Forwarded from Anticapitalist Surrealism 🚩🦾🔻 (Francesco Tangredi)
Forwarded from Disobey
"I see the citizen enforcement that’s unleashed [during Prohibition] as the first incarnation of the grassroots 20th-century right. In a very powerful way.
It was Roy Haynes, the commissioner of Prohibition, who essentially declared that there were all sorts of threats to the nation, the threat of modernism, anti-American values, and he argued that anti-Americanism could be ratcheted out if citizens were vigilant in enforcing the Prohibition law.
So Haynes really framed the argument about why citizens not only need to observe the law themselves but become vigilant in backing the law as a way of tamping down on all sorts of social change. His vision was very much a vision of white protestant Christian nationalism."
– Lisa McGirr
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/12/prohibition-history-how-the-ban-on-booze-produced-the-modern-american-right.html
It was Roy Haynes, the commissioner of Prohibition, who essentially declared that there were all sorts of threats to the nation, the threat of modernism, anti-American values, and he argued that anti-Americanism could be ratcheted out if citizens were vigilant in enforcing the Prohibition law.
So Haynes really framed the argument about why citizens not only need to observe the law themselves but become vigilant in backing the law as a way of tamping down on all sorts of social change. His vision was very much a vision of white protestant Christian nationalism."
– Lisa McGirr
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/12/prohibition-history-how-the-ban-on-booze-produced-the-modern-american-right.html
Slate Magazine
How Prohibition Gave Rise to Prejudiced Policing, the Penal System, and the Right Wing
The period between 1920 and 1933 lives on in our collective memory as a misguided experiment in social control, colorfully defied by flappers, artists,...
Forwarded from Mondoweiss
‘We are the masters of the house’: Israeli channels air snuff videos featuring systematic torture of Palestinians
Israeli TV channels aired a number of reports showing the torture and humiliation of Palestinians in Israeli prisons. The videos are consumed by the Israeli public as entertainment, revealing the sadism of Israeli society.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/we-are-the-masters-of-the-house-israeli-channels-air-snuff-videos-featuring-systematic-torture-of-palestinians/
Israeli TV channels aired a number of reports showing the torture and humiliation of Palestinians in Israeli prisons. The videos are consumed by the Israeli public as entertainment, revealing the sadism of Israeli society.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/we-are-the-masters-of-the-house-israeli-channels-air-snuff-videos-featuring-systematic-torture-of-palestinians/
Forwarded from Antifascist Solidarity
ryan walters, a school superintendent in oklahoma and has repeatedly spread anti-lgbtq rhetoric such as the groomer panic. there is a petition is going around to get him out of that position. they’re about halfway to their goal, please share this around
https://chng.it/PV9QLJ6y68
https://chng.it/PV9QLJ6y68
Change.org
This campaign needs you now
Hold Ryan Walters responsible for his role in Nex Benedict's death
Forwarded from Anarcho-Alterhumanist Voidpunk Memes And Miscellaneous
Forwarded from 🔞 Hot goth girl anarcho-shitposting and insane ramblings 🔞
Some of the most violent and cruel people weaponize niceness/politeness to appear more innocent. They want a group of people dead, but it's only "political" when minorities speak up for themselves.
It's not just a lack of empathy. People who have empathy can be racist monsters. People who have low empathy can also be not bigoted. I've seen white dudes who show empathy towards other white people, but also go off on a murderous rant about some racial minority. Then white people insist he's a "good guy" cause he's nice to them.
What causes this disconnect? One aspect is dehumanization. Bigoted propaganda of all kinds is often dehumanizing. Comparing minority groups to pests, vermin, dogs, rats, monkeys, etc. This kind of propaganda works, and is a related concept to how armies use such propaganda to dehumanize the enemy so soldiers are more okay with killing. People capable of empathy can hurt those they dehumanize. Hate crimes are not just the work of sociopaths, but more frequently the work of neurotypicals.
It's not just a lack of empathy. People who have empathy can be racist monsters. People who have low empathy can also be not bigoted. I've seen white dudes who show empathy towards other white people, but also go off on a murderous rant about some racial minority. Then white people insist he's a "good guy" cause he's nice to them.
What causes this disconnect? One aspect is dehumanization. Bigoted propaganda of all kinds is often dehumanizing. Comparing minority groups to pests, vermin, dogs, rats, monkeys, etc. This kind of propaganda works, and is a related concept to how armies use such propaganda to dehumanize the enemy so soldiers are more okay with killing. People capable of empathy can hurt those they dehumanize. Hate crimes are not just the work of sociopaths, but more frequently the work of neurotypicals.
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Forwarded from J.D. Vance Hateclub (Kingspup's Nonhuman Memehole)
When Christians pray to their god and talk to angels they are said to be "blessed" and "devout", but when i talk to my headmates and various demons suddenly I am "mentally ill" and "need to take my meds."
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Forwarded from Grouchy Socialists
The Red Phoenix
Tampa, FL students declare hunger strike, demand USF divestment from Israel’s genocide
Students march with a banner reading “Hunger Strike for Palestine.” (Photo: USF Hunger Strike.) Alek S. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Florida– As the Israeli genocide of Palestini…