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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: By all means, tread on those people; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/26/sole-and-despotic-dominion/

#Pluralistic

The Gadsen 'DONT TREAD ON ME' flag; the text has been replaced with 'THERE MUST BE IN-GROUPS WHOM THE LAW PROTECTS BUT DOES NOT BIND ALONGSIDE OUT-GROUPS WHOM THE LAW BINDS BUT DOES NOT PROTECT.'

bovaz@misskey.social

@bovaz@misskey.social replied · 2 months ago

@pluralistic@mamot.fr
"Conservatives say they revere property rights above all else, claiming that every other human right stems from the vigorous enforcement of property relations."
" And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is." - Granny Weatherwax from #discworld

If every right stems from property, of course they'd consider people to be things

Tony Vladusich

@TonyVladusich@mathstodon.xyz replied · 2 months ago

@pluralistic

Interesting etymology

https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html

Tuckers Nuts Resist! 🇺🇦

@jstatepost@mstdn.social replied · 2 months ago

@pluralistic
Just FYI,"Wilhoit's Law" is actually from a 2018 blog response by 59-year-old Ohio composer Frank Wilhoit [Wikidata], years after political scientist Francis Wilhoit's death.
It is often incorrectly attributed to Francis M. Wilhoit, a political scientist.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Wilhoit
#WilhoitsLaw

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · 2 months ago

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