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I keep going back to what Dr. King said to his jailers. Essentially,
you should be marching with me, not fighting me. The same guys who are
oppressing me are oppressing you too. We're really on the same side here,
even if you don't know it yet. Now there is a guy that the latte liberal
set loves to quote and refuses to hear.
He was such a threat to the status quo that they defanged his memory.
Enough people were listening, almost. Now every weaksauce centrist tries
to claim him as one of their own.
On the other hand ... we call them names like Nazi, sure. But the race-based
dehumanizing rhetoric that I soaked up like a sponge while growing up
in the southern US is so, so much worse.
And the people listening to
that rhetoric have demonstrated a willingness to use violence
to get what they want, even though they have no idea why they want it and no
idea why it is not in fact the thing that would solve their problems.
If you want to know what dehumanization of the other really looks like,
go find -- not buy -- a copy of The Turner Diaries and read that puppy cover to cover.
TL;DR: it's a blood-drenched fantasy wherein everyone who isn't certified
100% Aryan by the American Kennel Club is referred to as "subhuman" or
"humanoid" on almost every page.
Now I will not claim that everybody in the southern US is a dyed in
the wool racist who sleeps with a copy of the Turner Diaries or Mein Kampf
under his pillow.
Far from it. In fact, a lot of good ol' boy racists are justifiably horrified
by the Turner Diaries.
But I can assure you that the number of people who resonate with a
statement like "Mexican immigrants are here to steal our jobs and rape
`our` women" is very far from zero, and it's a short leisurely stroll from
there to "Hey dudes, let's do a Turner Diaries IRL."
Climate change will exacerbate these problems, as even more
people go looking for a racial or ethnic other to blame for their trouble.
Contrary to the fantasies of some hairshirt-wearing hippies, it will not
cause us to
willingly and gladly rush to embrace the joys of voluntary
simplicity in a bucolic setting,
while channeling our inner Thoreau and E.F. Schumacher.
Three generations back , my cracker hillbilly forbears were one or two steps
up from serfdom. Voluntary simplicity is a fantasy for the privileged.
chris /
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