What makes this moment distinctive is not the violence, but the audience encountering it.
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What makes this moment distinctive is not the violence, but the audience encountering it. When white Americans describe this behavior as “what dictatorships do,” they are not wrong but they are late in recognition. America has long depended on techniques commonly associated with authoritarian regimes, while insulating much of white America from their routine application. That insulation is now thinning. The shock is real. The surprise is telling. But neither is unprecedented.
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What makes this moment distinctive is not the violence, but the audience encountering it. When white Americans describe this behavior as “what dictatorships do,” they are not wrong but they are late in recognition. America has long depended on techniques commonly associated with authoritarian regimes, while insulating much of white America from their routine application. That insulation is now thinning. The shock is real. The surprise is telling. But neither is unprecedented.
While a shit thing for her to have to endure, this was nowhere near the worst thing that has happened to a Minnesotan politician in the last year. How quickly the media forget Melissa Hortman.
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T tanyakaroli@expressional.social shared this topic
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What makes this moment distinctive is not the violence, but the audience encountering it. When white Americans describe this behavior as “what dictatorships do,” they are not wrong but they are late in recognition. America has long depended on techniques commonly associated with authoritarian regimes, while insulating much of white America from their routine application. That insulation is now thinning. The shock is real. The surprise is telling. But neither is unprecedented.
Outdated keyword stuffing and hashtag tactics are no match for advanced semantic search algorithms obviously.
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What makes this moment distinctive is not the violence, but the audience encountering it. When white Americans describe this behavior as “what dictatorships do,” they are not wrong but they are late in recognition. America has long depended on techniques commonly associated with authoritarian regimes, while insulating much of white America from their routine application. That insulation is now thinning. The shock is real. The surprise is telling. But neither is unprecedented.
Another opportunity to restate what I've learned from Ibram X Kendi:
Fascism is what we've been trained to call Capitalism when it starts treating ytpipo the way it's been treating #BIPOC folks the whole f'in time
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What makes this moment distinctive is not the violence, but the audience encountering it. When white Americans describe this behavior as “what dictatorships do,” they are not wrong but they are late in recognition. America has long depended on techniques commonly associated with authoritarian regimes, while insulating much of white America from their routine application. That insulation is now thinning. The shock is real. The surprise is telling. But neither is unprecedented.
@Deglassco This isn’t new—it’s newly visible. The U.S. has long used surveillance, raids, detention, and force in ways we associate with authoritarian states, just not evenly across society. When those tools begin touching people who were once insulated, it feels shocking. The history shows otherwise. What’s changing is who is being asked to notice.
#ICE #History #Authoritarianism #USPolitics #civilrightsmovement
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