Bc 1) they fear losing rigged advantage in the field; & 2) when a white cishet man gets a pub deal, can't promote it as getting past bigotry blockades in favor of cishet white men. They see marginalization as fashionable, an advantage they want to counter by claiming demarginalization is harmful.

PhD student Ramy Amin has been busy conferencing this semester! He just presented "The Asymmetry of Uptake: Medicalization and Demarginalization of Autism Spectrum Disorder" at Southwestern Philosophical Society with a proceeding publication!
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Moral panics are a complaint that demarginalization & increased democracy are happening. That pressure & defiance are building up, eroding bigoted autocracy & changing society away from it. Moral panics state we have to do things their (the old) way. We do not. 8/

16/ All UIT propaganda arguments have one central goal - to declare demarginalization in society & increased democracy & equal civil rights protections to be a detriment that must be slowed down, stopped & reversed towards more autocracy w/ rigged advantages & the best rep for dominant demos.

19/ Even if you pt out correct statistics like "there are more men authors than ever before, but also more women & non-binary authors than ever before," they will simply insist that such a development, a demarginalization, is or will be unreasonable, illegitimate & threatening, to them & the world./

2. reactive demarginalization. This is usually an explicit choice to center marginalized modes of being at the expense of the representation of dominant groups, 4-female-ghostbusters style.

Demarginalization where neutrophils detach from vascular surfaces, shed from endothelium, shifting from the blood vessel wall into circulation, increasing ANC

📉 Lowest ANC is in AM (due to neutrophil clearance)

📈 Peak ANC in PM/HS (due to demargination & increased release) 4/

Demarginalization busts those bigoted myths & shows the good worthy rep is false, rigged & unequal. Which tells them they aren't good & naturally in charge. That's the big cultural adjustment. Even allies often ask for cookies - praise for how good they are. Autocrats will kill their kids for it.

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