Again, Black people are an exception here, as basically anyone who stayed in the Jim Crow South has a living memory of living under what amounted to fascism, including the “always walking on eggshells/lack of social trust/long periods of boring endurance/randomized terrifying violence”
Pretty much. What it mostly boils down to is that most Americans really don’t have the faintest idea what living under modern authoritarian regimes actually looks like, and how it’s often at the same time way more boring and way more scary than they’d imagined.
The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them
Kaitlin, do you ever get bored with how tedious racism is? Just like soul suckingly tired that this is the evil they fight for? It's not even for something interesting or profitable for most of us white folx.
"tedious" isn't exactly the framing i'd use for "welp kid the talk doesn't work anymore, you can't tom your way out of a streetside execution no matter how grovelingly placid you pretend to be"
you guys gotta start handling your own beyond being bored and sad about it
