Give the racist asshats an inch and they will take a mile.
Yup. This is what right wingers and Christians do. I’ve often seen people try to claim that right wingers in the USA are different from the rest of the world and I’ve regularly heard the “not all Christians” line too.
But as someone from a country that used to have a system called ‘apartheid’, I can tell you that this is exactly what fucking right wing conservative Christians do when given half the chance (and when they don’t have the chance, they cry about being discriminated against). Plus every single Christian asshole teacher and authority figure I had to deal with in high school and boarding school were exactly the types that would embrace and love authoritarianism.
Personally I am not shocked at all that these people are doing this. What I am shocked about is that so many fucking idiots actually believed these little fascists when they claimed to be pro free speech and freedom in general. And I cannot put into words the disappointment I feel that so much of gen Z fell for this bullshit. The kids are supposed to be where the hope for the future is. But these kids turned into a bunch of fucking little bootlickers that support the kind of people I’ve fought against since I was a kid.
For the racists, calling them racist is the real crime. If you want to see right wing dumbasses turn into total snowflakes, see how they behave when confronted on their racism…
“Bondi is also making a push to deemphasize prosecutions of white-collar crimes, purge diversity programs within the DOJ, reintroduce the federal death penalty, and to root out lawyers who aren’t willing to march in lockstep with Trump ideologically.”
Shitting biscuits.
“Deemphasize prosecution of white-collar crimes”.
Alright so basically 2008 was a practice round and now we are really planning to make the worlds banks collapse in on their collective greed. Cool.
I know who we’re eating first.
I keep trying to tell myself not to panic every time I think about draining out all my bank accounts. But at some point I should panic, right?
It just keeps getting more and more absurd.
She can try, but the Supreme Court gutted agencies’ ability to interpret law.
That won’t stop them from bringing lawsuits. That’s where the real damage will be done. Companies will fear being sued so much that they will preemptively drop their DEI programs. This is all about creating a chilling effect through threats.
Google has already done that
They’d be using laws requiring equal treatment of protected classes most likely.
The Racist South playing the long game
Years ago, there was a big write-up (cannot find it any more) on the idea of Northern Liberty vs. Southern Liberty, and it was totally spot-on.
Every American should read it because it really laid out the difference between the way cons with the Southern mindset spoke about “liberty” - in their use of this, liberty meant the right to RULE OVER OTHERS. Which is completely at odds with the normal/Northern interpretation.
When I used to link to this article and mention it on various forums, including DP’s I’d get butthurt cons saying how unfair that characterization is/was. LOL.
Spoiler alert, the north was full of bigots too, they just didn’t need slaves as much
How is that a spoiler? It was over 150 years ago.
Also I’m not sure what you think people are supposed to take from that.
BoTh SiDeS!!!
The thing about the north that I’ve learned that surprised me is how many abolitionists held that belief because they didn’t want black and white people living together. They wanted an ethnostate.
Yeah, there was a whole movement to get them to move to what is now Liberia (or Haiti, or Panama). Even Lincoln supported the idea. Although, he did eventually abandon the idea due to, among other complications, his refusal to implement any plan that made it compulsory, so… at least there’s that?
The attorney general is congress now? Wait, let me laugh even harder.
