Legitimately crazy that he’s acting surprised. No one knows any history.
It’s been this way for decades, and a shocking number of white supremacist criminals have gotten off scot-free.
You can point directly to the Fort Smith sedition trial in 1988. White supremacists planned to overthrow the government and some of them assassinated a Jewish talk show host. The assassins were put in jail, but the other 14 members of the seditionist group were acquitted because the entire jury was insanely biased. Two of the jurors dated the suspects after the trial, and one of them got married.
Same thing happened in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1979. White supremacists showed up to a “death to the klan” rally with guns to kill “communists.” All nine defendants were acquitted after killing five people.
That’s not even getting into Ruby Ridge, Waco, Oklahoma City, etc.
This is a nation built on slavery and genocide, ofcourse this has been happening for a long time. But if you haven’t noticed that the brutality has been rapidly increasing during the last two years, then you’re either delusional or intentionally not paying attention.
For a while, it looked like the latter at least might be slowly improving. I thought I’d heard more sentiments about the former as well. Things looked like they could get better. Not good, not for a long way still, but better at least. And that’s the way mentalities and cultures tend to shift: not suddenly, but creeping over the decades, centuries maybe, generational differences accumulating into an evolution.
In particular, if the powerful need to wrap their transgressions into some glamour of civility, if they need to at least pretend to follow some rules, that’s an indicator that these rules are valued in some way and might provide some leverage for improvement.
Rainbow capitalism makes for a good example: Companies co-opting queer symbols for marketing is distasteful, but it implies that inclusion is valued enough to make it worth pouring money into signaling.
This rapid pivot from faint hope to an escalation of ever more overt regressions, their crude bluntness tearing them free from all social restraints that might reign them in: That is the madness, the novelty.
Continuation of long standing American imperialism and oppression of minorities at home.
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Legitimately crazy that he’s acting surprised. No one knows any history.
It’s been this way for decades, and a shocking number of white supremacist criminals have gotten off scot-free.
You can point directly to the Fort Smith sedition trial in 1988. White supremacists planned to overthrow the government and some of them assassinated a Jewish talk show host. The assassins were put in jail, but the other 14 members of the seditionist group were acquitted because the entire jury was insanely biased. Two of the jurors dated the suspects after the trial, and one of them got married.
Same thing happened in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1979. White supremacists showed up to a “death to the klan” rally with guns to kill “communists.” All nine defendants were acquitted after killing five people.
That’s not even getting into Ruby Ridge, Waco, Oklahoma City, etc.
Gosh, in this country?? No way…
This is a nation built on slavery and genocide, ofcourse this has been happening for a long time. But if you haven’t noticed that the brutality has been rapidly increasing during the last two years, then you’re either delusional or intentionally not paying attention.
No one said it hasn’t gotten worse.
What is wrong with you?
Did you see how I said they got off “scot-free”? Why do you think it’s gotten worse?
Rage away though, dingbat
I don’t know. You sure sounded like you thought this was just business as usual, and nothing has changed in decades.
For a while, it looked like the latter at least might be slowly improving. I thought I’d heard more sentiments about the former as well. Things looked like they could get better. Not good, not for a long way still, but better at least. And that’s the way mentalities and cultures tend to shift: not suddenly, but creeping over the decades, centuries maybe, generational differences accumulating into an evolution.
In particular, if the powerful need to wrap their transgressions into some glamour of civility, if they need to at least pretend to follow some rules, that’s an indicator that these rules are valued in some way and might provide some leverage for improvement.
Rainbow capitalism makes for a good example: Companies co-opting queer symbols for marketing is distasteful, but it implies that inclusion is valued enough to make it worth pouring money into signaling.
This rapid pivot from faint hope to an escalation of ever more overt regressions, their crude bluntness tearing them free from all social restraints that might reign them in: That is the madness, the novelty.