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i love intelligent black academics, and can understand most of them not being able to speak up due to many pressures, but when internal voices are drowned out, and you only have external voices pushing back against extremes, it actually breeds actual racism. and terrible behaviors. it's really locked into a bad, bad feedback loop i feel similarly about speaking out against extreme trans (...i beg of you, as your elder trans sister, can you please find a way to chill? very difficult to actually affect what's happening, esp relative to social media) or what has happened relative internal to Israel (before Oct 7th people were protesting the Netanyahu gov! now that is all suppressed). For that matter, the Democrats right now are proving, as with the reps before them, they really can't process negative information internally. It's a standard failure mode of all tribal groupthink