“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Schoolyard Trumpling.
(snip)
The post threatened an ethnic cleansing in the form of a school shooting and told white students at CHS to stay home. The person who posted the threat claimed to be a Charlottesville student.
The message boards 4chan and 8chan have been frequented by white supremacists. The sites were banned in New Zealand in the wake of last week’s mosque shootings for hosting video of the massacre.
“A Globalized Ideology of Hate” 0
Thom interviews New York Times reporter Wajahat Ali about the roots of the Christchurch massacre.
Read Ali’s New York Times article.
Great Expectations 0
David wonders what right-wing extremists expect to gain from Donald Trump’s presidency.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
The story mentions that what triggered the tirade was still not clear, but, frankly, that’s irrelevant.
Even had the man run into her grocery cart head-of-lettuce on, such language, not to mention the spitting, would have been unwarranted and, without question, constitutes a Grade-A case of Trumpling.
A There, There 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Naomi Ellemers considers why persons find it so difficult to recognize discrimination when it is present. Her article focuses on academia, but can easily be generalize to the larger society.
Here’s a snippet (emphasis added):
All the News that Fits 0
Mike marvels at how persons can debase themselves by working for Fox News (warning: profanity):
Fatal Afflictions 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Stanton Peele argues that addiction and Islamaphobia (and other manifestations of ethnic, religious, and racial hatred) satisfy similar emotional drives. Here’s bit:
It’s a short piece, but heavily annotated with links supporting his position. It is worth your while.
The Connection 0
Thom searches for the common denominator.
The Payola of the Privileged 0
I am not surprised at the college admissions cheating indictments, particularly as they involve ersatz athletes and corrupt coaches. The corruption of college athletics has been obvious to anyone who would look for a long long time. It is why I can no longer enjoy watching college football games on New Year’s Day.
At the core of the scandal is the fear of powerful, wealthy, privileged persons that their privilege was not enough to get them what they felt they or their children were due simply because of who they were, so they decided that their privilege included the right to cheat.
At The Sacramento Bee, Marcos Breton writes a powerful essay that highlights the other side of this coin: persons who are accused of being undeserving because of the spelling of their last name or the color of their skin, those whom the jealous privileged accuse of being “tokens.”
Here’s a bit:
I struggle to express the hole these indignities burned in me when I was naive and young and unaware of the social, political and cultural upheaval caused by the integration of white collar jobs and universities, a process that began before I came of age in the 1980s, but was in full backlash mode when I cluelessly took my place in the line of American opportunity.
Read it.
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Chartering a Course for Disaster Dept. 0
North Carolina allows a failing seg academy to become a charter school.
Looking Over the Obvious 0
Field deftly explores the implications and dangers of the racism and bigotry that are at the core of Donald’s appeal.
Just read it.