Democracies have always brutalized the vulnerable to extract wealth and have hierarchical abuse - non-citizens, minorities, migrants, lower class workers, women, etc. The difference between liberalism and fascism is whether the in-group is expanding or shrinking.
When black people are murdered by cops and enslaved for self-medicating their anxiety, it is called the high point of liberal democracy we wish to return to. There was progress, after all.
But now white people are murdered by cops, and so the sky is falling.
It is, of course. But if you want a world without an “Epstein class”, without greedy parasites, without racist exploitation, then we should not return to liberal democracy. We have to structurally abolish the hierarchies that allow there to be powerful people above scrutiny, and we should recognize no boundary of privilege like citizenship.
Democracies have always brutalized the vulnerable to extract wealth and have hierarchical abuse - non-citizens, minorities, migrants, lower class workers, women, etc. The difference between liberalism and fascism is whether the in-group is expanding or shrinking.
When black people are murdered by cops and enslaved for self-medicating their anxiety, it is called the high point of liberal democracy we wish to return to. There was progress, after all.
But now white people are murdered by cops, and so the sky is falling.
It is, of course. But if you want a world without an “Epstein class”, without greedy parasites, without racist exploitation, then we should not return to liberal democracy. We have to structurally abolish the hierarchies that allow there to be powerful people above scrutiny, and we should recognize no boundary of privilege like citizenship.