Culture Warriors category archive
Color Test 0
Dennis G. at Balloon Juice points out that mass migrations are normal parts of human history over millenia and highlights the racist motives of the right-wing anti-immigrant clamor. A nugget (emphasis added):
Please do read the rest.
Wherever the scalpel cuts into American “Conservatism,” racism will be found at (and in) the base. All the rest is window-dressing.
Suffer the Children 0
The New Haven Register shares the stories of some of the immigrants refugees who have lately fled to the United States from Central America and found themselves in Connecticut. If you want to know why these children are heading north, read them.
They are chilling. Here’s a bit from one:
Hazel said the principal of her school told the students that they would be safe there, but no one believed her as students disappeared, either fleeing the city or victims of extortion.
Nothing illustrates the venality, the cynicism, the moral bankruptcy of the Republican Party and its dupes, symps, and fellow travelers more fully than its crusade to victimize these who are already victims.
Exploratory 0
Dan Simpson searches for America’s heart. Read it.
“Alien Invasion” 0
The Bangor Daily News’s Chris Busby worries about the little green men . . . .
“Oh, my God,” I thought. “The federal government” — long suspected of hiding evidence of extra-terrestrial contact on secret bases in the Nevada desert — “has shipped the spawn of space creatures into our state without alerting the local authorities!”
(snip)
Well, as you can imagine, I was plenty embarrassed when I read the article more closely and realized the “aliens” LePage was warning us about are actually poor little kids from Central America, not gator-faced gremlins from Alpha Centauri.
Read the rest.
Image via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.
Great Moments in Religious Freedom 0
A faith-based IPO to die for.
Suffer the Children 0
Aside:
Coverage of the border situation would be improved if the children were referred to accurately as “refugees,” for they seek refuge, though they are met with refusal.
“Compassionate Conservatism” . . . 2
. . . is an oxymoron, as Colbert points out (video below the fold because it autoplays).
Hate sells. Conservatism sells hate, and conservatives eagerly buy it.
For the life of me, I do not understand how hate became a “Republican family value.”
Suffer the Children 0
In related news, Steven M. tracks down those responsible for spreading rumors that the immigrant children are a bunch of Typhoid Marys. It’s the usual bunch of wingnut bigots and fear-mongers.
Image via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.
What Was Old Is New Again, Suffer the Children Dept. 2
Werner Herzog’s Bear, writing at Notes from the Ironbound, sees echoes of the past in the current wingnut hysteria about an influx of brown children at the border. A nugget–follow the link for the rest:
The Republican Party has become a vile and loathsome thing. (Ask me nicely, I’ll tell you what I really think.)
Image via Balloon Juice.
No Carnivores Need Apply 0
Rekha Basu considers the implications of the Supreme Court’s decision to green-light theocracy.
Apparently I could, if you follow the U.S. Supreme Court’s logic in a ruling Monday that a company should not be forced to subsidize an activity that offends its owners’ religious beliefs.
Do read the rest.
