Call Me Tim
Dramacrat
“They should not allow mentally ill people near weapons of mass destruction.” That was one of dozens of derogatory tweets that the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation received in response to a December 2022 panel discussion on LGBTQ+ identity in the nuclear weapons space. Most of these tweets were purely hateful, written by trolls. But some respondents explained their opposition, saying that talk about queerness was inserting a non-issue and “derailing” discussions of nuclear weapons. All showed a keen determination to misunderstand the purpose of the event.
While the event received an outpouring of vocal and wide-reaching support from some of the best-known figures in the nuclear field, the disparaging tweets illustrated the common belief that queer identity has no relevance for nuclear policy, and that examining the relationship between queerness and nuclear policy is intended to push a social agenda rather than to address substantive issues.
Excerpt from her retarded paper.
The conscious and subconscious biases that inform who is allowed into the field, and therefore who is allowed access to nuclear and national secrets, have resulted in unwarranted scrutiny of women, people of color, and other historically underrepresented groups and their subsequent exclusion or marginalized participation in the field. To illustrate this phenomenon, U.S. government reports show that qualified applicants with foreign ties have been discouraged from applying to sensitive national security positions and faced barriers to obtaining a security clearance. This is in part due to preconceived confirmation biases held by investigators about certain racial or ethnic groups.12 In recent news reports, statements by intelligence officials, and studies conducted by Blue Star Families and RAND Corporation, racial bias was seen as a significant factor that negatively affects the careers of diplomats, military personnel, veterans, and members of the intelligence community. These reports drew attention to the structural nature of exclusion in the security infrastructure.13Bias and exclusion based on sex have also pervaded women’s participation in some security spaces. A U.S. Department of Defense culture study found that sexism in the armed forces resulted in men perceiving women as less capable and competent.
Jeet made the bomb gay
Merica is fucked