Culture Warriors category archive
Republican Family Values 0
“Suffer the children” is a Republican family value.
Aside:
See the comments that Thom mentioned regarding the Heritage Foundation at this link.
As one who trained as an historian specializing in U. S. Southern, it seems to me that the “heritage” that the “Heritage” Foundation claims to represent is little more than unreconstructed white Southerners’ myth of the “Lost Cause” dressed up in Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes.
Establishmentarians 0
What Jesus is not reported to have said, but what they believe:
Go ye therefore and make disciples of all nations, by force if necessary.
Establishmentarians 0
Elie Mystal looks at the recent court decision in Alabama and sees a pattern:
And, speaking of patterns . . . .
The Lake Effect, Still Rising Again after All These Years Dept. 0
How many are The Secesh?
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini runs the numbers:
It is: Roughly 25%.
The question being: How many Americans do you figure are as wacky as Kari Lake?
Follow the link for the calculations.
Know Them by the Company They Keep, Reprise 0
Visitors to the House of Wax.
Establishmentarians 0
Michael in Norfolk is somewhat perturbed.
At the Des Moines Register, Jason Benell has more about the effects of establishmentarianism.
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini points out that Arizona Congresscritter Andy Biggs keeps some pretty sketchy company.
Willful Blindness and the Republican Thought Police 0
At the Bangor Daily News, Solomon D. Stevens argues forcefully that we should not blind ourselves to our country’s faults, as the Republican Thought Police would have us do. I cannot say that I agree with everything he says, but I do think his piece is worth the few minutes it will take to read it. Here’s a snippet, one which I think we are seeing being validated in real time:
Missing the Point 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Eden King and Mikki Hebl explain that the fuss over DEI is much ado about a misunderstanding. They point out that the term doesn’t mean the bad things that those who oppose claim it does.
What King and Hebl don’t address, though, is this: The persons who oppose DEI detest diversity, equality, and inclusion, regardless of the words used.
Those folks really want to go back to the good old days, if not the 1850s–that’s where their hearts truly yearn to be–at least the 1950s, before Rosa Parks boarded that bus.
It doesn’t help if we look away, look away, look away from what’s going on here and fail refuse to recognize that they are still rising again after all these years.
Republican Thought Police 0
At the Des Moines Register, a history professor argues against a bill currently being advanced in Iowa to whitewash–I use that term advisedly–the teaching of American history in primary and secondary schools.
Republican Thought Police 0
It turns out that Florida Governor DeSantis lacks the courage of his conniptions.
He’s now trying to backpedal from the book banning furor that he fomented.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
David talks with a caller about the situation at the border and makes the stunning argument that this self-styled “nation of immigrants” should continue to be, well, a nation of immigrants.