Trump’s Republican Party:
-Book bans
-China/Russia-style memory laws mandating teaching only the National Myth that soothes the racial majority
-Voting as a privilege only for Dear Leader’s Party
-No covid defense or relief
-No vaccinations
-No infrastructure
-Rule of the gun
-Women’s liberties strictly limited/supervised by related men or the State. Goal: refocus women on childbearing/rearing.
-Government/court-sanctioned discrimination if practiced by members of the Preferred Religion.
-State or public violence sanctioned to stop minority protests.
—All who refuse to praise the Dear Leader and accept his Big Lie are enemies of the State, including media, police, even generals who resist.
-The racial majority must continually be uplifted and mythologized.
-Immigration must be limited to maintain the current racial balance.
And of course, only the elections of the Dear Leader and members of his party are valid. All other election results are fraud, by definition, because the votes of the minority are fraud and criminal by definition, so such elections must be overturned, even if by violence.
What would we call this type of political movement it it was taking place in any other country…?

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9 Jul
If you get a chance you really should read the Plessy v Ferguson decision and the fiery dissent by Justice John Harlan. Hits on everything from “separate but equal” to blaming the victim for feeling aggrieved by segregation to the amount of “colored blood” that makes one Black.
A healthy reminder that the very concept of “race,” “whiteness” and “non-whiteness” was INVENTED IN AMERICA by the people who colonized America, in the 17th century. They literally made it up, in order to organize a society based on land theft and slavery. theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/…
Here’s the ruling. It’s not super long and a fascinating read. Check it out before reading it is outlawed under the memory laws: law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/t…
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9 Jul
What happens when the first teacher is arrested for teaching about Jim Crow in a memory laws state?
Will it become illegal to possess copies of the 1619 Project in memory laws states? Or How to Be An Anti-Racist? At what point do they start banning James Baldwin, along with the Ruby Bridges children’s book?
Will this be a Salem Witch Trials situation, where any kid can point to any teacher who angers them and accuse them of teaching that the founders owned slaves and thus making white students feel uncomfortable, and that teacher is arrested for breaking the memory law?
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8 Jul
George Orwell is in his grave realizing he was far too optimistic in his writing. What next? Republican Thought Police monitoring classrooms to make sure words like “inequality” and “injustice” are never used and that the “heartwarming story of anti-integration parents” is told?
These “anti-CRT parents” are the new Daughters of the Confederacy; demanding that history be softened to soothe their fragile egos by lionizing their ancestors. They demand that white people be elevated in history as virtuous and nonwhite people reduced to being quietly grateful.
That, of course, is called “white supremacy.” One might even call it … daresay… “white fragility,” which happens to be one of the books they have declared an Enemy Of Civilization!!! And thus, a book about a brave little Black girl is verboten! news.yahoo.com/anti-critical-…
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6 Jul
Making it plain: @MalcolmNance: We are in a neo-fascist era in American politics msnbc.com/the-reidout/wa… via @MSNBC
And for those looking for a good, simple explanation of what fascism is, Robert Patton of Columbia University, considered the “father” of fascism studies, offered this convenient rundown of its features: Image
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3 Jul
It’s just one of the delicious ironies of life that the Star Spangled Banner, which became the National Anthem because one of our most white nationalist presidents liked his daughter’s recorded version, commemorates the war of 1812 that produced the first sacking of the Capitol.
And the people screeching the loudest against the “Black National Anthem” — Lift Evry Voice And Sing — written first as a poem in 1900 to commemorate Abe Lincoln’s birthday, probably are cool with the 1/6 Capitol Siege, and Lincoln wouldn’t even recognize them as Republicans.
Here’s a good history of the National Anthem (which has only been that since Congress ok’d it in 1931, affirming Woodrow Wilson’s 1916 executive order. Of course, the Daughters of the Confederacy make their usual appearance... washingtonpost.com/history/2020/1…
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3 Jul
Watching Summer of Soul on @hulu and so hyped. It took place in 1969, the same summer as Woodstock. But was forgotten like so much of our history. Searching for my mom and my Auntie Dolly, who were living in Brooklyn then, in those crowds.
And can we just talk for a moment about how accurate Stevie Wonder’s chosen name is??
Thank you @questlove for bringing us this treasure, summerofsoul 🙅🏿‍♀️❤️
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