Because I hate myself, I just read a Twitter thread by a right winger asking his followers what left wing opinion they held, and a large chunk of the answers were naming some aspect of a welfare state or urbanism if it could be restricted only to white people.
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They have abandoned their solemn oaths to defend the Constitution from threats both foreign and domestic.
U.S. Citizens are being deported.
Fight for us!
I was a kid and it felt normal for that to be around
place is still there, just does not have the sign up anymore.
https://bsky.app/profile/qutemommee.bsky.social/post/3lnyfhrr7r22y
"Volunteer to be deputized as a representative of the people of the United States if asked by the Judiciary & Congress in order to uphold US law."
might be one of the most awesome things I've seen today
@raskin.house.gov @aoc.bsky.social
This nation was meant to continually strive to form something more perfect. We fall short, over & over, but the trying is the point. I will stand up for that, & I believe others will as well.
Of course, Black folks already knew that this country would have socialized education and healthcare, and a social safety net like Western Europe, if it weren’t for racist white people. This is no new revelation.
non-whites
non="christians"
RW believes in Affirmative Action, Welfare, Abolition, Reduced and fair sentencing, gender responsive & free health care, reparations and all dat.
Just ... not... "them"
It is very possible to be shocked when you end up in the South and realize that people actually still do the whole Confederate thing.
It’s very possible to just not see it.
That there are definitely white children in this country who live in a sea of whiteness and don’t have any direct experience of any of that.
Because of redlining. Because segregation isn’t really over. The bubbles are large and pervasive.
College wasn’t much better, if at all.
But it is a thing that happens. Segregation was very effective and it persists in a lot of ways.
I didn’t for a long time. The point is that I lived in white suburbia among people who were mostly liberal or at least not openly racist, and who subscribed to the notion that all that was behind us.
I had no direct experience nor reason to suspect their existence.
Always love to see someone mention it
There are no real objections to socialism as a concept. There aren’t. There are objections that you don’t believe certain people are really people, but an objection to the concept of socialism is self-defeating.
(Not saying that that's what you were saying!)
They shut down community pools rather than integrate them.
When they say we can't have social programs because we aren't a homogeneous society like sweden, this is what they really mean.
Are white people afraid minorities will treat them as "well" as the minorities have been treated?
🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
They can not stand the idea of their taxes going to people of color.
Racism is the reason we are where we are.