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A newly released app allows users to search for discriminatory roadway names, helping communities grasp the ubiquity of inequalities embedded in everyday spaces and the harm they cause.
There are words and then there are words backed by the state’s monopoly on violence. It’s harder to move forward when these old ugly names keep things rooted in the past.
The name the guy both are fucking dead? I dont see how thats backed with state violence?
Its not like i can summon the FBI into ur house by chanting Washington 6 times in the mirror. And ur good old first amendment give me the right to call him a cunt. I dont see any state backed violence here.
There are words and then there are words backed by the state’s monopoly on violence. It’s harder to move forward when these old ugly names keep things rooted in the past.
Yeh, I can acknowledge the difference tbh
Name a single word that is backed by the states monopoly on violence.
Read the article, there are several
Go ahead and remove or change one of these street signs without government approval, and you’ll find the violence real quick.
My point exactly, thanks.
Physically removing a sign doeant sound like words to me.
What’s on the sign then, banana pudding?
Just one? Washington.
The name the guy both are fucking dead? I dont see how thats backed with state violence?
Its not like i can summon the FBI into ur house by chanting Washington 6 times in the mirror. And ur good old first amendment give me the right to call him a cunt. I dont see any state backed violence here.