Culture Warriors category archive
Republican Thought Police 0
Mary Trump discusses the Trump maladministration’s attempt to you-will-pardon-the-expression whitewash America’s history. She argues that
Donald Trump wants to make history class white again. His regime continues to attack our education system and limit discussions on race, gender, colonialism, AND the Constitution. Especially the limits it outlines on executive power.
Stray Question 0
Am I the only persons who sees not a little irony–if that’s a strong enough term–in Donald Trump’s sudden embrace of establishmentariarism?
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Ronald Brownstein hears a rhyme from the past in the actions of today’s Supreme Supremacist Court. Here’s a snippet from his article:
But, starting in the 1870s, the conservative Supreme Court of that era unraveled those protections in rulings that culminated in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision that upheld “separate but equal” Jim Crow segregation for nearly the next 70 years.
Today’s Supreme Court majority has not matched that nadir. But the conservative majority on the modern court has steadily retrenched the landmark civil rights protections enacted during the 1960s — a period that historians often describe as the nation’s Second Reconstruction.
Going Rogue State 0
“The U.S. has now murdered 57 civilians in attacks on 14 civilian boats,” said Saul in a post on social media on Wednesday. “A systematic attack on civilians is a crime against humanity under international law. When will other governments speak out?” A crime against humanity is considered one of the most serious violations of international human rights law.
Much more at the link.
Aside:
It appears that we no longer have a society,
We seem instead to have a sociopathy,
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Via the Sacramento Bee, Stephen Mihm hears a rhyme from another time when America closed the golden door to huddled masses yearning to breathe free because they just weren’t white enough.
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*Mark Twain.
Foxy Shady 0
Steve M. belies Fox News’s lies. Here’s a tiny bit from his article:
(snip)
Opinions can vary widely, but the news is the truth, or it’s supposed to be. What Maria Bartiromo says in this Fox Business clip isn’t opinion based on reality. What she says is based on lies. That’s worse than plain demagoguery. Viewers turn to Fox News and Fox Business to learn what’s happening in their world, and they’re told lies and implicit lies.
Follow the link for context.
The ICEmen Cometh 0
Thom predicts that worse is yet to come.
Suffer the Children 0
One more time, that’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy.
Establishmentarians 0
Proposed new reading in Ohio schools: The Handmaid’s Handbook.
The ICEmen Cometh 0
At ProPublica, J. David McSwane and Hannah Allam make a case that the Trump maladministration is attempting to turn ICE into their own secret police. Here’s a tiny bit from their article:
Going Rogue State, Reprise 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Jim Jones, who served as Idaho Attorney-General and then on the state Supreme Court, looks at the Trump maladministration’s practice of blowing up boats because (to cut through the crapola) their crews are brown. Here’s a tiny bit from his article:
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Mary Trump discusses how Donald Trump’s behavior has given permission to racists, bigots, and haters to act out in public.
The ICEman Cometh, Tales of the Trumping Dept. 0
TYT Sports reports on civilians who are masquerading as ICE agents so as to harass brown people.
I do not think it’s a stretch to suggest that Donald Trump and today’s Republican Party have given haters permission to hate or to suggest that haters are taking full advantage of said permission.
Establishmentarians 0
Rebecca Watson discusses the techniques Texas is using to turn public schools into perpetrators of proselytism.