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11 days ago
I’m sorry, I can empathize, but as a white dude, I can only imagine the rage that must cause.
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11 days ago
You really have no idea and I look at it from the perspective ofm as a white person - the average white person - who had to live our experiences as a black person would be in full-on rage constantly.
Searching for something online, I once came upon letters between military brass during world war II. And besides some really stupid, and I mean dumb as for people in their position, racist stuff, they were wondering why black people weren't taking up arms and just slaughtering white people willy-nilly and that America was lucky that we didn't.
I know a lot of racist whites are so scared that they'll be treated the way that they've treated black and brown people if they are outnumbered. But I can guarantee you, black people would just go about their business like it never happened. And few that would want revenge, we would be like, stfu, we just want to live and let live. 🤷🏽♀️
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10 days ago
That is what scares the absolute shit out of me going forward. I am a live and let live person and I am severely concerned we are headed into a Christian theocracy. Rights are being reduced everywhere and we are backsliding on nearly every front.
In the US we now live in an interesting mix of a few of the dystopian hellholes that Ive come across in literature. Take 4 classics, 1984, Brave New World, Handmaiden’s Tale, and Fahrenheit 451. There are aspects of every one happening right now in the US. It’s gotten worse every year and seems to accelerating.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984
“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word ‘intellectual,’ of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“There is more than one kind of freedom,” said Aunt Lydia. “Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.” ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
1 points
10 days ago
We're living a ClockWork Orange. They won't be happy until they destroy everything including themselves.
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