Really. The rich rule; they don’t pay their taxes and they need their guards.
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Yeah, John Oliver’s show was completely dedicated to the police yesterday, and Jaboukie White on “The Daily Show” did a great segment on it.
Okay, when Biden comes on, read the captioning and listen very carefully for “an unarmed person coming at them with a knife”.
I just think Jaboukie is so adorb - and clever!
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That was the best Last Word ever. Shook up my family. You expect the show to end on a laugh, but no, not this time. It got real. The way that she spoke, I could not have done that, the emotion would have made me choke up, but she used it as a power, a force to communicate. And she spoke it so well, pouring the emotion in while also communicating the specifics.
I also love that he did that because it’s been exactly what I’ve been saying we should do - let them speak - the ones most affected. I did a big facebook post that was all about how we (white people) should step back and amplify or share the voices of those most affected. And he must’ve come to the same idea. We can talk all we want, but it’s their voices that need to be heard.
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FanFacs. Goes hand in hand with their Cosplay Militia
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When they are forced to admit the unworkability of the compromises they are willing to submit to, they don’t change their minds, instead the masks come off. Big Brother stops being irony.
“The claim, from the notorious joint opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey , that each individual may ‘define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life’ should be not only rejected but stamped as abominable, beyond the realm of the acceptable forever after.” Instead, he wrote, our beliefs should be handed to us by a state given broad authority “to protect the public’s health and well-being” and “the weak from pandemics and scourges of many kinds—biological, social, and economic—even when doing so requires overriding the selfish claims of individuals to private ‘rights.’”
All told, the essay is less a serious entry in long-standing scholarly debates over constitutional interpretation than an important document in the literature of an emerging conservative nationalism—a faction on the right set on upending pluralism and liberalism as the ideological frameworks governing American society. While conservative Christians have traditionally grounded their politics in the idea that the Constitution is inseparable from Christian theology, figures like Vermeule, The New York Post ’s Sohrab Ahmari, and First Things ’ R.R. Reno are pushing a social conservatism that elides the Constitution entirely. The tension between individual rights and the dream of a pious country, they argue, should be resolved simply by suppressing or destroying individual rights altogether.
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(The overall point sounds a lot more… reasonable(?)… in the video. But oh, god, no, “white blessing” just makes it sound like it’s something that was granted from an outside force without any responsibility.)
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Right, like how could a “blessing” be bad? It’s Orwellian.
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That’s the whole point, to take out human agency and attribute it to God instead, so that it can continue, since it’s part of “God’s plan.”
Even by mega-church standards, this guy’s an asshole… I hope that people go protest his church now.
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In legal terms, privileges are both useful and warranted-- if there’s a substantive basis for them. The word “privilege” is sort of akin to “discrimination”-- useful if the underlying basis is relevant-- and highly pernicious if the basis is sex, race, national origin, etc etc.
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Listening to video, it seems like he is trying to rephrase “white privilege” in a way that his audience will relate to. Yes, it is cringey for non-churchy people. They have a certain language that they use within their community. I live in the South. Lots of people say here, “Bless you,” and it is meant with kindness even though as a Jew I find it weird. Yes, there are a lot of problems with the language and what it might imply. Sounds like he is trying to get the idea of white privilege across, though, and that is a good thing.
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The BLESSING OF SLAVERY???
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Love, Joy, Feminism had something to say about this, from the religious POV:
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It’s blessings bestowed on a branded product of the racism state, a kind of second attempt at a stable form of fascism.
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I don’t know… I get that also living here. But at the same time, it STILL comes off as white people benefited from systemic abuse to me and I’m not sure how we can conflate that with the idea of a blessing. He compared it to the cross, but black people were not enslaved and brutalized so we could be enlightened? I get he wants to reframe it to help privileged whites understand and emphathize, but it’s still putting it in the framework of a white-centered narrative.
I don’t know… maybe if I saw the entire segment, cause it kind of cuts off there.
Also, this guy used to be a member of my sister’s church prior to starting his own church.
At the end of the day, maybe more white people need to stop making statements like this, and listen to their counterparts in the black church a bit more.
Thanks for posting this!
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That’s kind of what I was getting at - a “blessing”, especially in religious circles, tends to imply that there’s no responsibility on the person who is “blessed”. It’s just something you accept.
If you make slavery a “curse” and white privilege a “blessing” then it feels like you’re moving away from the fact that the “blessed” people actively caused and benefited from the “curse”, and that the results of that are still ongoing. Seems like it would be rather easy for the “blessed” to slip into the mindset of it being something that just happens rather than something that people actively caused (or continue to cause) to other people.
And, sure, if you make it easy for people to shrug off responsibility, then of course they’re going to be happier to talk about it in those terms, but I’m not sure that’s really useful…
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