As incredible as it might seem, it should not surprise you that some circles of so-called radical thinkers - mostly white, as far as I can tell - have made Kim Davis a cause close to their hearts.
We follow our white allies into deeper pits when even elected public servants who refuse to follow the law - particularly in regards to civil rights - are worthy of defense. I'm reading the strangest interpretations of Marxism applied to Davis. I see her given that militant-era right to with hold her labor that our labor force sorely needs to revive. I read that she has free-speech rights and this judge is abridging these rights, that her action in denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples was non-violent, so why feed the prison system with her body.
I have come to suspect their usefulness as allies. Now I wonder about their sanity.
I have come to suspect their usefulness as allies. Now I wonder about their sanity.
Kim Davis is on a campaign. It is a political campaign. It has very little to do with Christianity since this country is not really a Christian country: she believes she is defending the settler state, and that the settler state is founded on the contrived unit of a nuclear family of heterosexuals. Her campaign is no more religious and no different than that of the Israelis who defend their settler state under the thin guise of Judaism. The Davis campaign is to use her occupation of a political office to stop a decided civil right.
She is not worth my sympathies or my defense. She's certainly not worthy that I draw from my radical anti-colonial, anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, anti-police state readings to defend her.
I will never defend the rights of Nazi camp guards over the captive Jews, gypsies, and queers.
She is not worth my sympathies or my defense. She's certainly not worthy that I draw from my radical anti-colonial, anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, anti-police state readings to defend her.
I will never defend the rights of Nazi camp guards over the captive Jews, gypsies, and queers.
If the job for which she was elected no longer meets her standards, and she wants to fuck white Jesus as her fifth husband, she was free to quit her job before being sent to jail.
She refuses to do so because she may not be the last Confederate widow, but she is one of many. Again, she is on a campaign much like any of her peers in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, Israel, or Northern and Southern Rhodesia.
What Davis is oblivious to is that these same-sex couples clamoring at her office door for marriage licenses are more her allies than her foes. They want their place in the settler state; they don't want to interrogate it, dismantle it, revolt it into the rubbish bin of history. Same-sex marriage is more her ally than knows, and its adherents are more likely to kneel at the tomb of the same white Jesus she claims to hold so close to her bosom.
They will not be interrogating how our national institutions created the so-called Appalachian region, with its abject poverty of white people. The coal mines. The sabotage against union organizing.
What I expect is happening for these fake radicals may seem ripped from the pages of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing: it is that these white radicals cannot stomach seeing a white woman punished the way Africans, First Nations, and Arabs are routinely treated without the meandering outcries of these same radicals.
Ali Amin, aged 17, has just been sent to prison for 11 years, and I hear nothing from these tongue-twisters about free speech or needlessly filling our prisons. Nothing.
As far as I'm concerned, if this circle of white radicalism can defend Davis, they can defend the settler state, and they are no ally of mine.
She refuses to do so because she may not be the last Confederate widow, but she is one of many. Again, she is on a campaign much like any of her peers in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, Israel, or Northern and Southern Rhodesia.
What Davis is oblivious to is that these same-sex couples clamoring at her office door for marriage licenses are more her allies than her foes. They want their place in the settler state; they don't want to interrogate it, dismantle it, revolt it into the rubbish bin of history. Same-sex marriage is more her ally than knows, and its adherents are more likely to kneel at the tomb of the same white Jesus she claims to hold so close to her bosom.
They will not be interrogating how our national institutions created the so-called Appalachian region, with its abject poverty of white people. The coal mines. The sabotage against union organizing.
What I expect is happening for these fake radicals may seem ripped from the pages of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing: it is that these white radicals cannot stomach seeing a white woman punished the way Africans, First Nations, and Arabs are routinely treated without the meandering outcries of these same radicals.
Ali Amin, aged 17, has just been sent to prison for 11 years, and I hear nothing from these tongue-twisters about free speech or needlessly filling our prisons. Nothing.
As far as I'm concerned, if this circle of white radicalism can defend Davis, they can defend the settler state, and they are no ally of mine.
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