(Tweet from @nycsouthpaw) Kris Kobach should learn to use folders and cover sheets.
[image] Department of Homeland Security Kobach Strategic Plan for first 365 Days.
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Can someone caption this when you get a chance? I’m on mobile.
Transcript of the bits of the document we can see in the tweets here and here:
Department of Homeland Security
Kobach plan for the first 365 days
I. Bar the entry of potential terrorists
1. Update and reintroduce the NSEERS screening and tracking system (National Security Entry-Exit Registration System) that was in place from 2002-2005. All aliens from high-risk areas are tracked.
2. Add extreme vetting questions for high-risk aliens: question them regarding support for Sharia law, jihad, equality of men and women, the United States Constitution.
3. Reduce intake of Syrian refugees to zero, using authority under the 1980 Refugee Act.
[covered ending in ‘t’, presumably ‘Deport’] Record Number of Criminal Aliens in the First Year
[covered] 193,000 criminal removal cases dropped by the Obama Administration.
[covered ending in ‘ll’, presumably something like ‘Cancel all’ or ‘Recall’] ICE guidance memoranda issued by the Obama Administration; issue new guidance
[covered] criminal alien” as any alien arrested for any crime, and any gang member
[covered] to repatriate their citizens who have committed crimes in the United States
[covered] expedited 287(g) agreements with at least 70 cities an counties to enlist state and [covered] alien criminals.
[covered ending in ‘y’]
[covered] in addition to the 386 miles of existing actual wall within [covered ending in ‘ve’] entire 1,989 miles planned for rapid build.
[covered] under the PATRIOT act to prevent illegal aliens [covered]
[covered] immediately to forestall future lawsuits.
[large covered section]
V. Sto[covered]
21. Issue regi[covered] voter rolls. Direct [covered]
Gem Harvest: *teaches the message that it’s okay to have traditions, but you need to understand that things change and nothing will stay the same forever.*
SU Fandom: This episode is problematic because it teaches that you should accept your family members no matter how bigoted they are! The crewniverse should be ashamed for teaching this message uwu
Me: What the fuck?
Proving my point of: Love the show, but hate the fandoms.
this was ~4 mins but felt like it was an hour long & i am so disappointed it didn’t feel like more. i’m speechless, this makes me feel like i am playing for the first time again. check this out y'all, they made it real
I think we really need to reaffirm now that no amount of homophobia can be acceptable in our culture. There is no such this as harmless or victimless homophobia. All homophobia contributes to violence against us. You can not “disagree” with lgbt people’s “lifestyles” without supporting the rhetoric and legislation that puts us in very real danger.
Homophobia isn’t that black and white though. You can hate the sin and still love the sinner.
OK, as a queer person who grew up in a genuinely loving, caring, utterly wonderful, and still deeply homophobic Church, let me try to fill in what you’re not understanding about this whole “Love the sinner” deal.
When we refer to people like you as “Homophobic” I want to be clear what we’re saying here. This is not a judgment of your intent. We are not describing you as a hateful person, as an aggressive or violent person. But we are saying that your actions and your attitudes participate in and reinforce a system of rhetoric that encourages violence against LGBT people, and, far, far more importantly, that forces millions of LGBT people to live in shame.
That’s really what this comes down to. Not hate. Not violence. Shame.
Consider the point purely theologically. Jesus tells us that to desire a sinful thing is as bad as to act on that desire. My lusting after another mans wife is as bad as actually sleeping with her. My genuine desire to hurt someone is as bad as actually hurting them.
So when you tell me that loving another man is a sin, you’re not just talking about physical acts of intimacy. You don’t get to draw the line there. You don’t get to pretend that I can be bisexual so long as I never actually physically act on it (which is already a terrible burden to place on someone). You’re saying that every time I look at a guy and imagine how soft his lips would be, or think about how beautiful his eyes are, I am sinning. I am a sinner every time a dude walks past me with a tight sweater on that shows of his arms. Every time he has nice hair or a nice smile.
My love, according to you, is a sin. That is the burden you are forcing people to live under. That burden forced me so deep into the closet that I didn’t even know I was there. It forced me to repress every genuine feeling of sexual attraction for other men, and to live for years with those feelings straining to get out, whilst I struggled with the constant guilt and shame that came from having those thoughts.
And I am one of the lucky ones, because I’m alive to have this conversation. Because for many, many LGBT people that guilt and shame manifests as self-harm, substance abuse, low esteem that leads them into abusive relationships, and very often suicide.
You tell yourself that you’re one of the good ones because you don’t hate us. You only hate what we “do”. But what we “do” is living. It’s being alive and whole and a part of this world, and if you genuinely believe that we can’t have that then you might as well put the gun to our heads and pull the trigger. Because you’re already doing that, you just don’t have the guts to admit it.
“You only hate what we do, but what we do is living” Wow. This is beautiful and so well written
reblogging for perfect commentary and future reference
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