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Fantastic Voyage 2

Josh Marshall tries to make sense of the Bundy Bund. A snippet (emphasis added):

Here, though, these guys have this bucket of nonsense hokum about Magna Carta and Sheriffs somehow being the true “sovereigns” over state governments, federal governments, the people themselves and all of this means the federal government can’t manage and charge grazing fees for land that it in fact owns. These aren’t archaic ideas that were once true but are now outdated. This stuff was never true or even made any sense. Clearly, there’s a sense of alienation and entitlement and a cultural posture driving these beliefs but I’m sorry, that’s just a complete f’ing pile of nonsense that isn’t based on anything.

(snip)

As I said at the outset of this story (and it’s not over), in the context of the on-going dialog about race, police use of force and violence and all the ways these wrenching issues interweave with each other, this whole ridiculous episode amounted to a sort of white privilege performance art.

Do please read the rest.

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2 comments

  1. Gerald

    January 28, 2016 at 12:48 pm

    The actions taken by these “white” citizens (if they were Black or Brown would be aka thugs and criminals) in “occupying” Federal land and the response by LEO are both manifestations of white supremacist ideology in 21st Century America! It occurs 24/7, day after day in our “colorblind” society.

    By “colorblind,” of course, she means that whiteness and white privilege should remain comfortably invisible. From Mixed Nuts blog

     
  2. Frank

    January 30, 2016 at 10:48 am

    Nicely put.