It's been clear for a long time that the Democrats aren't opposed to fascism. Liberalism and fascism are joined at the hip.
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It's been clear for a long time that the Democrats aren't opposed to fascism. Liberalism and fascism are joined at the hip.
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@rideonmct.bsky.social Haven't found one that works yet...
SR # 25-00069738 SB WASHINGTON BLVD OFRP BALTIMORE AVE Laurel - PG County Requesting unmarked off-ramp crosswalks be painted.
@rideonmct.bsky.social Another broken display screen.
@rideonmct.bsky.social You seem to have permanently given up on maintaining your display screens at your stations. They are seemingly ALL broken, for a long time. Sad.
There are plenty of Americans who know it is fascism, and are happy, because they like fascism.
SR # 25-00069412 in Laurel, MD - PG County Requesting both unmarked crosswalks be painted at the intersection of Gorman Avenue & Washington Boulevard.
Some flavors are kosher, so they must not have gelatin.
"As a tax-paying homeowner and immortal vampire..."
You can disagree with their analysis or think they are misguided or even think they are cynical opportunists. But to invoke greed and money grubbing? Really now? Come on.
Yeah, no. The idea that Jewish orgs are consciously fabricating antisemitism merely to be money grubbers seems conspiratorial rather than cynical. I hope you reconsider this view.
If a DEI program includes efforts against antisemitism, and the program gets cut, it is bad for Jewish students as Jews regardless of whether they have an intersectional identity or not.
"in an attempt to abide by the government’s directive, colleges and universities are cutting the offices and programs that hosted many of their proactive efforts to address antisemitism" The Trump administration is gutting universities’ best tools to fight antisemitism share.google/Hxr3sWvnQzf9...
Are Jews being given special treatment? Which Jews? The DEI programs that addressed antisemitism are getting axed and Jewish student protestors are often treated horribly.
Intersectionality or not, universities were beginning to address antisemitism specifically through their DEI programs, which have been put on the chopping block. So anti-DEI does undermine efforts against antisemitism.
Sarah McBride has similar "moderate" talking points. The rot goes deeper.
The Council will hold 2 public hearings on the University Boulevard Corridor Plan. The first on Sep 10 at 7:00pm at Montgomery Blair HS. The second on Sept 16 at 7:00pm at the Council Office Building. Those wishing to provide testimony must register via www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council
How is this a significant issue, outside of a few people grumbling on the internet? Christianity is the norm in the US and negative attitudes towards the non-religious and non-Christians is common among Christians.
Bricks doing what they do in front of Blair High School. I submitted a service request ages ago. Will this ever be fixed? @kristinmink.bsky.social @cmkristinmink.bsky.social @evanmglass.bsky.social @willjawando.bsky.social
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It's already here, but it isn't clear how we stop it. The majority of Americans either sympathize with fascism outright or are enabling it through "moderation" and apathy. How do you fix a spiritual sickness?
Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf that "The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew." WTF is wrong with you?
Seems bad: "We identified more than 30,000 tire wear particles in 24 liters of stormwater runoff from roads and parking lots after two rainstorms. In heavy traffic areas, we believe the concentrations could be much higher."
Not sure why the link didn't work. "In its Statute, the IMT stipulated that it should try individuals not entities. It did not try companies or States...there is an ongoing debate to this day...as to whether corporations have criminal liability as corporations. And that question is not settled."
"Managers or executives of companies that collaborated with the Nazis were tried both in the international Nuremberg trials (1945-1946) and in the twelve so-called "successor" trials organized by the Americans at Nuremberg from 1946 to 1949." Corporations weren't, but individuals were.
Example...Mex-Am ambassador Raúl Héctor Castro. He's listed as "White" by color & "Mexican" by race on his naturalization doc. His draft card lists him as "White". Both parents are listed as "W" on 1920 census. By contrast, Albert Einstein is listed as "White" & "Hebrew" on his naturalization docs.
I know how to look these records up. Just saying thank you for your skepticism and excellent questions. Keeping me on my toes and helping me think through these details more deeply.
The legal whiteness of Mexicans was certainly relevant to laws against interracial marriage. Which typically banned white-Black marriages, which was a problem for legally white Mexicans who wanted to marry Black people. Perez v. Sharp - Wikipedia share.google/nmK1jF4Ace9G...
Not quite. Those are specificities in regards to Mexicans, influenced by the context of treaty law. It didn't nullify anti-Asian restrictions, say. I've seen many census, draft, and marriage records listing Mexicans as white. Now I need to find naturalization paperwork for Mexicans.
If you look at census documents for Mexican-Americans in the Southwest during the 1800s and early 1900s, they are consistently listed as whites on the census. This is not to say they had full privilege compared to Anglos, but they had greater access to legal whiteness than Black and Native people.
Not exactly. American Latino Theme Study: Law (U.S. National Park Service) share.google/CrpSk8xhPSaY...
Been happening. Remember when Musk said George Soros funds Hamas?
I'm thinking of the 1896 court case in Texas that affirmed the naturalization and voting rights of Mexican-Americans. Rodríguez argued in court that he was neither Indian nor Spanish, but still white, and he won. In Re Ricardo Rodríguez share.google/W1XRHf1zIxF6...
Congress, the Supreme Court, the media, major corporations...all have been captured or have acquiesced. We are so cooked.
I've had this discussion with dozens of people, who often stare at me blankly, argue, or "inform" me that the Irish suffered by showing me old magazine caricatures. I know. I know all this. But there are many facts of Black and Native oppression, codified into law, I didn't know. That's a problem.
I'm not sure why descendants of so many "ethnic whites" want to say, sure, our groups could naturalize, own slaves, own land, attend white schools, drink from white water fountains...but who cares? Their suffering is more relevant. I'd rather honor my ancestors by looking at them honestly.
Of course I know about the Italians lynched, Jews excluded from clubs, Irish who need not apply, etc. But I learned a lot more by asking, specifically, what rights did Europeans have under law that others didn't ever have. Quite a lot, actually!
I used to nod along unthinkingly when people said non-WASPs "became white" with time. What a simplistic narrative. It says nothing about the conditions of Asian or Black or Native people. When I started to research this, my narrative convictions curdled into contempt. I wasn't told the whole story.
The mortgage for the house I grew up in was through an immigrant bank, because my grandmother's family had been turned away by the WASP banks. Protestants only! No need for quasi-educated migrants who smelled of herring. She did smell of herring. I remember her kisses.
The old neighborhood was divided by the Amtrak rails. The one side, immigrant. The other side, Black. The adjacent neighborhoods didn't mix. Until Black people did begin to move into the neighborhood, after which everybody else fled to the suburbs.
They lived in an Eastern European immigrant enclave that was built by a developer who used restrictive covenants excluding all Black people. Fresh off the boat homeowners, when Black people with centuries old roots could not become homeowners.
My grandmother grew up in an immigrant family in East Baltimore. Her mother and father were naturalized in 1938 and 1942. They are listed as "Race: White" on their census records and "Color: White" on their naturalization papers, at a time when Asians were denied naturalization.
Did you know the first mosque in the USA was built in North Dakota by Muslim homesteaders on land stolen from the Lakota tribe? Because Syrian Muslims were granted citizenship as free white persons and the Homestead Acts only gave land to citizens. Natives generally weren't US citizens until 1924.
Mexican immigrants were also classified as free white citizens under naturalization law, at a time when others like Asians were excluded. Mexicans in Texas and New Mexico still had greater rights than Black or Native people.
I've been to the Confederate Jewish cemetery in Richmond. I've been to the Sephardi synagogue in Charleston built by Black slaves, some of whom were Black Jews. The Confederate Secretary of State was Sephardi. That's a lower rung of whiteness, but one that Black Jews didn't have any access to.
Chinese ppl were denied citizenship under the Chinese Exclusion Act, whereas Italians were naturalized as free white persons. Naturalized citizens were eligible for land under the Homestead Acts. An Italian, Sephardic or Irish slave owner was mostly certainly white when their slaves were not white.
How do we effectively fight fascism when Democrats embrace and have always embraced aspects of fascist ideology? The rot goes really deep.
This. And most Americans, liberal or conservative, worship capitalism and racist violence. So we will inevitably continue our descent into fascism, even if many people don't self-identify as fascists.
Worse, that the majority of Americans support it.
You are talking about social and economic discrimination. Under the Naturalization Act of 1790, all Europeans were classified as "free white persons". Italians could become citizens, own land, own slaves, attend white schools, and were always listed as white on census, draft, and other documents.
It's certainly a question worth pondering. I've pondered whether, for some people, if their susceptibility to conspiracy theories is because they have arrived at a criticism of Israel without a history in left or anti-war movements. So they wonder, why would the otherwise amazing USA support this?
And Italians now have both. Getting through the gate, and having the headstart of basic legal rights that no Black or Indian person had access to, helped enormously.
And also because some of them actually support fascism.
Why bother focusing on what China does? I'm not Chinese. When I spoke out against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, say, it was because my government did it, my government funded it. Which in a small sense means that I did it.
I believed this "became white" story until I actually checked the facts. *ALL* Europeans could become citizens by law, own slaves, own land, listed white on every census & draft card, attended white schools, exempt from Jim Crow. The discrimination they experienced was mostly socioeconomic.
Venezuela.
An exaggeration. The Irish could become citizens, own slaves, snatch land under Homestead, are always listed white on every census (1790-2020), and weren't subjected to Jim Crow or anti-miscegenation laws. To the extent the Irish became white, it was about socioeconomic status, not legal status.
Yep. Between 1790 and 1952, naturalization law limited citizenship eligibility to free white persons. The law didn't define white, so there were court battles over whether Asians or Arabs were white. All Europeans were always white on arrival. Italian? Irish? Right this way. Chinese? Japanese? No.
The historian Thomas Guglielmo has a great book, "White on Arrival". Naturalization law limited citizenship to free white persons, so Italians were eligible upon arrival. So in that sense, Italians didn't even need to put in that effort. They were already legally white in ways that others weren't.
Or unchanging. No European group was ever denied naturalization for being non-white. Whereas, Arabs were sometimes denied and East Asians were almost always denied. The flexibility of legal whiteness under naturalization law applied to MENA and Latino people and even Indians, but never Europeans.
Despite being unfortunately American, I do not dream of home ownership.
I'm terrified of politicians who demand Muslims condemn things they never said. Are you?
There are people within the Orthodox community who support the plan, or who have a nuanced take on it. The community isn't monolithic.
However one feels about Medinat Yisrael, it cannot really be said that Jews never named or climbed Har Tzion or Har Moriah. This distinction may mean much to many Jews, while being a distinction without a difference to many Palestinians. I'm not afraid of multiple things being true.
In a later anecdote, Professor Kimmerer describes living near Tahawus in the Adirondack Mountains, which was renamed after some colonizing governor who never stepped foot there. She knows the mountain's name and the mountain knows hers.
Reading the passage in Robin Wall Kimmerer's "Braiding Sweetgrass" where Eve meets Skywoman. Now I'm pondering through a Jewish lens if Chava is Eve to a Potawatomi woman. Maybe she is the same woman. But if she is not, what sorts of conversations have or can happen between Chava and Skywoman?
It was the Fair Housing Act of 1968 that finally prohibited both antisemitic and anti-Black covenants in property deeds. (Prohibited from being enforced, the deeds themselves still exist)
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Reading a predictably racist comment on the petition against the University Boulevard Corridor Plan: it's a woke replacement conspiracy, wherein hardworking homeowners and their cars will be replaced by lazy, dependent migrants and their transit.
Yay! Good to see you. My bad.
Isn't our own history sufficiently awful? Nearly 2,000 people died during Japanese internment. Calling this an internment camp or concentration camp is enough. "Alligator Auschwitz" is trivializing and gross, but also unnecessary.
That part is really striking. The American Revolution was more colonial than British colonialism!
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There's a certain form of right-wing antisemitism specifically aimed at the Jewish left and Jewish liberalism. And it has become common practice among the Christian right to declare who they believe are proper Jews and who are fake or un-Jews.
It's a mainstream belief that antisemitism is forgivable or perhaps even good as long as you support the Israeli government.
In Kushner's memoir, he says Trump tried to persuade him to convert to Christianity.
Crossing the border without authorization is a misdemeanor and illegal re-entry is a felony, but simply overstaying a visa is only a civil violation. So yes, simply being undocumented is not a crime.
The US hasn't yet recovered from the injury of Reaganism. Free market bullshit to benefit the rich + massive spending on the military and incarceration to hurt everyone else.
I'd also add that having to think carefully about the difference between concentration camps and prisons says a lot about prisons.
Many people are understandably reticent, wanting to avoid trivializing the Holocaust. It's important to remember that all extermination camps are concentration camps, but not all concentration camps are extermination camps. Japanese internment camps were concentration camps.
"What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process." Being undocumented is a civil violation, not a crime. It's a concentration camp.
Something I miss about Quebec are the free public swimming pools. I don't think Montgomery County has any free swimming. DC does, but only for residents.
The only options are to develop creative ways to survive or to flee the country. Poor & disabled people are stuck here, and will be forced into creativity. Others won't survive. I guess that's life. A lot of people throughout history died as peasants in their 30s, if lucky enough to survive infancy.
RE, dust. The history of Jewish-Native relations is far more interesting, from Jewish Homesteaders on the pioneer to Felix S. Cohen, the lawyer who helped write the Indian Reorganization Act in the 1930s. Rebecca Clarren's "Cost of Free Land" and David Koffman's "The Jews' Indian" are good starts.
I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one’s name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!
A lot of people from Appalachia settled in those neighborhoods. Sort of a "Little Appalachia", one of several.
Including @raskin.house.gov
""In working-class neighborhoods, many economic activities and many workers depend on the car"...reads a statement from the socialist Workers Party of Belgium..."They therefore depend more on cars, not by choice but by economic necessity."" Carist-Communist. 🤡
Wow. A global movement of Marxist motorists. I'll continue to be a normie democratic socialist who doesn't own a car.
It was a surprise to me, but there's apparently a bit of a Marxist-Leninist motorist lobby. Why they are fighting for non-existent working-class people commuting into Manhattan, I do not know. But there are a few Marxist parties in places like Belgium and Austria with similar car-brained takes.
And more funding for bus shelters.
Next to Moti's market?
It's a culture of death. Capitalism at home and imperialism abroad go hand in hand and require suffering and death of disposable bodies.
Applauding Trump's warmongering is shameful. Shame on the URJ. Disgraceful.
You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country
