Culture Warriors category archive
Republican Thought Police 2
Emma talks with Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers about the poor showing of right-wing nutbags in recent school board elections.
Aside:
I love me Weingarten’s phrase, “constant anger fest.”
Methinks she hit the nihilists on the head.
They got nothing, festering anger is all they got.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
In a longer article musing about the long-term potential of what’s been inaccurately dubbed “artificial intelligence,” John Nosta aptly describes the clamoring coming from the American right-wing. Here’s the bit that caught my eye:
Republican Thought Police 0
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts cuts to the quick:
Follow the link for her evidence.
Lies and Lying Liars? 0
Farron points out the perfidity and perjury are not the same thing.
Republican Thought Police 0
At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jonathan Zimmerman looks at some recent Pennsylvania school board elections and notes that
. . . it turns out that Democratic parents have rights, too.
Follow the link for context.
The Other Black Friday 0
At The Kansas City Star, Hannah Holzer writes of another Black Friday, one that happened over a century ago, one that was about rights, not retail.
What ensued was a horrific display of violence against women perpetrated by cops in uniform, plain clothed police officers and male bystanders. The day was a turning point for British suffragettes — it marked the start of British suffragette militancy and was dubbed “Black Friday” decades before the colloquial term became associated with the start of the holiday shopping season one day after Thanksgiving.
It is a fascinating read and worth the few minutes it will take you to read it.
Devolution 0
At AL.com, John Archibald writes of Alabama public schools’ war on science. A snippet:
But the state of science instruction is more problematic than even that.
Alabama’s existing science standards were already considered among the nation’s worst when it comes to the study of climate change.
Follow the link for his exploration of the intentional inculcation of ignorance.
Precedented 0
Michael in Norfolk is not sanguine.
Here’s a bit from his post:
Follow the link for context.
Republican Thought Police 0
Shorter Kirk Cameron: God forbids that students should be exposed to ideas.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
UNC lap professor Gene Nichol questionss Republicans’ efforts to gut out the (black) vote in North Carolina. Here’s one of his questions:
More questions at the link.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Paul Krugman uses data and facts–remember data and facts?–to skewer the bigots’ arguments that immigrants take jobs away from American citizens. A snippet:
Follow the link for the data and facts.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
I tried a couple of titles for this post, but I eventually realized that what we are seeing is the New Secesh still rising again, so I recycled a recurring title, because it reflects a recurring theme.
If you are brave enough look behind the rhetoric of Trump and his dupes, symps, and fellow travelers, what you will see is racism, bigotry, and hate.
And hate sells, because hate allows persons to avoid responsibility, to avoid caring, to avoid thought.
The Privatization Scam 0
Eric Foster calls out the school voucher con for the underhanded fraud that it is: a violation of the public trust and of governments’ fiduciary duty to the citizenry. Here’s a bit (emphasis added):
I comment his entire piece to your attention.
Establishmentarians 0
Chris Satullo challenges the establishmentarian impulse of the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. Two tiny excerpts:
1) Your idea that the Bible lays out a comprehensive, clearcut judicial code or policy program for a 21st century civil government does not survive five minutes sitting with the book open on your lap and your mind switched on.
(snip)
2) One thing that is clear as day is that Jesus was suspicious (even contemptuous) of both the temporal and the institutional religious powers of his day, of Rome and the Pharisees.
Follow the link for his reasoning.