@zettie_geez @MelissaJPeltier @JohnMTalmadgeMD @atrupar Yes now that you mention it. I'm not a movie buff so those analogies rarely come to mind. What I always pictured (besides Emperor w/o Clothes) was t/Pied Piper (similar) but instead of kids following, it was their corrupt, racist misogynistic parents he led w/his hate music flute
@zettie_geez @MelissaJPeltier @JohnMTalmadgeMD @atrupar However, unlike Gantry, JJ, Heavens Gate or CM this isn't a cult & unlike P. Hearst, it's not Stockholm Syndrome & unlike the Pied Piper, nobody's hypnotized. Folks are free to leave w/o consequence or change the channel, no ones holding a gun to their head, 1/x
@zettie_geez @MelissaJPeltier @JohnMTalmadgeMD @atrupar threatening to hurt them or their family, stalk them, keep their kids but toss them out, monitor their behavior or any number of other cultish things. Seriously, was the Holocaust perpetuated by a cult....?
Because I'm also a genocide scholar, 2/x
Because I'm also a genocide scholar, 2/x
@zettie_geez @MelissaJPeltier @JohnMTalmadgeMD @atrupar I can't escape the real tone here WHICH is not being conned. These folks aren't conned or hypnotized.
This is who they are, loosed; & the more we struggle to find ways to deny it, the more we contribute to it by not recognizing this is the systemic & foundational structural, 3/x
This is who they are, loosed; & the more we struggle to find ways to deny it, the more we contribute to it by not recognizing this is the systemic & foundational structural, 3/x
@zettie_geez @MelissaJPeltier @JohnMTalmadgeMD @atrupar institutional and cultural racist & misogynistic hate that frankly emerges from sexual sadism & which is pervasive throughout the founding of America and White Western Christianity. Did you know the age of consent for WW until 1880 was 10 yrs old in every state but DE in 4/x
@zettie_geez @MelissaJPeltier @JohnMTalmadgeMD @atrupar which it was 7, YES 7! & if you "spoilt" a girl/woman before then or before marriage, you paid restitution for damage of property, income and goods to the father and future husband. Af-Am womens virginity or person had no value, so no crime....5/x
@zettie_geez @MelissaJPeltier @JohnMTalmadgeMD @atrupar paedophilia IS RAMPANT IN W. CHRISTIANITY as is rape in our society. 1/4 women over the course of their lifetime, w/numbers even higher for collage students. I don't need to tell you about our 2-tier system of justice and WM such as Brock Turner who by the way is 6/x
@zettie_geez @MelissaJPeltier @JohnMTalmadgeMD @atrupar typical of sentencing for WM vs, 7, 10-20 years for a Black man. Trump is the result of America's refusal to reckon with the inequities written right into the structures of society, so codified at the beginning that the stain lives on as culturally normative sociopathy; 7/x
@zettie_geez @MelissaJPeltier @JohnMTalmadgeMD @atrupar after all the legal and moral crimes of racism and misogyny that are committed every day in ways both large and small ARE so widespread NO WOMAN, AF-AM OR PERSON OF COLOR'S LIVES ARE UNTOUCHED(& that's the majority of US population) dominated 8/x
@zettie_geez @MelissaJPeltier @JohnMTalmadgeMD @atrupar by t/cultural sickness of "WHITENESS". & we all work around it, why, because those crimes represent the norm & in fighting them, t/norm seeks to annihilate you. But if you want to talk cult, lets talk about the CULT OF WHITENESS and WM. There may be some truth in that 9/x END
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