Disobey as quickly as possible

In writing to Google, I suppose the most disappointing thing is how much their quality sunk after they tossed not being evil as a value. 

I mean, it sounds like a bad thing anyway, but in an early job I was constantly checking out new search engines and comparing how they did. Different engines worked best in different situations, requiring some search repetition at times. 

Google was so vastly superior that it did away with all of that. Now you get ads and AI and "the Gulf of America". 

There is so much more information out there now that having a good means of searching it would be really valuable. It is a huge loss, even without them changing a name that has been standard usage for over two hundred years on the bluster of that petty, vicious buffoon.

I will still always call it the Gulf of Mexico. We do not have to obey.

We have been seeing too much of that obeying in advance.

The push back is that they just did not have the specifics of what compliance meant:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/national-cryptologic-museum-covers-nsa-displays-dei_n_67a36924e4b0eeea940d825f?10e 

https://apnews.com/article/air-force-dei-tuskegee-women-wwii-pilots-ecdeac68dc7696535d093c7690ab73bc 

Look, if you work for the government in any way, your opportunity here is to drag your feet, obstruct, leak... anything you can to get in the way.

If you don't work for them, that's all the more reason to not comply.

I am posting a lot of Black history stories this month. I am also finding a lot of other people's posts to share, so I know I am not the only one.

Good! I will do the same thing for Women's History Month next month.

Is that major resistance? Not really. Me finding stories from history is kind of my thing.

However, the guiding force of this party is white supremacy and oppression of others. 

Whether they have called their enemy "political correctness", "multiculturalism", "critical race theory", "woke", or "DEI", what they really mean is that they will not respect or give credit to anyone not approved by them, regardless of truth or morality or anything else that is good.

Some little things strike at the heart of that, and keep our own hearts in the right place.

I know I keep saying how easy it is to go from despising them to becoming them, but I guess I don't feel believed.

Our resistance needs to be grounded in love and caring or it won't actually help.

It is also certain that any oppression this regime wants to try out will start against more marginalized people as a test. It will always spread.

For example, you might see something about ID needing to match your birth certificate, otherwise there will be issues with passports and voting. Transphobes will think "Ha!", but then married women who took their husband's name may find that it affects them. They might then find a lot of men going "Ha!"

Hate will keep spreading, but love can do that too. 

Make a good choice.

Apparently there is not clarity about whether sign language interpreters have been eliminated or not, but it certainly seems like something that fascists would do.

Potential action item: Learn sign language.

Related posts:

https://sporkful.blogspot.com/2017/11/affect-access-and-acceptance.html