President Biden on Monday said that all Americans must speak up because diversity is being attacked, remarks he made while marking 60 years of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
The event comes just days after a deadly shooting in Jacksonville, Fla., killed three Black Americans, which is suspected to be racially motivated. The president bashed attacks on diversity such as book bans, which are happening in states including Florida and are targeting books about slavery and Black history, among other topics.
“Now is the time for all Americans to speak up when history’s being erased, books are being banned. Did you ever think we’d have this conversation here, at this time?” Biden said in remarks. “Diversity’s being attacked.”
I understand your hyperbole, but what do you mean he hasn’t been paying attention? Here’s a quote from the article:
Would be nice if he would state the obvious: that the GOP has embraced white supremacy (for the last 50 years), now very much overtly, and its leaders regularly incite violence and espouse intolerance and that the solution isn’t to compromise with them or appease them but to beat them back (politically) into the shadows.
Lmfao, “hyperbole” my ass…
Politicians lie
He’s literally reading a script written to him by someone that probably wasn’t even allowed in the room while he read it.
Do you seriously think he’s doing anything but parrot back words from a page???
🤦♀️
I’m just going to edit these in here, because this whole thing, the article, and OP’s bootlick-y reply, are a perfect demonstration of the points these articles make:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/22/american-democracy-was-never-designed-to-be-democratic-eric-holder-our-unfinished-march-nick-seabrook-one-person-one-vote-jacob-grumbach-laboratories-against-democracy
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/14/liberalism-and-fascism-partners-in-crime/
https://blacklikemao.medium.com/how-liberalism-helps-fascism-d4dbdcb199d9
https://truthout.org/articles/fascism-is-possible-not-in-spite-of-liberal-capitalism-but-because-of-it/
https://nyanarchist.wordpress.com/2019/01/23/scratch-a-liberal-a-fascist-bleeds-how-the-so-called-middle-class-has-enabled-oppression-for-centuries/
First election, huh?
Got ‘em
I couldn’t read #1 due to the paywall but #2 is a damned interesting read and I highly recommend others take the few minutes to do so.
Though I knew some of it already—like Ford’s antisemitism, the partnering of corporations with fascist governments, the number of Russians who died on the eastern front^1—I was not previously aware of the degree and breadth of involvement of US corporations and the rich and powerful or their exploitation of pow and concentration camp labor in germany. Fucking hell.
Appreciate the sources and will add #2 to my thought processes and read the others when I get time.
Somewhat related, I found interesting Kendi’s assertion that capitalism and slavery were inextricably (or maybe intrinsically) linked from the beginning in the colonies that became the USA. That exploitation of blacks was interwoven into the economies, particularly the south. No doubt you’re well aware but other readers may find this an interesting bit to chew on. Capitalism is fundamentally about exploiting natural and human resources. I maintain that if it were legal, corporations would happily revert to slavery if it were legal again — as evidenced in #2 with GM making use of free concentration camp labor.
All that said, I think it is disingenuous to generalize the claim that communism is the bulwark against fascism without acknowledging how many Stalin put to death. So fascism was defeated, concentration camps closed and their prisoners freed. What was the bulwark against Stalin’s purges? To contrast the USSR with Nazi Germany and throwing about the term totalitarian with no mention of the type of power Stalin held, I mean, come on. While it does not detract from the ease with which liberal democracy can and has devolved into fascism, it very much calls into question the general conclusions stated about communism as some ideal.
Fascism is a manifestation of human nature. Not all humans but a percentage that are more tribalistic, lacking empathy, preferring social hierarchy to egalitarianism, more prone to fear of the other due to isolation and ignorance. It is a natural evolution of conservatism. But authoritarianism, a key piece of fascism, is always a problem because too many humans have a bent to that power structure.
My thoughts on all this are always forming and evolving. But that’s where my head is at right now.
NO. LIBERALISM/PROGRESSIVISM AND FASCISM ARE NOT THE SAME.
I can’t believe centrist fence sitting republicans (any historical fascist) keep trying to repeat that garbage for literal centuries.
The horseshoe political spectrum theory is absolute bullshit and has no bearing in truth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
Progressives are trying to give people rights and take care of their fellow & future man.
Conservatives destroy knowledge, strip rights, and don’t care one shit about hypocrisy in the veiled guise of nationalist religiosity.
You can talk your way around how two people fighting for their beliefs ARE UGH, THE SAME PEOPLE. But the moment you apply any critical thinking to it whatsoever, it falls apart.
The journey is often just as important as the end. Both sides wishing they could Thanos snap all opposition isn’t some weird gotcha. It’s the human condition of not wanting to go through the bullshit to get there lol.