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A radical thought: could constitutional monarchies be important aids to democracy?

class-struggle-anarchism:

Since there is a royal wedding coming up, you’re probably going to see takes like this a lot, as people who’s self image demands that they appear to have put some intelligent thought into their political beliefs try to justify getting all excited about it.

So, whenever you see this historically illiterate ‘constitutional monarchy is a fail-safe mechanism against authoritarianism/fascism’ take, remember two things.

1. Original fascist Benito Mussolini co-existed with King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy just fine.

2. Hitler’s choice for head of a conquered British state was his good mate Edward VIII.

These days, the function of monarchy is to lend legitimacy to whatever political system is dominant at the time, and whenever that dominance shifts, for example from liberal democracy to fascist state, the function of the monarchy is to smooth that transition by providing continuity and conferring legitimacy. Given that the monarch has the power to dissolve parliament and is commander in chief of the British armed forces, the existence of the British monarchy is the one route by which a fascist takeover could be 100% legal and constitutional. 

Also worth remembering that the current heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, is a capital T traditionalist, a follower of Rene Guenon who thinks that we’re living at the end of a historical cycle and should be preparing for the next one, where we can transcend the “chronic imbalance and disharmony” of modernity.

A radical thought: could constitutional monarchies be important aids to democracy?

Autism & Victimization

cactus-spirit:

Somewhere I read that a symptom of autism/ ASD is a tendency to feel victimized. Feel. And I couldn’t get that out of my head because there is a difference between just saying that and saying “a tendency to be” victimized. Saying “feel” carries the implication that the victimization is in one’s head. 

But in any case, there’s  probably a reason people with ASD feel victimized:

Autistic children are more likely to be bullied. 

Autistic children are more likely to be abused.

Autistic children are more likely to experience sexual abuse and the abuse is less likely to be recognized because symptoms of being abused are often misinterpreted as “normal” autistic behavior. 

Autistics are more likely to be sexually assaulted because they are often taught compliance from a young age in therapies like ABA.

Autistics are more likely to be unemployed.

Employers discriminate against autism, autistics are more likely to be bullied by their coworkers, and many autistics lose their jobs because of it.

Schools find loopholes to discriminate against autistic children. 

Autistiscs have a higher risk of experiencing police brutality. 

Autistics are being murdered by their own caregivers, and the murderer is often given a lighter sentence because the victim was viewed as a burden.

Autistics suffer because they are not given effective medical care.

So, gee, that might be the problem. Not that autistic people just “feel” victimized.

clitcheese:

if you believe ace lesbians hold a privilege over non-ace lesbians then you need to put that opinion in your bio or something so no one interacts w you on the mistaken assumption that you’ve ever come down to reality for a split second in your life, thanks