RE: https://tooot.im/@zvinj/116606374039563401

#flotilla activist abductions are a chance for #Israel regime to demonstrate that they disregard international law and can be as evil as they want to *anyone*, #Ireland president's sister, #GretaThunberg, and – of course – anyone #NonWhite.
What else do you need?
"Muhahaha" in the soundtrack?

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agents deployed to Minnesota
are pulling many #nonwhite residents aside and asking them to prove their #citizenship,
according to several reports and multiple videos posted to social media this week amid the Trump administration’s surge of immigration agents to #Minneapolis.

There is no federal law requiring US citizens to carry proof of their citizenship,
and immigration agents are barred from carrying out indiscriminate searches unless they have reasonable suspicion to believe that someone is in the country without authorization.
And yet, one video, posted on Sunday by a Somali resident of Minneapolis,
a US citizen named Nimco Omar, shows a group of agents accosting her and asking her to show her identification as part of what they said was a “citizen check.”
https://therealnews.com/ice-show-me-your-papers-stops-in-minnesota-neighborhoods

True story. I remember being maybe 11 years old and realizing I didn't fit in. After sobbing for a while, I thought to myself, "Do you want to fit in? Or do you want to be yourself?" I knew to NOT fit in would bring more pain, and isolation... But I'm so glad I chose to be myself (mostly -- I did mask a bit, as exhausting as it was). I paid the price, but became a staunch defender of my friends -- who were #ND, or #NonWhite, or #LGBTQ, or different in other ways. I don't regret my decision...

@autistics

The Advocate
“LinkedIn, the popular professional networking platform, has quietly stripped explicit protections for transgender and nonwhite users from its English-language hate speech rules, repeating a playbook now familiar to LGBTQ+ advocates tracking the rollback of content safeguards across major social media platforms.

“The changes, first flagged by the nonprofit Open Terms Archive and independently confirmed by The Advocate, involve edits to LinkedIn’s Professional Community Policies, specifically the “Hateful and Derogatory Content” and “Harassment and Abusive Content” sections. In both, references to protections for transgender people and people of color were either weakened or removed entirely.

“Before Monday, the site’s “Hateful and Derogatory Content” page included a line explicitly prohibiting the “misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals” as an example of hate speech. That language has now been deleted. The same page still states that LinkedIn prohibits content that “attacks, denigrates, intimidates, dehumanizes, incites or threatens hatred” against individuals based on characteristics including gender identity and race. But misgendering and deadnaming, terms that refer to deliberately using the wrong name or pronouns for a transgender person, are no longer explicitly prohibited.”

#Transgender #NonWhite #PeopleOfColor #LGBTQ #LGBTQPlus #Queer #HateSpeech #Harassment #LinkedIn #SocialMedia

https://www.advocate.com/news/linkedin-transgender-deadnaming-misgendering-policy