Queer intel officers targeted by top secret chat leak get their chance to speak (www.thehandbasket.co)

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[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

It's bad enough that this is happening today...

But people in high offices getting cheered on for it, by millions of people? For violating the intelligence's community's personal lives, and years of guarantees?

Thing about the the Lavender Scare is I don't think most of the population was aware of that, but a huge fraction is cheering this on.

[-] femtech@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago

Nope, they are not. I informed my coworkers about this being another lavender scare and I was met with blank faces.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I think that's the thing. People who would care (especially those more medium with the administration) mostly have no idea this is going on, people who like this are seeing it because their algorithms are feeding that tweet to them (albeit without any of the nasty context).

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