Recommended Reading: False Narratives and 'Under-Babied’ Women
This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: Steven Beschloss, Paul Waldman, Elie Mystal, Zach Roberts, Laura Bassett, and Jemar Tisby
This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack:
Steven Beschloss writes that “we cannot stop Americans from worshipping false gods, but we can end the false narratives and political power of a despotic White House occupant, his regime and party, and other institutions that have abandoned their democratic obligations. In less than six months, we can hasten their addition to the ash heap of history.”
Paul Waldman writes that during the “Trump era, the Confederacy itself is celebrated while a new and explicit advocacy for whites qua whites holds sway in both the administration and the Supreme Court… One lesson to take from this abysmal moment is that no victory is permanent and politics never ends. The right knew it, and the left can no longer ignore it. But that also means that the horrors now being unleashed on the country can be undone.”
Elie Mystal writes that “the fact that the white folks in Louisiana thought that a January 6 guy was the perfect face for their assault on the Voting Rights Act should tell you all you need to know about the reasons these folks decided to bring the case. Louisiana v. Callais is not about Republicans versus Democrats in the battle for control of Congress. It’s about white folks trying to take political power away from Black folks.”
Zach D Roberts writes that “it’s easy to nit-pick and fact check the delusions of a racist and it should be done regularly and publicly. Rarely can they handle the easy corrections as their ‘academics’ work in a different world… It’s all delusional, not based on any real history or honest understanding of facts like every racist movement in time. Whether it be National Socialism, the Klan or Stephen Miller’s Republican Party - their racism is based on bullshit that they position to be real facts.”
Laura Bassett writes that “most women don’t want to be farmed like livestock, and today’s press conference started to make me feel a little bit like a goat. If this administration wants more babies, they should really start by giving a shit whether women live or die, and then maybe work up to understanding what kind of world people might want to bring a child into.”
Jemar Tisby, PhD writes that “true faith has never depended on controlling political power. Christianity has often lost moral credibility when it became too closely aligned with governments and empires. Some of the clearest witnesses to the Christian faith have come from communities pushed to the edges of society rather than those seated at the center of authority. Oppressed believers around the world continue to practice courage, compassion, conviction, and hope without controlling the state.”
