Trump’s new attorney general plans to make fighting racism a crime.
Hours after being sworn in as the U.S. attorney general, Pam Bondi sent a memo within the Department of Justice instructing lawyers within the agency’s Civil Rights Division to begin probing ways ...
It just keeps getting more and more absurd.
I wonder how much further it can go before we get sucked into a black hole.
The Racist South playing the long game
Years ago, there was a big write-up (cannot find it any more) on the idea of Northern Liberty vs. Southern Liberty, and it was totally spot-on.
Every American should read it because it really laid out the difference between the way cons with the Southern mindset spoke about "liberty" - in their use of this, liberty meant the right to RULE OVER OTHERS. Which is completely at odds with the normal/Northern interpretation.
When I used to link to this article and mention it on various forums, including DP's I'd get butthurt cons saying how unfair that characterization is/was. LOL.
Can't find anything but a neighborhood in Philly
Spoiler alert, the north was full of bigots too, they just didn't need slaves as much
"Bondi is also making a push to deemphasize prosecutions of white-collar crimes, purge diversity programs within the DOJ, reintroduce the federal death penalty, and to root out lawyers who aren’t willing to march in lockstep with Trump ideologically."
Shitting biscuits.
Well if I’m a criminal, might as well commit some actual crimes.
In for a penny, in for a pound.
Give the racist asshats an inch and they will take a mile.
Yup. This is what right wingers and Christians do. I've often seen people try to claim that right wingers in the USA are different from the rest of the world and I've regularly heard the "not all Christians" line too.
But as someone from a country that used to have a system called 'apartheid', I can tell you that this is exactly what fucking right wing conservative Christians do when given half the chance (and when they don't have the chance, they cry about being discriminated against). Plus every single Christian asshole teacher and authority figure I had to deal with in high school and boarding school were exactly the types that would embrace and love authoritarianism.
Personally I am not shocked at all that these people are doing this. What I am shocked about is that so many fucking idiots actually believed these little fascists when they claimed to be pro free speech and freedom in general. And I cannot put into words the disappointment I feel that so much of gen Z fell for this bullshit. The kids are supposed to be where the hope for the future is. But these kids turned into a bunch of fucking little bootlickers that support the kind of people I've fought against since I was a kid.
When I was young there was a lot of counter culture going on rejecting the status quo. There were lots songs about our harsh reality and there were still prominent and popular figures who railed against the atrocities of the world. I was born poor enough to not buy into the rhetoric and disenfranchised enough to hate the privilege that I did have. Make no mistake though there are a lot of bootlickers my age though.
Genz didn't even have these influences. They had Joe Rogan and Andrew Tate. We collectively failed them and offered them nothing but worship of money and power. They are a product of that reality, the end result of no one ever fixing anything. Being Sandwiched between the Boomers who I despise and these younger generations truly sucks and makes me doubt for our future.
I learned how technology worked on a level most don't understand. I played with DOS, wrote my own software, and was there for the start of social media when it was about empowering the individual instead of control the masses. I left when I realized what it had become. Generations after me never had that perspective to see the truth and were manipulate into complacency.
The attorney general is congress now? Wait, let me laugh even harder.
For the racists, calling them racist is the real crime. If you want to see right wing dumbasses turn into total snowflakes, see how they behave when confronted on their racism...
I'm not planning on respecting any laws made by a felon and his gang.
Oh boy, who else is ready to do crimes?
She can try, but the Supreme Court gutted agencies' ability to interpret law.
That won't stop them from bringing lawsuits. That's where the real damage will be done. Companies will fear being sued so much that they will preemptively drop their DEI programs. This is all about creating a chilling effect through threats.
You'll see a lot of preemptive compliance anyway just because corporations are fascist.
Google has already done that
They'd be using laws requiring equal treatment of protected classes most likely.
Fighting fascism it is then!
