Culture Warriors category archive
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Mary Beth Tinker figured in a case that went to the Supreme Court when, as a 13-year-old student, she was suspended from school for having the unmitigated gall to peacefully express her disagreement with the Vietnamese War.
At the Des Moines Register, she writes that she hears echoes of the past.
Fright-Wing Politics 0
Thom discusses Donald Trump’s resort to stochastic terrorism so as to protect his assets.
None Dare Call It (Domestic) Terrorism . . . 0
. . . but, according to the Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini, it most certainly is.
Words Have Meanings . . . 0
. . . unless, of course, you live in Florida.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Patrick Henry once said
It appears that the New Secesh beg to differ. It appears that they are choosing to secede again, only, this time, without bothering to put it in writing.
Gamergate Goes to Harvard 0
Writing at The Philadelphia Inquirer, Will Bunch thinks there’s more than meets the eye in the who-shot-john over ex-Harvard president Claudine Gay. A snippet (emphasis added; follow the link for his reasoning.
But the conservatives who drove the frenzy over Gay care about proper citations in obscure dissertations as much as the misogynistic dudes behind Gamergate pretended their orgy of harassment was actually about ethics in video-game journalism. This was a proxy war over something much, much bigger: Who controls the narrow pipelines into America’s elites, and how to preserve ancient hierarchies around race, gender, economic class, and social status.
The Hollow Man 0
As you may have heard, Donald Trump, a second-generation American, recently said that immigrants were “poisoning the blood” of America. (One descendant of immigrants certainly is, but I digress.)
In the midst of a longer article discussing this remark, Ned Seaton notes, methinks quite accurately:
Follow the link for context,
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Grung_e_Gene tries to figure out why one of the two major political parties in a country that has boasted of itself as a “nation of immigrants” is so all-fired frightened of immigrants.
Methinks he makes some points worth consideration.
Indoctrination Nation, American Taliban Dept. 0
An Alabama Establishmentarian defends his choice to use the power of the state to foist his creed on others..
The Graham Cracker 0
His name is Graham, and he’s a cracker.
You can’t argue with facts (unless, of course, you are a Republican).
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Aside:
Natch, Donald Trump is descended from immigrants. If I remember correctly, he’s second-generation.
For that matter, so are all of us descended from immigrants whose families arrived after, say, just to pick a date, 1492.
“Moms for Liberty Libertines”
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Michael in Norfolk reviews the implosion of the con artists culture war cult, “Moms For Liberty” (which Grung_e_Gene aptly tagged, “Moms for Lebensraum“).
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Farron comments on the irrationality of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s most recent call for secession. (Of course, he’s wasting his breath; irrational persons can’t deal with rationality.)
