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Civil Discourse in a Time of Genocide

Civil discourse is preferable to the alternatives of coerced silence and violence. Coerced silence means that one side has exercised power to end conversation—to say, in effect, there is no point in further discussion; be quiet and accept that our desires will prevail. Violence means that reason has failed and we are reduced to the condition of resolving disputes by means of fang and claw, rock and club, bullet and bomb.

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[thread] Anticipatory obedience
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Anticipatory_obedience

* preemptively conforming to what's expected by authority fig.
* often w/o explicit orders
* self-censorship
* hist. significant, partic. authoritarian regimes
* citizens adapt this behavior, "legitimizing" power

[thread] Censorship: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113567761107898994
[thread] Sycophancy: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113766048123051472

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#Trump2 #GOP #Trumpism #fascism #authoritarianism

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Kentaji Brown Jackson Skewers Clarence Thomas in SCOTUS' Affirmative Action Ruling

"Deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life," Jackson wrote in a blistering dissent, adding some special words for Thomas in a footnote.

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