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"Freedom is not freedom if a single medical crisis can drive you to bankruptcy.

"It is not freedom if childcare is too expensive for you to hold a job, or if you are born poor & at every turn are blocked in your rise: by underfunded schools, overpriced colleges, & usurious college loans.

" Not to mention women’s right to reproductive freedom, which the Supreme Court has just snatched away in its Dobbs decision (& the court’s right-wing majority is of course not stopping there).

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2y ago

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" Or the right to go out in public without being gunned down: The first right of all, in many ways, is the right to be secure in one’s person. These are absolutely freedom issues." [end Michael Tomasky quote]

DeSantis and the fascist wing of the Republican Party have kidnapped freedom, removing it from the discourse of democratic equality and social justice, distorting its potential as a crucial category of radical politics, and reducing it to political theater.

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2y ago

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This far-right vision of freedom has become a venue for catastrophe that expels truth, justice, and human rights from the world.

One of the biggest fears faced by the MAGA fascists is the visibility of a notion of freedom that exposes how they have undermined fundamental rights such as the right of Black people to vote, women’s control over their reproductive rights, and the right of all people to live a meaningful life.

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