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This church has always been on the right side of history, though this may be the most direct marquee I’ve seen in a while from them.
I found out yesterday that they sold the property to the city and they’re going to be putting up affordable housing and tearing the church down soon.
I’m honestly not really thrilled about any of this for various reasons.
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“I felt like I was back in Hawthorne’s Salem, learning the worst lesson of the witch trials: the public will bow to authority, no matter how corrupt, if they believe that authority is curtailing a greater threat—even if the complicity of the authority becomes increasingly explicit. The longing for a legal system to combat an almost otherworldly evil overrides the public’s ability to see the man-made evil right in front of them.”
― Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
This is why the battle over pronouns has been so pitched. For right wingers, gender is a means of structuring society, of enforcing order, of reverting back to a prior hierarchy. Of course, gender is a construct, and particularly for non-binary people, the demand that a person adhere to their sex is a form of control, a denial of the reality of their identity. For some years, liberals tried as a matter of courtesy to use pronouns that a person used for themselves. To enforce a rigid order, right wingers understood they needed to destroy this practice as a means to superpose the power of fixed categories over the complexity of gender.
Marcy Wheeler at Emptywheel. Seeing Language As A Tool Of Authoritarianism
I'm slow on the uptake sometimes and have to ruminate over new ideas. I've been chewing all day over this post.
A couple stories jumped out in my social feeds. A North Carolina high school valedictorian was prevented from speaking freely about the plight of trans people in his graduation speech. And a library branch manager, an employee at the library branch for fifteen years, was summarily fired for allowing the inclusion of a book, When Aiden Became A Brother in a patron-led book display themed "Color Our World."
I've been slow to understand gender politics. I had to learn a lot and I'm sure there is so much more I need to learn. The authoritarian use of language that Marcy wheeler points too provides a useful perspective to understand these stories in a way I hadn't before.
Like a really large number of Americans I basically live pay check to pay check. Firing someone seems a big deal to me. For a dedicated professional like Lavonnia Moore, she's effectively run out of town too. And she's concerned that no matter where she might move to take a library position a hate campaign may follow. It's just so injust!
Here's the GoFundMe for Lavonnia Moore.
Here is a link to a strong editorial in the local press, ‘We need to sit down and talk’. And I must say again that I'm slow to understand Marcy Wheeler distinqution about the uses of language. But here's the mismatch: the paper is appealling to reason instead of understanding the issue as one of power.
Whenever there's a story about somebody escaping a degrading or controlling environment, and the story and/or the fans paint the character as a villain over what they do to survive and hold onto their autonomy, I'm like "yeah, that sure is how authoritarians talk about their victims when their victims choose to stand up for themselves and live on their own terms."
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