If we're to have any shot of getting out of this, I really need my fellow white people to get past our apparently hardwired belief that something being illegal means it's impossible.
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If we're to have any shot of getting out of this, I really need my fellow white people to get past our apparently hardwired belief that something being illegal means it's impossible.
Because I keep having the same conversation over and over again.
Just from today:
"I don't believe Trump is doing that because it's illegal and that means he can't do that."
"I don't believe what Trump is doing is illegal because if it was, he couldn't do it."
"The only people who can break the law are illegals because they are already illegal."
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Just from today:
"I don't believe Trump is doing that because it's illegal and that means he can't do that."
"I don't believe what Trump is doing is illegal because if it was, he couldn't do it."
"The only people who can break the law are illegals because they are already illegal."
"There's never been a warrantless search. That's impossible. The Fourth Amendment prevents that from happening."
"I don't understand how this isn't stopped because courts aren't allowed to not follow the law."
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Hell, someone told me today I should call the media because they legitimately thought they were the first people in US history to have their constitutional rights violated. I swear to G-d they thought it had never happened before.
And I really think this is a big factor in why we're here.
Oh, one more common denominator? Yes, they were all white and cis. They also all ran their legal questions by AI first.
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"There's never been a warrantless search. That's impossible. The Fourth Amendment prevents that from happening."
"I don't understand how this isn't stopped because courts aren't allowed to not follow the law."
Hell, someone told me today I should call the media because they legitimately thought they were the first people in US history to have their constitutional rights violated. I swear to G-d they thought it had never happened before.
And I really think this is a big factor in why we're here.
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Oh, one more common denominator? Yes, they were all white and cis. They also all ran their legal questions by AI first.
@theleftistlawyer I'm going to get a crease in my forehead from lawyer-headdesking after reading your thread. Holy cow...
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If we're to have any shot of getting out of this, I really need my fellow white people to get past our apparently hardwired belief that something being illegal means it's impossible.
Because I keep having the same conversation over and over again.
@theleftistlawyer@mastodon.social do they believe the ... whatever the term (reverse?) would be, as well? that is, that if something happens, it must be legal? because that would explain so much
EDIT: oh jesus, apparently, yes -
If we're to have any shot of getting out of this, I really need my fellow white people to get past our apparently hardwired belief that something being illegal means it's impossible.
Because I keep having the same conversation over and over again.
@theleftistlawyer The prisons are full of people that did illegal shit. Their mistake was not being a rich asshole when they did the impossible thing that put them in prison.
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@Darkphoenix @theleftistlawyer As a cyclist I can assure you it's 100%
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If we're to have any shot of getting out of this, I really need my fellow white people to get past our apparently hardwired belief that something being illegal means it's impossible.
Because I keep having the same conversation over and over again.
@theleftistlawyer@mastodon.social on top of that, legal does not mean it is just.
"He shouldn't keep doing that, it is illegal"
Legislation, court ruling, etc is actually it is legal now
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If we're to have any shot of getting out of this, I really need my fellow white people to get past our apparently hardwired belief that something being illegal means it's impossible.
Because I keep having the same conversation over and over again.
@theleftistlawyer I can only hope that level of naivety makes them a blissfully happy person.
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@theleftistlawyer@mastodon.social do they believe the ... whatever the term (reverse?) would be, as well? that is, that if something happens, it must be legal? because that would explain so much
EDIT: oh jesus, apparently, yes@aud @theleftistlawyer the bewildering part for me is that it's so clearly and easily disproven. like.. have they never done something illegal? you can do something illegal in the privacy of your own home right this second, you don't even need help from a friend FFS
or do they just cling to the presupposition that the in-group can never be guilty of misdeeds and are suddenly having to grapple with the fact that they are not part of that in-group?
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