Hate Sells category archive

David comments on Brian Kilmeade’s argument for ignoring constitutional rights. Spoiler: David finds it to be somewhat questionable. (Warning: Short promo at the end.)

Oh, and speaking of Fox News . . . .

Sam and the crew discuss how Trump’s hate-full behavior is turning tourists, especially Canadian tourists, away from the United States.

At Above the Law, Chris Williams points out that, under the Trump maladministration, you can be found guilty without being charged, let alone tried and convicted.

Along the same lines, Robert Reich warns that, if it could happen to members of a “them,” it could easily happen to members of an “us.”

Texas A&M professor Andrew Dessler dissects the misdirection play.

The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini, discussing an injunction against the Trump maladministration’s crusade against trans persons in the military, sums up the strategy succinctly:

Attacking trans individuals has become a big deal because Trump found a way to gain political support by catering to people’s prejudices.

Follow the link for context.

Veronika Tait argues that, when persons tell you who they are, you would do well to take them at their word.

Today’s Republican Party honors the troops by erasing memories of them . . . .

. . . in recent weeks, the (Arlington National–ed.) cemetery’s public website has scrubbed dozens of pages on gravesites and educational materials that include histories of prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members buried in the cemetery, along with educational material on dozens of Medal of Honor recipients and maps of prominent gravesites of Marine Corps veterans and other services.

Cemetery officials confirmed to Task & Purpose that the pages were “unpublished” to meet recent orders by President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth targeting race and gender-related language and policies in the military.

Via Driftglass.

At Psychology Today Blogs, Heather Rose Artushin talks with Eve L. Ewing about how America’s original sin of chattel slavery continues to affect our society. Their conversation focuses primarily on how schools have served to perpetuate the myth of white racial superiority that was created to justify theft of labor through slavery. Given the recent assaults on schools and libraries and on efforts to promote equality, diversity, and inclusion, I recommend this as a timely and valuable read.

Here’s how the discussion starts (emphasis in the original):

Heather Rose Artushin: Your recent book, Original Sins, explores how American schools have helped build and reinforce an infrastructure of racial inequality. Please share a bit about the racial hierarchy that is rooted in the American education system and what readers should know about the ways our educational system perpetuates systemic racism.

Eve Ewing: The United States has very specific origins defined by the unique intersection of two forms of violence: the institution of chattel slavery and the mass killing and dispossession of the people indigenous to this land. In order for people to abide by these structures in a republic that defines itself as being the “land of the free,” where all men are created equal, requires a kind of mental gymnastics to reconcile a pretty obvious self-contradiction. That’s where schools come in . . . .

At AL.com, Roy S. Johnson hears a rhyme from six decades ago.

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*Mark Twain.

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.