Hate Sells category archive
All the News that Fits, It’s Bubblicious Dept. 0
Sam and a caller discuss the right-wing news bubble and confirmation bias.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, University of Miami Professor Seth Schwartz explores why many white Americans, particularly Baby Boomers, seem so hostile to immigrants, despite having been raised in a country which once proudly billed itself as “a nation of immigrants.”
It is a perceptive, thoughtful, and timely piece worth the three or four minutes it will take you to read it.
Republican Family Values 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., marvels at the heartlessness of the party of mean for the sake of mean.
A Shining City on a Hill
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Trudy Rubin thinks the shine has worn off from Reagan’s “shining city.” A little bit from her article:
Follow the link for her reasoning.
Still Rising Again after All These Years . . . 0
. . . and they’re mailing it in.
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At least three businesses here (The Bronx–ed.) including Archie’s tap and table and Caliente’s seafood – another black owned business – were allegedly targeted.
The story goes on to say that, for all practical purposes, that particular neighborhood used to be a sundown town.
Facebook Frolics 0
Yet more hate-full frolics.
Twits Own Twitter, Reprise 0
Sam and his crew discuss Elon Musk’s latest Twitter temper tantrum.
A long time ago, while I was doing yard work, I listened to an interview with one of the founders of Twitter; it was about the time that Twitter was being launched. I don’t remember who the interviewer was or which Twitter founder it was, but I do remember his prattling on about how this new thing would contribute positively to our discourse. He succeeded in convincing me to avoid Twitter like the plague it has proven to be.
Drive Carefully on the Disinformation Superhighway 0
Psychologist Mark Travers observes that “(s)ocial media can bring out the worst in people.” Follow the link for tips on how to avoid getting sucked into muck.
And, remember, “social” media isn’t.
Lies and Lying Liars 0
Gordon Weil comments on persons’ willingness to believe what they want to believe, regardless of facts and evidence, and how “social” media, though it did not create this willingness, feeds into it.
No excerpt or summary can do his piece justice; I commend it to your attention.
Underground Railroad Redux 0
Thanks to Der Spiegel, we are again reminded of Mark Twain’s statement that history does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
Facebook Frolics 0
Merchants of hate who frolic on Facebook.
Honest to Betsy, Facebook is where all the cess goes to pool.
Twits on Twitter (Updated) 0
Gutting Out the Vote 0
Arizona right-wing extremists are mailing it in (and, in the process, dishonoring the memory of Benjamin Franklin).