I've got a meaty, reported piece coming out tomorrow about the education wars.
But for this holiday, a look at how the cultish policing of sex in the MAGA movement is getting weirder — and worse.
https://www.salon.com/2023/10/09/the-right-is-getting-weirder-about/
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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.
@cstross And just now I saw how Wikipedia has to disambiguate "Cleveland Elementary School shooting" BECAUSE THERE HAVE BEEN TWO. TWO SHOOTINGS AT DIFFERENT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS CALLED "CLEVELAND ELEMENTARY".
I just... can't.
It's worth pondering why every call for civility is issued for the benefit of those who have dedicated their lives to incivility.
It's worth pondering why every call for healing centers on those who have done the harming.
It’s worth pondering why the people who cry the loudest about our divisiveness and political incivility never direct their laments at the people who elect corrupt and mean racist bullies.
The divergence between Danish and Norwegian has a lot of little funny subtleties. I was just reading a Danish article referring to a national crime unit called "Nationale enhed for Særlig Kriminalitet (NSK)"
The word "særlig" is rather informal in Norwegian and often has the implied meaning of "yeah, right" in English.
Therefore, that name reads to me as something like:
The National Crime Unit for You Did What Now?
Which I find both reasonable and hilarious 😆
The nonsense never ends. As you’ll recall, there was a big kerfuffle (that still hasn’t fully ended) over a decision by Twitter in October of 2020 to block the sharing of a NY Post article about th…
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