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Armed police raid home of Florida scientist fired over Covid-19 data
Rebekah Jones, the Florida data scientist embroiled in a dispute with the state's Republican governor over the handling of coronavirus figures, had her home raided on Monday by armed police who confiscated her computers.
In a stream of posts on Twitter, Jones posted a video of the raid that showed state police carrying handguns escorting her out of her Tallahassee home. She can be heard saying: "He just pointed a gun at my children," with her husband and two children apparently upstairs at the time.
Jones claimed in her tweets that the raid was the work of Ron DeSantis, the governor with whom she has clashed repeatedly since she was fired by the state's department of health in May in a row over Covid-19 data. She compared the incident to sending "the gestapo", adding: "This is what happens to scientists who do their job honestly. This is what happens to people who speak truth to power."
The Florida department of law enforcement confirmed they had entered Jones's house on a search warrant. But in a statement the department said the action was related to a recent computer hack of the health department website, in which emergency response coordinators were sent an unauthorised message.
Also at CNN, The Verge, and The Hill.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Socrastotle on Thursday December 10 2020, @06:33PM (3 children)
The problem with woke ideology is not the ideology in and of itself. I think people should be able to believe whatever they want to believe - even if I don't have a positive view of it, and I think most other people also feel this way. However, this is where the "woke" become a problem, because a sufficiently large percentage of the "woke" do not, in general, believe this. Not believing in their ideology is now grounds to try to do all you can to destroy a person, their livelihood, their life, and endlessly slandering them all at the same time.
The various racial identity politics are the best example. A man says he's not a racist. The woke response is to very overtly recreate original sin [wikipedia.org]. 'If a man cannot even admit he's racist, how might he ever even to hope to be able to redeem himself?' This sort of rhetoric ends up as unifying as the rhetoric of the religions it emulates. But perhaps the biggest problem is that given that the establishment love this division, they're actively seeking to inject it into society, even as they simultaneously deny them any significant political power. And it's not creating some huge woke army as you might hope. It's just creating a bunch of people that are increasingly agitated at each other from day 0.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 10 2020, @11:22PM (2 children)
As usual, you focus only on the most extreme and ignore the vast majority of discourse around equality and the deeply embedded injustice in our society. Perhaps you might take a few minutes to understand the vast majority of folks you're dismissing, rather than focusing on the most extreme.
Just a crazy thought. I won't hold my breath.
Here are a few resources for you. I'm sure you can find many more on your own.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2020/jan/21/how-the-word-woke-was-weaponised-by-the-right [theguardian.com]
https://newrepublic.com/article/155681/strange-liberal-backlash-woke-culture [newrepublic.com]
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/woke [merriam-webster.com]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2020, @03:05PM (1 child)
You're failing to see the issue. Your ideology is not "correct" anymore than any other ideology is. It's simply a entirely subjective worldview as is conservatism, liberalism, libertarianism, anarchism, and any of the hundreds if not thousands of ideologies people adopt or independently develop for themselves. How you see the world is not right, nor is it wrong. It's simple you how you personally feel.
And that's perfectly fine. You're more than free to believe whatever you want. However what is not fine, and where the "woke" become a problem, is when they then go out and attack and try to censor every other ideology in existence. *That* is how you get nearly every horrible big-scale problem we've had in our history. In the absolute best case you get nothing except a deeply divided society ensuring the perpetuation of establishment control.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2020, @03:18PM
If you want to call equality under the law for everyone an ideology, that's fine with me.
But don't paint a huge swathe of people with the brush of a tiny but vocal minority.
That's not only flat wrong, but also quite disingenuous.
Not that you really care, as it's always "Trollin', trollin', trollin', got to keep it trollin' Rawhide!" with you.