It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Mobile Cop Jiban.
As Mari once again talks like a little girl despite having been aged up to an adult for years now, we're reminded that Muir's definition of 'slavery' is twofold--the first being 'those in need having a safety net producing dependence', the second being 'there being laws in place that keep me and mine from doing as we please'.
Neither of these are slavery. In fact, people who hold these views are likely to support actual slavery, both de jure and de facto. But that's been the Right's problem since the early 20th century. It's set itself against human value and worth and that sounds bad, so it has to produce strange, alternate versions of these things that degrade as they claim to uplift.
My brain keeps twisting itself in knots trying to understand the internal logic of the way these guys talk about the Civil War. One the one hand, they see the Democrats and those who vote for them as the modern confederacy, and spend a lot of rhetoric on the evils of slavery (which they believe is paralleled by the modern black vote being heavily weighted Democratic), but on the other, they see Lincoln as the villain who unjustly and violently suppressed a legal rebellion, and often compare him to the hated "blue states" while favorably comparing themselves to the rebels with the supposedly just cause. (JTC manages to find a way to cram "CRA now!" into almost every comment he types.)
ReplyDeleteSomehow it make sense to them but to me it's total incoherence. You can't be the modern-day allegory of the rebel states WHILE denouncing the "slavery" imposed by the tyrannical blue states. It's all so confusing.
Doublethink is a fascist's natural state. The big thing, as I mentioned, is that when these people talk about slavery, they don't mean actual slavery. They usually mean them not being able to do whatever the hell they want. Curiously, the actual Confederacy used a similar definition at times, and insisted that this was a worse sort of slavery than the one they did, which was civilizing the savage African.
DeleteScum... scum doesn't change.