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"In the wake of poet and writer Renee Good’s killing, Donald Trump and his
collaborators have done all they can to define her as an enemy of The Homeland.
The administration claims, for instance, that Good was a “domestic terrorist,”
a term it is now applying to Alex Pretti, the ICU nurse whom federal agents
killed on Saturday. This rhetoric is employed to justify the state taking life,
by associating the dead with national villainy. But the campaign against Good
is different—because The Homeland takes particular and perverse interest in
women deemed insufficiently reverent of hearth and home. Trump propagandists
tell us that Good was part of a growing cabal of insolent white ladies turned
violent; that she was a “lesbian agitator” in league with “68 IQ Somali
scammers”; or that she was simply, as her killer apparently labeled her, “a
fucking bitch.” For these and other sins, her castigation has extended into the
afterlife: on Elon Musk’s AI tool Grok users churned out deepfakes of Good with
bullets in her head and of her corpse in a bikini. This is all appropriate: In
defending the undocumented, Good had violated the sanctity of The Homeland,
which is to say she had questioned the divine promise of American soil to a
mythical and singular people.
For The Homeland is not “The State” or even “The Country.” The Homeland is not
defined by simple geography. It exists beyond laws and norms. It is unconcerned
with traditional American concepts like “liberty,” “freedom” or “pluralism.”
The Homeland is that piece of earth providentially deeded to The Volk. The
Homeland’s borders are drawn in untainted blood, its sanctity exemplified in
proper gender conduct, and in the fulfilment of gender roles. It is The
Homeland that ICE venerates in its recruitment posts festooned with victorious
white settlers and vanquished indigenous Americans. It is The Homeland Elon
Musk saluted (twice) at Donald Trump’s inauguration. It is The Homeland the
late Charlie Kirk was fond of invoking:
I want to be able to get married, buy a home, have kids, allow them to ride
their bike till the sun goes down, send them to a good school, have a low
crime neighborhood, not to have my kid be taught the lesbian, gay,
transgender garbage in their school. While also, not having them have to
hear the Muslim call to prayer five times a day.
It is often said that The Homeland is skeptical of immigrants, but more
precisely, The Homeland is skeptical of aliens. Asylum-seekers from Gaza
fleeing a genocide have no place in The Homeland; Afrikaners suffering the
indignity of post-Apartheid are welcome. The Homeland is covetous of Northern
Europeans, but regards Somali-Americans as “garbage.” “Why can't we have some
people from Norway, Sweden, just a few?” Trump recently said. “But we always
take people from Somalia, places that are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty,
disgusting, ridden with crime.” The criteria for these distinctions—between
putative immigrant and indelible alien—are not complicated; for above all, The
Homeland is a racist project."
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Via Susan ****
Cheers,
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
