I live somewhere gerrymandered but nothing like in the US. It seems so hopeless when I see some of the descriptions of how gerrymandering has been used to dilute votes while ratfuckery and disinfo are used to trick potential voters and gerrymandered governments make voting nearly impossible. Here we get three consecutive hours off to vote and down in the US you guys have rules to make voting as unpleasant and inconvenient as possible. I’m not sure what can even be done in some states.
- enforce laws against preaching from the pulpit and aggressively tax organizations that do so;
- aggressively work to keep religion out of public school except when taught in an academic rather than devotional context;
- criminalize proselytization to captive audiences in schools, jails, and the like;
- create aggravating circumstance bills that automatically increase a sentence when a crime is committed out of religious conviction (to go after the Eric Rudolph-type mostly white xian murderers so common in the anti-choice movement);
- find ways to ensure that the legal system identifies and dismisses arguments based on religious doctrine rather than logic and reason;
- vote for people who will engage in passing evidence-based legislation that can demonstrably improve citizens' lives rather than people who want to pass dogma-based legislation that generates a lot of heat but does little to actually help the citizenry and the cause of equality and eguity for all.
I'm sure there are other actions, but these are a few ideas to start.
(There are other things that can be done but mentioning them is justifiably banhammerable, probably).
What we do is deny them the power to do that; passing the John Lewis Voting RIghts Act would be an excellent start.
Amending the 1965 Voting Rights Act to fix the damage John "Just Balls and Strikes " Roberts did to it, and banning partisan gerrymandering would go a long long way to defanging the White Rage Syndrome people.
Make them defend their positions in an actual majority vote.
" passing the John Lewis Voting RIghts Act would be an excellent start."
Somebody needs to let Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger know, since they both voted against it.
But since we're getting granular here, I'm talking about what needs to be done IN ORDER to do that.
Which means passing unified government (Democratic veto-proof majority, House, Senate, as well as White House) IN ORDER to get those acts passed and undo what those of us who were screaming about the damage Roberts did the minute that Shelby Cty v Holder opinion was out BUT WHO WERE IGNORED were trying to tell people would happen.
And THAT means having a plan in place to counter the MAGAt violence ALREADY PLANNED in order to keep democracy-favoring voters from coming to the polls THIS NOVEMBER.
You're correct -- but you're just missing some steps.
I gave you Reverend Wallis' pieces because it was from HIM that I learned that clergy were already standing in the way to blunt MAGAt violence for the *2020* elections.
I figured it would get that bad. I just didn't know it had ALREADY happened.
I grew up in NC, left at 18, and would never move back except under duress. Yes, there are beautiful places there, but it's fucked up in a way I don't want to encounter every day.
Oh no. He was very VERY much clued in as to exactly what he was doing; the only question is : "Did he wear his Klan robes while writing the Shelby County opinion, or did he just put them on when he got home, to relax?"
ugh. Black friend of mine here in US is planning a trip to Paris - apparently there is a trip where you can visit sites related to Josephine Baker. It was only three days ago she told me "y'know James Baldwin went to France and never came back." Actually I was slightly embarrassed that I didn't know that as a queer person.
Why doesn't anyone ever ask why White people don't stop doing racisms instead of just shrugging when Black Americans have to leave the land where they were born in order to find a place that is LESS RACIST -- because there is literally nowhere on the planet post-1493 Doctrine of Discovery that is free of colonialism-based racism?
Why did Haiti have to pay reparations to France? Instead of, you know, the other way around?
So did Richard Wright. In fact he served as Baldwin's mentor there. (Baldwin later gave Wright the back of his hand, which made me think less of Baldwin.)
Why doesn't anyone ever ask why White people don't stop doing racisms instead of just shrugging when Black Americans have to leave the land where they were born in order to find a place that is LESS RACIST -- because there is literally nowhere on the planet post-1493 Doctrine of Discovery that is free of colonialism-based racism?
Why did Haiti have to pay reparations to France?? Instead of, you know, the other way around?
but that she also plans on bringing back the business in the future, after she and her family “go back to the drawing board to reassess and redefine what we will need in our next location.”
Well, moving that location out of North Carolina would be a good start. I hate to let the racists win but they've got to think of their family.
Just a little comment on the fact that about 40 years ago NC was probably the most liberal state in the south. After Roe became law but Republicans in Congress banned federal funds from Medicaid being used for abortions, NC set up a state funded program to provide funds for women eligible for Medicaid to get abortions. But as Republicans and the evangelical right gained power it had steady cuts in funding and eventually dropped in the 1990s. And while late in the game in desegregating state colleges, in the late 1960s and early 1970s made a big push in opening enrollment to everyone. At the same time Boston was seeing violent riots over desegregating public schools. And as mentioned, similar threats against minorities have occurred in every state, including at one time progressive Wisconsin. And Oregon, which at one time post Civil War had a state law against Black people moving there. I seriously doubt that once the right wing book banners caught up with a story about an identical store but in San Francisco or Annapolis Maryland we would see a different outcome of threats from racists across the country.
That doesn't make those people any less deadly violent.
I wish people would think less about (making endless excuses for) the ignorance of the perpetrators, and more about the lives off the actual victims ...
How about a GoFundMe to pay for security?
This is awful and people suck.
The grey people in this cartoon are the White people
https://twitter.com/allhopeissean/status/1775890965229863208?t=CVEfT86W-nhvgC2t080-Vw&s=19
Absolutely true.
What do we do about keeping them from keeping others from voting to keep people like that out of power?
Rev Jim Wallis & Dr. Robert P Jones discuss Rev Wallis' most recent book The False White Gospel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwj9Arf9qio
Rev Jim Wallis in conversation about his book The False White Gospel at Riverside Baptist in NYC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5qEFdgK2CE
I live somewhere gerrymandered but nothing like in the US. It seems so hopeless when I see some of the descriptions of how gerrymandering has been used to dilute votes while ratfuckery and disinfo are used to trick potential voters and gerrymandered governments make voting nearly impossible. Here we get three consecutive hours off to vote and down in the US you guys have rules to make voting as unpleasant and inconvenient as possible. I’m not sure what can even be done in some states.
I just ordered 5 books!
Jesus fucking christ. What the fuck is wrong with people?
the eternal question
Yes, JFC is certainly part of it; the religion is used by MAGAts as a platform to promulgate racism and violence in the name of its imaginary god.
Absolutely.
What do we do about keeping them from keeping others from voting to keep people like that out of power?
Rev Jim Wallis & Dr. Robert P Jones discuss Rev Wallis' most recent book The False White Gospel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwj9Arf9qio
Rev Jim Wallis in conversation about his book The False White Gospel at Riverside Baptist in NYC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5qEFdgK2CE
Well, we could:
- enforce laws against preaching from the pulpit and aggressively tax organizations that do so;
- aggressively work to keep religion out of public school except when taught in an academic rather than devotional context;
- criminalize proselytization to captive audiences in schools, jails, and the like;
- create aggravating circumstance bills that automatically increase a sentence when a crime is committed out of religious conviction (to go after the Eric Rudolph-type mostly white xian murderers so common in the anti-choice movement);
- find ways to ensure that the legal system identifies and dismisses arguments based on religious doctrine rather than logic and reason;
- vote for people who will engage in passing evidence-based legislation that can demonstrably improve citizens' lives rather than people who want to pass dogma-based legislation that generates a lot of heat but does little to actually help the citizenry and the cause of equality and eguity for all.
I'm sure there are other actions, but these are a few ideas to start.
(There are other things that can be done but mentioning them is justifiably banhammerable, probably).
MAGA is a terrorist organization.
White Rage Syndrome.
Absolutely.
The question remains - what do we do about keeping them from keeping others from voting to keep people like that out of power?
Rev Jim Wallis & Dr. Robert P Jones discuss Rev Wallis' most recent book The False White Gospel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwj9Arf9qio
Rev Jim Wallis in conversation about his book The False White Gospel at Riverside Baptist in NYC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5qEFdgK2CE
What we do is deny them the power to do that; passing the John Lewis Voting RIghts Act would be an excellent start.
Amending the 1965 Voting Rights Act to fix the damage John "Just Balls and Strikes " Roberts did to it, and banning partisan gerrymandering would go a long long way to defanging the White Rage Syndrome people.
Make them defend their positions in an actual majority vote.
" passing the John Lewis Voting RIghts Act would be an excellent start."
Somebody needs to let Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger know, since they both voted against it.
But since we're getting granular here, I'm talking about what needs to be done IN ORDER to do that.
Which means passing unified government (Democratic veto-proof majority, House, Senate, as well as White House) IN ORDER to get those acts passed and undo what those of us who were screaming about the damage Roberts did the minute that Shelby Cty v Holder opinion was out BUT WHO WERE IGNORED were trying to tell people would happen.
And THAT means having a plan in place to counter the MAGAt violence ALREADY PLANNED in order to keep democracy-favoring voters from coming to the polls THIS NOVEMBER.
You're correct -- but you're just missing some steps.
I gave you Reverend Wallis' pieces because it was from HIM that I learned that clergy were already standing in the way to blunt MAGAt violence for the *2020* elections.
I figured it would get that bad. I just didn't know it had ALREADY happened.
That's my point.
All gospel is false....there is no reason to adopt the magical beliefs of a bronze-age cult.
Thank you for providing another reason for me to give when my North Carolina friends keep asking me "When are you gonna move down here?"
I grew up in PA, and compared to NC it's a socialist workers' paradise.
I grew up in NC, left at 18, and would never move back except under duress. Yes, there are beautiful places there, but it's fucked up in a way I don't want to encounter every day.
There is a good reason non-white, queer, and "leftist" people do not report hate crimes to the police...
Perhaps this has already been said ... but part of the problem is that usually the police are in on it
David Simon's "The Plot Against America" had a whole episode portraying that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzR_IsYY_1A&t=426s
I hate people.
What a travesty. And I don’t believe the police haven’t heard about any of these threats before.
I hope they can find a new location for their business.
My bet is that they know who they are, and they just can't arrest their family, friends and co-workers.
I bet young master Langston is named after Langston Hughes which is inspirational in its self.
And an honor!!!!!
Boy, it sure is a relief knowing that racism is a thing of the past!
Thank you John Roberts.
Yes. I remember the day when racism was still a problem.
It was today.
Right? As Per Chief Justice John Roberts on why it was okay to gut the Voting Rights Act. Asshole. Correction: Clueless Asshole.
Oh no. He was very VERY much clued in as to exactly what he was doing; the only question is : "Did he wear his Klan robes while writing the Shelby County opinion, or did he just put them on when he got home, to relax?"
ugh. Black friend of mine here in US is planning a trip to Paris - apparently there is a trip where you can visit sites related to Josephine Baker. It was only three days ago she told me "y'know James Baldwin went to France and never came back." Actually I was slightly embarrassed that I didn't know that as a queer person.
C'est dommage que cette approche ne fonctionne plus
Ce n'est pas vraiment le cas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMm9D5NgAfw
Why doesn't anyone ever ask why White people don't stop doing racisms instead of just shrugging when Black Americans have to leave the land where they were born in order to find a place that is LESS RACIST -- because there is literally nowhere on the planet post-1493 Doctrine of Discovery that is free of colonialism-based racism?
Why did Haiti have to pay reparations to France? Instead of, you know, the other way around?
So did Richard Wright. In fact he served as Baldwin's mentor there. (Baldwin later gave Wright the back of his hand, which made me think less of Baldwin.)
C'est dommage que cette approche ne fonctionne plus
Ce n'est pas vraiment le cas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMm9D5NgAfw
Why doesn't anyone ever ask why White people don't stop doing racisms instead of just shrugging when Black Americans have to leave the land where they were born in order to find a place that is LESS RACIST -- because there is literally nowhere on the planet post-1493 Doctrine of Discovery that is free of colonialism-based racism?
Why did Haiti have to pay reparations to France?? Instead of, you know, the other way around?
Just moved to Raleigh in the past month. I see that I have a lot of work to do. Time to volunteer for justice.
but that she also plans on bringing back the business in the future, after she and her family “go back to the drawing board to reassess and redefine what we will need in our next location.”
Well, moving that location out of North Carolina would be a good start. I hate to let the racists win but they've got to think of their family.
Just a little comment on the fact that about 40 years ago NC was probably the most liberal state in the south. After Roe became law but Republicans in Congress banned federal funds from Medicaid being used for abortions, NC set up a state funded program to provide funds for women eligible for Medicaid to get abortions. But as Republicans and the evangelical right gained power it had steady cuts in funding and eventually dropped in the 1990s. And while late in the game in desegregating state colleges, in the late 1960s and early 1970s made a big push in opening enrollment to everyone. At the same time Boston was seeing violent riots over desegregating public schools. And as mentioned, similar threats against minorities have occurred in every state, including at one time progressive Wisconsin. And Oregon, which at one time post Civil War had a state law against Black people moving there. I seriously doubt that once the right wing book banners caught up with a story about an identical store but in San Francisco or Annapolis Maryland we would see a different outcome of threats from racists across the country.
Oregon is infested with white supremacists. The Neo Nazis that murdered Alan Berg were from there.
The state's original charter specified that it was a whites-only territory.
Don't think that's been repealed yet.
Talk about yer cancel culture!
Irony within the realm of possibility: The people making these threats don't even know how to read or have ever set foot in a library or bookstore.
That doesn't make those people any less deadly violent.
I wish people would think less about (making endless excuses for) the ignorance of the perpetrators, and more about the lives off the actual victims ...
It's that they don't care.