Photo Ops and Anthropomorphism
Jun. 2nd, 2020 11:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mallorys_cameraA sitting President abuses his power—not to protect property but to assuage his own personal insecurities. Let’s call it what it is: Trump’s very own Reichstag Fire moment.
That's the real photo op that happened when Trump’s team decided to tear-gas and rubber-bullet a group of peaceful protestors (including priests) yesterday evening.
And this is the photo op Trump posed for:
“Is that your Bible?” a reporter asked.
“It’s a Bible,” Trump replied.
Always remember, kids: MAGA loves the black people!
Protests have spread to the quaint and scenic Hudson Valley:
Apparently, there’s gonna be a very large protest in Poughkeepsie tonight.
Which you couldn’t get me near for love or money.
Yes! I want an end to institutional racism.
But I haven’t been living la vida emergencia for the past 90 days only to end up on a ventilator now. I don’t care how much lip service community organizers are paying to masks and social distancing; those precautions are impossible to maintain in a crowd.
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The smash-and-grabs are difficult to justify as the violence and vandalism continues to grow, but for the moment, I’m deferring judgement. If big corporations could turn the coronavirus bailout into a cash grab then I can’t begrudge protestors their chance to load up on free-ee-eeee Target swag: The scale of the larceny is so much smaller.
As Martin Luther King Jr once observed: “A riot is the language of the unheard.”
Also, I really question whether using the word “violence” to describe property damage isn’t a type of anthropomorphism.
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Else?
I persuaded RTT to turn on his share-my-location app so at least I’ll have a general idea of where he is in D.C.
I continued to feel weak, lethargic and generally out of it yesterday even after an infusion of life-giving caffeine, so basically I did nothing at all yesterday except read the news—always a bad idea—and watch an excellent documentary on the contemporary art collector scene called The Price of Everything.
Did you know the only reason “modern art” exists is so that rich people will have another commodity to sink their excess liquidity into?
It’s true!
And speaking of cash—I better get to work. God forbid that I end up having to pay bail, but I suppose that's a real possibility.
That's the real photo op that happened when Trump’s team decided to tear-gas and rubber-bullet a group of peaceful protestors (including priests) yesterday evening.
And this is the photo op Trump posed for:
“Is that your Bible?” a reporter asked.
“It’s a Bible,” Trump replied.
Always remember, kids: MAGA loves the black people!
Protests have spread to the quaint and scenic Hudson Valley:
Apparently, there’s gonna be a very large protest in Poughkeepsie tonight.
Which you couldn’t get me near for love or money.
Yes! I want an end to institutional racism.
But I haven’t been living la vida emergencia for the past 90 days only to end up on a ventilator now. I don’t care how much lip service community organizers are paying to masks and social distancing; those precautions are impossible to maintain in a crowd.
###
The smash-and-grabs are difficult to justify as the violence and vandalism continues to grow, but for the moment, I’m deferring judgement. If big corporations could turn the coronavirus bailout into a cash grab then I can’t begrudge protestors their chance to load up on free-ee-eeee Target swag: The scale of the larceny is so much smaller.
As Martin Luther King Jr once observed: “A riot is the language of the unheard.”
Also, I really question whether using the word “violence” to describe property damage isn’t a type of anthropomorphism.
###
Else?
I persuaded RTT to turn on his share-my-location app so at least I’ll have a general idea of where he is in D.C.
I continued to feel weak, lethargic and generally out of it yesterday even after an infusion of life-giving caffeine, so basically I did nothing at all yesterday except read the news—always a bad idea—and watch an excellent documentary on the contemporary art collector scene called The Price of Everything.
Did you know the only reason “modern art” exists is so that rich people will have another commodity to sink their excess liquidity into?
It’s true!
And speaking of cash—I better get to work. God forbid that I end up having to pay bail, but I suppose that's a real possibility.
