My mother grew up in London during the Second World War, so my childhood was spent listening to nothing but the glories of antifascism.
Well, this was an unexpected surprise:
Apparently even the current supreme court thinks maybe sometimes there should be some constitutional rights?
Weird that it took this long for that though.
TLDW is that they said when cops shoot people, the court should actually consider the context and events that led up to it, instead of just the two seconds when the officer ‘feared for his life’.
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When I was a kid I was told not to trust men in unmarked white vans.
If not bad men, why bad men shaped?
I have no idea who this guy is, but more of this, please.
The whole thing is worth reading, but I particularly liked this analogy:
Think of a big round carnival tent, like in Bugs Bunny cartoons. Picture it from the top. Big circle. Got it?
Now, picture people standing in the middle of the tent.
Now, expand the size of the tent.
Did you expand the tent by making room in the middle?
Do you find it odd that somebody would propose expanding that tent by looking toward the middle? Don’t expansions of a circle usually come at the circumference?
It starts to feel as if the people who look to not alienate the middle aren’t actually looking to expand the tent, but contract it. Or perhaps to redefine it; to pick up stakes and move the tent so that the center is further right, so that now it includes not more people but just different ones, people who who those who want to move it feel they have more in common, towards whom they are less comfortable being impolite about atrocities.
