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Click because Justice can still hear us calling.
Except we are surrendering nothing, we been over this, what civil and human rights are begin surrendered?
So, you spent months railing against the "identity politics" of asserting and defending the human rights of women and transgender and queers, and what you come up with is that you haven't actually managed to surrender anything
yet? Good one. Now stop advocating surrender.
I think you got it wrong, it is there is no point 2, it goes: point 1: steal underpants, point 2: ???, point 3: profit.
No, it's a
Monty Python↱ bit, and the actual line is that there is no Rule Six, but if you hold out for that, it just takes forever; some years ago I used Rule 3 for the line in a beerstreamed compression, and thus it became in one corner of my Universe. But there is no Rule Six, and the rest is hilariously self-defeating.
what is the real reason? real reason for what? The rise in their hate? Two decades of economic stagnation for the middle and lower classes, that is the REAL reason, if you want to get technical it is trump, and how people like you would rather have us lose to Trump than change strategies.
And what many human beings do in such times is turn on one another in search of empowerment. Still, though, consider Roy Moore, because the disgraced former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court is an object lesson:
• Moore defies law and Constitution to such an extent that Alabama Court of the Judiciary requires his ouster according to law.
• People re-elect Moore to Chief Justice of Alabama Supreme Court.
• It's actually difficult to explain, but Luther Strange isn't conservative enough because all he did was take it to the Supreme Court, see Justice Thomas disgrace himself, and still lose. Presently, Mr. Noore leads the polling for nomination as the Republican candidate in a special election to replace former U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions.
• Defending President Trump, Moore described the United States as evil. While this is casual talk among many, and common in any self-identifying revolutionary chatter, it is extraordinary in the context of a state chief Justice, or United States senator. Yet
why does Moore think the U.S. is evil?
In an interview with the Guardian’s Anywhere But Washington series, Moore also said that Ronald Reagan’s famous declaration about the Soviet Union being “the focus of evil in the modern world” might today be applied to the US.
“You could say that about America, couldn’t you?” he said. “We promote a lot of bad things.” Asked for an example, he replied: “Same-sex marriage.”
When it was pointed out to Moore that his arguments on gay rights and morality were the same as those of the Russian leader, he replied: “Well, maybe Putin is right.” He added: “Maybe he’s more akin to me than I know.”
(Lewis and Sambamurthy↱)
And as Mr. Moore's life and status remind, the delivery of economic security to a well-educated American does not in and of itself end supremacism.
Among judges who aren't formally disgraced, for instance, we might consider United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, whose dissent in
Strange v. Searcy seemed to acknowledge the coming
Obergefell decision as inevitable, and thus becomes an advocacy for stay against an
intrafamily adoption on the grounds that
it's going to be over, anyway, in a little while so why not just let Luther Strange and Alabama treat people they disdain like shit for just a just a few more months—y'know?—because it is indecorous and insulting to say they can't hurt people for the sake of arbitrary personal aesthetics.. Indeed, the dissent was so incensed that it utterly failed ot recognize the obvious exposure through Heyburn's ruling in
Bourke, which explicitly ducked Article IV and thus left an actual pathway for Thomas, at least, to complain.
Even more spectacular, though, were the
Obergefell dissents of the late Justice Antonin Scalia and Chief Justice John Roberts, and therein you'll find reflections of a voting-age period 'twixt the first injunctions against Colorado Amendment 2 and the U.S. Supreme Court's final ruling against the anti-gay state constitutional amendment, to the one, the growing hardline transformation of the GOP in elections since 2010.
We need not doubt the point on economy, but you would find value in attending how the larger human process works. If you've never heard the line about how religion causes wars, well, it's prominent enough to draw book-length response, but for our purposes it suffices to remind that religion is just the dressing, while the wars are driven by economics. And it's gone that way pretty much from the beginning:
The barbaros
have something the civilized need—and increasingly as economy provided such opportunity for luxury, wanted
—so the civilized presume the right to take from the barbaros
, just like modern Americans presume to kill wild animals because we "need" to build houses where they live, or, you know, just because we want to, for "sport". The bit with religion is the result of how easily manipulated an identity politic it is.
Historically, identity politics are a significant part of how so many of these economically wounded blocs arrived at difficult times. Interestingly, when blocs overlapping your specific concerns—white, cishet, male, and also inherently Christian—so safely presumed tacit supremacy as to find themselves unable to recognize themselves as such, because everybody was equal as long as the Coloreds and the women and the Mohammadens and Catholics and Injuns and just go on down the list, all stayed in happy subordinate roles and status, the identity focus was this reeally weird neurotic mix of Christianity and
greed; it has pushed on into the twenty-first century, and one of the interesting questions we might eventually forget to observe the answer to is whether it is dormant, rejected, or somehow explicitly blamed on Democrats and liberals.
But just as it always seemed strange that Christians would be so devotedly allied with American postcapitalism, so also was it strange to watch working-class whites in the Rust Belt and elsewhere vote for union-busting Republicans, but it was an identity vote against a strawman caricature of communism. Despite the fourth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, the motto on our coin, "In God We Trust", is an assertion of Christianity
and capitalism against communism. Horatio Alger, Tea & Crumpets; we've
been through all this before↗. However, since you can't seem to follow the discussion, we now need to explicitly note—
... if you want to get technical it is trump, and how people like you would rather have us lose to Trump than change strategies
—the futility of your distractions: Remember, we were talking about a different aspect—
EF: Now Tiassa, what is your solution?
T: We have all manner of tools, including the ballot box, the picket line, and even the courts.
EF: 3. By all means find a crime to take them to court for.
T: Windsor? Obergefell? Racist redistricting in Texas? North Carolina? Bills of attainder and other legislative failures aimed at Planned Parenthood? Seriously, for all you complain about how pissed off they are, are you really so lost in your strawfield that you can't remember the real reasons?
EF: what is the real reason? real reason for what? The rise in their hate? Two decades of economic stagnation for the middle and lower classes, that is the REAL reason, if you want to get technical it is trump, and how people like you would rather have us lose to Trump than change strategies.
—that you ignore whenever you encounter it. You cannot stratify economic justice, and your craven need for liberalism and leftism to just shut the fuck up and let these people harm as many as they can is as uneducated and, let's face it,
stupid as it gets. Honestly, if you cannot figure out that you cannot achieve justice of any sort except
injustice by giving iniquity and inequality the run of the place, are you even capable of explaining
why? Seriously, whence comes this incompetence? How damn stupid do we have to be in order to pretend that sympathy with supremacism is somehow a necessary component of justice?
Regardless of what Democrats do toward economic justice, conservatives are still bringing the supremacist identity politics, and it's one thing to say that the triumph of evil requires only that good people do nothing, but to contrive and calculate that inaction is itself an act of will.
No, Justice will not surrender for the sake of injustice, so stop asking.
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Notes:
Monty Python. "Bruces Sketch". 1970. MontyPython.net. 14 August 2017. http://bit.ly/2vDesDI
Lewis, Paul and Adithya Sambamurthy. "'Maybe Putin is right': Republican Senate frontrunner on Russian leader". The Guardian. 10 August 2017. TheGuardian.com. 14 August 2017. http://bit.ly/2fzDPSW
