Reconstruction was a failure that didn’t go nearly far enough. All the same levers of power were left in place for someone else to use. After decades of planning, they’re in use again. The Supreme Court is a right wing extension of the fascist movement that holds control of the presidential and congressional branches and every Southern state’s legislature. They played the long game while Liberals were too busy protecting capital interests to recognize or care about what was obviously happening. And now we’re here. With enough time, things will swing back our way, but if the next equivalent to the Reconstruction fails to pull out the weeds from the root, our great grandchildren will be right back where we are another hundred years from now.
Because for some reason everyone always collectively agrees that it’s absolutely unacceptable to ever punish racists. Didn’t happen for the Confederacy, or for the lynchers, or the anti civil rights adults who attacked children for simply attempting to attend school, not the actual Nazis or the American Nazi party nor it’s predecessor (look that one up). Everyone collectively agrees we must punish everyday people for everyday crimes but never ever can we even consider punishment for the richest and most powerful commiting the most heinous crimes at national or even global scale…no that would be too “cruel”, so we must allow them to fester and destroy every bit of progress our species ever makes no matter how many millions of us had to die for that centimeter of progress.
See, you say that, but every time I call out the French for being baby eating cannibal slaver scum of the earth, its all “the past is history” and “you can’t hold a grudge”. Every single country touched by France has been made worse. There is nothing at all redeemable about their culture or traditions. Its all shit and violence, all the way down to the core.
Well, if you hold a grudge against french individuals for what their ancestors did, yeah, you’re wrong. You can hold a grudge against France as a country for what they did, though. Unfortunately it seems that you’re doing the former.
Because clearly democratic Switzerland did nothing wrong. No raubgold here. Nope. They just happened to find it all at a yard sale. Well, 6 million “yard sales” or so.
That’s just a sandwich. Stop pretending. France also gave Vietnam colonialism and syphilis. Zero countries on this planet are better for being involved with the French.
Im so glad that a sandwich is worth more to you than the native’s way of life, including thousands of years of tradition and culture. Very colonist of you. You’ll be hard to miss on the other side, but ill give it the old college try.
We now have a basically “whites-only” refugee program. How did racism win?
This state was concocted by literal enslavers on a foundation of slavery, genocide, patriarchy, etc.
I’m pretty sure racism has only lost once. Then they murdered the dude responsible and created conditions almost as bad as slavery.
Not to mention the constant and extremely racist attacks on the rest of the planet.
Racism has always won in USA.
Capitalism. Racism is a lever the capitalists pull to divide the working class whenever they feel like we’re getting uppity.
Reconstruction was a failure that didn’t go nearly far enough. All the same levers of power were left in place for someone else to use. After decades of planning, they’re in use again. The Supreme Court is a right wing extension of the fascist movement that holds control of the presidential and congressional branches and every Southern state’s legislature. They played the long game while Liberals were too busy protecting capital interests to recognize or care about what was obviously happening. And now we’re here. With enough time, things will swing back our way, but if the next equivalent to the Reconstruction fails to pull out the weeds from the root, our great grandchildren will be right back where we are another hundred years from now.
Because for some reason everyone always collectively agrees that it’s absolutely unacceptable to ever punish racists. Didn’t happen for the Confederacy, or for the lynchers, or the anti civil rights adults who attacked children for simply attempting to attend school, not the actual Nazis or the American Nazi party nor it’s predecessor (look that one up). Everyone collectively agrees we must punish everyday people for everyday crimes but never ever can we even consider punishment for the richest and most powerful commiting the most heinous crimes at national or even global scale…no that would be too “cruel”, so we must allow them to fester and destroy every bit of progress our species ever makes no matter how many millions of us had to die for that centimeter of progress.
See, you say that, but every time I call out the French for being baby eating cannibal slaver scum of the earth, its all “the past is history” and “you can’t hold a grudge”. Every single country touched by France has been made worse. There is nothing at all redeemable about their culture or traditions. Its all shit and violence, all the way down to the core.
Well, if you hold a grudge against french individuals for what their ancestors did, yeah, you’re wrong. You can hold a grudge against France as a country for what they did, though. Unfortunately it seems that you’re doing the former.
That’s wrong.
Switzerland would not have been a democracy withiout Napoleon forcing us to implement it.
https://www.bar.admin.ch/bar/en/home/research/research-tips/topics/die-moderne-schweiz/epoche-des-wandels--die-schweiz-zwischen-1798-und-1848.html
Because clearly democratic Switzerland did nothing wrong. No raubgold here. Nope. They just happened to find it all at a yard sale. Well, 6 million “yard sales” or so.
And what does the french have to do with that? Moving goal posts?
But France gave Vietnam banh mis
That’s just a sandwich. Stop pretending. France also gave Vietnam colonialism and syphilis. Zero countries on this planet are better for being involved with the French.
It’s more than just a sandwich, it’s a way of life. I’m sorry that you don’t understand. Also phó is French apparently
Im so glad that a sandwich is worth more to you than the native’s way of life, including thousands of years of tradition and culture. Very colonist of you. You’ll be hard to miss on the other side, but ill give it the old college try.
Sandwich and a soup!
Sounds like the US needs something like a “guillotine phase” in its national history and collective consciousness to address this.
Guillotines would be too little too late imo. Scaphism maybe.
Personally, I think we should keelhaul the rich.