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Coining "#malcompetence" to mean "actions & their outcomes which are consistent with incompetence but which have an overall malicious effect, especially when the incompetence manifests differently in different situations to produced de facto discrimination."
Malcompetence can run the gamut from actual intentional malice disguised to appear as incompetence, to subconsciously coordinated malicious incompetence that the perpetrator is not consciously aware of but which a less subconsciously biased person would not engage in, to truly unintentional incompetence which manifests in a pattern because of bias in oversight/attention/competence-building. These different root causes are often not distinguishable, and sometimes blend together.
<does a quick search>
Okay, so it looks like I'm not the only one to have coined this term, but I think digging into the different types is still useful.

For hundreds of years, the Spanish banned the Incan Festival of the Sun—the Andean New Year.
But since the middle of the 20th century, Inti Raymi has been back. 
Today, communities, cities, towns and even universities hold Inti Raymi celebrations.
They make offerings, light fires and incense. They say prayers to Pachamama and Inti, the sun. They sing and dance. 
And it’s not just a celebration. It is an act of resistance

Inti Raymi returns as an act of resistance
Inti Raymi is the most important Indigenous celebration of the Andean countries of South America. And it is a revival of the people’s cultural history. This is episode 50 of Stories of Resistance.

Plein de réflexions intéressantes dans cette interview du sociologue Rodolphe Christin
#tourisme
https://usbeketrica.com/fr/article/sob

Bastante pedagógica essa discussão de #TedCruz, senador evangélico dos #EUA, e um jornalista. É pedagógico sobre o nível de insanidade mental e #fundamentalismo paranóico que atingiram alguns sectos

Federação Árabe Palestina on Instagram: ""Enquanto cristão somos ordenados a abençoar o governo de Israel? Você acredita que Deus estava falando sobre o país comandado por Netanyahu? Você nem sabe onde isso fica na Bíblia" Jornalista Tucker Carlson confronta senador dos EUA Ted Cruz sobre sionismo cristão e a instrumentalização da Bíblia no apoio incondicional a "israel" para exterminar palestinos."
12K likes, 942 comments - fepal_brasil on June 18, 2025: ""Enquanto cristão somos ordenados a abençoar o governo de Israel? Você acredita que Deus estava falando sobre o país comandado por Netanyahu? Você nem sabe onde isso fica na Bíblia" Jornalista Tucker Carlson confronta senador dos EUA Ted Cruz sobre sionismo cristão e a instrumentalização da Bíblia no apoio incondicional a "israel" para exterminar palestinos.".

R.I.P. WELSO - ermordet von Medien, Politik und Inkompetenz.
(geklaut bei @…)

RFK Jr: People should be able to make their own decisions about vaccines
Sane people: Get covid vax, get MMR vax
RFKJ: Not like that!
#vaccines #InsaneRFK #rfk

A better name for wind farms, solar parks, big hydro:
"Non renewable systems for capturing renewable energy flows."
Term used by Pedro Petro (cited by @… in his "The uncomfortable truths about the energy transition" (in Spanish).

Overall, 77% of Americans said they did not feel “completely financially secure,”
and 32% said they did not think they ever would.
Based on the latest census data, the median U.S. household income in 2023 was roughly $80,000,
but that is the midpoint on incomes, meaning half of U.S. households made even less.

This is how much Americans need to make in order to ‘feel comfortable,’ according to a survey
A new survey revealed how much money Americans need to make to feel "secure."

To give some examples:
When police get vastly differential results at investigating crimes against some groups (e.g., Black women) vs. others (e.g., white men), that's malcompetence. Probably plenty of simple malice involved too, and probably the whole gamut of mechanisms I mentioned in the last post are involved here.
Another example, from my own experience: when I stumble over the names of my non-white students but pronounce my white students' names flawlessly, that's malcompetence on my part, because the net effect of my selective incompetence is to make some students feel less welcome in my classroom, which hurts their learning. I'm my case, the reasons for the incompetence are not conscious nor (I think) unconscious malice, but instead a differential capability picked up from a certain kind of upbringing and then (sometimes) insufficiently mitigated by capability-building effort. Because of how I grew up, my ability to pronounce different names is biased (this is true of everyone in the world; most people don't have a classroom instructor position that causes it to matter so much). When I'm successful at mitigating my malcompetence, I use practice time with student intro videos to pare down my competence gap for the specific students in my class. This is time consuming (several hours per week for the first few weeks of classes) and I'm sad to admit that I don't always invest that time. But it's a great example of malcompetence because I have a introspective access to it.

ICE Detains Wife of Trump-Supporting US Marine Corps Veteran
I supported President Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024.
I donated almost all my net income in 2015 to his campaign,
earning an inaugural invite," Prine told Newsweek.
https://www.

ICE Detains Wife of Trump-Supporting US Marine Corps Veteran
"I donated almost all my net income in 2015 to his campaign, earning an inaugural invite," David Prine told Newsweek.