Culture Warriors category archive
Republican Thought Police 0
Farron discusses Minnesota’s banning book bans.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
At the Austin American-Statesman, Brad Pritchett highlights the hypocrisy. Here’s a bit of his article:
After the resolution passed, Attorney General Ken Paxton and a cadre of Republican legislators immediately entered chest-pounding mode––a performance typical of firebrand conservatives. Paxton has now threatened to sue the city of Austin. As part of his statement, he insists that, “municipalities do not have the authority to pick and choose which state laws they will or will not abide by.” That’s rich coming from Ken Paxton who, only a week earlier was issuing statements declaring that Texas should defy the updates to Title IX issued by the Federal Department of Education because it includes updated protections for LGBTQIA+ students and faculty.
(Broken link fixed.)
Courting Disaster 0
Peter Jensen reflects on the recent news about Alito’s antics and wonders
Follow the link for the thoughts that led him to the question.
Chaos Agents, a Notion of Immigrants Dept. 0
At the Arizona Republic, Eddie Jones, an architect who designs border entry facilities and spends much time at around the U.S-Mexican border, argues forcefully that, despite the claims of right-wing politicians, there is no crisis at that border. Here are a couple of snippets from his article; follow the link for evidence and examples.
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One thing, however, is for sure: If we continue to make the border a security hot potato, ignoring the humanitarian reality and failing to upgrade our immigration system, we will continue electing people who feign outrage and perpetuate border confusion for their own self-interest.
Republican Thought Police 0
At graduation, a female graduate attempts to present a copy of The Handmaid’s Tale to her school superintendent after it was banned from the library:
Via C&L, which more detail.
It’s Bubblelicious 0
In a much longer article about Harrison Butker’s misogynistic graduation address at Benedictine College, Joe Kort makes an important point about the dangers of “social” media algorithm.
He goes on to explain why it’s important to look beyond the bubble. Follow the link for the entire article.
Establishmentarians 0
At Slacktivist, Fred Clark takes a deep dive into the efforts in Louisiana to promulgate Cecil B. DeMille’s (yes, noted theologian Cecil B. DeMille) version of the Ten Commandments in public schools.
Real Big Men 0
No doubt you’ve heard of Harrison Butker’s misogynistic commencement address at Benedictine College this past week.
At the Kansas City Star, Melinda Henneberger writes of the response from the Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica to said remarks. They–er–had some quibbles with his statements. (As a side note, the Sisters co-founded that college.)
Just go read it. No excerpt of summary will do her piece justice.
Republican Family Values 0
“Republican Family Values” has always been a con and a scam.
Nothing proves that more than Republicans’ fealty to Donald Trump, who has no family values, nor, for that matter, values of any sort.