{"id":2643,"date":"2026-06-08T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/what-does-the-state-owe-the-dead\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:09:00","slug":"what-does-the-state-owe-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/what-does-the-state-owe-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"What does the state owe the dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div class=\"captioned-image-container\"><figure><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!_ZJB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5dd34a92-b7d8-4e4e-b825-cbca6dc429b9_917x510.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"noopener\"><div class=\"image2-inset\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!_ZJB!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5dd34a92-b7d8-4e4e-b825-cbca6dc429b9_917x510.png\" width=\"917\" height=\"510\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/5dd34a92-b7d8-4e4e-b825-cbca6dc429b9_917x510.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:510,&quot;width&quot;:917,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1036288,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.peoplesline.org\/i\/201159749?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5dd34a92-b7d8-4e4e-b825-cbca6dc429b9_917x510.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" class=\"sizing-normal\" alt=\"\"><div class=\"image-link-expand\"><div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image\"><title><\/title><\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image\"><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><p>Matthew Gault, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/a-farmer-donated-land-to-turn-into-a-park-the-city-is-building-a-massive-data-center-instead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writing for 404media<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>Almost 30 years ago a farming family deeded land to the City of Taylor, Texas, on the condition the city use it for a public park&#8230;Now the land that was supposed to belong to the community will become a 135,000 square foot data center.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>The story Gault tells here is practically tailor made to elicit the sympathy of its liberal audience, pitting plucky local activists against the corporate might of an up-and-coming tech company, and the benevolent, conservationist intentions of a farming family against ruthless profiteering. As local community group HALT Taylor Data Centers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/804059889231784\/permalink\/828071666830606\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">put it<\/a>, &#8220;a generous family set aside land for a future park, and this change of use directly impacts a largely working-class community.&#8221;<\/p><p>The backlash has been ferocious. &#8220;Deed restrictions are suddenly irrelevant?&#8221; asks Austin resident <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/sandiablanca.bsky.social\/post\/3mnrwvlzpf22n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sandia Blanca<\/a>. Amanda Katz <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/katzish.bsky.social\/post\/3mnrsb4c6222p\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declares this<\/a> &#8220;an atrocious appropriation of what was supposed to be city parkland&#8221;. &#8220;Really need to get rid of eminent domain,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/josephcox.bsky.social\/post\/3mnrqppntq22j\/quotes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">La Reina del Rye<\/a> says. <\/p><p>That last comment, however, should probably raise a red flag for socialists &#8212; because what ought to occasion a serious critique of privatization has become, for liberals, a chance to <em>defend <\/em>private property and <em>attack <\/em>public power.<\/p>\n      <p>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peoplesline.org\/p\/what-does-the-state-owe-the-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n              Read more\n          <\/a>\n      <\/p>\r\n<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peoplesline.org\/p\/what-does-the-state-owe-the-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link  www.peoplesline.org<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Gault, writing for 404media:Almost 30 years ago a farming family deeded land to the City of Taylor, Texas, on the condition the city use it for a public park&#8230;Now the land that was supposed to belong to the community will become a 135,000 square foot data center.The story Gault tells here is practically tailor made to elicit the sympathy&hellip;","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":77,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}