We are in for some very dark days if Trump wins, and the first victims are going to be people of color. Trump spoke openly today of deporting legal immigrants and federal forces conducting deportation raids in blue areas. It's all on the line.
The only alternative to incremental change is violent and deadly for the most vulnerable people; there's no magic "revolution" that can change that. Elect the lesser evil, push them towards progress, and seek out better candidates for the next election--lather, rinse, repeat.
Resisting authoritarianism sounds harder than preventing it in the first place, and I am fundamentally a lazy person.
That's "rules are for other people". Dividing the world into ontological categories of good people who can be allowed to do as they please and bad people who must be regarded with suspicion and disdain. Picture of Batman angrily breaking a gun goes here. That shit is not our shit. Shouldn't be.
THIS. This is why I am so disappointed in my alma mater right now.
under a trump department of justice the federal government will lend its weight to the idea that laws passed to remedy racial subordination were actually meant to make any recognition of racial inequality in public policy illegal. dailyprogress.com/news/local/e...
The Legal Insurrection Foundation claims UVa’s BIPOC Alumni-Student Mentoring Program openly discriminates on the basis of race and ethnicity.
You might be surprised to learn that the Department of Justice is arguing that the Equal Protection Clause protects trans people, including trans kids seeking gender affirming care considering no Democrats are talking about it. At least not that I’ve seen.
I desperately want to never see Carville’s name in my inbox ever again.
Look I never play this card but I studied German politics and the rise of fascism and this IS THAT. We have arrived at the end game. Not hyperbole or exaggeration this is THE EXACT LANGUAGE. Anyone who has studied this recognizes it like a meteorologist seeing a gathering hurricane