multiple ppl prefaced Andy Mills to me as having "cult leader energy" bfr introducing him into a social setting when i began in radio. and despite this wildly acknowledged "off vibe" he kept/keeps falling up the ladder

which is to say, part of how patriarchy operates in workplace/social settings is when we all acknowledge someone as manipulative, boundary-crossing, etc. and yet continue on as if this behavior is totally innocuous

i'm going to link this article about how white supremacy shows up in the wokrplace -- so we can broaden the conversation from "bad white man" to bad whiteness

https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/white-supremacy-culture-characteristics.html

especially because - in the case of Caliphate,- part of the fabrication was a seemingly urgent drive to tell a particularly Islamophobic story to a mostly-White Liberal audience