Did they purposely choose a guy named "Loving" for Loving vs Virginia?
The law allowing Virginia to imprison interracial couples for marrying was invalidated by the Supreme Court in 1967 -- 7 years before I was born in St. Louis.
That this was surprising to me was an indicator of how my racial innocence was preserved by the educational system.
Learning about the scope and persistence of institutional racism does not, however, mean that I should, must, or do agree that objectivity and "worship of the written word" are parts of "white supremacy culture."
"The command of the Delphic oracle—“Know thyself”—was not a mandate to plumb the soul but rather to accept the role that nature had assigned you..." theparisreview.org/blog/2021/05/1…
I've been saying different versions of this for twenty years:
"We spend our lives trying to figure out what kind of person we are, but others can understand us, in our entirety, at a glance."
Another study to this effect found that showing people one minute of video of politicians and polling people based on their impressions was more predictive of the eventual outcome than any other metric....
We memed a slur against white women that white women use against each other and that nobody would dream of criticizing as a racist, sexist aggression into life!
This piece points out that Trump's incompetence and inertness in office incited the military to begin making policy without regard to his will -- in other words, that the authoritarian threat he summoned up is from those who acted to frustrate him jeetheer.substack.com/p/two-paths-to…
Trump's verbal norm violations created an ongoing state of exception that lead those resisting him into routinized substantive violations of diplomatic, military, governing, and journalistic norms
We have these moments where the satirical comic opera threatens to turn into something minatory -- and as various officials sign on to open letters endorsing the stole election claim there is now (as always) a plausible scenario in which we get there...
You tend to get canceled for the attempts to make an anodyne, blameless statement rather than a detailed, specific, impassioned argument. They won't want to re-circulate the latter if it has a chance of being persuasive.
Never make anodyne, blameless statements except as a form of satirical performance art clearly intended to bait people into overreaction.
Anyone smart and effective will know not to take the bait; only freakish spazzes will go for it