Correction: I listed Max Frost as a "brand new" congressman because his statement included that he did not expect his first speech after being elected to be on this topic. He did say this, but I suppose he meant first speech after being RE-elected.
Story has been updated to change "brand new" to "second term" reflecting Rep Frost's previous term of service in the House.
“This bill doesn’t even come close to protecting women and girls in sports. In fact, it puts all women and girls in danger of sexual abuse.”
After years of Republican after Republican getting caught up in sexual violence against women and girls, this *precisely* seems to be the end goal here: impunity for any and all Republican creeps and pervs.
Living in Florida is like being a very sickly canary in a GOP coal mine. We get all the extremism first, and it’s literally destroying lives. But I am awfully proud of my representative Maxwell Frost!
Sarah McBride has it all. She's brilliant, caring, deeply evolved as a human being. Perhaps one day we will speak of her service in Congress without mentioning her sexual orientation.
Trump's reign of terror will be short lived. He wants to step on too many toes. I predict the first to turn on him will be his billionaire buddies. You see, he's not really one of them, they know it, he knows it.
I was worried (still am) that Congress would take the wrong lesson from Nov. 5 and throw trans people under the bus, but this gives me some hope, especially since only two Democrats voted for this, and the guy who made the comments about trans kids in sports wasn't one of them.
I feel like it's necessary to point out -- yet again -- that it is PEOPLE OF COLOR in Congress who consistently stand up for the rights of everyone else, even as they are for the most part ALSO consistently denied positions in party leadership by the party who self-identifies as the "party of the people"
Someone last night asked the equivalent of “Can’t we all just get along”
And we got into it because I asked the question about how some of us were supposed to “get along” with people who want those who look like me permanently imprisoned/enslaved or dead
And when I say “people” I mean people – JUDGES, people IN POSITIONS OF POWER – who behave like this “judge” behaved here, posting and circulating a meme of a Black boy in “his 1st ankle monitor”
and this judge in Michigan who makes life-altering decisions for people, including those with disabilities, being caught on tape using racist derogatory language and being utterly unashamed
These jobs that give them power over other peoples’ lives?
Who are the people who fail to remove them from these jobs?
And who are the people who stay silent as these people continue on in their jobs and continue to ruin lives and face minimal (or zero) consequences for so doing??
Too often it’s the same people staying silent as these people continue to do evil who are asking everyone to “just get along”
And their protests when someone objects to their callous characterizations has historically looked a little something like this – sufficiently “like this” that there are so many behavioral incidents from which to draw data that people write whole articles about it
“How white women use strategic tears to silence women of colour -
the legitimate grievances of brown and black women are no match for the accusations of a white damsel in distress”
… which kinda sorta lay bare the hypocrisy of the claims of these NIMBY types to support actual democracy
And we’re not going to be free from the rise of the autocrats as a country until we’re willing to examine these patterns, even as some people believe it’s “easier” to live in denial
Those people were called “good Germans” in the Nazi days, and ppl here know I can be depended on to remind folks that ADOLF HITLER GOT HIS IDEAS FROM JIM CROW, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND
“Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States- Hitler's American Model: How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany”
>> Thank you for “reading to the bottom”, as Rachel consistently suggests that we do <<
Yep. It's always a good time for a reminder of who is in power and what the consequences are of society's choices.
And while white women stood up for trans people on Tuesday, Black women and other women of color are -- hugely disproportionately -- the cis allies you see show up most when it matters most.
" Black women and other women of color are -- hugely disproportionately -- the cis allies you see show up most when it matters most."
So.
Since White women who claim to want democracy are nonetheless steady NIMBY-ing ...
... who can Black women and other WoC expect to protect *them in return*??
Where is the reciprocity??
I'm really REALLY not trying to focus on accolades or applause.
I'm REALLY trying to focus on expectations relative to the lack of allyship.
Some of us have felt surrounded by "good Germans" since November 5 -- but I've really felt that way pretty much my entire professional (and school) life all while being shoved out front with the exhortation to protect everyone else.
Correction: I listed Max Frost as a "brand new" congressman because his statement included that he did not expect his first speech after being elected to be on this topic. He did say this, but I suppose he meant first speech after being RE-elected.
Story has been updated to change "brand new" to "second term" reflecting Rep Frost's previous term of service in the House.
We need more Representatives like Rep. Frost.
Just the young ones…..we need more of them.
The cesspool of X is something I hate wading in now, but damn, Rep. Frost is not playing around.
“This bill doesn’t even come close to protecting women and girls in sports. In fact, it puts all women and girls in danger of sexual abuse.”
After years of Republican after Republican getting caught up in sexual violence against women and girls, this *precisely* seems to be the end goal here: impunity for any and all Republican creeps and pervs.
Brb. Need a Silkwood shower.
This makes me ill. As a former (not champion or even really good) competitive swimmer, I can see the inherent creepiness of this. NO. JUST NO.
Living in Florida is like being a very sickly canary in a GOP coal mine. We get all the extremism first, and it’s literally destroying lives. But I am awfully proud of my representative Maxwell Frost!
Sarah McBride has it all. She's brilliant, caring, deeply evolved as a human being. Perhaps one day we will speak of her service in Congress without mentioning her sexual orientation.
Nice to read this CD, thank you.
So glad to see the Democrats taking on the Republican bullies.
Trump's reign of terror will be short lived. He wants to step on too many toes. I predict the first to turn on him will be his billionaire buddies. You see, he's not really one of them, they know it, he knows it.
Fascism always starts like this. First they came for the transgenders...Eventually, fascism always fails
Crossing my fingers.
60 votes needed to break a filibuster
Not for long. You heard it here first.
Where is the MAGA MUST EAT ITSELF Bill? "In Committee" I suppose?
I was worried (still am) that Congress would take the wrong lesson from Nov. 5 and throw trans people under the bus, but this gives me some hope, especially since only two Democrats voted for this, and the guy who made the comments about trans kids in sports wasn't one of them.
I feel like it's necessary to point out -- yet again -- that it is PEOPLE OF COLOR in Congress who consistently stand up for the rights of everyone else, even as they are for the most part ALSO consistently denied positions in party leadership by the party who self-identifies as the "party of the people"
Someone last night asked the equivalent of “Can’t we all just get along”
And we got into it because I asked the question about how some of us were supposed to “get along” with people who want those who look like me permanently imprisoned/enslaved or dead
And when I say “people” I mean people – JUDGES, people IN POSITIONS OF POWER – who behave like this “judge” behaved here, posting and circulating a meme of a Black boy in “his 1st ankle monitor”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBwDpQaRjx8
and this judge in Michigan who makes life-altering decisions for people, including those with disabilities, being caught on tape using racist derogatory language and being utterly unashamed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDvwnmRRFNE
and this judge in New Jersey who was so racist one of the attorneys appearing before him walked out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSHHCPanX9Q
and these cops who arrested this man for “walking while Black”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PUgbArgXJA
Who gives these people jobs?
These jobs that give them power over other peoples’ lives?
Who are the people who fail to remove them from these jobs?
And who are the people who stay silent as these people continue on in their jobs and continue to ruin lives and face minimal (or zero) consequences for so doing??
Too often it’s the same people staying silent as these people continue to do evil who are asking everyone to “just get along”
And their protests when someone objects to their callous characterizations has historically looked a little something like this – sufficiently “like this” that there are so many behavioral incidents from which to draw data that people write whole articles about it
“How white women use strategic tears to silence women of colour -
the legitimate grievances of brown and black women are no match for the accusations of a white damsel in distress”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/08/how-white-women-use-strategic-tears-to-avoid-accountability
and do whole broadcasts about said “passive” behaviors’ historical antecedents
Chile: Nancy Mace & the Continuing Legacy of White Women Slave Owners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFCas3RU6X8
… which kinda sorta lay bare the hypocrisy of the claims of these NIMBY types to support actual democracy
And we’re not going to be free from the rise of the autocrats as a country until we’re willing to examine these patterns, even as some people believe it’s “easier” to live in denial
Those people were called “good Germans” in the Nazi days, and ppl here know I can be depended on to remind folks that ADOLF HITLER GOT HIS IDEAS FROM JIM CROW, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND
“Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States- Hitler's American Model: How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany”
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172422/hitlers-american-model?srsltid=AfmBOoojuqLsgI-YvnJVESvTmBd11_AWrPMMOZB9dGIJ3N0sm9Pq3pjE
Thank you for “reading to the bottom”, as Rachel consistently suggests that we do
>> Thank you for “reading to the bottom”, as Rachel consistently suggests that we do <<
Yep. It's always a good time for a reminder of who is in power and what the consequences are of society's choices.
And while white women stood up for trans people on Tuesday, Black women and other women of color are -- hugely disproportionately -- the cis allies you see show up most when it matters most.
" Black women and other women of color are -- hugely disproportionately -- the cis allies you see show up most when it matters most."
So.
Since White women who claim to want democracy are nonetheless steady NIMBY-ing ...
... who can Black women and other WoC expect to protect *them in return*??
Where is the reciprocity??
I'm really REALLY not trying to focus on accolades or applause.
I'm REALLY trying to focus on expectations relative to the lack of allyship.
Some of us have felt surrounded by "good Germans" since November 5 -- but I've really felt that way pretty much my entire professional (and school) life all while being shoved out front with the exhortation to protect everyone else.
The silence remains deafening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuvBLLyrHRg&t=82s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFCas3RU6X8