So, We’re Condemning Violent and Destructive Acts? Cool, Here’s a List.
And let’s do more than just condemn. Let’s eradicate.
2 min readJul 14, 2024
- The gross hypocrisy of violence-inciting, openly bigoted convicted felons calling for unity and accusing others of inciting violence.
- Dehumanizing cruelty directed at people because of their gender identity or sexual orientation
- Racial profiling and police brutality
- Housing discrimination
- Fostering the notion that race is anything more than a social construct devised to divide and conquer
- Denying reproductive health care
- Ignoring the tragedy of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
- Failing to fully enforce the Americans with Disabilities Act
- Homelessness and food insecurity
- Patriarchy and domestic violence
- Christian supremacy
- Wage slavery and opposing organized labor/worker power
- Creating the conditions for poverty and refusing to alleviate those conditions
- Giving more value to arbitrary borders than to human life, all while supporting disastrous trade policies that force migration
- Opposing gun control
- Refusing to fund mental health treatment
- Bullying in schools and online
- Denying the scientific consensus on climate change
- Fossil fuel subsidies
- Attempts to end or privatize public entitlement programs
- For-profit health insurance
- The War on Drugs
- Attempts to end vital regulations and turn civil servants with subject-matter expertise into political lackeys
- Refusing to bring back the Fairness Doctrine
- War profiteering and the military industrial complex
- The prison industrial complex
- Supporting — financially and militarily — genocide and open-air prisons
- Allowing moneyed interests to dictate and even author legislation, while ignoring the negative correlation between public policy and public preference
- Corporate personhood
- Presidential immunity
- Making bad faith political claims (i.e., lying) to manipulate the public
- Continuing to justify features of an increasingly anti-majoritarian political system
- The Christofascist coup — the seeds of which were planted in the form of the 1971 Powell Memorandum — that we’re currently experiencing
