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Dan Bongino @FBIDDBongino - Our leadership team on the ground in Boulder will be updating you shortly on the attack in Boulder. This act of terror is being investigated as an act of ideologically motivated violence based on the early information, the evidence, and witness accounts. We will speak clearly on these incidents when the facts warrant it.
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DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Okay, the idea of drag being associated with disability gets me so upset that I'm going to say it outright.
For every one person anointed to speak for a certain demographic, there are countless - thousands, hundreds of thousands who are simply living their lives.
For example, I have never, ever met another person as "deaf" as I am. @deaflibertarian has spoken many times on how rare it is to have 100% deafness. As an analogy, think how helpful it would be for a visually impaired person to have even 1% sight compared to zero sight.
But that's me: the only 100% deaf person I have ever met in my entire life of meeting many Deaf people. Every single Deaf person who has been "allowed" to speak for me, is far less deaf than me at a technical level.
Why and how do spokespeople of an entire demographic get into that place in the first place?
Well, I am living proof that it has nothing to do with degree of struggle - because if I were, then I would not be persona non grata of the Deaf community.
I believe the answer of how people get chosen to speak for their demographic is simple:
Spokespeople are anointed ... BECAUSE THEY SERVE THE PURPOSE OF THE INSTITUTIONS WHICH GIVE THEM A PLATFORM IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Nothing less. Nothing more.
And it serves the institutions to muddy the distinction between disability and drag, because this is where they can sweep in to implement their own value system.
Spokespeople are chosen for usefulness.
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