Culture Warriors category archive
Responsible Fiscals 0
(Warning: Mild language.)
Establishmentarians 0
Via The Sacramento Bee, Bryan Clark takes a look behind the robes of America’s establishmentarians. A snippet; follow the link for context.
Also, too . . . .
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Impartial and objective? Per Cornelia C. Walther, “, , , a new study has exposed an unsettling paradox at the core of our assumptions. Involving analysis of nine different LLMs and nearly a half-million prompts, the research shows that these supposedly impartial systems change their fundamental ethical decisions based on a single demographic detail.”
Details at the link.
A Question of Identity 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
The Privatization Scam 0
Emma talks with Whitney Wimbish about how private prisons are profiteering from Donald Trump’s campaign against brown people immigrants.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom talks with Kymone Freeman about Trump’s military occupation of the District of Columbia. (Warning: Short commercial at about the three-minute mark.)
American Stasi 0
Via WHYY, my old NPR station, Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner looks at Donald Trump’s military occupation of the District of Columbia and explains why I have trouble sleeping some nights:
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At the Kansas City Star, Joel Mathis writes of many of the innocent, law-abiding persons who have been swept up in Donald Trump’s crusade against immigrants. He notes that, despite the Trump maladministration’s pledges that criminals and gang members would be its targets, that has not been the actuality.
In the course of his article, he makes this observation, which methinks sums up what’s going on:
Follow the link for context.
Republican Family Values 0
When you read these stories of persons renditioned by the Trump maladministration without cause or due process, but simply because IDE didn’t like their looks, you will find it difficult to deny that mean for the sake of mean is a–if not the–Republican family value.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better,
Republican Thought Police Dept.
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At the Des Moines Register, Rekha Basu has a long and thoughtful article about Iowa’s Republican Governor’s attempts to stamp out talk about DEI in the state’s educational institutions. (In case you wondered, the goal of the anti-DEI movement is to pretend that discrimination and bigotry and segregation and slavery never happened and left no legacy.)
She notes that the Iowa governor referred to Donald Trump’s anti-DEI executive order, then observes (emphasis added)
I commend the entire piece to your attention.
Metamorphosis 0
David discusses how Nixon’s southern strategy led to today’s Republican Party. Methinks he makes valid points. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
A Culture War How To 0
David makes a strong case that the culture war can–methinks maybe even should–be viewed as a conscious tactic to stoke division and distract the polity from what’s going on behind the scenes. He summarizes the process as follows:
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1. You identify a perceived threat to traditional values.
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2. You exaggerate the threat.
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3. You demonize the “other.”
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4. You use that to galvanize the base and distract from everything else.
Watch the video for his explication. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Trump maladministration has another concentration camp in the works.
But, according to the local Republican state representative quoted in the report, it’s a boon to the local economy, because of all the jobs it will create.
Never mind that confining persons without due process violates the very notion of the rule of law.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Seton Hall law professor Lori A. Nessel is distressed and dismayed by the Trump maladministration’s policies of mean for the saek of to immigrants. Here’s a tiny bit of her article:
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0
America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority that was fabricated to justify excuse it continue to exact their toll. (Warning: Language.)
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom discusses the current gerrymandering struggle going on in Texas. (Warning: Short commercial at about the two minute mark.)
American Stasi 0
Mary Trump sounds a warning.