10 years ago today, the state of Arizona passed a law that banned Ethnic Studies programs. The law prohibits any class that "advocates ethnic solidarity"
The law was enacted bc of the Mexican-American studies program gained popularity in the state. The law was challenged when enacted and upheld this year as valid. Has the media called this censorship or cultural genocide as they do with China?
And that's not all. The law also BANNED BOOKS which include the following:
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed
- Rethinking Columbus: the next 5oo years
- the Latino Condition: a critical reader
- Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History
- Critical Race Theory: An Introduction
The concept of free speech doesn't exist in capitalist countries. These same countries will decry censorship in China et al bc they banned facebook for spreading bullshit. But the real censorship is ideological in the West
"the American people are very much like the children of a mafia boss who do not know what their father does for a living, and don't want to know, but then wonder why someone just threw a firebomb through their living room window"
- The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin (they banned James Baldwin y'all lol)
- Ten Little Indians
- The X in La Raza II
- Justice: A Question of Race
There's way more books than this. This is just a few
That is to say, if you do not subscribe to the dominant ideology (imperialism, white supremacism, capitalism), your voice is marginalized, silenced or worse. And anything that challenges the dominant ideology is target for expulsion
My aunt is a nurse and contracted covid. Instead of sending her home, they are having her work the covid unit. These employers really don't give two shits about people.
They want everyone treated as "individuals"
Basically they are saying they don't want real American history taught bc it will hurt the feels of white people. And they don't want oppressed people coming together when they learn about that history bc they scares the whites.
And now Netflix has a show called "How to become a Tyrant" and it equates Qaddafi, Stalin and the Kim's of DPRK with Hitler. Hollywood has to go as well.
When Zinn passed away, Daniels celebrated, stating that "this terrible anti-american academic has finally passed away"
Funny that telling the truth about this country is anti-american. There's a lesson in there.
And this isn't the only place where they've banned or tried to ban books. Former republican gov of Indiana, Mitch Daniels, who is now the president of Purdue University, sought to ban Howard Zinn books, specifically "People's History of the United States"
95% of Chinese agree with and are satisfied with their government. Yet americans think being against the Chinese government means being for the Chinese people. Lol
So if you only know about a country like Venezuela, The DPRK, Cuba through the US Media then you don't know shit and you've been lied to.
Similarly, if someone only knew about Black people though the US media, what would they believe? A bunch of racist lies. See how it works?
NEW: A Nashville Walgreens employee pulled out a pistol and shot a pregnant woman he says he thought was shoplifting. Doctors performed an emergency c-section; both the woman and her baby are in critical condition. The employee is claiming self-defense.
The CIA got the un-serious left to conflate the real muthafuckas (MLs) with fascists. It's absolutely incredible when you think about how gullible someone has to be to conflate those who defeated the Nazis with Nazis.
I could give a fuck about Hasan Piker's house. Far worse is his actually politics. Dude isn't a communist or a socialist. He's a soc Dem using the aesthetic for profit while using the racialized term "tankie" u ironically. So fuck him and the rest of the soc Dems. That's all.
One of the biggest casualties of these writers is Tyrion. He was one of the dopest characters in all of television and he was reduced to an idiot who consistently gets duped. Smh
China: 90 million people in the CCP, explicitly led by socialist construction, eradicated poverty
White dude in the US who was alt-right like 3 years ago: China is imperialist, state capitalist waaahh.
And libs get mad when we say there is no material difference between republicans and Democrats. All that haranguing about voting bc the supreme court, Dems laid tf down and didn't raise nary a hand to stop this from happening 😂😂😂😂😂😂
As Republicans wrap up the Amy Coney Barrett hearing with plans to vote, Dianne Feinstein praises Lindsey Graham: "I just want to thank you. This has been one of the best set of hearings that I've participated in," she tells him. "Thank you so much for your leadership."
Cenk is a great of example of how liberals don't have a coherent ideological critique or grounding so that allows them to be on any side of an issue at any give time (when it suits them)
Kyle Rittenhouse claims he went to provide “medical support” that he was not qualified to give, while holding a gun that he was not legally allowed to carry, in a state where he did not live. He then killed 2 people and shot a third. Now he walks free because of white privilege.
Like no Moussilini, no fascist Japan. That show SHOULD ACTUALLY just feature a different US president every season and then show how the US was the inspiration for Hitler.
Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden are both recently on record saying the US needs a strong republican party. The reason they believe this is because they don't really disagree in any material way.
What a moment. Dems gain the Presidency and both chambers of Congress with the opposition party on the ropes after their supporters beat a cop to death attacking the US Capitol. Think what could be accomplished by a competent party at this once in a lifetime crossroads. Oh well.
This is how a disabled driver hits the road in China. The country began to issue C5 driver's licenses to qualified applicants with disabilities, incl. those paralyzed from waist down, from 2010, to promote equal driving rights.
Look at this racist piece of shit proudly admit that the CIA and the US government worked together to destroy the Black liberation movement. They lied, made up false charges and assassinated some our greatest organizers. And they're proud of it.
Hertz laid off 10,000 employees and then a month later paid out $16 million in bonuses to 340 executives before it filed for bankruptcy this month.
Absolute bullshit:
I'm not trying to be mean here. Just want to point out that liberals don't even realize how useless it is pointing out conservative hypocrisy. If you haven't looked around, they're winning. This does nothing to stop the fascists advance.
This is what we mean by left wing white supremacy. If you exclude/discount the ideology that has liberated millions of oppressed Black and other POC from your idea of socialism then you're not a socialist, just a liberal white supremacist.
George Jackson said
“george wallace or adolf hitler would fare better at the polls of an honest election than huey newton & tom hayden. but again, what is an honest election after the fact of monopoly capital?”
s/o
@queersocialism
Stalin defeats Nazis and some dumb ass westerners say he's bad. The US joins forces with and employs Nazis it's the shining city on the hill. Funny that
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#coronavirus
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How did Obama end up at Jeremiah Wright's church? I truly do not understand unless it was a calculated move to gain clout as he moved up in local Chicago politics. Because as soon as it was politically inconvenient, he threw the whole church under the bus.
An infinitesimal amount of debt forgiven and a marijuana law that frees exactly ZERO people is not delivering. Getting braindead liberals like this ensnared by the pageantry of it all is why he can get away with doing nothing while pretending that he's doing something.
Real talk for younger voters. Biden delivered on two major policies I never thought I’d see: Student loan forgiveness and marijuana pardons.
If you don’t vote in midterms, you’ll be telling every politician in America passing policies younger voters care about doesn’t matter.
if democrats weren’t controlled opposition, at this point there’d be at least attempts for them to disband the republicans party if their mere existence so threatens ‘democracy.’ but, instead there’s a continued effort to naturalized their constant racialized/gendered terror.