{"id":24666,"date":"2016-11-11T18:31:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T02:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24666"},"modified":"2017-01-02T21:34:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T05:34:43","slug":"the-furies-are-weeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/11\/the-furies-are-weeping\/","title":{"rendered":"The Furies Are Weeping"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can't do it today. I just can't. I can't write about any outrage today as it it were an aberration, when outrages are going to become<\/s> are already starting to become the norm. If you want to see what Alecto<\/strong><\/span> ("unceasing"), Megaera<\/span><\/strong> ("grudging"), and Tisiphone<\/span><\/strong> ("vengeful destruction") look like when it has become too much even for them, just look at the picture.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Here is just a small sample of what is already happening (from an email from Moms Rising):<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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•In Illinois, White university students put on blackface and posed in front of a Confederate Flag to celebrate Trump’s victory.
\n\t\t•In Philadelphia, vandals scrawled Nazi and pro-Trump messages in city neighborhoods.
\n\t\t•In Kansas, a high school suspended two White boys wearing Trump shirts for ripping a hijab off a fellow student. When asked why they did it, one boy answered, “Because she’s about to get kicked out anyway and we won.”
\n\t\t*In Delaware, a Black woman filling her gas tank was approached by a group of four White men. One said to her, “How scared are you, you black b****? I should just kill you right now, you’re a waste of air.” Another showed her his firearm and said, “You’re lucky there’s witnesses or else I’d shoot you right here.”
\n\t\t•In California, a young woman was approached by an older man who said, “I can’t wait until Trump asks us to rape your people and send you back over the biggest damn wall we’re going to build. Go back to hell, wet back.”
\n\t\t•Also in California, a gay man at a bar was approached by a group of men who shouted at him, “We got a new President you f***ing f****ts," before assaulting him in a nearby alley.
\n\t\t•Educators from across the country are reporting rising levels of anxiety and fear among their students of color. In Utah, two parents reported seeing two kindergartners tell a Hispanic classmate that he would be going back to Mexico after Trump’s victory.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yes, a lot of this was going on before the election.  But somehow, now it seems to have a new – authority.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This from ExPat Girl<\/a> at Daily Kos:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Fascism just got hold of the United States. We are now seeing the worst of the worst elevated to positions of incredible power. Racism has been legitimized and the reports of hate crimes are rolling in. Trans children are committing suicide. Stock prices of private prisons and coal have skyrocketed. Women are months away from truly losing the right to control their own bodies. Marriage equality is under attack. The safety net is about to be destroyed. Hard won<\/span><\/span><\/em>\"omg\" progress on climate change is about to go down the toilet. We are about to lose all regulations on the financial industry. Millions are terrified of being rounded up for deportation. Muslims are facing honest to God persecution. We’ve gotten confirmation that the world’s most powerful dictator manipulated our election to get the result he wanted. Our allies in Europe are freaking out. Intelligence from the Middle East indicates that al-Qaeda and ISIS are over the moon with joy.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

And the majority of the people here are refighting the primary war? Ignoring the terror of huge swaths of America to gloat? Dreaming of how this is all going to work out for them in the future?<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Can people really be this stupid as to what is happening ? This blind to what is coming down the road?<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I quoted John Pavlovitz<\/a> last week.  I'd like to quote him again now, as he addresses people who don't understand:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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This is not about losing an election.  This isn't about not winning a contest.  This is about two very different views of the world.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hillary supporters believe in a diverse America; one where religion or skin color or sexual oriantation or place of birth aren't liabilities or deficiencies or moral defects.  Her campaign was one of inclusion and connection and interdependency.  It was about building bridges and breaking ceilings.  It was about going high.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Trump supporters believe in a very selective America; one that is largely white and straight and Christian, and the voting verified this.  Donald Trump has never made any assertions otherwise.  He ran a campaign of fear and exclusion and isolation – and that's the vision of the world those who voted for him have endorsed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Every horrible thing Donald Trump ever said … has now been validated.
\n\t\tEvery … call to bully protesters … and every ignorant diatribe has been endorsed.
\n\t\tEvery piece of anti-LGBTQ legislation … has been signed-off on.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Half our country has declared these things acceptable, noble, American.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And this is why we grieve.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(This is only a summary.  Click through for the whole piece.  Skip the comments though.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Oh, the Furies and I will be back.  Eventually.  But all four of us need some down time right now.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Cross posted to Care2 at <\/span><\/span>http:\/\/www.care2.com\/news\/member\/101612212\/4020659<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can't do it today. I just can't. I can't write about any outrage today as it it were an aberration, when outrages are going to become are already starting to become the norm. If you want to see what Alecto ("unceasing"), Megaera ("grudging"), and Tisiphone ("vengeful destruction") look like when it has become too […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":24668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}