Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Will, something seems to be amiss. I don’t know you, but I read you enough to be concerned about you. Something has changed. Maybe if you take some time and seek some peace, things will improve. Another suggestion is to treat people the way you want to be treated. You may find the problem goes away.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

I’ve taken a look and I’m not seeing what you’re seeing. That’s happening a lot lately with your takes. Do you have any way to de-stress and deconflict?

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Depends on the line of business and the time frame. A lot of businesses are dependent on government revenue and subject to arbitrary government action. That’s especially true for businesses whose international connections and diverse executive ranks make them more vulnerable to coercion.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Typos … it’s not purely an overlapping circle as in a Venn diagram, but by and large…”

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

I go back to the Fraenkel’s The Dual State. The destruction of the CDC and public health is animated by belief in tue need to demonstrate the Leader’s absolute power. If he can destroy something that is good for everyone, then he can destroy anything and anyone. Some are also insane cranks.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

No idea why you’re reading those comments that way. Your “oh it’s just eugenics“ can be read as another case of minimizing, and on a more solid ground than whatever you seem to think is in the screenshots you’re posting.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

What are you talking about? Yes, there are some left anti-vaccine people. It’s not purely a circle as an event diagram, but buy large race war, and anti-vaccine sentiments have been a mutual orbit for many years.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Whe whole “that’s a dodge” idea depends on what evidence people muster … or discount out of hand.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Both/and it might have had something to do with a bumbling king who claimed a divine right.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

The honest answer to your question is it sounds like it’s updated to gullible people. Kendi described this so well in Stamped from the Beginning. Anti-Black racism progresses in response to opposition to it. Yes, it recapitulates old ideas, but it reswizzles them.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Taney, et al from the Dred Scott opinion and book as well. I’ve heard several times after McWhorter’s book Woke Racism was published the argument that woke white people like myself - especially those who marry Black people and have biracial kids - should be subject to the same indentured servitude.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, the following section talks about repealing the 14th amendment, or in the alternative, doing away with the incorporation doctrine, that leading into sortinginyo slave holding versus other states. These are people who have the ear of all three branches of the federal government.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

“Principle matters. That’s why we should never talk about it.”

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you. I said way back in 2015 he would never give up power of voluntarily elected. I think history shows that.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Ew. Hey everybody block this guy.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Relevant: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPtj...

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

To intimidate other people. The cruelty is the point.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m now reading that they plan to deport him to Uganda on Monday?

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

TO oh Mississippi users - VPN is an option depending on legalities. Are the other social platform blocked as well?

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Some other extremists on that listing, too. I gather they think proponents of DEI are out to destroy Western civilization, else why include them in that lineup?

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

You know, Ronald Reagan was governor of California win the first bans on carrying guns in public were made. That’s after the Black Panthers decided to carry long guns for self-defense.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

1850s or 1950s?

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

There has never been a period when white wingers haven’t turned to the charge of Marxism against those who believe in racial equality. Heard that a lot in recent years, but it was there all along.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Marxist’s as well. Some of my earliest memories are of death threats to our family from the KKK and John Burch Society after my father was called a Marxist for working on desegregation of teaching in Michigan as well as raising funds for freedom schools in southern states during Massive Resistance.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

This is very insightful. Thanks!

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

This is not new. It’s louder, but very old. And it happens IRL and even in workplaces. I’ve been warning about the race realism and white genocider rhetoric and threats for years. What reporters have covered this? Near total failure. Thank you for posting.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Stormfront

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Stormfront

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

The forced sale of Twitter to Musk after he tried to withdraw is probably the greatest failure in corporate social responsibility in many decades. So predictable. I can’t think of a greater failure on the part of a board. I said so at the time.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

That doesn’t seem like the subject matter of Wil’s post. Pretty clearly, the economy, Covid response, and healthcare are kitchen table issues.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Elections in 2020 focused on cultural issues? So the top issues weren’t the economy, Covid, and healthcare?

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Is Dershowitz on their advisory group?

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Not that high now - probably will be soon. This article includes an estimate of 21 percent of global energy use by 2030, even as energy consumption rises. Can't vouch for methodology or the prediction, but it's better than "never given a denominator." mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-t...

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Sounds like a somewhat valid critique, but maybe he needs to work on his network. I only see a little of this. I’ve been a whole lot happier since a network with a few black colleagues, and LinkedIn went wild and decided that I’m Black. Black LinkedIn is to LinkedIn as Black Twitter is to Twitter.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

In fairness, that will catch new editions and translations. It helped me out a few times with long-dead authors who have a large body of works published.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

That will happen if and when fascism is defeated

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Medicare and Medicaid are minimum safety nets for people in poverty. They’re not at all about upward mobility. They only apply to people who are older to begin with, and they don’t address the intergenerational wealth problems.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s literally true that everything mentioned thus far was implemented in a way that disproportionally benefits white people suffering from poverty, and intending to lift them out while leaving other people predominantly in poverty.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

I say that because the original post seems to be referring to the new deal. If you’re looking at the 60s, they were some partial attempts, but it’s not as if they were trying to eliminate poverty in a meaningful way. They were trying to make poverty survivable.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

I think you might want to learn a little bit about the New Deal and race before you keep talking. The most generous interpretation you can give FDR is that he had to cave to southern Democratic centers to get the various laws passed. They were all racially exclusionary.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Hmmm… Check out the book When Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson. Clearly, the New Deal was targeted to reduce white poverty, while caving to white Southerners, who wanted exclusion of black and brown people because reduced poverty would threaten their conception of race relations.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Interesting. A executives bragged about yue provocative double meeting covered in the ad. Racism almost always includes an objectively racist element as well as plausible deniability. They broke a 45 year-old consensus, to never do racial eugenic messaging for big business. Not since Brooke Shields.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

This should help: thead said genes.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

If this doesn’t matter, what does? Business needs to be warned off going in this direction. If they conclude they can, then they’ll be in tight with fascism. There won’t be any stopping any of this. It’s not about taking the fence. It’s where this takes us if we don’t resist.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

You’re dissing people with well informed objections toboth through racial eugenics and big business marketing and selling racial eugenics. This theory of good jeans, animates Maga, and is the reason behind the immigration policies, the concentration camps, the cuts to US Aid.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

“Reacting to anything and everything the right does.”????? Excuse me, but nobody here is doing that. This is racial eugenics. This is businesses on the cost of concluding they can market and sell over racism profitably. You want to treat that as a trivial issue that can be sacrificed?

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social)

Cut through the noise. This us the nest explainer on the history of racial eugenics in the context of the SS American Aragon ad I’ve seen. Worth your time. www.threads.com/@dawnieneufe...

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

He is saying g it, though. Wow.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Just in summary, your certainty because you were alive then and presumably consumed televsion and maybe a newspaper and some books doesn't really hold up against fact. Your certainty ought to be in what I told you. Have a good one.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't actually credit the fact that you were alive at that time as qualifying you as an expert on what transpired to achieve the consensus against racially eugenic messaging in in big business in 1980. It's been a part of tacit knowledge for many for a very long time. In any event, now you know.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

I understand many people aren't aware of the racial eugenics issue, which *wasn't* controversal. Watch the ad again, and reflect on the fact that times have changed. The people who raised the issue were mostly Black, there was no social media, and white-owned media didn't cover it.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

This is great. I'd suggest looking at rhetoric of science as well. We can't understand how the playbook wins or loses without having a solid sense of how science is justified, discredited, popularized, or adulterated. The scope also must include pseudosience and scientific racism, sexism, and so on

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

With that, assuming you read all that and didn't reply to the challenge, I know that you're ignorant of the context. I am not. You live in a country that has been swayed by racial eugenicists and don't even know it. Goodbye.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah when you get hate notes in English quoting from mass shooter manifestos and people traveling internationally and coming by your house, that says you know enough.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Name three prominent Danish racial eugenics advocates to show you know anything. Sorry, you doing the Dunning Kruger thing and adding in a weird victim card. I've had my life threatened by one of these people I don't appreciate your arrogance.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

You can show you're serious by a) withdrawing your falsehood, and b) naming three prominent Danish racial eugenics advocates. I know what I'm talking about one of them came to my house and harassed me when they had a racial eugenics conference at the University of Texas. Sit this one out.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

No it's not at all xenophobic. I know the context there and am familiar with the success of far right racial eugenicists in influencing what people from there think racial eugenics is. I'm not at all interested. Goodbye.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

They clarified that they are willing to lie. It is and was always about genes. Being pro-choice and favoring LGBTQ+ doesn't mean much in the context of racial eugenics and racism, unless one is a far right anti-abortion person who doesn't understand the history of racial eugenics.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

No. I'm not surprised you're Danish given the context. This gets a block. Bye, William!

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Counterpoint: that's a lie.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump is a Nordicist who talks about good genes at almost every rally. He's alluded to criminality genes among Black and Hispanic immigrants, which is just horseshit. Racism almost always includes an overtly racist element and plausibility deniability. The white pride stuff should be your clue.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

No, it isn't like that at all. That's the passive aggressive trick of the ads. They used white coded genes and a model whose visuals make it plain. White people can have good genes, but those "traits" aren't even genetic. They are epigenetic. The advantageous thing is the give away you've been duped

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

It's not the "pun" that is the issue. Racism almost always includes both obvious racism and plausible deniability. It is a huge issue if big business concludes it can safely profit from racially eugenic messaging and core business operations. With the resources they have, things would be much worse.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, the cheeky post was a nod to racial eugenics. Racism always features both obvious racism and plausble deniability.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

It is a freaking clothing commercial that gives a nod to racial eugenics.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

This is how fascism solified power in Germany.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

It is ghoulish to ignore that it's about genes. Racial eugenics was originally about eliminating all Black and brown people from the world. The "lesser races" idea. The ideas on immigration, concentration camps, and cuts to US aid are all justified with eugenic thinking. 500,000 have died already

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

No it's super embarrassing that people don't get how important it is in a moment where fascism is basically here to stop racially eugenic ideas from being being profitable for big business. If that line falls, business will do it and with all the resources, that's game over.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Just stop. Don't give in on the line of big businesses profiting off racially eugenic messaging and business operations. This is overt racism. The immigration policies, the concentration camps, the cuts to US Aid are all about changing demographics to make America more white.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

No these two things are connected. Poisoning the blood is a deeply eugenic idea, and Trump talks about good genes in almost every rally. He's also alluded to bad "criminal genes" among Black and Hispanic immigrants, which is a racist crock straight from old racial eugenics.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

It's doesn't depend on the moment. The Brooke Shields ad led to a 45 year consensus not to do racially eugenic messaging like good genes in big business. The context makes it far worse, but it always would have had huge push back. It goes way beyond eyes and hair. Blue eyes aren't genetic.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Nah the main thing is it obliterated a 45 year old consensus by big business not to profit from racially eugenic messaging or business operations. The latter was shaky because of all the immigration work and so on, but now the contest is whether business can be overtly racist and profit.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump is obsessed with good genes. He covers it in almost every rally and he basis his policy advocacy on good genes. He is a Nordicist aka white or Anglo Saxon good genes advocate. He's alluded to race-based genetic criminality of Black and Hispanic people, which is a racist crock.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean that's nonsense. Racism always includes the double meaning of obvious racism and plausible deniability. The AE executives' posts discussed the double meaning and pushing the envelope. There is no other envelope to push than race. Open your mind.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm not yelling, but here ya go. The original version of racial eugenics called for the elimination of Black and brown people along with other "lesser" races from the world. The selection aspect was only for "higher" races - white and maybe Asian. All this descends from scientific racism.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

The idea of good genes is the basis of racial eugenics. The original version called for the elimination of Black and brown people from the world. The ad crossed a 45 year old line in big business advertising against racially eugenic messaging in big business ads. Trump is a nordicist. This is bad.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Hi troll. It is and was always about the genes. Good genes are Trump's obsession. He's a Nordicist and he's pushed genetic pseudoscience about supposed criminality of Black and Hispanic people. These ideas are the basis of MAGA and the fascistic immigration, concentration camps, and cuts to US Aid.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Opposition to racial eugenics and revival of white pride racism insn't stupid. The original version of racial eugenics called for the total elimination of Black and brown people along with other "lesser" races from the earth. The good genes idea is the basis of the fascistic stuff we've seen.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Ugly inside. That means not a beautiful woman. American Eagle crossed a 45 year old line formed after the Brooke Shields racial eugenics debacle - no racial eugenics messaging in marketing for big business. That's been transgressed and needs to remain the focus.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Relative to the dog whistle "traits" in the ad campaign, genes do not determine hair or eye color. It's epigenetic but the lack of knowledge isn't going to stop the trolling.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

What a grotesque lie. It is and was always about the genes. "Good genes" Nordic or white genes and supposed inferiority of others the animinating principle of Trump and MAGA. The immigration positions, the concentration camps, the cuts to US, the destruction of science all flow from that/

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

This is not a both sides thing.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social)

I am a lifelong Democrat largely because it's been the only effective means electorally to support equality for all. he gutless and irrational silence of the Democratic leadership in the face of American Eagle's normalizing racial eugenic messaging in business is beyond disappointing.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you so much.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

They get to do what they want in response to what Owens did no need to put Brigitte Macron or really either of them through any critique.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

It is serving as state-run or state-aligned media. This reminds me of the way Tr — sorry. Hitler’s state censors behaved in Nazi Germany.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

For those interested, if you want, broader context in which Tr — sorry, Hitler — threatened the Central Bank with extra-legal measures, I’d highly recommend the Dual State by Ernst Frankel, published in 1940 after the manuscript was smuggled out of Nazi Germany.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

I know you won't.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Gut-wrenching with a lot of wisdom as well for people facing similar, though perhaps more distant dangers. I really appreciate your sharing and please don't stop on the topic of principled dissedence.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks. Many news outlets today are now reporting uncritically that Ghislaine Maxwell answered "every one" of his questions about 100 people ... as if he's not close friends with her defense council. It's an elaborate ruse where only certain people on the Trump enemies list get asked about.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Bye now

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

As for Columbia they are now actively tagging people for career destruction, going so far as to revoke degrees for lawful protests. You don’t defeat fascism by pretending dubious “decades of prior service” cancels out going full Vichy.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Your comment is asinine and exactly backwards. Service when it’s easy doesn’t matter if your actions when pressured aid fascism. A million bucks to Trump’s inauguration, all the work they did on policing and surveillance … please.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

LOLOLOLOL! ! Dude you seem mad. Get a grip. You don’t know me. As for your asinine claims, credibility on this stuff stirs morr than virtue signaling. The topic is cowardice and capitulation on the face of fascism. They might be welcomed back into the fold once fascism is defeated.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Lololol

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Target? Decades of service? Really?

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks. It’s amazing to me that the Times could publish this without noting that Dershowitz is the one who made the deal to immunize unnamed co-conspirators in child sexual abuse. He wasn’t their lawyer. He says he knows the names. He fot them that deal and it’s a rotten as can be.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Some businesses might be following the model of Schindler or Kundanla Gupta - www.bbc.com/news/article... - but I don't see that happening. Too many executives are now concerned about to their businesses, to their jobs. or their ability to remain in the United States at all. Many seem to be cowed.

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

Anyway, I wanted to thank you. The book is an excellent resource for looking at patterns not only in the normative and prerogative states, but for understanding patterns economic actors and in particular the patterns of private companies and industry today. 7/n

Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D. (@bbbozzz.bsky.social) reply parent

... and based on a combination of legal and risk analysis, companies protect those who instigate the prerogative state, stochastic terrorism, or straight up harassment and intimidation and in many cases fail to protect those whose simple argument is for equality and rule of law. 6/n