Dr. Claire Le Goues

@samth@mastodon.social honestly almost especially with the NSA, which at least back in the early-mid aughts would literally front as the Social Security Administration at college job fairs and reveal their actual identity at the first interview, but that's not the broader point...

@TaliaRinger@mathstodon.xyz @samth@mastodon.social I hear you. That said, I just went back and double checked my language, which I defend as having been pretty specifically about the stance informing the decision and some of its broader implications, not the character of the people who made it. Happy to disengage on the matter now, especially if you would find my doing so supportive.

@samth@mastodon.social I can take your word on it, but I stand by my allergic reaction to so forcefully judging a person for interviewing for employment.

@TaliaRinger@mathstodon.xyz I just can't get over how grotesquely privileged such a stance is, to judge someone for interviewing for a stable, well-paying government job (in your field of study!) with benefits. In places like West Virginia, where the flagship state institution offers a lifeline out of a lifetime of at least precariousness if not outright poverty, defense jobs are an aspiration for many engineering students.

@samth@mastodon.social a person can absolutely hold a privileged stance/perspective on one matter, or embody privilege in one dimension, while not being privileged in another, no?

@TaliaRinger@mathstodon.xyz I’m sorry, you got BANNED from types.pl for INTERVIEWING at the NSA when you were 20 years old?? …Mastodon deserves its reputation. I cannot even. (Sorry this isn’t constructive I’m just like, wtf on your behalf.)