1. Degrees of personhood can say a lot about the privileged in society. Who are "People" here? In America, White Males assigned inferior personhood to women, Africans, and those of the Indigenous nations. We said some of that was God-approved. Now, "corporations are people."
2. Mind you, there is a common thread in all of these examples of societal and political decisions about who gets to be a person, who gets the blessings of equality with the Wealthy Landowners and Industrialists. These examples have helped benefit and protect the super-rich.
3. If you're speaking about Manifest Destiny and Corporate Personhood - both of which have deleterious effects for the average human being in America today, and especially for the poor and low in status - it seems that Who Has The Gold, Makes The Rules.
4. And preachers, politicians, and pundits still have the attractive option to become profitable purveyors of propaganda by maintaining this system for the super-rich. Some have chosen this, their pockets are well padded, and THE LAW WILL NOT TOUCH THEM.
5. Wake up, America! Your consent for this is still a product that the shrewd and powerful are manufacturing! Millions of you have been manipulated,d and the worst among those shrewd have driven you to Trumpism, sedition, and the worsening of a deadly global pandemic.
6. This is in the course of driving you to anti-intellectualism, theocracy, anti-environmentalism, racism, sexism, and many other extremist attitudes, all of which they use to SCREW YOU OVER because in their eyes, YOU'RE LOWER-CLASS PEOPLE TOO.
7. Again: The law won't touch them. We might not see justice about Trump, January 6, or a worsened pandemic. We might not truly get our Democracy back. But we need to wake up and show up. We need to fight for the equality of all individuals, and against Corporate Personhood.
@threadreaderapp unroll
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
