Republican Hypocrisy category archive
Originalist Sin 0
Justice Elena Kagan argues that the Supreme Supremacist Court is, indeed, not above the law.
The Lake Effect 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Mike Murphy marvels at the metastasis of the mendacity.
Credit Crunch 0
Thom explores why Republicans are willing to erode America’s credit rating.
Aside:
The Founders were leery of political parties–they used the term “faction”–because they feared the time would come when a faction would put itself above the nation.
Methinks said fears may not have been unfounded.
Spin Cycle 0
And round and round it goes . . . .
Thought Police 0
If they see a thought, they’re gonna put it under lock and key.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At AL.com, John Archibald looks at the efforts in some southern states to whitewash–I use that term advisedly–their history of slavery and racism and wonders what all the fuss is about.
After all, he points out, old times there are not forgotten.
“Slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,” according to Florida’s new social studies standards.
The South – the whole country, really – doesn’t need to study real history anymore.
It’s too busy living it.
Follow the link for the rest.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Sam and his crew stand aghast at Fox News’s Jesse Watters’s defending Florida Man’s claim that slaves learned skills while enslaved, so that, somehow, being stolen from their homes, transported across the sea while bound in chains, and whipped into submission by their “owners” was therefore somehow a good thing.
How do these people sleep at night?
Oh, I forgot.
Money.
It buys souls, at least, those souls that are for sale.
Freedom of Screech . . . 0
. . . for me, but not for thee.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
As one who trained as an historian (with a focus of U. S. Southern) and as the descendant of persons who, as the saying goes, “held” slaves, I hold DeSantis’s and his tools’ hypocritical denial of the reality of chattel slavery, quite frankly, beneath contempt and disgusting beyond words.
I would add this: A point seldom mentioned is that, as far as slaveholders were concerned, slaves were not persons; they were, to put it bluntly, livestock.
The reason behind racism as it developed during the period of European expansion–the belief that white persons were somehow superior to persons of other skin colors–was to justify treating those persons differently. It was literally whitewashing cruelty.
