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I don't think that much thought went into it. The change was initiated by the department's DEIA ("A" for Accessibility) office. Anything that office did was a p
by midnitewarrior 10mo ago
I don't think that much thought went into it. The change was initiated by the department's DEIA ("A" for Accessibility) office. Anything that office did was a priority for this administration.
Keep in mind that the transgenic mouse breeding program used to make lab mice for research got defined because the President claimed Democrats were so woke they were funding "trans" mice research.
Half of what they are doing is virtue signalling and posturing without any real understanding of what they are doing.
- OhioMan2943 10mo agoI listened to the economist podcast on that- hilarious in the worst way- was leading harvard research
- kgwgk 10mo agoThe funny thing is that they were indeed funding “trans” mice research: > To understand the effects of feminizing sex hormone therapy on vaccination, we propose to develop a mouse model of gender-affirming hormone therapy, assess its relevance to human medicine through singe-cell transcriptome studies, and test the immune responses of “cis” vs. “trans” mice to a HIV vaccine. https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10849830#description https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10849830#descriptio...
- nxor 10mo ago[flagged]
- vkou 10mo agoMore than half. Almost everything they do is virtue signaling.
- rdiddly 10mo agoAll true except the fact that it's not virtue that they're signaling.
- tstrimple 10mo agoVirtue signaling is for liberals. Conservatives prefer shitty human signaling. Eventually folks will take them for their word I hope.
- ndsipa_pomu 10mo agoCruelty signalling?
- oneeyedpigeon 10mo agoI prefer "ideology signalling" so that it's neutral and we can use it to apply to both sides.
- watwut 10mo agoI prefer cruelty signaling, because there is profound difference between the impact of the two on the world. Insisting on naming things so that "bad thing" and "good thing" are undistinguishable is not neutral, it is biased and favors bad actors.
- nxor 10mo ago[flagged]
- ndsipa_pomu 10mo agoCan you be specific about when this has happened?
- watwut 10mo ago1.) Overwhelming majority of political violence is by right wing. 2.) About Kirk specifically, liberals signaled "murder is bad" hard and frequently. Meanwhile Kirk himself signaled hatred. 3.) Meanwhile, Trump, Vance and Hegseth are constantly signaling "murder is good actually, if we are doing it" and "bullying is manly thing to do". And that is exactly why it is userful to distinguish between "good thing signal" and "bad thing signal". ----------- Conservatives have the option to signal good things. They make different choice.