I cannot believe I just watched a table full of white people on Morning Joe talk about how words don’t have the power to hurt.
Bari Weiss said ‘we’re all fascists now,’ and then someone unironically said “the problem with calling people who don’t deserve it fascists is…”
Bari Weiss said ‘we’re all fascists now,’ and then someone unironically said “the problem with calling people who don’t deserve it fascists is…”
These people don’t understand. It’s not the FEELINGS that we care about.
It’s what happens when those WORDS connect people who feel the same way with POLITICIANS who feel the same way (or those will pretend for long enough to gain power) who turn FEELINGS into harmful policy.
It’s what happens when those WORDS connect people who feel the same way with POLITICIANS who feel the same way (or those will pretend for long enough to gain power) who turn FEELINGS into harmful policy.
You think I give a shit about a white person calling me a slur?
Or do you think I care more about a GROUP of white people deciding it’s okay to target me and people like me in an attempt to reduce my rights and take my power?
Or do you think I care more about a GROUP of white people deciding it’s okay to target me and people like me in an attempt to reduce my rights and take my power?
Enough people joining together under the guise of hurtful ‘words’ is what created Charlottesville. The comfort one feels in the presence of equally hateful people is why a man was okay with plowing a car into pedestrians. It’s what contributed to Heather’s untimely death.
Enough people comforted by the presence of equally hateful people wind up turning hurtful and hateful words into policy. WORDS BECOME POLICY.
HATEFUL WORDS BECOME POLICY. They become Jim Crow and current immigration policy and Kim Davis’ dumb ass and all other manner of mess.
HATEFUL WORDS BECOME POLICY. They become Jim Crow and current immigration policy and Kim Davis’ dumb ass and all other manner of mess.
Enough people comforted by the shared hateful ideology they try to keep to themselves turn into the kind of apathy that prevents us from changing laws that exclusively harm those they ‘hate.’
Apathy created the war on drugs, the crack epidemic. Apathy created crime and poverty.
Apathy created the war on drugs, the crack epidemic. Apathy created crime and poverty.
Apathy created laws that simultaneously denigrate and exploit poor undocumented immigrants. Apathy created your sentient dumpster of a president and his ‘very fine people’ bullshit. Apathy created ALL THIS SHIT.
Bari Weiss hopped her vapid ass on tv and complained that colleges were creating ‘social justice warriors.’
Yes, because when you learn about how history has exploited and subjugated whole populations for the exclusive benefit of a SINGLE population, you realize some things.
Yes, because when you learn about how history has exploited and subjugated whole populations for the exclusive benefit of a SINGLE population, you realize some things.
You realize how policy shaping is power, and how policy has been used to exclude people from contributing. (See: reading tests for voting.)
You learn how money is power and how, for decades, people have been filtering money to the top and away from the public...
You learn how money is power and how, for decades, people have been filtering money to the top and away from the public...
...in the SAME WAYS it was done to black people. In FACT, doing it to black people WAS A TEST RUN!
You THEN realize it could be done to ANY GROUP!
FANCY THAT?
You THEN realize it could be done to ANY GROUP!
FANCY THAT?
You learn that America historically penalized non-WASP identities in every way they could, and still does. The exploitation.
In school, you learn the ACTUAL HISTORY of America. Not what made it ‘great,’ but what hid in the shadows because people in dark rooms SHARED WORDS.
In school, you learn the ACTUAL HISTORY of America. Not what made it ‘great,’ but what hid in the shadows because people in dark rooms SHARED WORDS.
So, really. Fuck that ‘we’re all fascists now’ noise.
I’m not calling for your land to be eminently domained, your business to be bombed, your marriage to be nullified, your loved ones to be deported, your drug-addicted kids to be locked up indefinitely, OR your death.
I’m not calling for your land to be eminently domained, your business to be bombed, your marriage to be nullified, your loved ones to be deported, your drug-addicted kids to be locked up indefinitely, OR your death.
I just want you to know you don’t have access to ANY space I frequent, thinking you’re going to shop for like-minded racists. I just want you to know I’m purposely working to keep you in the shadows.
Because words don’t hurt, but WORDS TURN INTO POLICY THAT HURTS.
Because words don’t hurt, but WORDS TURN INTO POLICY THAT HURTS.
For the record, this was the nonsensical essay they were discussing in the convo that pissed me off. nytimes.com/2018/03/07/opi…
Haiti, David French, ‘progressive fascism,’ YAHTZEE!
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Haiti, David French, ‘progressive fascism,’ YAHTZEE!
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This was a useful reminder that I definitely needed.
