Culture Warriors category archive
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Sam talks with Ari Berman about how John Roberts’s Supreme Supremacist Court has been working to gut the Voting Rights Act that, per the Encyclopedia Britannica, “aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States.”
America’s original sin of chattel slavery continues to take its toll.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Michael in Norfolk hears a rhyme. Here’s a couplet:
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Via The Charlotte Observer, University of Kansas professor Robert C. Schwaller points out that today’s Confederate sympathizers are redoubling their efforts to whitewash–I use that term advisedly–the legacy of chattel slavery.
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Michael in Norfolk decodes de code. A snippet:
America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority fabricated to justify it continue to take their toll.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Via Above the Law, Techdirt hears something that sounds a lot like “McCarthyism.”
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*Mark Twain.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Another tale of mean for the sake of mean.
Suffer the Children 0
As we know, that’s a Republican family value, even as they vociferously claim to be “pro-life.”
Farron runs the numbers that put the lie to that claim.
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Dark Brandon debunks de bunk about the “great replacement theory.”
Republican Thought Police 0
Trump maladministration to California cities:
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*Such as (quoting from the report) “any mention of gender, abortion and other inclusive” terminology.
Establishmentarians 0
Mrs. Betty Bowers discusses how the Trump maladministration is trying to proselytize the U. S. Armed Forces and how we can help in the resistance.
Decoding De Code 0
At The Coloarado Sun, Mike Littwin reports that he has found a quotation from George Orwell that illuminates why the Trump maladministration is attacking the Smithsonian (and I would add, by extension, universities and other institutiolns of learning and remembrance):
Follow the link to see why he thinks that to be the case.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
It seems that one of those “responsible gun owners” has a notion of immigrants.
Guns and hatred and bigotry–what a delightful ste–oh, never mind.
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Afterthought:
If George Wallace were to come back from the dead, he would welcomed with open arms by today’s Republican Party.