Philip Krohnengold

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#Repost @mspackyetti with @get_repost ・・・ A family concentration camp is still a concentration camp. • • In my freshman political science seminar, we learned about a concept called the Overton Window. The #OvertonWindow holds all ideas that are considered normal. Agreeable. Acceptable. The further outside of the window you go, to the left or right, the ideas get more radical. Extreme. Unthinkable. • • Everyone from political strategists to real estate agents-like y’alls president-is obsessed with the idea of moving the window-so that the things they really want to happen no longer seem extreme. • • How do you move the #OvertonWindow? You suggest something so far to the extreme, that the slightly less extreme alternative suddenly seems more acceptable to the public. • • Moving the Overton Window can be used for good: Malcolm X intentionally presented himself as an extremist in certain respects, so white moderates would accept Dr. King as the reasonable one, even though they didn’t want to. • • But there is a very real possibility, perhaps a probability, that this administration has been moving the Overton Window since they started campaigning. All of the tweets, the rallies, the antics, the previously unthinkable behaviors are the extreme. Now? A tax cut that hurts the poor and middle class, moves against health care, and yes, detention centers that keep families together-are suddenly thought to be preferable alternatives. • • Lying and Gaslighting are tools of this strategy: Sec. Nielsen telling us that the administration’s policy was not actually to separate the families we watched them separate with our own eyes. • • So is distraction: tweets on tweets on tweets, calling this TV star a failure and that dictator short and fat. • • THIS IS THE TRICK OF THE ENEMY. DO NOT FALL FOR IT. • • The executive order signed to keep families together STILL upholds a Zero Tolerance policy that destroys people seeking a better life, fleeing harm and persecution. A FAMILY concentration camp is STILL a concentration camp. #Trump did not end his Zero Tolerance policy-he merely moved the window, from the most extreme to slightly less. STAY WOKE. KEEP FIGHTING.
#Repost @brenebrown with @get_repost ・・・ What’s happening to these families is not a political issue - it’s a human crisis and we need each other right now. . I’ve joined forces with TogetherRising.org and we’ve raised over $1.9 million to help the helpers on the ground. . 100% of your donation goes to the lawyers and social workers working with these families. . Please give. $5 makes a huge difference. Link in profile. . Full update on where your money is working is here:
https://momastery.com/blog/2018/06/16/heres-how-you-are-serving-the-separated-border-families-today-update-2/
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#Repost @jjjennyo with @get_repost ・・・ Every white person in the USA is an immigrant. 🔄 Spent my life honing love songs and I am underprepared for this grotesque absurdity. Does not compute. How can they be so stupid & heartless? Assuming themselves the center of the universe. A lack of intelligence, but far more sinister.
Neighbor time with @marshallvore.
Sport!
Happy birthday Cole Porter.
I ❤️❤️. Happy pride. 🌈🌟
This picture is nicer. @themilkcartonkids