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   Quinn Norton (quinn@social.circl.lu)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 20:32:46 JST Quinn Norton

   Imagine if there was a bill against anti-blackness getting bandied about.

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     Quinn Norton (quinn@social.circl.lu)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 20:35:06 JST Quinn Norton

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     How insane would would America go if you told them they shouldn't be racist fucks? I mean, we've seen. It's not pretty.

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     Quinn Norton (quinn@social.circl.lu)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 21:04:12 JST Quinn Norton

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     • Robert Thau

     @rst that's utterly incoherent. it's a word salad.

     not saying it's wrong, just

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     Robert Thau (rst@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 21:04:13 JST Robert Thau

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     @quinn Well, in the analogous situation, some of the most vocal and fervent supporters of the anti-blackness bill would be whites who wanted to all American blacks to go back to Africa, to fulfill a prophecy that says that if they don't convert to white once they're there, they will all die in a fire and then suffer eternal damnation.

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     Robert Thau (rst@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 21:29:49 JST Robert Thau

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     @quinn What's triggering this bill is anti-Israel rhetoric. And it got rushed through largely by the kind of Christian millenarians who support the State of Israel because, in their interpretation of prophecy, the apocalypse happens when all Jews go there, and it loses the battle of Armageddon, during which the Jews who refuse to convert then literally die in a fire. (The "Left Behind" books which some of these folks read in lieu of actual scripture depict this explicitly.)

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     Quinn Norton (quinn@social.circl.lu)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 21:29:49 JST Quinn Norton

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     • Robert Thau

     @rst oh yeah i'm well aware 😬

     the funny part is the Israeli gov also sees them as useful idiots since Jesus isn't coming back for them so it'll be fine