Huh.

She compares the boat strikes to Jesus breaking the sabbath to heal someone.

So some peoples' humanity, their right to exist, is always up for negotiation. LBGTQ+, Blacks, Latinos, women, children, non-Christians have all been legally thrown under the bus at various times. It is fucking sick, yes, and I wish I had a fix.

There's a rotten bit in the national soul, which the Constitution embodies in the Three-fifths Compromise: the decision to *explicitly* choose who gets treated as a human being, and who doesn't. Other demographics are omitted, but enslaved Blacks very specifically are unprotected.

Horrifying, yes.

every moment of this current era reinforces my belief that some level of bureaucracy and stewardship of common sense is good, actually