Culture Warriors category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Robert Hill reminds us that there’s nothing new about current white supremacist backlash against DEI.
It’s but the latest in a long line of attempts to keep the downtrodden trodden down.
Follow the link for a list.
The Cultural Devolution 0
Mangy announces the upcoming bill of events for the newly Trumpled Kennedy Center.
Indoctrination Nation 0
David parses the implications of some of Linda McMahon’s testimony in her confirmation hearings. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
White Coffee 0
Words fail me.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Washington Monthly, Robert J. Shapiro hears a most disturbing rhyme. Here’s a couple of bits from his article:
And in Schmitt’s framework, when enemies at home or abroad gain notable political sway, it creates a grave emergency that warrants executive action outside the law. It’s clear why Schmitt was the favored theorist for the Nazi party and a senior jurist in the Third Reich.
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*Mark Twain.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At Northjersey.com, Laura Morowitz argues forcefully that Donald Trump’s hostility towards immigrants is fundamentally nothing more than another case of mean for the sake of mean.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Donald Trump spreads racist bigoted xenophobic bunk about immigrants.
Katharine Davies Samway and Lucinda Pease-Alvarez debunk de bunk.
The Privatization Scam 0
And it is a scam. You can voucher on it.
(At about the eight minute mark, Emma and the crew veer off from that subject and discuss listener comments. but the part up to that is well worth a listen.)
Making America Grate Again 0
Aside:
On Thursday’s episode of the Bob Cesca Show, one of the participants–I forget which one–made a remark that resonated with me: that what’s happening today seems to echo the end of Reconstruction.
Establismentarians, Boebert Is the New Gohmert Dept. 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Nick Gier skewers Lauren Boebert’s fanciful and fabricated claim that the United States Constitution does not–er–establish separation of church and state. He reminds her that
Follow the link for the wealth of historical evidence that he musters.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Writing at the Portland Press Herald, Peter Pressman and Edward A. McCulloch tell of a rhyme they are hearing. A snippet (emphasis added); follow the link for further reverberations.
The Nazis started with the Civil Service . . . .
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*Mark Twain.
Republican Family Values 0
Psychotherapist Kaytee Gillis offers yet more evidence that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value . . . .
