Lexi Santa Maria

D.A.R.E. Hooked on Fascism How the current fascism epidemic came to be. When people feel powerless, they don’t rise up—they reach for something to crush.

D.A.R.E. to keep kids off facism #TheRevolutionWillBeTelevised

Full video is here: www.youtube.com/live/MVqdRsD... 🤝🏾💛

Healthcare Injustice: Analyzing the Manifesto Behind United Healthcare CEO’s Death Unpacking the manifesto, healthcare inequities, and the ethics of desperation

Healthcare Injustice: Analyzing the Manifesto Behind United Healthcare CEO’s Death

Unpacking the manifesto, healthcare inequities, and the ethics of desperation

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The grounds for hope are simply that we don’t know what will happen next, and that the unlikely and the unimaginable transpire quite regularly. And that the unofficial history of the world shows that dedicated individuals and popular movements can shape history and have. 💙

I grew up during the tail end of Martha Stewart’s peak and didn’t have the pleasure of witnessing in real time her genius, her artistry, and her trailblazing multi-layered, philosophical, liberating inspiration that she bestowed upon on this world. Watching her docu. is just — I’m in awe.

Latest book haul. In my house, we don’t call it CRT. We call it history, and we learn about the things that define us as people.

ALL DAY YESTERDAY, I WAS WALKING AROUND PROUDLY WEARING MY 'I VOTED' STICKER. TODAY I WORE MY, 'I AM QUESTIONING MY FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF IN THE GOODNESS OF HUMANITY' STICKER." STEPHEN COLBERT

It’s not just me, I'm what the culture feelin'

@stephencolbert.bsky.social

…but it also just doesn’t make sense as it doesn’t directly impact anyone else.

#lawisnotequaltomprality

Attempting to make something a crime punishable by law, just because you personally believe it to be immoral / your religion told you it’s immoral — but that something is an individual act, an individual choice, that solely impacts said individual — is not only dangerous, hypocritical and crazy…

So, it’s safe to say that the law is NOT the meter, nor the determiner for morality.

I would argue that it’s actually a radically weird take to want the law to be the meter and/or determiner for morality. It’s actually an extremely dangerous road to follow.

Example 2:
Being a racist person is not a crime.

But, you’re NOT allowed to racially discriminate in hiring or housing. You are NOT allowed to racially harass someone.

By law, yes, you are legally allowed to hold racist values. While this is technically true, it’s also extremely immoral.

Example 1:
We all pretty much agree that cheating on your partner is immoral.

But we also all pretty much agree that cheating in a relationship shouldn’t and doesn’t need to be a crime punishable by law. We don’t need to get the government involved in that category of personal issue.

But at the same time, so many laws end up eventually being declared immoral and require change, reform, or abolishment all together.

Also, there are plenty of things you can do in life that are super immoral, but are not illegal and don’t need to be.

Law ≠ Morality

People forget that law is not the same as morality.

Sure, the law is [supposed to be] informed by moral values, but it’s also informed by:
•Practicality
• Asense of respect for personal freedoms

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“Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.”
— James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.”
— James Baldwin

“No label, no slogan, no party, no skin color, and no religion is more important than the human being.”
— James Baldwin

“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”
— James Baldwin

Artists are here to disturb the peace.

“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”
— Giovanni's Room

“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
— The Fire Next Time

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
— If Beale Street Could Talk

#electionshaveconsequences #magaconsequences TikTok video by Joy Ann Reid

@joyannreid.bsky.social PERFECTLY dismantles the hollow calls for ‘unity’ from those who’ve undermined democracy and human dignity. Unity shouldn’t require us to compromise our values or ignore harm. 🎯

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8LxL51o/

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken.

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”

If we believe most people can't be trusted, that's how we'll treat each other, to everyone's detriment. Few ideas have as much power to shape the world as our view of other people. Because ultimately, you get what you expect to get.

A new, super addictive drug comes on the market. Scientists investigate and conclude that the drug causes, ‘a misperception of risk, anxiety, lower mood levels, learned helplessness, contempt and hostility towards others, and desensitization'. That drug is the news.

“Two wolves fight inside me. One is evil—angry, greedy, jealous, arrogant, and cowardly. The other is good—peaceful, loving, modest, generous, honest, and trustworthy. These two wolves are also fighting within you, and inside every other person too.“

“Which wolf wins?”

“The one you feed.”