Benjamin J. Davis, born on this day in 1903, was American lawyer and communist who was elected in 1943 to the New York City Council, representing Harlem. Davis was persecuted by the state via the anti-communist Smith and McCarran Acts.
Davis became radicalized through his role as defense attorney in the 1933 trial of Angelo Herndon, a 19-year-old black communist who had been charged "attempting to incite insurrection" because he tried to organize a farm workers' union.
In 1949, Davis was among a number of communist leaders prosecuted for violating the Smith Act. He was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison. In 1962 Davis was charged with violating the Internal Security Act (also known as the McCarran Act), but died before the case could come to trial.
"Whether one agrees with the Communist Party or not, one must at least know the truth about it. One must not permit his ideas to be shaped by the hysteria which now passes as a 'crusade against Communism'... For example, the canard that every Communist has his pockets lined with 'Moscow gold.' If that were true, one could be sure that there would scarcely be any room in our party for workers. The capitalists, to whom gold is god of the universe, would crowd them out."
- Benjamin J. Davis
Ben Davis: The Communist Councilman from Harlem
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Yeah, the diversity was nice. I wouldn't even call it superficial/forced/lib, it feels "forced" because we're not used to it and it stands out. There is no way to have a character have 2 dads without it feeling "forced" because we see it as a deliberate choice that diverges from the expected norm, there's no way around that right now. I didn't find it superficial either, in fact I kinda liked how despite the many gender-nonconforming/queer characters that were in the game, their sexual orientation/gender identity wasn't really a big plot point for any of them. It's nice to have characters who can be non-binary without that being their entire character.
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I really thought Anemone was gonna transition to male, I remember lines of hers when puberty started that were like "Why did I have to be born with this stupid female body anyway" and how she didn't like that people remarked on how she was gonna have kids and how her body is now looking different from her brother etc. Kinda surprised that that didn't really go anywhere.Also in the Tangent story there was literally 1 throwaway line about how she received gender-affirming care when she was younger, which made me wonder if she's trans and it just deliberately wasn't mentioned or acknowledged further at all.
I found it forced or w/e because there's a max of 20 people in the colony and like, 16 are queer. And one was a dogboy so I'm not entirely sure he counts as a queer human