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- hackernews
- cross-posted to:
- hackernews
Last year, the rightwing think-tank the Heritage Foundation launched Project 2025, which laid out much of the policy blueprint for the current Trump administration. One of the project’s espoused goals was to permanently criminalize all pornography. Now, a Republican senator with kind words for Trump has introduced a bill that would do just that.
Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) recently introduced the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act (IODA), which would effectively criminalize all pornography nationwide by legally redefining what it means to be obscene. For years, “obscenity” has been all but a defunct legal category that narrowly defines speech that remains unprotected by the First Amendment. Lee would explode this legal category, expanding it to encompass virtually all visual representations of sex.
I’ve heard that you have a huge demographic of black christians there, so abortion restrictions would also mean more black babies. Same for pornography.
Immigration restrictions - a lot of people from “white” countries were immigrating too, so not sure.
I don’t think it’s that. It’s making more bullshit laws, because a law really puts pressure only at those not in power. Creating plenty of tooling to jail and suppress opponents.
And also some people might genuinely think porn is harmful and they’re sorta right, if you have proper sexual education and available contraception, porn is harmful and it’s better to reduce age of consent (so that teenagers doing teenage things wouldn’t fear getting jailed) and limit porn (it affects one’s brain similarly to other addictions). A bit like in Iceland maybe?
Dunno what “white culture” is, seems to be some American delusion. From here it seems you have in general the same culture, whatever the skin color. Even ebony slang, IIRC, is similar to how rural white people speak in some states south. I may be wrong, haven’t made the Columbus excursion yet.
Perhaps you missed the news where Trump explicitly encouraged immigrants of European descent to come to the US and made expedited arrangements for white Afrikaner “refugees” recently.
Or in his first term during the Unite the Right rally, when racists marched in Charlottesville and chanted “You will not replace us,” meaning Jews and non-white minorities, and Trump responded by saying there were “very fine people on both sides.”
I think you’d have a pretty steep uphill argument to say that this administration is not a white supremacist (and misogynist) movement at its core.
Again, I don’t believe this myself, but what they mean by “white culture” or “European Anglo-Saxon values” or whatever is simply a homogenous culture centered around white supremacy.
Ah. I see. I have some remnants of irrational sympathy to Boers after reading Boussenard’s book for stupid boys in my childhood.
But yep, encouraging Afrikaners to come somewhere in bunches seems to be a red flag.
Maybe you are right, it’s just hard to believe something to be that simple, all other cases I’ve seen have a saner core, just evil.