Culture Warriors category archive
They Can’t Handle the Truth . . . 0
. . . so they want to make it go away.
Vaccine Nation 0
Vaccination rates vary widely across the country, threatening the chance to control COVID-19, as misinformation continues to spread like, well, a pandemic.
Why an I not surprised?
Suffer the Children 0
There is a crisis at the southwestern border of the United States, but it’s not the one that right-wingers and Fox News portray.
Mean for the Sake of Mean Money
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LZ Granderson takes a look at what’s behind the recent spate of legislation to ban transgender children (which, I would point out, is a miniscule minority of the populace) from participating in school sports and concludes it’s all about the Benjamins. An excerpt (emphasis added):
The real sick thing about all of this is that we have state legislatures willing to hurt democracy, dismiss mental health, even target elementary school children all in an effort to mobilize and monetize the country’s prejudices and worst fears.
The Tattletale 0
Words fail me.
Allaying America’s Amnesia 0
At The Roanoke Times, John Freivalds looks back on some oft overlooked dates in American history.
American Taliban 0
Thom’s guest discusses the cultural similarities between American white supremacists and Muslim extremists.
Selective Breeding 0
Elizabeth Catte discusses the history and legacy of eugenics in the United States with Sam and his crew.
This is a longer video than I usually post, but it is well worth a listen. As the discussion points out, we have a way of covering up forgetting covering up the uncomfortable parts of our history.
You can see the dynamic today in the attempts by right-wingers to ban critical race theory.
History Matters 0
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Tony Norman marvels at (yet more) Republicans who believe in a fairy-tale American past.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
George Santayana’s famous saying has never seemed more apt: Those who do not remember the past (or, in this case, those who would pretend the past never happened) are condemned to repeat it.
Vaccine Nation 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Paul Thagard argues forcefully that there is such a thing as the common good and that it extends to actions to protect public health. Here’s a bit of his piece:
A Bumble 0
He made an unexpected match on Bumble.
“I did storm the capitol,” he said, according to court documents. “I made it all the way to Statuary Hall.”
His potential date wrote back: “We are not a match.” Then, the Bumble user contacted the police.
Then the police contacted him . . . .
Freedom Florida Style 0
Warning: Short ad at the end.
A Pillow of the Community, Reprise 0
At Above the Law, Elizabeth Dye takes a look at My Pillow’s lawsuit against the Dominion voting systems manufacturer and suggest that its legal reasoning may be slightly wanting.
Courting Religion 0
At Above the Law, Tyler Broker argues that, even as the popularity of religion has been broadly declining across the United States, attempts to favor religion and discriminate against nonbelievers (his term) have escalated. Here’s a snippet:
Favoring religion in the law and disfavoring nonbelievers can only be explained by bigotry. Only a bigot would claim religious citizens and religious expression is worth more to this country than nonreligious citizens and nonreligious expression. Only a bigot would claim this country is “only suitable and sustainable for a religious people.”