Hate Sells category archive

At AZcentral, Erika Andiola makes a convincing case that those who stir up anti-immigrant fears are deliberately pursuing a strategy of divide and conquer.

In a letter to the editor of the Portland Press Herald, the Rev. Dr. Douglas Nielsen suggests that America’s far-right evangelical they-call-themselves Christians may have mistaken an identity.

Emma talks with Syracuse University professor Austin Kocher about our immigration system is “brokent by design” and about the racism that underlies much anti-immigration feelings.

In a longer article about how certain California Republican congresspersons have been–er–taken aback by negative reactions to Donald Trump’s pogrom crusade against immigrants, SFGate quotes a “social” media user who methinks sums it up succintly:

“This is not ‘common sense reform,’” one person commented under an Instagram video of Jones expressing his support for the bill. “This is bigotry wrapped with a bow.”

I think it highly likely that this fellow’s ancestors were immigrants once. Indeed, anyone whose ancestors came here after 1491 is descended from immi–oh, never mind.

We are a society of stupid. And of hate-full.

Illinois Governor Pritzker hears a rhyme.

Via The Bob Cesca Show After Party.

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*Mark Twain.

A X offender with a notion of immigrants.

Michael in Norfolk sums the position of the party of the Secesh today’s Republican Party on civil rights (emphasis added):

Indeed, under the Felon and his worshipers, it is obvious that they are all for discrimination as long as they are the ones doing the discrimination and mistreat of others. Any constraints on their ability to discriminate is falsely labeled anti-Christian or anti-white discrimination.

Follow the link for the rest of his article.

In The Minnesota Star-Tribune, in a longer article by ten health professionals about the right-wing’s jihad against trans youth (who, remember, are minuscule portion of the population), the authors sum up the strategy of today’s Republican Party as succinctly as can be done:

Manufacturing a good enemy is the best way to stay in power.

follow the link for their evidence.

Yet more evidence that leads one to consider the possibility that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value . . . .

Words fail me.

At the Washington Monthly, Robert J. Shapiro hears a most disturbing rhyme. Here’s a couple of bits from his article:

His (Donald Trump’s–ed.) approach to politics has always been to cast supporters as friends and critics as enemies. This characterization of politics was first propounded by the German political theorist Carl Schmitt . . . .

And in Schmitt’s framework, when enemies at home or abroad gain notable political sway, it creates a grave emergency that warrants executive action outside the law. It’s clear why Schmitt was the favored theorist for the Nazi party and a senior jurist in the Third Reich.

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*Mark Twain.

At Northjersey.com, Laura Morowitz argues forcefully that Donald Trump’s hostility towards immigrants is fundamentally nothing more than another case of mean for the sake of mean.

Via Job’s Anger.

Aside:

On Thursday’s episode of the Bob Cesca Show, one of the participants–I forget which one–made a remark that resonated with me: that what’s happening today seems to echo the end of Reconstruction.

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