Imagine if these people ever experienced actual oppression.
The law never

Enslaved their great-grandparents
Robbed their grandparents
Imprisoned their parents
Stole their property
Shot them when unarmed
Exonerated their killers
Honored their murderers with flags and statues
There is no massive effort at the national, state, and local levels to disenfranchise them of the vote.

There exists no political party and media apparatus dedicated to the premise that allowing them to participate in society equates to theft.
There is no history of centuries of bad science devoted to 'proving' their intellectual inferiority.

There is no history of systemic theft of labor and property and access to shelter. No redlining. No separate but “equal.” No constitutional compromise on their humanity.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with A.R. Moxon

A.R. Moxon Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @JuliusGoat

5 Jan
I know this is radical leftist talk, but you should not be able to kill somebody just because you feel scared in the moment.
We know full well that a stand-your-ground law is intended only for utilization by white people, and will be enforced as such.

Call "stand-your-ground" what it is. A modern decriminalization of lynching.
Find me somebody who favors "stand your ground" who doesn't also believe that Trayvon Martin—an unarmed teenager being stalked in his own neighborhood by an armed adult—was the aggressor.

It's a pro-lynching policy.
Read 4 tweets
3 Jan
So we're just going to skate past a sitting U.S. Senator making the white power sign with neo Nazis at a campaign event huh.
Oh well at least the *other* Georgia Republican Senator in a runoff election won't have the same prob—oh damn.
Read 8 tweets
1 Jan
The reality is very simple: The Republican Party is no longer participating in democracy. They're running a series of ops against every election cycle, predicated on the notion that only their power is legitimate.
This isn't a failed coup. This is a *continuous* coup that stretches back years. It includes Gingrich's scorched earth methods, Bush v Gore, the politicizing of the Bush DoJ, the judicial obstructionism and nullification of the McConnell Senate, and the entire Trump presidency.
It includes decades of tortured racist gerrymandering and disenfranchisement, Citizens United, the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, PACs, and deliberately colluding with foreign powers.

This isn't a failed coup. This is a *continuous* coup that stretches back years.
Read 17 tweets
30 Dec 20
If you program them to slaughter a crowd of protesters they’ll do it with similar precision.
Oh and at least 1 of our 2 major political parties will absolutely program robots to slaughter a crowd of protesters.
“‘Deactivate murder robots’ is a terrible slogan that confuses white suburban robot murder aficionados, and you saying it is why we lost House seats in Texas. Think of a snappier slogan, like: ‘give murder robots extra money and make them spend 68% of it on less murdery stuff.’”
Read 4 tweets
29 Dec 20
Observe: the lie that "government" is a monolithic entity, from which we are somehow separate.

Government is how we organize, manage and maintain our society, but to acknowledge that is to acknowledge society, and one's responsibility to organize, manage, and maintain it.
Government didn't close churches. Churches closed because people with something more than a childishly selfish view of the world understood their responsibility to the shared life of a society, and government is how that understanding was operationalized and delivered.
Nor does government militarize police. The police is militarized because people with a fearful, hateful or selfish view of the world understand a militarized police will operationalize & deliver that fear, hate, and greed through the mechanism of government.

Government is *us*.
Read 10 tweets
27 Dec 20
It's important to remember that Trump suits Republicans—whose entire strategy is engineering government failure to use as a pretext to further dismantle government—perfectly.

This is a party that exists only to demolish society.

A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.
They've created an alternate reality, in which people can claim morality based solely on their own personal intention, regardless of result, allowing them to engage in sociopathic cruelty and overweening moralism simultaneously.

For certain people, it's a VERY popular reality.
To watch Trump succeed despite epic failure is to understand: U.S. society is based on knowing enablement of the violent abuse of marginalized people—mostly young, mostly of color, mostly women, mostly poor—by powerful people—mostly older, mostly white, mostly men, mostly rich.
Read 7 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!