I keep thinking about a post I saw the other day, and likely won’t be able to find again, which proposed as a response to “you’ll be fine if you have nothing to hide” the phrase:
“ I have nothing to hide, but I don’t trust your intentions and judgement”
Was it this one?
“I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgment and intentions are.”
If you’re living in the US and reading this right now, I need you to know that if republicans take over office this next election, human rights are as good as dead.
The Heritage Foundation, a major Republican think tank, has published a 1,000 page document detailing how they want conservatives to take over the government and what they think should be done as soon as they’re in office. It is, in a nutshell, a call for fascism.
If you’re trans, know that one of the things it includes is basically banning trans people from having our existence acknowledged and it’s worded in a way where you could reasonably understand it to mean that being trans and going out in public is enough to get you put in jail for exposing minors to porn.
If you’re an immigrant, sanctuary cities are also going to be dead under this plan as district attorneys who don’t enforce the federal laws they plan to implement will be charged with crimes as well and they’re banking on them not being willing to pay the fines they’d be charged with in order to protect you.
If you care about climate change and safety regulations, kiss the regulations goodbye and prepare to watch the environment slowly get destroyed.
Now you know why white people hate history and having it explained with context.
here’s how i explain racism to white guys who never thought about it: on a tobacco plantation is a field full of black slaves, and one white guy getting paid 25 cents a day to sit on a horse with a big hat and a gun. and he keeps those slaves working for his 25 cents and his seat on the horse.
and inside the plantation house is another white man sitting in a cool comfortable chair, sipping lemonade, making a hundred dollars a day off that idiot sweating his ass off on a horse. because if he ever dropped the gun, if he walked off with the slaves…
but he never did. none of those overseers ever did. so that’s still going on today. if you’re white you’re still being handed a hat and a quarter and a gun. and the sun’s beating down on all of you out here in this fucking field growing poison for another man’s mansion.
and you’re never going to get to taste that lemonade.
If I see any of you posting shit about not voting, in the year of Clarence Thomas saying we should revisit Marriage Equality and little girls being banned from school sports for having short hair, know that I WILL eat you first when we’re in the Mad Max Fury Road level of planet fuckery.
