250 years ago Dearborn, Michigan had virtually zero white Europeans.
In the 1820s and 1830s, Europeans flooded the land, stole Indigenous lands and forcibly removed Indigenous peoples and Michigan became majority white European.
No one in Dearborn voted for this to happen, the invading Europeans just forced it on them.
An entire population became a minority in their own community.
See we can do this too.
Understanding consent has never been the issue. Respecting consent is.
To respect consent, you must respect someone’s personhood and bodily autonomy. Patriarchy teaches us not only to disrespect both, but to deny their existence.
rape an unconcious woman behind a dumpster? you have a bright future.
gang rape a woman with your teammates? you'll still get drafted to the NHL.
drug & rape a student with your frat bros? just write an essay.
say 'free palestine'? expelled & charged with acts of terrorism.
A core tenet of fascism is to claim that all of society's problems are actually caused by a minority group, thus requiring the state to use its full power to attack that group.
The rape of an enslaved woman was not a crime under most state laws during slavery in this country.
Rape is rape. Law does not create consent where it is absent.
Hey, so rape is actually always 100% the rapists fault. There is no level of shared responsibility. This is true. Always. Thank you for coming to my talk.
Obama demanding we have nuance with slave owners is a demand only placed on Black and Native victims and a reminder of how we constantly expected to minimize our trauma so that white people can preserve their heroes and continue their romanticized illusion of America.
Notice when you want an abortion the fetus is a person but when we talk about immigration, actual children are called offspring.
Words matter. They are saying the Nazi shit out loud. Listen to them.
I never respond to attacks against Haitians by pointing to those of us supposedly “good ones” with degrees etc. People like Miller hate all of us; today he’s coming for domestic workers; tomorrow he’ll come for the doctors and lawyers. We all matter or none of us matter.
Dear Washington Post. Once a guilty verdict has been rendered, it’s no longer an allegation. It’s a fact. The jury did not find that the disgraceful president allegedly sexually assaulted & then defamed Jean Carroll. The jury found that he did sexually assault & defame her. Duh
They will NOT make a billionaire contribute to the basic needs of the community BUT they will make the whole community bear the electrical, water, and building costs of a data center owned by a billionaire.