Culture Warriors category archive
Thought Control 0
Read the article that David discusses.
Aside:
David’s distinction between Orwellian and Huxleyan dystopias provoked a thought or two.
Motivations for Meanness 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Bernard Golden explores seven factors which he posits contribute to group violence. Here’s part of what he says about one of them, characterized as “Relative Deprivation and Basic Needs”; follow a link for a discussion of the seven.
Obsession 0
David discusses the right-wing’s obsession with transgender persons (who, remember, are an almost infinitesimal portion of the population).
Aside:
The ugly truth is that right-wing pols really dsn’t care about transgender persons one way or the other.
What they care about is using hate to get votes, because hate sells.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
At the Kansas City Star, Dion Lefler sees echoes–well, heck, more than echoes–of Joe McCarthy’s Red Scare in the tactics Republicans are deploying to stoke fears the American students might (gasp!) be taught America’s history. Here’s how he starts his article:
The best answer to that question is another question: Why are we allowing it in Kansas, in 2023?
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Ignorance Is Not Only Bliss . . . 0
, , , it’s also Florida Man’s educational you-will-pardon-the-term strategy.
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At the Tampa Bay Times, history professor Charles B. Dew–who, like me, grew up under Jim Crow–explains how he came realize how he was raised to be racist and how eventually, through education and experience, came to recognize racism for the evil it is. Now retired, he has returned to his native Florida.
Here’s how he starts his article (emphasis added):
I suspect our current governor would be just fine with this.
Follow the link, where explains what he meant with the last sentence above.
Republican Family Values 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
Separation of Church and State
The Establishmentarian Con
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Thom dissects the deception.
Base Desires 0
Thom and Dean Obeidallah discuss why Republicans don’t like Representative Ilhan Omar and what it says about the Republican Party.
Calling Out the Craven 0
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has had it with Republicans’ racism, bigotry, and hypocrisy.
Not that they care.
As I have mentioned before, Richard Nixon’s racist “Southern Strategy” has come full circle and consumed the Republican Party. The Republican Party is now the party of the New Secesh.
Video via C&L, which has commentary.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The editorial board of the Las Vegas Sun weighs in on the antics of the Republican-led House of Representatives incongruously assembled.
The prognosis is not encouraging.
Republican Family Values 0
The pervs now have their own political party.
It’s the party that wants to cross-examine school girls about their periods.
Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing.
The Misdirection Playbook 0
In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kevin McDermott reveals the playbook (emphasis added):
It’s (the misdirection play–ed.) also a central component of conservative politics today.
If you’re under the impression that the biggest issues facing America are things like transgender participation in sports, school curriculum and the M&Ms cartoon spokespeople — and not the fact that the Republican Party is methodically working to relieve the rich of any responsibility whatsoever for funding the government, while putting the bill on the rest of us — you’re being played.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
