Culture Warriors category archive
Suffer the Children 0
One more time, that’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy. (Warning: Short promo at the end.)
An excerpt:
Trump and his allies play word games, they play semantic games, they don’t care about the Constitution, unless it’s the Second Amendment.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Rebecca Watson debunks Donald Trump’s “white genocide in South Africa” bunk.
Or you can read the transcript.
Establishmentarians 0
Sitting in for David Pakman, Brittany Page focuses on a discussion from the Texas legislature to highlight the hypocrisy of today’s establishmentarians.
Afterthought:
The dirty little truth that establishmentarians don’t want anyone to know is that establishmentarianism is not about piety.
It’s about power.
Student Visa Tours 0
Daniel Ruth, writing at the Tampa Bay Times, takes issue with Donald Trump’s characterization of foreign students at American universities. He tell of his own experiences with foreign students at the University of South Florida. Here are a couple of excerpts from his article:
The contributions of these international students are profound.
Almost all of are engaged in STEM majors — bio med, engineering, physics, chemistry, math, biology. A few are business majors. All of them are a joy to be around. They are intellectually curious. They are very serious people, and they can be funny, too.
(snip)
. . . so many of them want to use their American education to return to their homelands to make things better — the medical students, the engineering students, the computer science students, the nursing students. They want to make their countries better. And Donald Trump wants to throw them out.
Republican Family Values, Rolling Back the Clock Dept. 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Barbara J. Risman makes the case that, when Republicans say “family friendly,” what they mean is “patriarchal.” She points out that
Methinks she makes some valid points. Follow the link for her arguments.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini, prompted by a communication from a reader, asked ICE why its agents are wearing masks while arresting immigrants who have broken no laws–who, in fact, have played by the rules. ICE did not respond when he asked for an explanation, so he offers his own theory:
Follow the link, where he explains how he came to that conclusion.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Occasionally correct? As my old boss used to day, even a blind pig finds an acorn sometime.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The New Secesh’s efforts to white-wash (I use that term advisedly) America’s history find another target.
On May 20, U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum directed all park units to display the signs to comply with President Donald Trump’s earlier executive order, which claims that U.S. history has been distorted by ideology and seeks to counter what it describes as revisionist narratives that portray the country’s past in a negative light.
To translate, the words
portray the country’s past in a negative light
is New Speak for
tell the truth about.
A Notion of Immigrants, One Man’s Story Dept. 0
Badar Khan Suri, a scholar at Georgetown University, tells what it’s like to be renditioned by the Republican thought police because he had the unmitigated gall to dare to express an opinion.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts wonders why the Trump maladministration is punishing persons for playing by the rules. A snippet:
Now, Trump is going after people who made appointments to come into the country legally to seek asylum — people who were issued court dates and showed up for those hearings.
Suffer the Children 0
As we know, that’s Republican policy. Here’s more evidence: Farron looks at the potential effects of Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” on America’s children.
Read the report that Farron discusses.
Courting Disaster 0
Writing at the Washington Monthly, George Thomas expresses–er–concerns that we cannot rely on the Supreme Supremacist Court to check Donald Trump’s attempts to roll back the clock to the 1950s (or, for that matter, the 1850s, which methinks is where his heart am longin’ to go).
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Via the Charlotte Observer, the Los Angeles Times’s Karen Musalo hears a rhyme of refugees betrayed a long time ago.
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*Mark Twain.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
News item:
Even if there’s little or no truth to this report, that persons are willing to believe it shows the extent that mean for the sake of mean has become an accepted Republican family value.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Rude One looks at Donald Trump’s attempt to undo birthright citizenship and argues forcefully (and rudely) that “there Is no ‘America’ without birthright citizenship.”
Here’s a bit from his article (slightly expurgated); follow the link for the rest.
Aside:
Donald Trump himself, as a descendant of immigrants, has benefited from that very birthright citizenship he would deny to others, yet he seems eager to take us back to the days–and to the era–before it was passed.
Cruel and Unusual
0
At NJ.com, Daysi Calavia-Robertson describes what life is like for an Uber driver who’s now in an ICE concentration camp detention center.
Just go read it.
Republican Thought Police 0
Retired professor Peter S. Wenz wonders why Pete Hegseth has purged a book that he coauthored, Faces of Environmental Racism, from the Navy. Here’s a bit of his article:
My more serious guess is that the term “racism” is the reason for the book’s expulsion.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Hoist on His Own Petard 0
As my old professor of the Early Federal Period delighted in pointing out, “history is irony.”
And some ironies are more delightful than others.
Much more at the link.