Thanks for making the connection to Brown v. Board of Education. It's important. It's also important to keep pointing out that these people aren't just Republicans, they aren't just anti-democratic, they aren't just misogynist and racist -- they're white supremacists. I've recommended Heather McGhee's book THE SUM OF US before, but I'm d…
Thanks for making the connection to Brown v. Board of Education. It's important. It's also important to keep pointing out that these people aren't just Republicans, they aren't just anti-democratic, they aren't just misogynist and racist -- they're white supremacists. I've recommended Heather McGhee's book THE SUM OF US before, but I'm doing so again because she nails it with her "drain the swimming pool" analogy: rather than integrate public pools and other public places, the white supremacists (not all of whom were in the South) chose to shut them down, even though they were depriving themselves of the same public goods. They've been at it at least since the Reagan administration, hiding behind slogans like "The government is the problem." With Covid-19, they know they're putting themselves and their own kids at risk, but since they've got it worked out that it's hurting everyone they hate -- people of color, city people, anyone suspected of voting Democratic, etc. -- they don't care.
Thanks for making the connection to Brown v. Board of Education. It's important. It's also important to keep pointing out that these people aren't just Republicans, they aren't just anti-democratic, they aren't just misogynist and racist -- they're white supremacists. I've recommended Heather McGhee's book THE SUM OF US before, but I'm doing so again because she nails it with her "drain the swimming pool" analogy: rather than integrate public pools and other public places, the white supremacists (not all of whom were in the South) chose to shut them down, even though they were depriving themselves of the same public goods. They've been at it at least since the Reagan administration, hiding behind slogans like "The government is the problem." With Covid-19, they know they're putting themselves and their own kids at risk, but since they've got it worked out that it's hurting everyone they hate -- people of color, city people, anyone suspected of voting Democratic, etc. -- they don't care.