Culture Warriors category archive
Misdirection Play, War on Woke Dept. 0
Thom explains the con.
Aside:
I had not heard the term “diversionary warfare” before, but I think I’ll stick with “misdirection play.”
Suffer the Children 0
One more time. That’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy.
A Shot at a Beer 0
We are a society of stupid.
Aside:
I don’t like Bud Light either, but that’s because, as far as I’m concerned, it’s not beer.
Guinness is beer.
Republican Family Values 0
I was not aware that “mean for the sake of mean” was a family value, but apparently it is.
American Establishmentarians 0
A Navy veteran speaks out against what he refers to as Florida Governor DeSantis’s “religious fascism.”
As I mentioned earlier, today’s Republican Party seems not to care much about the United States Constitution, particularly the bit about “make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”
Disney Whirl 0
At Above the Law, Liz Dye explains how Florida Man’s latest move in his vendetta against Disney World just happens to violate the United States Constitution.
Not that today’s Republican Party seems to care much about the United States Constitution.
Decoding de Code 0
Jamelle Bouie explains what Republicans mean when they say “parents’ rights”:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
The Privatization Scam, Establishmentarian Dept. 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, Victoria Hugo-Vidal argues forcefully against public funding of religious schools. Some snips:
I went to private Catholic schools from kindergarten all the way up through high school . . . .
But it was often a financial struggle. . . .
That being said, I absolutely, positively, utterly, completely and steadfastly oppose using taxpayer money for private religious schools.
Follow the link for her reasoning.
Parallels 0
Thom discusses how Hitler rose to power by exploiting fear, bigotry, and hatred.
Aside:
Speaking of culture warriors . . . .
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments at the Youtube page:
Mangy Fetlocks can’t imagine how it must feel to be so damn insecure and fragile as to worry about whether or not your beer is woke or not, manly or not, or conservative or not. Living in the north, Mangy has seen a lot of snowflakes but he never imagined being one. Having seen the pathetic video of musical has-been, Child Pebble, Adolescent Stone, or something like that, shooting at cans of Bud Light inspired him to write this song.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom makes a case that Republicans and the NRA are quite willingly orchestrating a misdirection play about gunnuttery to obscure their true intentions.
America’s original sin of chattel slavery continues to cast its shadow.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
thom talks with professors Marchi Pally and Pamela Cooper-White about the rise of “Christian” nationalism.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Scott Maxwell looks at the latest strategy to turn the Statue of Liberty into a liar. Here’s how his article starts:
Follow the link for the rest.