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George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽White supremacy, racially motivated hate crimes, and the murders of racial, religious and sexual minorities don’t happen in a vacuum. They are encouraged, given life, and ultimately driven by leaders who knowingly deploy the terror to advance and increase their own power.
Kay Elúvian@georgetakei 1000%.
Torlais NeoiniAlso this. I know that it SEEMS like a punishment will be meted out, but I doubt it will amount to much. And, that they thought they could single out African American students at an elementary school assembly in the 1st place is absolutely due to “leaders who knowingly deploy the terror to advance and increase their own power.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/25/us/florida-flagler-county-schools-black-assembly/index.html
MaryPotThe worst part there is that it is actually the TEACHERS that have to do better!
Jane Elliot explains it VERY well in this video!
This is in the middle, but the whole video is a MUST-WATCH.
https://youtu.be/E4PGp9nu7QM?t=1073
Jane Elliott on Racism and American Hypocrisy
Julian West🦞@georgetakei I'm sure the Governor will speak our forcefully . . . .
cocacola@georgetakei the class battle seems to me foolish brings maxism communism and facism, these ideas are defended by these groups to live on the fruit of others. Since they use these ideas to get politicians to intervene and take money from others to distribute them, they are trying to mark the 2030 climate change agenda among other ideas to fill their pockets. leave me with free enterprise capitalism and freedom and private property
Levka
Louis Ingenthron@georgetakei Idk, I feel like that takes too much responsibility away from the people who actually commit the deed.
Those leaders and their rhetoric are just the excuse that these folks use to deflect responsibility for their actions.
Mark M. Evans@LouisIngenthron Are you suggesting that we ignore hateful rhetoric? Or that politicians othering marginalized people does not embolden violence? Because history suggests otherwise.
@markmevans No, I'm suggesting that we should be far more concerned with, and spend more resources addressing, the fact that the demand for this rhetoric exists, rather than attacking the supply. I believe this for two reasons:
1) The war on drugs should show anybody that attacking the supply of a highly-demanded product doesn't do shit except further raise the demand and profits.
2) Trying to deal with such speech at the government level gives the government the exact powers over subjective speech that actual fascists need to take control.
I'm not sure what the short term solution is (or if there even is one), but I truly believe the long term solution is massive investments in education, with a focus on teaching kids critical thinking and how to determine the reliability of sources.
Giles@georgetakei stochastic terrorism has been a thing for years now. GOP operatives walking right up to the line. Just enough to inspire others to murder. Happened on January 6.
Richard R Lee
borstradamus@georgetakei Maybe that's because they (sub-)consciously know that us white folks are the most vicious amongst the peoples on earth, and it's easier to enthrall us than to fight us, mostly because we love to follow and impersonate the greatest barbarians.
Ramesh #NotGoingBackNot limited to #white #supremacy.
#Tamil language bigots like MK #Stalin, CN #Annadurai, TT #Krishnamachari, Periyar EV #Ramasamy, & #Maraimalai #Adigal indulged in #linguisticCleansing to Make Tamil Pure Again and hasten the extinction of #Sanskrit.
Some engaged in #militant rhetoric such as language #imperialism & #enslavement, driving their followers to death by #selfImmolation, #poisoning, and #rioting while they themselves stayed away like #Trump did on #Jan6.
Coach Pāṇini ®I don't have a problem with him being a #Tamil, but I have no doubt in my mind which hell-hole #Vivek #Ramaswamy and his #Nazi techbros want to take this country to.
@rameshgupta @georgetakei
I don’t hold it against him (I’m a quarter Tamil via a grandmother).
The Christian Dominionists and Nazis will never accept a brown Hindu as their leader, and he’s delusional for thinking they would.
Groms@georgetakei there are no leaders without #followers
🍸Pooka🥕Boo🍸Well said... thanks, George.
@georgetakei Absolutely
aethervision@georgetakei It all comes down to a former majority terrified that they’ll be treated the same way they treated other minorities.
Itchi5 illustrations@georgetakei Excuse my stupidity but in this case wouldn'T it be better to use 'corporate supremacy'?
Nonya Bidniss 🥥🌴@georgetakei And a media ecosystem that supports them
Zed Not Zee ✅@georgetakei the old fear the minorities scape goat trick.
surfie@georgetakei And the media that report/repeat it a;; ad nauseum.
@georgetakei
And the people who benefit from white supremacist policies here in America want those policies to continue. Because they truly fear a level playing field.
And the people who benefit from white supremacist policies here in America want those policies to continue. Because they truly fear a level playing field.
Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌@georgetakei Individuals/groups, that deploy terror, are commonly designated terrorists.
Rightly so.
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #IncitementToViolence #IncitementOfThePublic #IncitementToInsurrection
JazzVulcan@georgetakei Someone like trump (or hitler) would not be a factor without a significant number of like-minded people acting as followers.