Lauren Berns
Anti-fascist, all day long.
Race isn't real, but racism is pervasive; act accordingly.
#WeAreOne #TheNewHumanity
- If the Epstein files do nothing but revive the idea that extreme wealth in the hands of a single person is a bad thing, we will have moved forward.
- As a nation, we learned this lesson in the 1930s, when the Wall Street machinations of the very rich threw the entire world into deep economic Depression.
- But it was a lesson we then forgot, as America's post WWII boom (combined with unionization) brought economic security to a wider swath of Americans than had ever before enjoyed them.* Those whose boats were rising didn't feel the need to complain about the rising yachts around them.
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View full threadThat is not to take anything away from the many-decades-long work, laying the groundwork for the realization of that goal by many heroes fighting against terrible odds. It only suggest that cultural realities outside of activist efforts also matter.
- Very few people realize that this sort of obvious, outrageous injustice was still happening this late.
- The attack on teaching the sordid history of white supremacy in America is not about silencing ancient history, it is about silencing the truth about things that people still alive today suffered, witnessed or perpetrated.
- Liberals, secure in their self-aggrandizing belief that they have a monopoly on brains, have been ushering fascism into our government for decades.
- This has been the entire point of creating an anonymous paramilitary force.
- 🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- The militarization of police never should have happened and must be rolled back.
- And, of course, ICE and CBP, in their current iterations, are not police (law enforcement); they are an anonymous paramilitary force, loyal to the current president, not the constitution and who will be brought into a fight to keep him in power permanently.
- For the best analogue, see the snow motion Russian takeover of Eastern Ukraine (long before the full scale invasion) by "little green men."
- Look here! It's a reason to be optimistic.
- Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed. Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2060...
- That the, apparently standard, practice is to refer to detainees as "bodies" is, of course, *intended* to desensitize guards to the inhumane treatment of those detainees. Not only is this incredibly dangerous for the detainees, it is also abuse *of the guards* and should, of course, be outlawed.
- Is that official language? Are guards instructed to use it? If so, someone knowingly made the decision to implement that language, and did so with ill intentions. That's Nuremberg evidence against that person.
- And the fear of social disapproval and humiliation (i.e. shame) for engaging in inhumane acts is a good and useful social regulation mechanism.
