Jesus was not "open and affirming" to queer people. She is queer people. They became queer when very God cohabited human flesh. The Universal Christ is the gay kid we beat up, the trans kid we told was mentally ill, & the family we "welcomed" without celebration.
When they say the Constitution was set up to protect the rights of minorities, they pretend that means marginalized peoples like women, POC, nonchristian religious groups, and queer people. What they really mean are the rich, whose rights regularly trump everyone else's.
For some few days in July of 1877, the city of St. Louis was held by a revolutionary Commune. You fancy yourself a communist but don't know about the only self-organized commune in the territorial U.S.? Sit right down and listen.
What's really funny to me is that capitalists must either 1) admit a communist country is the reason why most people in the twentieth century were lifted out of poverty or 2) admit China is a capitalist country.
Elizabeth II did not "preside over decolonisation," colonised peoples shot enough British soldiers that the costs of imperialism outweighed the benefits and we won our freedom. Elizabeth was not a gracious liberator, she was a hated foe who we overcame in armed struggle.
@1ChicagoDave @IAmLeoGlaze So she doesn't deserve the criticism because she was bad at her job?
"All but a handful of his murder victims got away! That's some 'serial killer.'"
@AudreTaughtMe2 @UjuAnya Celebrating the royal family as a cute and harmless tradition divorced from history seems similar to celebrating the confederate flag as a harmless reference to “heritage” at a plantation style wedding.