ChonkyOwlbear @ ChonkyOwlbear @lemmy.world

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Nothing comparably horrendous to the Russian Civil War has happened in the US.

It was coined before the civil war, but it spread as a term used outside of Russia because of the civil war.

I hope you have half as much hate for fascists as you do for libs.

I don't have the time nor the crayons to simplify the Russian Civil War so you would understand it. Asking for a citation that you could easily do a basic web search for is at best lazy and at worst sealioning.

My point is that saying Russia is a "Land of Peace" compared to the US is not historically accurate in the least.

I think the government has learned a lot about suppression of protests in the last 20 years.

Find (or create) an excuse to call the protest violent, apply less-than-lethal weapons liberally, and subvert the message of the protest to turn the public against it.

1. asking for citations for one of the most important and well known events of the 20th century is lazy and obnoxious.
2. "Pogrom" was coined in Russia and became well known largely because of the Russian Civil War.
3. don't bitch about my comments when you have put absolutely no effort into yours.

If that's what you call a "Land of Peace", I don't think your opinion is worth much.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Civil_War

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Terror_(Russia)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogrom

The capitalists in Russia aren't exactly sitting on their hands either. I'm on team "Fuck the Capitalists" no matter where they come from

https://lemmy.world/comment/17558559

From 1917to 1922 between 7-12 million Russians, mostly civilians, were killed. This includes hundreds of thousands of Jews killed in pogroms (genocidal race riots). The Red Terror involved Bolsheviks conducting executions to wipeout political dissent and any threats to their power. The White Terror involved a collection of conservatives, monarchists, and proto-fascists executing communists and genociding Jews. This doesn't count people who died in forced labor camps, which by some accounts saw a 10-20% fatality rate per month. There were mass rapes and looting wherever the several armies went. It's been described to be as close to Hell on Earth as it gets. Between WWI and the Russian Civil War, the total population fell from around 170 million to 134 million.

Try reading about the Russian Civil War some time.

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"Oh, you could only afford one watch?"

Mary Miller represents district 15 which surrounds but does not include both Springfield and St. Louis. It is 90% white, 2.9% black, and 2.8% Hispanic. There are basically no non-Republican elected officials above the county level and voted overwhelmingly for Trump. This district became home of the second resurgence of the KKK in Illinois in the 1920s and has stayed their home through resurgences in the 1950s and 1990s.

your reasoning has become little more than conspiracy theories mixed with bigotry.

Oh please tell me who I am being bigoted towards.

You have absolutely no idea what her financial situation is,

And neither do you. You don't even know what it costs to retain multiple top law offices for years on end.

All it says is that members of the majority group have the same rights to bring discrimination lawsuits as anyone else.

Which reverses previous SC precedent which was put in place to protect minorities.

Jesus Christ, please read what I wrote again because you obviously failed to understand what I was explaining.

Not just any case gets before the SC. They choose cases for a reason, usually because it involves an aspect of the law they wish to clarify or (increasingly commonly) overturn. Special interest groups shop around for cases that they can find a defense for to make the political changes they want (for example Masterpiece Cakeshop v Colorado was funded by Alliance Defending Freedom). As you said this case began in 2017. There is NO WAY a middle manager at a state agency can afford to pay some of the best lawyers in the country for 8 years. She's not some secret billionaire. Yes, her funding is unknown but that's exactly why it is relevant. Dark money groups pushing political agendas are manipulating the justice system.

This woman is just a convenient tool to weaken minority protections. Previous SC precedent from 1973 holds that Title VII cases consider a history of discrimination of groups in question when determining how much evidence is required to prove the case. There is no history of straight discrimination but there is significant past history and current LGBT discrimination. It makes NO SENSE to treat these events as equally probably but that is exactly what overturning this decision does.

This strips protections for LGBT, black, disabled people, non-Christians, and other protected minority groups. Now to prove they are discriminated against, they cannot rely on the well-proven precedent of this fact. This makes discrimination against these groups easier which of course is the point of all this anti-DEI stuff. It is Christian white supremacy in action.

I know the white part doesn't matter because the actual suit is for being straight alone. The justices (unnecessarily) added the discussion of race.

I know the suit is an attack on DEI because it made it to the Supreme court. It takes years and tens (or hundreds) of thousands of dollars to maintain a court case. Private individuals usually can't afford this. The client, who works for the Ohio Department of Youth services, certainly couldn't. Most SC cases are funded by special interest groups looking to push a particular change in the law. Trump and the Conservatives have made it very clear that they are against DEI because it makes it harder to discriminate against minorities. This decision weakens the protections for those groups.

I know she's awful because no decent person would bring such an obviously bigoted suit.

The white part doesn't even matter. This is just an awful person blaming DEI for their failures.

He did work for the Heritage Foundation, so he knows all about those terrorists.