It’s the South, he’s black in the heart of racistville, and Republicans hate medical masks because they’re stupid. He’s got the entire deck there stacked against him. I hope he’s able to get out of this damn situation, and preferably also moves out of that useless state.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Unless you’re rich; then you have to also have intent to break the law.
9th amendment continues to be pissed on
Just another law targeted at black people.
It’s an old law that was actually passed to fight against the KKK, many states have similar laws, but apparently this one wasn’t worded too carefully so intent isn’t a part of the law, in other states you have to be clearly trying to hide your identity, this guy was wareing an open face ski hood. His entire face was visible, and he walked into police breaking up a fight or something, so they pounced on him as if he were involved, but clearly wasn’t as they didn’t charge with anything related to the fight.
Someone on Bluesky pointed out that masks are part of Asian culture and this is obviously racist against Asians. I think that’s right.
I wasn’t able to find a mask photo on that page. Was it in the video? I usually skip those because of ads.
It’s the first photo if you read the caption, it’s just not easily recognizable as a mask
Isn’t it painfully ironic that right wingers who cried about being told what to do by the state suddenly imposed a non-scientific law imposing what people can’t do to their own body?
So much for individual freedumb amirite.
See, you don’t understand.
Freedom means freedom… for them. For them to do what they want, impose what they want on others, and to do it all without repercussions.
This is a fine example of it. They want the freedom to be free of “burdensome” mandates. but they want the absolute authority to impose mandates on others, without anyone being able to push back against it
That’s because they’re authoritarians. They are protecting a hierarchy that they believe exists in the world. That’s why they don’t mind if rich white men hurt them. Those people are higher in their hierarchy, so it makes sense to them.
They don’t like it if non-white people or women in general try to subvert this hierarchy. They believe if someone else rises in status they might fall in status. To them it’s “not right”; it’s a moral issue that people should “stay in their place” in the hierarchy.
They are absolutely trash…the party of small government until they’re in charge, then it’s fine as long as the laws punish other people. (Hint none of the shit they want to impose affects anyone. Like gays getting married. Hasn’t changed my life one but, why should I care about preventing things that don’t impact my life? Shouldn’t I mind my own business?) Also the party of fiscal responsibility until they are in charge, then it’s spend spend spend, for the rich, tax breaks for the rich and less services and higher taxes for us.
