There Should Be Social and Economic Costs for Bigotry

Major League Baseball announced on Friday that it will relocate the 2021 All-Star Game and MLB Draft, originally scheduled to take place in Atlanta, to a to-be-determined location. The decision comes a little more than a week after the passage of S.B. 202, a Georgia law that President Joe Biden criticized earlier this week, saying that it will restrict voting access for residents of the state.

Source: 2021 All-Star Game, Draft relocated

Yes! There should be social and economic costs for bigotry.

Republican behavior is outside society and must be rejected. Liberalism, pluralism, and democracy are non-negotiable.

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No fucking around on MLB’s part. Good for them. Here’s the deal: enact shameful laws, and the rest of society is going to react accordingly. Shame is powerful, and MLB is shaming the state of Georgia appropriately.

Source: Daring Fireball: MLB Moves 2021 All-Star Game From Atlanta, in Protest of Georgia Law Passed by Republicans to Restrict Voting Access

The Breathtaking Bigotry of Unreconstructed America

“Making it illegal to bring food and water to people standing in long lines that are only long because of policies you created to specifically and intentionally limit the electoral power of Black people is honestly more egregious and abhorrent than I have the words for.”
—Clint Smith

It’s also deeply ableist and possibly runs afoul of the ADA. I’m disabled and already have a hard enough time voting.

This is what it looks like when a political party turns against democracy. It doesn’t just try to restrict the vote; it creates mechanisms to subvert the vote and attempts to purge officials who might stand in the way. Georgia is in the spotlight, for reasons past and present, but it is happening across the country wherever Republicans are in control.

Source: Opinion | The Republican Party Is Driving the Nation’s Democratic Decline – The New York Times

The disgusting bigotry of the Republican Party and the Unreconstructed America it represents can still take my breath away even though I was raised on it and lived with it my whole life.

Enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward.

Enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward.

Source: Joe Biden’s inauguration speech – Washington Post

That line from President Biden’s inauguration speech stood out to me. It offers a concisely tempered hope that excites momentum. There are so many professionals itching to do the work of civilization after a four year assault on it by unprofessionals. Carry forward. There are enough of us.