Culture Warriors category archive
Establishmentarians 0
LZ Grandersonn suggests that America’s establishmentarians are having Pence-sive thoughts. A snippet:
Follow the link for context.
The Lies of the Land, Florida Man Dept. 0
Fabiola Santiago tells of her attempt to get Florida officials to define “woke” on the record. This snippet is the closest thing she could find to an “official” definition (follow the link for the full story of her quest).
Based on that, it seems to me that “woke” means “realistic.”
Ipso facto, “anti-woke” means “delusional.”
And AL.com’s J. D. Crowe got it right.
Religious Apparel 0
At AL.com, John Archibald argues that the “Bible Belt” is a very real thing.
I had this Bible Belt thing all wrong.
I used to think it was just a swath of Southern land where churches outnumbered liquor stores, where people read that Book and sought, in public or on their better days, at least, to live like the protagonist of its last chapters.
But no. Turns out the Bible Belt is a real thing.
It’s a strap pious folks wear around their waists. Until they whip it off to flog others in the name of their God.
He explains his reasoning at the link.
Control Freaks 0
Thom, reacting to a Mastodon post, suggests that the right’s campaign against abortion is not about life, but that it is, rather, about control (and, by extension, I would add, about patriarchy and dominance and fragile male egos, but that’s just me).
Methinks there is something worth considering in this concept.
The Brady Punch 0
Stephanie Hayes looks at the who-shot-john over football player Tom Brady’s age and has a momentary seizure of sauce for goose, sauce for the gander.
The Blindfolders 0
Crista V. Worthy has a questions for those who are so eager to keeps some books out of the hands of school children:
But why aren’t these alarmists focusing on a book that’s chock-full of incest, rape, and gore? I’m talking, of course, about the Bible.
Follow the link for context.
The Privatization Scam 0
At the Des Moines Register, Lois Altmaier Crowley exposes the school voucher con. Here’s a bit of her article; follow the link for more.
Privatizing education does not lead to competition that will improve actual learning outcomes for students. Instead, it starts a race to the bottom that crunches school employees’ wages and teacher salaries, leads to hiring of less qualified educators due to turnover, causes costs for oversight (we must check private school start-ups rigorously and often to ensure quality education!), and harms those students whose parents took a chance on the ones that will inevitably fail. Channeling money into private schooling will also be highly inequitable as fewer than half of our counties (Iowa’s–ed.) even have them: Money that could and should be shared across 99 counties would go to less than half of them.
Altmaier does not address this, but I would add that said school voucher con often serves the wishes of those who would replace education with indoctrination.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Methinks Steve M. has a point when he says:
(His complete article is at the link.)
Afterthought:
We look forward to two years of a House of Representatives ruled by persons (at least profess to) believe that Fox News speaks truth.
I am not sanguine.
“What’s in a Name” 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini suggests an answer to that question:
Follow the link to review his evidence.
All the History that Fits 0
The whole story of the Southern “Lost Cause” was a myth (and, I would argue, Gone with the Wind, both the book and the movie, was one of the most successful pieces of political propaganda in history, but that’s another story).
And the New Secesh are still making stuff up.
Nazis for Neighbors 0
A little girl leaves her house to go to school and finds Nazi swastikas strewn over her front yard.
We are a broken society.
Originalist Sin 0
At the Sacramento Bee, Erwin Chemerinsky points out that the self-styled originalists on the Supreme Supremacist Court are quite willing to ignore “original intent” when it suits them. A snippet; follow the link for his evidence.
(snip)
Unfortunately, the current conservative majority on the Supreme Court is obliterating any notion of a wall separating church and state.
The Galt and the Users 0
At The San Francisco Chronicle, Stanford professor Keith Humphreys argues that those who would place the blame for drug problems on liberals and liberalism are looking in the wrong direction. A snippet:
What bedevils the city instead is its libertarian, individualistic culture.
Methinks he has a point, as libertarianism is the philosophy of “Me! Me! Me!” and liberalism is the philosophy of “we’re all in this together.”
Follow the link and decide for yourself.
