“Freee-domm!!!” At the top of his lungs, the so-called “QAnon Shaman” – also known as Jacob Chansley – walked the hall of Congress and breached the Senate chamber with his fellow “patriots” during the January 6 insurrection crying for freedom.

In the name of this freedom, they gathered at the citadel of democracy to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a free and fair election. 

For them, freedom means imposing a fringe minority view upon everyone else. Or, to adapt an often-quoted adage: their freedom to swing their fist does not end where my nose begins. 

In the name of freedom, women cannot decide what to do with their own bodies. In the name of freedom, lovers cannot choose which gender to be intimate with. In the name of freedom, the transgendered cannot determine the identity they wish to possess. 

In the name of freedom, educators cannot teach anything which contradicts eurocentric propaganda. In the name of freedom, children cannot read books which offend the snowflake sensitivities of freedom-loving patriots.

If the truth will set you free, then what they call freedom cannot be truth for it is very restrictive, very suffocating, very authoritarian.

Freedom’s definition has been so colonized in the minds of those minoritized by eurocentrism that some of their self-appointed leaders use the white Christian nationalist definition to justify the oppression of those who share their skin pigmentation.

Take the example of Mark Robinson, North Carolina first Black Lieutenant-Governor and front-runner in the 2024 gubernatorial race. During a recent