Hate Sells category archive
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
Once again, fists fly in the fiendly skies.
On the same topic, Jeffrey Hanna, writing at The Roanoke Times, tries to make sense of the plethora of pathological passengers peopling the planes. I don’t think he can, because it’s clearly senseless, but follow the link and decide for yourself.
“A House Divided” 0
Chris Huston is less than optimistic.
The Victim 0
PoliticalProf parses the perfidy.
Twits on Twitter 0
I might have mentioned this before, but . . . . I remember, oh, maybe 15 or 16 years ago listening to an interview on NPR with one of the founders of Twitter. I think it was on Terry Gross’s Fresh Air show and I think the interviewee might have been Jack Dorsey, but after all this time, I’m not sure and attempts to find it via web searches have been fruitless.
Said founder went on and on about how Twitter would be a positive tool for enabling persons to connect with each other.
Yeah, and Dr. Guillotin was proud of his invention . . . .
Lies and Lying Liars 0
Sam and his crew call out Dennis Prager’s lies.
Aside:
I’m so old that I remember when AIDS was referred to as “GRID (gayrelated immunodeficiency disease.”
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Charles M. Blow discusses how Virginia’s governor-elect Youngkin won the election by playing the oldest card in the American deck.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At The Roanoke Times, John Freivalds points out that prejudice against those who would come after them has been a common theme among previous immigrants to these parts.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael Paul Williams takes a look at the recent election in Virginia. Methinks he has a point, for the last thing many white Americans want to do is confront the dark reality of America’s history. Here’s a bit; follow the link for the rest.
In the 1970s, white parents fled to the suburbs rather than have their children sit in a classroom with Black children. Today, parents in suburban locales such as Chesterfield, Hanover, Loudoun and Stafford counties are trying to keep the history of anti-Black racism out of the classroom.
America’s original sin (and the denial thereof) casts a long and dark shadow.
The Courage of Their Conniptions 0
Paul Krugman makes a strong case that, in the Republican Party, the craven have capitulated to the crazed. A snippet:
Follow the link for his list of examples.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Will Bunch takes a look at the right-wing strategy to leverage school boards and curricula to gain political power. A snippet:
But those with big money are betting that this is a winning political strategy.
Spin City 0
Afterthought:
The worst of this is that persons believe uncritically stuff they read on their computer screens when they would not believe the same stuff if it happened right in front of their faces.
