Culture Warriors category archive
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Writing about Florida Governor DeSantis’s kidnapping and transportation of immigrants (again, most of whom, if not all, were legally seeking asylum and abiding by the rules), Leonard Pitts, Jr., gets to the heart of the matter (emphasis added).
Follow the link for the evidence.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Just when you think America’s bigots and racists have reached the bottom of the pit of vileness in which they dwell, they dig deeper.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At AL.com, Roy S. Johnson suggests that Florida’s Governor DeSantis’s stunt of kidnapping and transporting refugees who fled to the United States to escape tyranny and oppression* (and who were here legally, by the way) may have backfired on him.
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*Only to find themselves kidnapped by a tyrannical oppressor, but that’s a topic for another day.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At the Orlando Sentinel, Scott Maxwell raises a question (emphasis in the original):
Why did the governor of Florida use migrants from Texas for his political theater?
Florida, after all, is chock full of undocumented citizens — an estimated 800,000 or more. So instead of playing games with migrants from Texas, many of whom were reportedly legal asylum-seekers, why didn’t Florida’s governor choose some of the many people known to be illegally living and working in his own backyard?
Probably because that would highlight an embarrassing reality for DeSantis — that Florida is a hotbed for illegal immigration, thanks partly to GOP lawmakers who have given companies the greenlight to employ and exploit undocumented workers here.
Follow the link for details
Republican Family Values 0
Michael in Norfolk is aghast at the mean for the sake of mean.
Facebook Frolics 0
The Zuckerborg is a soulless monster.
And, in further proof that “social” media isn’t, there’s Florida Woman.
A Notion of Immigrants, Reprise 0
Stephen discusses Governor DeSantis’s human trafficking of immigrants, plus a couple of other matters.
Republican Family Values 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
Republican Family Values 0
When did causing suffering become a family value?
DQAnon 0
Well, I guess if you could think a pizza joint is some kind of sinister gathering place, you could think the same of a Dairy Queen.
But only if your thinker is misfiring.
We are a broken society.
Twits on Twitter 0
Yet more hate-full twits.
“Social” media isn’t. Rather, it compounds the coarseness of dis coarse discourse.
Establishmentarians 0
Sam and his guest discuss the threat posed by Christian nationalist establishmentarianism.
Establishmentarians 0
At The Seattle Times, Heather L. Weaver and Daniel Mach parse the sophistry in the Supreme Court’s decision the case of Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the case about the preying praying football coach. A snippet:
Death Sentence 0
Aside:
Many years ago, a friend and co-worker of mine died of AIDS, back when it was still referred to by many as GRID (gay-related immune deficiency disease) and was therefore considered by far too many persons, somehow and sickeningly, to be no big deal.
At the time, he was still in Washington at Amtrak headquarters and I had been transferred to Philly, but, after his diagnosis was known to those that cared, I had the good fortune to run into him on the platform at Washington Union Station and we shared a farewell hug.
(I will add that his supervisor, one of the company’s vice presidents, treated him with kindness, consideration, and charity.)
He was a good man and a good friend.
These hate-full bigots who call themselves “Christian” worship no Jesus that I know.
Deja Vu All Over Again 0
As Mark Twain once said, “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”