Historical figure. She was in fact, #deaf and #blind, due to a #measles infection when she was a baby, a known potential injury from it which drives the push for #Vaccines. She was a major proponent of the #Disability inclusion, #Feminist, and general #CivilRights movements of the early to mid 1900s. She is a major figure among #marginalized groups.

Claims from the #History-#skeptic, #AntiVax, and White Supremacist movements that she is fictional are false: she was a real person who actually lived, with extensive news reports and official documents of her exploits, including meeting presidents Cleveland and Johnson, and we have a whole archive of videos about her. The movie about her is based on the historically accurate story of her childhood.

You can see a video of Hellen Keller on her nonprofit foundation's channel at...

youtube.com/watch?v=8ch_H8pt9M