I find the way that some people understand what is and isn't racism mystifying.

TO ME? Saying (lying!) about Black Haitian immigrants "eating cats and dogs" is wildly racist and probably worse than putting the most powerful and untouchable Black American couple in a racist video as apes?

Like both are bad. But the "eating dogs and cats" thing whew! Stinky.

And yet there are these people who were shocked by the video and unmoved by the "cats and dogs" line?

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"barely legal" is a key word phrase from the porn industry used to describe 18 year olds. It's also tied to "virgin" porn. To some it is 'soft' immorality. "Boys will be boys." (Why are the boys all wealthy men over 50?)

The attraction of these products is in part about a naive inexperienced person (a virgin) being taken advantage of. But also how whatever is "off limits" becomes more attractive and mysterious.

But can we please stop and recognize how gross it all is? 1/

I'm seeing the odd link, here and there, to red knitted hats that USA-people want to adopt as symbols of their resistance to fascism, in the mode of Norwegian resistance to the Nazi occupiers of the 1940s. I have some remarks:

1. The United States needs to break with its tradition of cultural appropriation. Use your own symbols – the cowboy hat, for example (although that symbolises another objectionable aspect of US society – the extermination of Natives, which still continues without much protest at all from the white population).

2. The red knitted cap as a Norwegian national symbol predates the Nazi occupation. I can effortlessly document it as early as the 1840s; it likely goes much further back. It was effective as a protest in the 20th century because the occupiers came from outside of Norwegian society. American fascists, on the other hand, are home-grown, and any American symbol, such as the cowboy hat, may also be adopted by the other side of the conflict, rendering it pointless.

3. So, if you must adopt a foreign symbol to demonstrate your solidarity against fascism, I suggest that the Phrygian/ liberty cap will do nicely. It has been used in America before (the Revolutionary period), and the tyranny of kings is very much like the tyranny of an over-reaching orange fartbag.

4. Lastly, dress codes are all very cozy and stuff, and they provide wonderful opportunities for grift (but grift in a good cause, amirite?), but punching Nazis is much more effective. Beat them into the ground, literally as well as figuratively. Don't make up symbols for your movement without doing the moving.

5. We in the rest of the world want tolerant America to win. We want the United States to grow up into a humane, modern society. There's still quite a way to go.

#NoKings #FascistAmerica #Resist #ResistFascism #Minnesota

”Ni kan inte hålla på och uttrycka åsikter här! Det här är Riksdagen!” är kanske vad Stanley Kubrick skulle ha låtit talmannen komma ut och ropa till XR-kören.

I varje fall har någon sagt något liknande, för XR-kören blev bortburna av polis i fredags.

XR-kören, som har stått och sjungit vid ingången till Riksgatan varje fredag klockan 12 i flera år, och nu tydligen anses tillräckligt obekväma för att de inte ska få stå där.

https://tidningensyre.se/2025/11-oktober-2025/xr-koren-blev-bortburen-av-polisen/

#svpol #demonstrationsfrihet #xr