Culture Warriors category archive
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
After hearing about the humiliating questions that attorney Joe Tacopina fired at E. Jean Carrol in an effort to undermine her claims against a failed former President, Mangy Fetlocks wanted to point out the absurdity of the old-school victim-blaming that was used in an attempt to get Donald off the hook AGAIN. My guess is, it won’t prove effective.
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0
F. T. Rea is taken aback by aghast at Republicans who would assert that history isn’t.
Here’s a bit from his post:
Precedented 0
Steve Bousquet, columnist for the Florida Sun Sentinel reminds Florida’s Governor DeSantis that, to paraprhase Mark Twain, history may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Driven to destruction.
We are a broken society.
(With a broken link, which is now unbroken.)
Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! 0
Trials, not to mention convictions, on the charge of seditious conspiracy are rare, but four leaders of the they-call-themselves Proud Boys beat the odds and were found guilty.
At the Inky, Philadelphia activist Gwen Snyder details the years of harassment she has endured from the they-call-themselves Proud Boys. This was how it started; follow the link for full account.
My downstairs neighbor was home, out on our building’s porch for a smoke break. The far-right gang members approached him, demanding to know if I was there.
He didn’t know, he told them. They demanded that he tell me to stop writing about their racist activities and posting members’ names on Twitter. Then they plastered a sticker with their logo onto my front door. They placed more around the neighborhood for good measure.
Image via Balloon-Juice, which has commentary.
Rolling Back the Clock One More Time 0
Words fail me.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At NJ.com, Lisa Davis takes a deep look at the efforts of Republicans, particularly in the South, to pretend that history isn’t. A snippet.
Read the whole piece for her reasoning.
Self-Implication 0
Florida Man, in his own words . . . .
Fact-Checking the Graham Cracker 0
David suggests that the Graham Cracker needs to get out of his propaganda bubble and deal with facts.
(Like that’s going to happen.)
Courting Disaster, Unchecked, Unbalanced 0
Gordon Weil, writing at the Bangor Daily News, is not sanguine. A snippet:
Word Gamers 0
At AL.com, Frances Coleman discusses the latest attempts of Alabama’s governor to pretend that history isn’t and than reminds us (emphasis added)
There’s nothing new about this.
Follow the link for her arguments.
Decoding de Code 0
The Detroit Free Press’s Keith A. Owens decodes de code of de day: “anti-woke.” The short version: it’s a war against history and fact. Here’s a bit from his article:
The entire piece is worth your while.
Republican Family Values 0
Roy S. Johnson marvels at the petty cruelty directed towards young trans “influencer” Dylan Mulvaney by the party of mean for the sake of mean. A snippet:
I mean, really. Bigots must be out there livin’ large if they have time for this.