Last year, the rightwing think-tank the Heritage Foundation launchedĀ Project 2025, which laid out much of theĀ policy blueprintĀ for the current Trump administration. One of the projectās espoused goals was to permanentlyĀ criminalize all pornography. Now, a Republican senatorĀ with kind words for TrumpĀ 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, āobscenityā has been all but a defunct legal category that narrowly defines speech thatĀ remains unprotectedĀ by the First Amendment. Lee would explode this legal category, expanding it to encompass virtually all visual representations of sex.
Iāve 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 āwhiteā countries were immigrating too, so not sure.
I donāt think itās that. Itās 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 theyāre sorta right, if you have proper sexual education and available contraception, porn is harmful and itās better to reduce age of consent (so that teenagers doing teenage things wouldnāt fear getting jailed) and limit porn (it affects oneās brain similarly to other addictions). A bit like in Iceland maybe?
Dunno what āwhite cultureā 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, havenāt 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 ārefugeesā recently.
Or in his first term during the Unite the Right rally, when racists marched in Charlottesville and chanted āYou will not replace us,ā meaning Jews and non-white minorities, and Trump responded by saying there were āvery fine people on both sides.ā
I think youād have a pretty steep uphill argument to say that this administration is not a white supremacist (and misogynist) movement at its core.
Again, I donāt believe this myself, but what they mean by āwhite cultureā or āEuropean Anglo-Saxon valuesā 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 Boussenardās 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, itās just hard to believe something to be that simple, all other cases Iāve seen have a saner core, just evil.