• TommySoda@lemmy.world
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      It is illegal and literally goes against the Civil Rights Act. I’d say someone should sue but I have a feeling that it won’t hold up in today’s SCOTUS, which may actually be their plan.

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        Make them say it out loud. I want to hear all the bigots sing their approval full throated so I know who they are.

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          They definitely don’t care anymore since they feel there are no real consequences to their actions.

          Until they are made to fear for their lives, this will only get worse

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        SCOTUS is conservative, not partisan. They’ve made dozens of surprising, dare I say woke, decisions the last couple of years. I’m certain they would smack this down, and likely never hear it by supporting a lower court who already quashed it.

        No one seems to notice, but they do that a lot. They simply refuse to here a case and the vote against is often unanimous, or maybe only those assholes Thomas and Alito holding out.

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          They’ve made many others that are blatantly rewriting the letter of the law to mean someone completely different just to give power to their despot

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            Yeah, they’re definitely corrupt but the legal world is a weird one in which they sometimes do the right thing for legal reasons.

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            They’ve ruled against Trump and made so many surprisingly sane decisions many times. It was so weird I started a favorites folder. (That’s all I could capture with a screen shot.)

            After they kicked Roe vs. Wade, yeah, seemed to get worse. But they owe Trump nothing. They have zero fear of him. FFS, Trump can’t fire the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, even though it’s well within his rights and he hates the fucker. Think he’ll openly fuck with SCOTUS?

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              And yet they’ve gone out of their way to either avoid ruling on things they know they’d have to role against him on, it pull out bafflingly corrupt decisions out of thin air on many other issues. Them picking and choosing which laws they’re choosing to break isn’t that much of a relief

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      It is illegal. But TBF, what non-racist/non-white person wants to fight to live an a town of institutionally racist, toothless, cousin fucking Hicks in Arkansas.

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        I’m just worried about any kids who are forced to grow up in a place like that. The few who wake up and manage to leave will probably have stories akin to those who ran from a cult.

        That is, if they manage to leave. :(

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          For sure. I just meant who is going to actually bring a challenge to that policy/law in reality. Who has any interest in hiring and paying for legal representation, court fees, etc. to make a judge rule on it?

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        Simple! Help them build a wall to keep everyone out (and in). Let them live in their racist dreamland, while you advance to the space age.

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        I’m sure there has to be at least one woke POC somewhere on Earth that has a cousin they really want to fuck.

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      They are using a private organization structure to try to loophole the civil rights act. Of course, it’s a violation none the less, just with extra steps.

      IANAL, so I don’t really know how you’d build a case against them, let alone one that the current supreme court would actually hear (if that case would even get that far). The Supreme Court can absolutely say the quiet part out loud without saying anything, simply by refusing to hear the case. It’s also entirely possible that this organization could get struck down by courts at such a low level that the ruling has no substantive effect outside their county or the state.

      Fighting bigots has always required grassroots efforts in conjunction with federal support. Remember, the last time a president deployed the National Guard to a state without the governor’s (of that state) approval before the recent California incident was when Lyndon Johnson sent the National Guard in to protect the civil rights of students against this kind of institutional racism at the local level. But, as you say, this administration has obviously abdicated their responsibility the rule of law and the rights of most of the population.

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      It’s not a town, it’s a chunk of private land that a bunch of racists are going to turn into a whites only trailer park.

      This entire comment section is commenting based on a headline only.

      Half of you people believe that there is an actual town that is turning whites only. You’re falling for fake news as bad as the hunter Biden laptop crowd.

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        Oh well as long as we are being racist on private property, its fine. Theres a global housing shortage created by the failure of private property to be a stable basis of a free, rational, and equitable society, but the fomo is too great on a local millionaire car dealership owner giving me a nod of approval for not expressing racist enough views

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          If you think it’s fine, that’s your opinion. It has nothing to do with anything that I said.

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            Sorry I was doing a bit. I’m not challenging your views because that seems boring, but I am making fun a little.

            My point is that stating it is private property, as if that disproves anything, is very funny because it is ironic. It demonstrates the ideological preference for private property over some kind of state-run incorporation, an ideological preference expressed by many people who own no land, nor political influence. Its your happy place where you go while being fucked by the system.

            If I’m going to challenge your views, I would ask if you thought about how towns are begun? Can a group of racists just walk up to a piece of land and be like “this is the rock upon which we will build a Chik fil a”? Things take time, organization, risk and political effort. What starts out as some temporary housing on a chunk of farmland ends up incorporated, and looking for investors. Unfortunately for many people, doing actual political analysis requires a concept of time and change.

            I would think that someone taking a chunk of private property and turning it into Racismville would be an argument against private property, but instead you made it into dismissal of the risks. Which is about as wrong headed as someone could be since racism is a function of private property relations.

            “Don’t make a big deal about it” is what racist apologists say to justify racism. I don’t think you’re racist, you just have some wires crossed most likely, but the lack of understanding of the deeper problems imo disqualifies your views because it shows you haven’t really thought about any of this in a meaningful way that connects abstractly defined social forces to peoples lived experience of racism.