cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15197917
On May 11, 1926, a white mob tortured and lynched a young Black man named Henry Patterson in LaBelle, Florida, for attempting to ask for a drink of water.
Mr. Patterson had been working on a road construction project in LaBelle when he stopped at a nearby house to ask for a drink of water. A white woman who lived in the home saw Mr. Patterson walking towards the house and, frightened by the sight of a Black man approaching, ran screaming into the street.
Mr. Patterson fled the area in fear, but neighbors quickly assumed that the woman had been assaulted and began forming a search party to chase Mr. Patterson down. A mob of about 200 people—which included several local officials and prominent citizens—chased Mr. Patterson through the town, shooting at him several times and wounding him. …
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That was the fucking point of all this, right ? Like ‘how dare the poors slip through some material change in conditions through gov power’. ‘We’ll show them’ and then they did all of this
The CIA, the US State Department and Henry Kissinger specifically, spearhead Operation Condor to direct the intelligence services of the various South American dictatorships they had established, and/or served as indispensable kingmaker for, in order to target their repression onto anti-capitalist political activists, feminists and labor leaders.
Yeah that’s an important thing I have to address. Why do people think that authoritarianism means someone being mean to them?
Edit: I shouldn’t be that sour about it. Definitions are super important part and I’ve seen this coming for months., But there does seem to be like a rather substantive difference between like political science definitions of authoritarianism versus like general use public definitions. Like the general public seems to be really about like on an individual level, and I just don’t think that’s super helpful when you’re talking about governmental structure. there’s a little bit of overlap, but that’s not what the focus of most of the academic writing on the subject is so what pops up on Google when you just google “authoritarian“ is not the definition I’m operating off of, no.
Edit2: But yeah, oh yeah yeah yeah, the US being both a democracy and massively a fan of authoritarian governance is exactly what the memes about and you know trying to talk to anybody about that really seems to be like half of people take it as such a given like your baby for not having gotten over that when you were a kid and the other half like consider it an assault against the soul of America
you are right and I invite you to say it louder.
Yes. The title is a reference to that. Someone pointed it out on the tumblr post and its like the horror realization. I know how to swim because I got lessons in a public pool in Pittsburgh and there was a camp in michigan coming from that area too that the church helped pay for, but after that: Swim team, boy scouts, private pool, private pool, private swimming club, private pool. ..... Yeah. That would be why black people can't swim.
I believe the closest he came to consequences was that the KKK trashed the hotel after a court made him integrate it anyway.
What is the point of the private property system?
I have found this paper for 2013–2019: Disaggregating Asian American and Pacific Islander Risk of Fatal Police Violence by Gabriel L. Schwartz and Jaquelyn L. Jahn https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0274745
the mapping police violence site's methodology page indicates their database is entirely original. So for anything with their data specifically your best bet would be to reach out to them directly
yeah, that'd be great.
Yes, but idk if that's a death call for it, i feel like its not so bad for DnD characters. That's a community that has been rather accepting of AI generated images, as I understand, because they don't take away from artists' commissions and actually expand the pool of people interested in commissioning art for roleplaying.
That’s great. I’m really glad to hear it. It’s not that they don’t exist. It’s that they are subject to violence under the law.
this is a bad faith reading of a basic ass fucking tenant of socialist theory. democrats, party of the educated, are feigning ignorance to try and silence dissent.
