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Anonymous
Because they’re so stupid that they think they can ride the tiger, i.e., they hate the same people these fascists hate so they’re okay with all the violence, all the censorship, all the narrowing of options and coarsening of public life. They love it. And they’re so stupid they won’t see it coming for them. |
Anonymous
+1 DeSantis has long wanted to whitewash the effects of slavery and the fight to overcome it from our history. He wrote a book in 2011 ripping off Obama’s “Dreams from my Father” called “Dreams from the Founding Fathers.” “But the most revealing and consequential element of his book is not so much his drawing of a straight line from the founding precedents to the Tea Party movement’s dissent over big government. It’s rather how his entire reading of American history is enveloped in both unquestioning fealty to the Founders and an insistence that the role of slavery, and race more broadly, in that history does not seriously change anything about how we should understand the birth and development of our country. For Obama and his teachers, the problem of slavery exemplified the need to adapt and improve the Constitution. For DeSantis, would-be reformers who misunderstand the role of slavery in our history are themselves the root of the problem in our politics.” “It becomes necessary for DeSantis to cleanse the Founders from any connection to slavery. In his first chapter, he tries to make quick work of those who stress the “personal flaws” of great Founding Fathers (i.e., their enslavement of other humans). First, an explicitly antislavery Constitution couldn’t possibly have been ratified, he writes—we should rather trust the good faith of the “strongly anti-slavery” Founders (Hamilton, Franklin) who supported it anyway. Slavery had been a “fact of life” throughout history. A failure to secure the future of the nation by ratifying the Constitution, DeSantis argues, would have enslaved everyone. Moreover, “the philosophical foundations of the Constitution are incompatible with slavery.” This made slavery “doomed to fail” in the new republic. In the end, “the Constitution was created despite the existence of slavery, not because of slavery.” Most of its provisions had nothing to do with slavery anyway, according to DeSantis.” “In short, in the book DeSantis has to create a Constitution that is not so much aspirational as imaginary in order to align himself with the tradition of Martin Luther King Jr. and others who used the notion of the Founders’ benign original intentions to actually liberate Black people and increase equality. But whereas these figures wanted to talk about the Black past and present, and the impact of racial domination on everyone Black or white, DeSantis insists that a return to first principles means never bringing up slavery except to praise those who ended it.” “There’s room for disagreement about how to view and teach the intertwined legacies of the American Revolution, slavery, and the Constitution. But as his own book suggests, it is DeSantis himself who ignores certain facts, is prone to identity-driven circular logic, and dismisses what Black voices, past and present, have to teach.” https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/02/desantis-american-history-interpretation-constitution-originalism/673152/ Blog post about the Atlantic article here: https://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-election-of-barack-obama-triggered.html?spref=tw&m=1 |
Anonymous
Even more pointedly, Nazi troops attacked the Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin, a clinic studying homosexuality and transgenderism including performing surgeries, and burned all of its books in the street. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-history-of-the-worlds-first-trans-clinic/?amp=true |
Anonymous
Yes, removal of physics textbooks authored by Jews and then setting up extermination camps is totally the same thing as this Bill that hasn’t even been voted on yet. How many hours a day to you manufacture all this outrage? Go do something useful with that time. But that would be hard. It’s easier to just sit around grousing. |
Anonymous
I have it on good authority the Florida National guard is just about to do something exactly the same. It’s well within the realm of possibility. I learned about it on Twitter. |
Anonymous
The "liberal bubble" was also projection at its finest. |
Anonymous
Sorry if you don't see how the pattern starts and evolves. The rest of us do. |
Anonymous
Actually pattern matching is a good adult trait to have. The difference is you are completely way way off into the weeds here. The comparisons aren’t even 10,000 magnitudes the same. You are comparing a regime that systemically murdered millions to a house bill concerning state funded universities that hasn’t even been voted on. Five years from now we can bump this thread which will demonstrate the “pattern” you are seeing is no such thing. That will be true even if Ron wins the oval. How do you function as an adult with this kind of distorted perception of risk? I mean that honestly. |
Anonymous
You all keep joking. The Republican supermajority legislature is considering a bill that would eliminate the Democratic Party in Florida. |
Anonymous
Yes, there's a world of difference between a bill that hasn't been voted on and systematic elimination of millions of people based on brainwashing and authoritarian regimes. Lots of steps had to happen between the introduction of the laws and what ultimately happened, like -- changing access to information, changing education, etc. This bill's introduction is one of those steps. How can you not see what this creep is doing? Going after the educated and education as a system is Authoritarianism 101. |
Anonymous
I spent two seconds reading this and it’s clearly being done for media attention and is not actually anything the Florida legislature is going to consider. How do you function as an adult without understanding these things? |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
Oh, yes, I forgot we’re not supposed to take Republicans seriously, or literally, or something. |
Anonymous
If it were not for people like you who consume Twitter garbage, we wouldn’t have stunts like this. But now everything is to the lowest common denominator. A population on both sides willing to consume garbage, not read source documents, and get outraged about everything. Don’t forget to toss in a few nazi references and that’s what the quality of discourse is. I’m sure the concentration camps of democrats in Florida are just around the corner. Any day now. |
Anonymous
Was Hitler killing Jews in 1933? No. But what he was doing is being mirrored now by DiSantis. Really, history can repeat itself if we let it. How can you not see that? Why are excusing ANY parallel behavior? |