"For decades we’ve been fed a list of who we’re ‘supposed’ to be afraid of, and it’s time to reject the bait and switch scheme where petty criminals are dangled in the public eye by people who then grab power and perpetrate systemic violence on an infinitely larger scale, hurting millions. It’s time to reject the lies of those who tell us to fear shoplifters while they steal our rights, our jobs, our communities and more. It’s time to reject the narrative of dangerous migrants while fascists abduct our neighbors and refuse to bring them back. The real cause of this crisis isn’t immigrants or any of the scapegoats we’ve been told to fear, it’s those who weaponize our safety day after day, using it to seize power and control.
It strikes me that there is a non-significant number of militia members/survivalists/etc. Most (but certainly not all of them) are right wingers. They have specifically said that their weapons stockpiles and bootcamps and on and on were specifically to prepare for a tyrannical government that is curtailing people's rights and freedoms and unilaterally jailing the political opposition. In other words, what we're seeing now.
That first photo is of a location where people are NOT being detained by ICE or other agencies. Don’t defame a place that is friendly to immigrants & welcomes many many tourists
They taught us to fear the "witches" not the people who burned them alive. The indoctrination starts early.
Well said ❤️
thank you for saying this
Thanks for this, Joshua. I agree whole heartedly.
"For decades we’ve been fed a list of who we’re ‘supposed’ to be afraid of, and it’s time to reject the bait and switch scheme where petty criminals are dangled in the public eye by people who then grab power and perpetrate systemic violence on an infinitely larger scale, hurting millions. It’s time to reject the lies of those who tell us to fear shoplifters while they steal our rights, our jobs, our communities and more. It’s time to reject the narrative of dangerous migrants while fascists abduct our neighbors and refuse to bring them back. The real cause of this crisis isn’t immigrants or any of the scapegoats we’ve been told to fear, it’s those who weaponize our safety day after day, using it to seize power and control.
Fear is a pillar of fascism."
Continuously brilliant work, putting the right words to this moment
It strikes me that there is a non-significant number of militia members/survivalists/etc. Most (but certainly not all of them) are right wingers. They have specifically said that their weapons stockpiles and bootcamps and on and on were specifically to prepare for a tyrannical government that is curtailing people's rights and freedoms and unilaterally jailing the political opposition. In other words, what we're seeing now.
Those people seem awful damn quiet these days.
the marionnette metaphor is so, so apt.
That first photo is of a location where people are NOT being detained by ICE or other agencies. Don’t defame a place that is friendly to immigrants & welcomes many many tourists
Like it’s an option…