No one is saying that individuals of any ethnicity can’t be bigoted. The point being made is that, in our current society, the societal structure that we call “racism” - the social machinery that empowers white bigots to enact violence against people of color and get away with it, and disadvantages non-white people in all sorts of other ways - lends a certain weight to the prejudices of white folks that just isn’t true for the prejudices of other people. Disadvantaged people who hate all white people just aren’t a threat to white people the way that even well meaning white people are to people of color.

In other words: the prejudices of those in power are a much more pressing social ill because the ruling majority ethnicity/culture has the power to actively cause harm via those prejudices.

I know plenty of people with records. Few of them are white. Fewer still are white, cis, straight, and ablebodied.

If you look a certain way or dress a certain way, law enforcement tends to look for opportunities to harass or arrest you. So no, I don’t think it should be illegal to hold office as a felon. (I’m also against felons having their voting rights taken from them.)

Couldn’t we sail into the stars, boldly going where no human has gone before, leaving earth and its petty tyrants behind?

Yikes. I’m sorry

Because our laws are written by the elderly, ageism is legally defined as discrimination against old people.

Us too. Honestly, I think anyone who cares should be getting to know their neighbors right now

The Trump presidencies have been so heinous that he can do a Watergate and we aren’t even surprised.

There’s no reason we should be deporting people at all. If someone who lives here commits a crime, we can deal with it the same way as anyone else.

It’s less of a revolution than it seems to be. Both parties have been doing awful things for a long time, Trump is just louder about it and more flagrant in his defiance of the other branches of government.

But it’s not “Trump is a fascist, unlike any president before him.” Trump is a fascist, but there have plenty of fascistic elements in the US goverment all along, and there have been other presidents like Trump in US history.

The system really is working exactly as intended.

100%

Biden and Obama did it too. This is deeper than parties.

Fuck Trump with a pinecone - but this will not be fixed just because the “other team” wins an election.

They don’t care about the Epstein Files. They care that their constituents were mad they were complicit in the cover up. Now that they’ve publicly done something, they’ll go right back to falling in line for Trump

It looks like it’s prepaid only

gross.

Thanks for the good work! Education is important!

I couldn’t express it better myself. Although in terms of “having a functioning democracy” the colonizer countries aren’t exactly doing well either. (It’s almost like powerful people will exploit anyone and corrupt any system…)

I’m sure their democracy functions about like everyone else’s - i.e. not democratic at all

I don’t view language as a cultural heritage thing, just a communication protocol.

Language is absolutely political, a product of its specific environment, and there is a lot that can be communicated in one language that would be difficult in another. Erasing languages isn’t like no longer manufacturing a specific style of plug, instead it silences viewpoints and enforces the cultural hegemony of the dominant group.

There’s a reason fascists are fond of erasing the languages of the marginalized.

“their sins will always find them out”

If only that were true.

No gods will save us. The only justice in this world is that which we can enact with our own hands.

Ghandi loved Hitler, so how could his fans not?