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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait. Questioning fascism is faux pas enough to lose your job now?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

I mean, duh. The fascists won full control of the US government. They haven't even gotten started, these are just the social consequences. If this caught you by surprise you haven't been paying attention.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whether you criticize zionists or Trump supporters, apparently criticizing hate movements has become socially unacceptable...

[–] pdxfed 7 points 1 month ago

Is this the cancel culture the right was so against? I'm glad we'll have brothers in arms against such a thing.

[–] vzq 17 points 1 month ago

Big loss. Laura is one the best science communicators in the planet.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

But the country actually is full of fucking fascists...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

It's so fucking infuriating that these snowflakes will absolutely lose their shit when someone who is not on the Reich speaks their mind and insults them, but any Reich wing CEO, owner, politician, ~~propagandist~~ "newscaster" can say whatever the fuck they want and they keep their job and act like it's all ok. I don't see Sean Hamface stepping down. I don't see the Twitter billionaire fascist stepping down. Who the hell cares about my pillow, but that fuck is still there.

People with integrity feel they need to step down and all we're left with are fascist assholes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

they may not reflect her beliefs but they sure fuckin reflect mine

[–] Streetlights 8 points 1 month ago

Resigned or pushed out by the board?

Unfortunate, but not surprising. Even if one isn't impartial, an editor must at least give the impression of being so. Especially for a non-partisan publication like SciAm.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah well, she’s not wrong.

[–] AA5B 0 points 1 month ago

But you can’t say it out loud. Somehow one side still needs to adhere to keeping the quiet part quiet

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Whether you criticize zionists or Trump supporters, apparently criticizing hate movements has become socially unacceptable...