Gregory's Server@jerry American politics is what's happening. "Will you allow people to be openly racist" is a hard question to answer in the US
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@mathaetaes @malwaretech @jerry I disagree. White supremacists are used to the public answer being one thing but the actual implementation being different. My only take is that he wants to say yes but doesn't want to be called out publicly for it by antiracists. @malwaretech @jerry it shouldn't be, but there are too many racist selfish assholes in this country. @malwaretech @jerry they're screwed 7ntil they scrap the constitution and start again from scratch #unpopularOpinion @BibbleCo @malwaretech @jerry The constitution isn't the problem, changing a piece of paper won't disrupt the entrenchment of white supremacist good ol boy networks. @ostrich @malwaretech @jerry Agreed; but it would (assuming the replacement were more rational) remove the obstacles to doing so. @BibbleCo @malwaretech @jerry I don't think it'd go down the way you think it would. Text alone does not make a nation; the text is a representation of consensus. Attempting to remake the text, even with consensus, leads to protracted rebellion. The 13th and 14th Amendments and the Jim Crow era that followed them are evidence of that. @BibbleCo @malwaretech @jerry Any alteration to the constitution separate from a comprehensive strategy for systematic elimination of systems of white supremacy is the dog not knowing what to do after catching the mail truck. Sociopathy, indiffence and hedonism. That's what's been on sale for the last few decades. Weaponization of the US constitution to enable all this intolerance.  @demi7en @malwaretech @jerry I didn’t realize til now that one can indeed weaponize something by throwing it in a wood chipper. It's the good intentions that are in the wood chipper. The "letter" has been weaponized to normalize hate speech and intolerance. |
@malwaretech @jerry It's not a hard question to answer, it's just that nazi extremists in the US have made the consequences of answering it in the objectively right way hard, and the rest of the population, consisting mostly of non-extremist, compassionate people, haven't taken to death threats and harassment as a means of countering this pressure from the other side.