@bastardsheep @randahl @ghost_shit
Also, I don't understand why Elon cares about the border, like, what's it to him? I think he only cares because it's pandering, which actually mystifies me even more that he's not pro Ukraine.
This is someone who really wants to be a popular figure for the right wingers because he sees how much attention people like Jordan Peterson get, and he knows he won't get that kind of love from left leaning supporters.
@rastilin @bastardsheep @randahl @ghost_shit
Musk cares about the border because "the border" is a publicly-acceptable euphemism for white supremacy.
"Care about the border" means sending cops to terrorise Latinx people, and having special unaccountable police forces and prisons specifically for this purpose. It means a racialised and minoritised group of people having to carry paperwork to protect themselves from being disappeared, which means the process for granting that paperwork can be made arbitrarily complex and expensive in order to force those people around. It means that process can be selectively made more rigid to fuck over individuals who stand out of line.
In world-systems theory, we learn that a border is not a line on a map between countries; it's a line between human beings. "Care about the border" means, in this context, wanting to paint a legal dotted line around every minoritised person so that wherever they go, wherever they were born, they're always an outsider and their rights are only ever temporary and contingent.
I'm South African. I know this tune, even if the words are different. They used to sing it in my country too.
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