The more I watch them in action, the more it becomes clear to me that the inversion of civil rights language and protections is a foundational aspect of the methodology the Trump regime is using to transform America into a fascist dictatorship with open nazi characteristics. While I think this write up in the Guardian could use a bit more blunt honesty about the white nationalist nature of the Trump administration's strategy here, but it still does a pretty good job of looking at all the ways the regime is purposing one (itself white nationalist) SCOTUS ruling to turn sixty years of civil rights legislation into a weapon against the very marginalized people it was written to protect.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/01/trump-administration-civil-rights-act
Trump administration exploits landmark civil rights act to fight schools’ diversity initiatives
"Linda McMahon, the education secretary, has described the investigation as part of the administration’s effort to “reorient civil rights enforcement to ensure all students are protected from illegal discrimination”. But civil rights advocates have denounced them as vague, likely unlawful and a betrayal of the spirit of the civil rights protections they purport to invoke.
“What we’re witnessing is an administration that is working very hard to turn civil rights laws against” the people trying to faithfully implement them, said Maya Wiley, the president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. “It’s really an effort to say, ‘If you don’t do what we tell you, we will turn our considerable power against you’.”
I think the facts here pretty much speak for themselves; weaponizing Title VI and IX of the 1964 Civil Rights act to fight bogus "anti-white discrimination," seize control over educational institutions to protect a US-backed genocide in Gaza, and persecute trans (primarily women) people is a gross, fascist perversion of the entire purpose of those laws and I have no doubt that doing so actively delights the cracker nazis running the Trump administration. Forcing a white nationalist framework onto American life through the very same mechanisms that were installed to fight rampant white supremacy in our society is the ultimate fascist troll job, and the "how's my ass taste" aspect of this initiative is probably just as important to the regime as its actual efforts to create a de facto white ethnostate through these methods.
Furthermore, I think it goes without saying that using one single SCOTUS decision striking down affirmative action in college admissions, to argue that the government has a legal responsibility to enforce white nationalist policy over every aspect of American life and education, is a ridiculously broad, crassly dishonest interpretation of the law that should in no way be given credibility by anyone who isn't a fascist. This isn't Simon Says, the clearly stated purpose of the Civil Rights Act matters here too, and going full "the card says Moops" in response to this objectively disingenuous nazi bullshit is a cowardly failure of civic responsibility by the media, education institutes, and every part of the American establishment that isn't directly fighting Trump's inversion perversion of the Civil Rights Act.
Finally I'd like to point out that this is yet another example of the way Trump's entire fascist agenda amounts of "governance by nazi conspiracy theory." The entire basis of the administration's argument that they can, and need to use Civil Rights law to protect white, straight, Christian men, is rooted in fascist conspiracy theories about "reverse racism," "gender ideology," and "white genocide" - none of which are real, or actually happening in our society. This is a consistent pattern now in how Trump rules; the regime states fascist conspiracy theories as fact, acts on those conspiracy theories as if they were actual crises-level emergencies, and then seeks reprisal against anyone who opposes their attempts to govern as if these fascist conspiracy theories are true.
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