White supremacists are trying to police Kamala Harris’s Black identity and Black speech. STFU.
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White supremacists are trying to police Kamala Harris’s Black identity and Black speech. STFU.
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to StillIRise1963 for HARRIS last edited by
@StillIRise1963 They're scared that if she should win by collecting a superior number of electoral votes, their internal bigots will require them to award her some honorary whiteness.
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StillIRise1963 for HARRISreplied to Riley S. Faelan last edited by
@riley During Apartheid, my father was invited to South Africa as an “honorary white man.” He declined to go.
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Chris Mackay 🇨🇦replied to StillIRise1963 for HARRIS last edited by
@StillIRise1963 @riley I remember an after-church social event (when I was a pre-teen & still went to church) where a couple of older congregants (improbably named Quartermain) had recently returned from a trip to SA. They went on & on about how wonderful everything was and how well-treated the Black South Africans were. Even then, I knew how ludicrous this was, and how carefully stage-managed their tour undoubtedly was. This wasn’t long before I stopped attending church.
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to Chris Mackay 🇨🇦 last edited by
@tantramar Showing a weird counterfactual theatre to "highly esteemed overseas visitors" is a strange custom of many totalitarian regimes. North Korea's is probably the best known, for they made it a bit of a conveyor belt thing, and are doing it poorly enough for the seams to be kind of visible. But Soviet Union practiced a similar thing for European and American writers, artists, composers, and film-makers, especially back in the 1930s but in some degree, all the way until the Wall came down.
Perhaps lends some credence to the notion that dysfunctional government systems work a lot like collective personality disorders.
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Chris Mackay 🇨🇦replied to Riley S. Faelan last edited by
@riley @StillIRise1963 I’ve heard earnestly believed stories about East Germany from an academic friend who spoke at conferences in East Berlin.
Let’s just say I’m not buying most of what they’re selling.
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to Chris Mackay 🇨🇦 last edited by
@tantramar East Germany was somewhat of a special case, especially before the Wall's full power, though.
But look at what the Nazis did for the Olympic participants and visitors. This seems to fall roughly into the common pattern, although, obviously, on the conveyor-belt-pokazukha side. (The Bolsheviks then repeated much of the same trickery for the 1980 Olympic.)