The comments celebrating Renee Good’s death reveal a pattern familiar to anyone who has studied authoritarian movements. It’s the same impulse that filled Roman coliseums & medieval execution squares.
The comments celebrating Renee Good’s death reveal a pattern familiar to anyone who has studied authoritarian movements. It’s the same impulse that filled Roman coliseums & medieval execution squares.
Amerikkka was born from the British. State violence was baked in from day one.
You can’t blame it all on the British.
For example, the Puritans fled England due to religious persecution, but one of the first things they did when they arrived in America was hang Quakers. King Charles II was forced to explicitly forbid Massachusetts from executing Quakers, and was forced to send in a royal governor to enforce religious toleration and help pass laws to that effect.
Christian religious extremism and its love of violence, is typically American.
I mean, do you think it’s entirely a coincidence that waterboarding, a torture technique which became popular when an American christian-conservative government fought wars in Muslim countries, was first used during the Spanish inquisition? The inquistors enjoyed the religious dimension of it, because it was a bit like baptising their victims in water, cleansing the heretic of his sins.