Hate Sells category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Warning: Short commercial at the end.
Not that racism is intertwined in American society, history, and culture or anything like that there . . . .
Our New Gilded Age 0
Eboo Patel sees echoes of that earlier Gilded Age in today’s events.
. . . in late 19th century America.
A massive economic shift was underway, as industrialization overtook the agrarian economy. A communications revolution was taking place, with the invention of the radio and the telephone. Income inequality was a problem, disease was rampant and racist hate groups were on the rise.
He also finds a bit of hope. Follow the link to read about it.
“Forced Busing,” Redux 0
Methinks Noz has a point.
Aside:
For those of you who don’t know that “forced busing” was, here’s a look back.
Of course, when I was growing up in the segregated South, it wasn’t “forced busing” when I was bused past the all-black school to go to the all-white school. It was just the way things were.
The State Race 0
Will Bunch looks into the reasons behind the race. Here’s a bit of his article:
Imagae via Job’s Anger.
The Marjorie Taylor Greene New Deal 0
Sam and his crew argue that Marjorie Taylor Greene is not an outlier in today’s Republican Party.
Methinks Grung_e_Gene may be onto something.
Live in the Real World 0
Werner Herzog’s Bear reminds us not to confuse rhetoric with reality.
“The Reactionary Trap” 0
(In an interesting bit, David and his guest discuss the role of “social” media in creating bubbles of believers and silos of sycophants. That discussion starts at about the 3 1/2 minute mark.)
Read the article under discussion.
Russian Impulses 0
The Portland Press-Herald’s Victoria Hugo-Vidal discusses Putin’s precedent for Florida’s (and other states”) codifying hate over sexual identity in law.
Florida Man Does the Math 0
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Der Spiegel interviews British historian Antony Beevor about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
It is a fascinating read. Beevor sees many echoes of Russia’s imperial past (and echoes of previous military miscalculations) in what is happening right now. Here’s one exchange:
Beevor: Putin’s distorted mindset, obsessed with the triumphant war against Nazism, has turned everything inside out. Isn’t it a great propaganda task to liberate the enemy of Nazism? Putin and his ideologues grotesquely depict the Ukrainians as born-again Nazis who need to be eliminated and re-educated, as the utterly manic article in RIA Novosti by Timofei Sergeitsev describes. The role of liberator from Nazism did indeed give the Red Army the idea that it could behave as it wanted both personally and politically. It was a notion of superiority. Rights of conquest meant not only imposing a Soviet regime on neighboring states. It also involved the comprehensive looting of the country as a form of reparation, and the idea that what Ilya Ehrenburg called “the blonde witch” – German women and girls – should pay for their menfolk’s crimes in the Russian motherland.
All the News that Fits 0
Thom explores why Republicans seem to be so susceptible to fake news.
Cause—>Effect—>Backlash 0
At the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Maureen Downey considers recent Georgia laws hamstringing the teaching of actual factual United States history in Georgia’s schools. A snippet; follow the link for the rest.
Misdirection Play, Patriot Gamers Dept. 0
Jack Bernard looks up “patriot” and “mandate” in a dictionary and discovers that they don’t mean what the right-wing would have you think they mean.