Thread by @absurdistwords

Get it now?

https://twitter.com/absurdistwords/status/975092474858344448

The same people who stormed the capitol are the same people who gleefully support police violence against Black and Brown people.

The same people who terrorize churches and synagogues.

The flags I saw at most often at the assault on the capitol?

Trump Flag
BlueLivesMatter Flag
Confederate Flag

This is not a coincidence.

This is literally how it works.

America's racism was leveraged to minimize and dismiss white violence.

The police stood shoulder to shoulder with this mob of violent supremacists up until the moment that they turned on them.

America made police into gods.

Those gods conferred their blessing onto white terrorism, not realizing that fascism is fickle.

White supremacists seduced America into defending their views, making space for them, shielding them from accountability and elevating them into positions of power.

Racism is how the Capitol got stormed.

Anti-Black hatred is the foundation upon which the attack was built.

America spent years "both-siding" anti-fascism and fascism.

Because the loudest anti-fascists were anti-racists.

And America doesn't like people who stand up for Black and Brown people.

So they handled the actually deadly white fascists with kid gloves.

Even now, the Democrats will not acknowledge this direct thread.

They are so afraid of being tagged with the property damage of anti-Brutality protests that they won't draw the straight lines from opposition to Black lives mattering to an attempt at violent overthrow of US Govt.

This of course is the consequence of pursuing peace without justice.

Justice is reckoning with white supremacy, on the mob side AND the police side.

Peace is pretending it never happened and that the causality does not exist so that people are quiet.

Loyalty to peace over justice means that American society would rather ignore the festering cancer of white supremacy while living in denial of the fact it's been metastatic for some time now.

The result? People giving the heil while putting Congress under seige.

Not even those who are now standing up in Congress to decry this authoritarian power grab have the capacity to acknowledge what is glaringly obvious to anyone who looks.

Trump, racists, nazis and cop fanatics shared a common goal -- to take down Democracy.

Nobody on any side of this Congressional debate will speak to how American coddling of and participation in white supremacy has brought us to the position where the merits of violently storming the capitol to overturn an election is debatable.

America is reaping the harvest of its centuries of default racism.

It did not resist when the GOP mainstreamed, empowered and armed white supremacists under Trump

It did not resist because it was not concerned.

It didn't see danger. It saw tackiness

It wasn't worth resisting.

This fascism will continue to grow.

You can tell because those who proudly tout it will suffer no consequences for doing so

We are still allowing supporters of insurrection against US Government to control it.

Biden and the Democrats will not stop the rising tide of white supremacist fascism.

It's not that they are not able.

It's that they won't.

Because in order to do so they'd have to actually fight racism.

And they won't.

Even when it's life and death for them.

America's dogmatic refusal to inspect its own racism means that it will continue to be hospitable to the most extreme and violent racists among them.

America would literally rather die than face its racism.

And it just might.

The thread from dismissing the alt-right as a cute distraction to being concerned over the state of American governance is straight and taut.

https://twitter.com/absurdistwords/status/1311315730080595969

It's not accidental. It is cynical and calculated.

https://twitter.com/absurdistwords/status/1172950568983289856

This did not come out of nowhere. The groundwork has been laid for years.

https://twitter.com/absurdistwords/status/1106573427022938112

This is in the thread above but most people don't check subthreads so I'm posting here.

It's a Layer-by-Layer breakdown of the Trump/White Nationalist syndicate.

https://twitter.com/absurdistwords/status/1106579606432301057

There is nothing new or controversial about the fact that white supremacist and law enforcement are inextricably entangled.

It's public information that everyone who matters just pretends doesn't exist.

https://twitter.com/absurdistwords/status/872045803581394944

People are out there wondering why the law enforcement/security response against siege on the Capitol while Congress was in session, WITH advance knowledge while ignoring that on the largest scales, they were all in it together.

The Federal Government knew it and other police agencies had been steadily infiltrated by white nationalists.

They knew that the President was a friend of white nationalism

They knew that "war" was planned that day

But nothing. For hours on end.

Police have had more rapid militarized responses to protest happening on random streets in Black neighborhoods across the country than they did in the heart of the nation's capital under direct assault.

This isn't accidental.

By and large, America will move on.

It will find a way to justify all of this and pretend that nothing systemic is broken.

It will wait out Covid and go back to brunch and pretend to be surprised anew the next time white supremacists go on a violent rampage.

Democrats will continue to act as if "Defund the police" is some unrelated radical demand even with proof of what sustaining the symbiosis between law enforcement and white supremacy brings about.

The GOP will pretend it has any conscience whatsoever.

And America will eat it up

Active duty Law Enforcement Officers participated in the assault on the Capitol.