Culture Warriors category archive
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
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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.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
It’s just my opinion, but I do not think that “enforcing the law” and “mean for the sake of mean” are synonymous.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Michael in Norfolk hears a rhyme–one that I am also hearing–and it’s given him a straw at which to grasp.
I hope he’s right about said straw.
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*Mark Twain.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Sam and the crew explain why the Trump maladministration is renditioning refugees, including Afghan refugees who helped American forces during George Bush’s Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie, but making exceptions for white folks from South Africa.
(Spoiler alert: No surprises here.)
A Contradiction in Terms 0
At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sheri Berenbaum explains why fighting prejudice, in this case antisemitism, while also opposing DEI is an oxymoronic objective, regardless of what Trump and the Trumpettes would have us think. Here’s a tiny bit from her letter to the editor (emphasis added):
A Notion of Immigrants 0
For the life of me, I can’t see anything behind this but racism, bigotry, and mean for the sake of mean.
A Notion of Immigrants Meets the Rule of Lawless 0
Shorter Steven Miller: Constitutional rights? We don’t care about no Constitutional rights.
Republican Thought Police 0
The Trump maladministration seems to have decided that it would be a darned shame if members of our military had access to ideas that said maladministration wishes to suppress.
Trade Deficient 0
The Trump maladministration is trying to get foreign countries to comply with its anti-DEI (that is, racist and bigoted) “policies.” Here’s a bit from the report at Mediaite:
Specifically, U.S. embassy officials in Stockholm gave the city’s planning office 10 days to sign an agreement stating that Swedish officials would comply with U.S. anti-discrimination laws and eschew DEI policies that run afoul of them. The agreement would apply to contractors that do work for the U.S. embassy.
Republican Thought Police 0
It looks as if things didn’t go so well for the Republican thought police in the recent school board elections in Texas.
The Rule of Lawless 0
The Pittsburgh-Post Gazette’s Gene Collier warns of some arresting developments.