Juneteenth, and the Right-Wing Conception of “Freedom”

Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson

“Whenever the white, right-wing, and Evangelical demographic talks about its ‘freedoms,’ you can get a good sense of what they mean by ‘freedoms’ by translating it into ‘white folkways.’ Whatever substantive content ‘freedom’ has for them is wrapped up in a haze of 90s CMT video imagery about little white frame churches, porch swings, pickups, checkered picnic table cloths, gingham, flags, guns, and Murca HOO-raw! And the ‘threats’ to these ‘freedoms’ — i.e. white folkways — all boil down in one way or another to anything that undermines their status as the American cultural default by allowing people who are unlike them to exist in public …” (11/18/24)

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