“In all of these cases, Galicia, Brown, and Medina had paperwork on them that proved they were U.S. citizens when they were apprehended. But clearly that wasn’t enough to prevent detention by an administration that views non-white people as suspicious. If a passport isn’t enough to prove citizenship, it’s not clear what people can do to avoid getting detained by ICE or CBP.”
They are questioning children with no adult present, and they are using prolonged detention, intimidation and threats of made-up charges to put proven US citizens in legal jeopardy.
Trump is desperately trying to keep his crooked and criminal family out of the news cycle. Dont let him.
Do you expect white women to teach non white men about sexism and gay whites to teach homophobic non whites about homophobia? Or is this exemption only for white racists because your relatives are white supremacists and you want sympathy for them.
I don’t expect anything of anyone who isn’t able and willing.
What I do think is that people who would be relatively safe doing so should put in the effort to educate and combat bigotry, because there are a lot of people out there starting to question the bigotry inherent in our society and would absolutely be able to be educated if someone was there to do so.
I’m not expecting folks to put themselves in danger and try to rehabilitate klansmen. What I do think folks should be doing, if they are able, is talking to their coworkers and neighbors about social and political issues in terms that they haven’t been conditioned to immediately shut down.
I’ll own that my post wasn’t well-put and it comes off as a shitty take, okay? I wish I’d worded everything better. But I stand by what I said insofar as rural folks are a lot more willing to listen than people think, if someone is willing to put in the work. It puts a bad taste in my mouth that organizers are so willing to write off entire regions that are perfectly able to be educated, just because, “oh, rural rednecks are all idiots who can’t change.”
And as far as the wanting sympathy for my relatives crack, the ones who did refuse to listen to me and unlearn their bigotry have been cut off and I don’t really give a shit about them.
Building a movement takes work, and some of the most important work is engaging with and educating people who are politically backward. Those of us who are able to have got to weaponize our privilege and perform that work. If we have no education, agitation, or outreach, then we have no movement, and them’s the brakes.
A guy I know once said “while we bemoan then, the fascist recruits them.”
We can’t build a movement by telling everyone to fuck off until they’ve read Marx. That’s the best way to guarantee that they never join a movement.
You know who’s really really patient about explaining their viewpoint? Fascists and the far right. You know who has adjusted their messaging to reach out to people across regions and political views? Fascists and the far right. If we want there to be a survivable movement at all, we have to counter-recruit people, and that means being patient, and that means not bemoaning that our culture is bigoted and everyone who lives in it is a bigot.
Speaking freely in my study of what is natural, I prefer to prophesize about what is good for all people, even if no one will understand me, rather than to accept common opinions and thereby reap the showers of praise that fall so freely from the great mass of men.
Egypt unveils
Graeco-Roman Senate building
in Pelusium
An Egyptian archaeological mission unearthed on Wednesday a Greco-Roman huge building made of red brick and limestone in the province of North Sinai, the country’s Antiquities Ministry said in a statement.
“The building was most probably used as a headquarters for the Senate Council of Pelusium, one of the North Sinai’s old cities,” said Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. The initial studies conducted on the architectural planning and the construction of the building indicated that it was used to hold meetings for the citizens’ representatives during the rule of the Ptolemies and Romans for taking important decisions about the public affairs of the city and its citizens. Read more.
And Soon the Darkness will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on October 15 via Kino Lorber Studio Classics. The 1970 British thriller received a remake back in 2010.
Robert Fuest (The Abominable Dr. Phibes) directs from a script by Brian Clemens (The Golden Voyage of Sinbad) and Terry Nation (Doctor Who). Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice, Sandor Elès, John Nettleton, and Clare Kelly star.
And Soon the Darkness has been newly mastered in 4K and features reversible artwork. Read on for a list of extras.
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