Culture Warriors category archive
We Weren’t There 0
The Rude One watched the New York Time’s compilation video of the January 6 insurrection so you (and I) don’t have to. (Warning: Language.)
Freedom of Screech 0
Florida Man told to leave Twitter alooooooone.
Old Wine, Just a New Barrel 0
At The Roanoke Times, John Kitterman takes a long and thoughtful look at the who-shot-john around critical race theory. He points out that, for persons who pay attention to history, there is really nothing new or surprising about it, except, perhaps, its name.
He also finds nothing surprising about some of the attacks being levied against it. For example (emphasis added):
I commend the entire article to your attention.
Our Computerized Cesspools 0
Kiki Monifa explains one way in which social media isn’t.
“But There’s No Other Possible Explanation” 0
In the December issue of Psychology Today, Jennifer Latson explores why smart people can believe dumb things, such as the notion that
- 5G cell towers cause COVID-19;
- the January 6 invaders of the Capitol were “Antifa crisis actors” pretending to be Trump supporters; and
- honesty about this nation’s racist history causes more racism.
A snippet; follow the link for the rest.
Follow the link for the rest.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
And they keep getting fiendlier.
(snip)
“There tends to be greater incidents where you are flying out of a place where local and state leaders have said that the pandemic is a hoax, that masks are not necessary, all of those things,” she (Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA–ed.) said.
They Must Be High on Something . . . 0
. . . but, whatever it is, it won’t be Coke.
The ban passed during a Board of Commissioners meeting on May 17 with a 3-2 vote as a direct response to Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey’s comments calling the voting law “unacceptable” and “a step backwards.”
More news of the petty racist stupidity at the link.
A Big “If” 0
F. T. Rea wonders whether it can happen here. His wonderings are worth a read; a snippet:
Likewise, there have always been loners and perpetual victims who hated the federal government so much that storming the Capitol building would sound like fun. Throw in the gangs, such as the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, maybe some new wave Confederates, etc. And, for that matter, fascism has been lurking in the shadows in this country since the 1930s. After all, fascists and gangsters have a lot in common.
Sadly, in view of what happened January 6, the potential is all too real.
Devolution 0
David speaks with Noam Chomsky about the devolution of today’s Republican Party and its use of cultural issues as a misdirection play.
The Void 0
At NJ.com, a woman describes witnessing first-hand an outburst of hatred against an aged man of Asian descent. It is quite appalling. But, in her article, I think she may have gotten to a nugget of truth:
Follow the link and read the rest.
Deformation 0
I was raised Southern Baptist, back when the Southern Baptist Convention was a Protestant denomination, before it became a political cult.
Aside:
I will say that the little Southern Baptist church in which I grew up did very much its own thing (a central Baptist tenet is priesthood of the believer–the other is baptism of the believer–and in accordance thereunto believers sometimes choose to ignore the hierarchy). They were quite willing to ignore the SBC if they thought it was, as my old boss used to say, in error.
I remember that, after I was well into adulthood (at least, chronologically) and had long since moved away in search of gainful employment, a black couple from up North (as we used to say) moved into the area, sampled many churches, black and white, and eventually joined the little all-white church that I grew up in as being the one where they felt most comfortable.
And the congregation was proud that they did.
When I last had contact with that church, they were still going their own way.
Campus Cancel Culture, Republican Style 0
Will Bunch reports who’s actually doing the cancelling on campuses.
They Can’t Handle the Truth . . . 0
. . . so they want to make it go away.