I'm bored with people rolling this quote out and I disagree with the premise.
This is much more like Victorian prudery and moral panics than some foreshadowing of a totalitarian state. Stop being overly dramatic.
This is much more like Victorian prudery and moral panics than some foreshadowing of a totalitarian state. Stop being overly dramatic.
It's not too the next step where totalitarianism comes into play.
Especially when it gets to the point where having stepped over these boundaries in the past can lead to being targeted by the government / powerful corporations / employers.
But it's 100% relevant to be bringing into the conversation.
You could probably knock the years back to Obama if you want, but Prop 8 was in 2008 so it's hard to go earlier than that.
NOI segregationists have existed for a long time in the post-segregation era.
https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/human-rights-campaign-con...
https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/billinfo/default.aspx?BillN...
(1) Enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex; or (2) Treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor's sex and asserted identity.
What am I missing here?
HB1 text: https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Bill/SB0001.pdf
(a) A healthcare provider shall not perform or offer to perform on a minor, or administer or offer to administer to a minor, a medical procedure if the performance or administration of the procedure is for the purpose of:
(1) Enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex; or
(2) Treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor's sex and asserted identity.What mostly white people in charge are comfortable with publishing is never the whole story.
For example, everyone knows the details of the Barbary, Arab, Ottoman, Caucasus, Saharan, and Andalusian slave trades, and countless movies were made showing how whites suffered under them, and their mythologized wars to end them. Some were even made showing Blacks' suffering under the Saharan slave trade, as it was politically useful for whites to demonize Arabs.
However, did you know Europe and its colonies also engaged in slavery? Before the US abolished slavery in 1865, 12 million Black slaves were shipped to the Americas. Mostly to South America, but some to North and the US as well. That may be less than the estimated 11-17 million the Saharan slave trade claimed, but it's hardly something we should ignore.
Of course the white people in charge aren't comfortable publishing this, so it has been relegated to the footnotes of history.
Yes? It seems you're sarcastically referring to very recent history in which some people are like, you know, the actual legit dominance of white narrative in history and pop-culture could maybe be dialed back a bit and we could do a better job of representing the stories of all the people who are part of our shared experience instead of just the white ones?
Slavery and Indigenous American genocide only very recently happened, and there remains a lot of residual inequity, including modern-day slavery in the prison marketplace. The people you're complaining about are also in the country where those things happened, so obviously they'll be more prominently discussed in history than the Saharan slave trade. There's also a lot of discussion about banning teaching of these topics, so it needs to be discussed and defended; as far as I know, Florida isn't banning teaching the Saharan slave trade.
Why can't it be a foreshadowing of a totalitarian state of Victorian prudery?
Do you also believe that one time you thought you saw a pig talk means we are headed towards an Animal Farm situation?
Capitalists making independent business decisions is pretty far from 1984.
They promote the changes, stoke the outrage via press releases, stir up support for "the originals" and make bank from two highly talked about simultaneous releases of the same old product.
For context:
Dahl’s publications are extremely lucrative. In 2021, his literary estate was bought by Netflix for £500m. So, despite the writer himself being more than three decades dead, his market share must not be allowed to diminish. [1]
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/26/updati...