There's a more-obvious #explanation, not relying on #racism: the dams and turbines and generators go where the water and the height delta happen to be, in the north, because you cannot generate power otherwise, and the electricity is delivered to the #population centers, where the demand happens to be, because it's people that need power.
Should they build hydro plants in Winnipeg and transmit the power to Misipawistik First Nation instead?
America can accept this Supreme Court as legitimate and its rulings as the final word - or it can have true democracy and a functioning state. But not both.
A thread, outlining some key arguments from my latest Democracy Americana newsletter:
"So: the court has, in the same day, decided that the targets of bigotry are not afforded any protections under the law because bigotry’s effects are no longer systemic or pervasive,
and
also has decided that the constitution provides systemic and pervasive protection to the bigotry of bigots, protection from even hypothetical infringements upon any expression of their bigotry."
~@JuliusGoat https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-court-supreme
The rate limiting incident in Twitter isn't really what pushed me over to use Mastodon more and more. Currently there is a hashtag on Twitter related to the French riots that's calling on the expulsion of all Muslim, African, and Arab immigrants from the entirety of Europe. The entirety and trending hashtag (at #2) is filled with images encouraging mass killings and lynchings of Arabs. There is no come back from this.
I’m seeing folks from #Sudan on #twitter despairing that the site’s new limits, and its general m*sk-era brokenness, will compromise their ability to stay updated on the catastrophe unfolding in their homeland and share emergency info.
Once more: mastodon/fediverse needs to think seriously about how to expand to users in Asia and Africa and how to handle emergencies #twitterdown
Secondly, it means that any opinion, and these only, that race could have anything to do with character or intelligence is racist. Boundaries between cultural differences and racial differences are sometimes close together, but they are not the same.
Racist is any definition of racism that makes distinctions as to which race is affected, or which race it usually emanates from. My three favorite examples of racism are Lovecraft and his racism, especially towards Polynesians, My wife is one.
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My three examples, #Lovecraft and his #racism, the #game Baldur's Gate and the #anime#Attack on #Titan. In the latter two, beings are considered evil and crimes against them justified solely because of their race, entirely independent of their deeds. In this respect, both are good examples of systemic racism, and they are good examples of the racism of "liberal antiracists".
“The home team’s coach put 10 of the his players on the court, leaving 0 positions open for the visitors.
“The visiting team’s coach complained that this represented an unfair advantage for the home team. The home team’s coach pointed out that the rules of basketball clearly state 10 players on the court, and there were 10 players on the court, and if the visiting team didn’t like it, they should probably stop complaining and work harder at basketball.”
"So: the court has, in the same day, decided that the targets of bigotry are not afforded any protections under the law because bigotry’s effects are no longer systemic or pervasive,
and
also has decided that the constitution provides systemic and pervasive protection to the bigotry of bigots, protection from even hypothetical infringements upon any expression of their bigotry."
~@JuliusGoat https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-court-supreme
“You’re left to languish in the waiting room not knowing if you’re going to walk out alive. No one is paying attention. Nobody’s coming to check on you.”
Affirmative action was never about admitting unqualified Black kids. It was always about ensuring qualified Black kids could also get accepted despite a world of systemic racism.
The “unqualified admission” you’re thinking of are legacy students—like how Kavanaugh got into Yale, or how George W. got into yale, or how Kushner got into Harvard.
Every GOP accusation is a confession, and this is no exception.
But TODAY (or should I say before today), it was used merely as a "tie breaker" to account for what a minority student had to overcome just to reach that point.
It angers to to no end when people like Mike Pence cite #MLK's "content of their character" quote out of context to make it sound like THEY are the ones ending #racism. 🤬
"Chief Justice John Roberts got the chance to complete the Day of Jubilee he declared in Shelby County. The 14th Amendment is now magically and completely converted into a vehicle for white victimhood. Justice Clarence Thomas gets to take his twisted self-loathing out for another walk. And affirmative action is now as dead as Roger Taney because, you know, colorblind."
"By deciding Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the carefully manufactured conservative majority on the Supreme Court kept faith with conservatism's multi-decade alliance with the remnants of American apartheid. As Garrett Epps pointed out on the electric Twitter machine, when Roberts was just starting out, he tried to get Ronald Reagan to abolish affirmative action by executive order. Roberts has been in this for the long haul."
"You knew it was going to be him, didn’t you? To write yet another Supreme Court decision basically saying, this whole race thing – we’re finished with it, and racism is over."
"He wrote the last decision saying the same thing, Shelby County v. Holder, when he declared, essentially, that racism was a thing of the past, so we don’t need the enforcement provision in Article Five of the Voting Rights Act because it is 'based on 40-year-old facts having no logical relationship to the present day,” and “our country has changed.'"
Contre Attaque
"Die Szene ereignete sich gegen 8.30 Uhr in der Nähe der RER-Station Nanterre-Préfecture in einem Pariser Vorort. Bei einer Fahrzeugkontrolle richtete ein Motorradpolizist seine Waffe auf die vitalen Körperteile eines Fahrers und schoss dann, als das Fahrzeug losfuhr. Der 17-jähriger Jugendliche starb kurz darauf und ein Beifahrer wurde festgenommen.
[...]
Im Jahr 2022 gab es 13 Todesfälle, die auf „Verweigerung des Gehorsams“ bei Kontrollen zurückzuführen waren, eine noch nie dagewesene Zahl. Im April 2022 wurden zwei Brüder auf einer Brücke in der Nähe der Pariser Präfektur von einem Polizisten mit einem Sturmgewehr in den Rücken geschossen. Eine Doppelhinrichtung ohne jegliche Art von Notwehr. Im Juni verlor eine junge Passantin mitten in Paris als „Kollateralopfer“ eines Schusses aus einer polizeilichen Dienstwaffe ihr Leben."
The Institution of the Police in General Has a Racism Problem
France Has a Deep History of Racist Policing—Even if It Won’t Admit It
"The recent protests sparked by the killing of a Black teenager are a response to a racist legacy that the French state virtually refuses to acknowledge."
"The numbers of reported crimes committed against asylum seekers in the first three months of this year is higher than it was in the same period in 2022."
I am mostly blocking AMERICANS telling me why I'm wrong to be angry at AMERICANS imposing their cultural values on mine and that I should just be a good little coolie and shut up.
Today in Labor History July 2, 1822: The authorities hanged Denmark Vesey and 34 others for plotting a slave uprising. An estimated 9,000 were involved in the plot, but only 67 were convicted of any offense. Vesey was a free man living Charleston, South Carolina, who still had enslaved family members. He cofounded the African Methodist Episcopal church (AME) in Charleston, quickly gaining near 2,000 members and the support of white clergy. Charleston at the time had far more black residents than white, including many upper-class free blacks, some of whom had their own slaves. Additionally, many white refugees from the Haitian Revolution moved to Charleston with their black slaves. Consequently, there were many black residents who wanted to replicate the Haitian slave uprising in South Carolina and many whites who were fearful of such a rebellion.
Many of the congregants in Vesey’s church were current slaves and he used the church to help organize the revolt. The uprising was supposed to occur on July 14, Bastille Day, since the victors of the French Revolution had abolished slavery in Saint Domingue. The plan was to attack the arsenal, kill as many white slave owners as possible, like they did in the Haitian Revolution, and then commandeer ships to Haiti. Vesey’s success at organizing thousands of free and enslaved blacks was also his downfall. So many people knew about the plot, that word easily leaked to the white slaveowners. In the end, he was betrayed by two slaves who were loyal to their masters. Several white men were also convicted of participating in the plot. None were known abolitionists and all the white allies received lenient sentences.
Many writers have depicted Vesey or his rebellion in their writing. The title character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel “Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp” (1855) is a composite of Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner. Probably inspired by contemporary criticism of “Uncle Tom,” who she portrayed as a passive martyr, she made Dred a revolutionary escaped slave. Martin Delaney also refers to Vesey in his serialized novel, “Blake; or the Huts of America” (1859–61). Delaney was, himself, a revolutionary free black man. He was an abolitionist, writer and the first and only black man to achieve the rank of major during the Civil War. He was also the first black nationalist, who coined the phrase, “Africa for Africans.” African American writer John Oliver Killens (1916-1987) wrote a biography of Vesey “Great Gittin' Up Morning” (1972). And, more recently, Orson Scott Card portrays Vesey in his “The Tales of Alvin Maker” series (1987-2003).
Fellow white people, please read this and remember that every person is an actual, individual person.
Also, listen and boost more than you talk about racism.
I also feel uncomfortable with the term 'virtue signaling' because it seems like everyone who isn't a sociopath qualifies as virtue signaling. So I'm glad to have the term 'moral grandstanding' instead. Fits much better.
BTW, how is being an ally different from just being a decent person?
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