1) “When MLB pulls its all-star game to protest Georgia’s voting law, that’s corporate free speech.”
This is a good @DavidAFrench piece about the dark illiberal turn in attacks on MLB, Big Tech and woke corporations.
https://time.com/5953715/clarence-thomas-tech-free-speech/ …
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8) In fact, movements are pushing corporations *from below,* amid Trump-stoked anti-democratic tactics + years of relentless stoking of racial conflict. These movements are driven by an ideal of *empowerment.* It’s ugly to cast this as elite suppression of conservative agency:pic.twitter.com/4WlTsaY004
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9) Bottom line: In addition to this increasing reliance on illiberal tactics that
@DavidAFrench discusses, Republicans are manufacturing all kinds of wildly hallucinatory narratives to justify them. In so doing, they are dragging their voters to an ever darker place. FINShow this thread
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Victimhood has long been a specialty of Republicans.
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This is the Lost Cause ideology too (re. White supremacists, not "populists"): white Southerners argued that they were so unjustly victimized by federal government, Republicans, and free African Americans that they had no choice but to form the Klan and white paramilitaries.
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Please What a sorry group these people are.
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