Hegelian Princess (@julieofthespirits@kolektiva.social)
Whose lives are worth grieving?
A few days ago, Charlie Kirk was publicly executed—his last words: “gang violence”. Watching every closeted republican suddenly emerge from their dwellings to “condemn political violence” has left me feeling bleak.
Watching the horrifying video is not something I recommend, in fact, when I first saw the video, I felt
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Arlie Russell Hochschild • Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
From this point of view, Rodney King’s protective reflexes, the disorderly movements by which he struggled to stay alive (he flaps his arms, staggers, tries to get up, stands on his knees) were described as being under his “total control” and as evidence of “dangerous intent,” as if violence were the sole voluntary action possible for a Black body,
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