Hate Sells category archive
All the News that Fits 0
Farron finds a commonality.
Confluence 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Glenn Gerber takes a look at the recent shootings in Georgia and argues that attempts to find a single reason for them are wrong-headed and futile. He suggests that several factors contributed to them:
- America’s Gun Problem
- Systemic Racism
- Systemic Sexism (and possibly–ed.)
- Mental Health Issues
Follow the link for his detailed exploration of each one.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
(Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
Craven Images 0
Trevor Hughes reports on the use of Christian symbols by right-wing extremists, whose credo is antithetical to a Gospel of love in any form (as their actions repeatedly prove), but which is entirely consistent with Leonard Hitchcock’s analysis of what he refers to as “Christian Nationalism.”
Here’s a bit from Hitchcock’s article; follow the link for the rest.
A broader underlying motivation is a deep resentment of cultural change and the ongoing collapse of a hierarchical social order in which their ranking might not have been very high, but it was secure, and lots of people were below them. For CNs, Trump’s slogan, “Make America Great Again,” signaled an intention to return to a past with which they were comfortable, a past in which the class and racial barriers between people were still intact, where Black people and immigrants, gays, atheists and women “knew their place,” and where white Protestants knew that they were the “real Americans” and were in charge.
It’s the Racism 0
(Noz asked a question.)
Job Opening 0
(I’m certain there will be no lack of applicants eager to fill that seat.)
Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.
It’s All about the Algorithm, Q and You Dept. 0
Sam and his crew discuss a recent CNN interview with a woman who fell down the QAnon rabbit hole. I submit that the significant element of her story is that she did not seek out the claptrap; rather, “social” media served it up to her, because eyeballs.
A Shining Tarnished City on a Hill
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Michael Judge argues that Donald Trump’s baseless claims that the recent election was stolen from him have provided a playbook for autocrats abroad. A snippet:
A Quibble:
I find Judge’s condescension towards the name of Myanmar problematical.
Myanmar has been Myanmar (in its native language, Mranma Prañ) for almost a thousand years. The name, “Burma,” was a legacy of British colonialism discarded three decades ago.
Instigation 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, H. Colleen Sinclair examines the tactics that demagogues (and would-be demogogues) use to persuade their followers to hate and to follow the hate with hate-full actions, such as, say, just to pick an exammple, overrunning a national legislative hall. She idendifies three elements:
- Firing Up Emotions
- Constructing the Threat
- Disengaging (the) Moral Compass
Follow the link for an examination of each one.