“That Conversation about Race” category archive
The Seditionist Caucus 0
Thom argues that racism is and has long been a misdirection play.
And methinks he argues his point well.
The Graham Cracker Has a Notion of Immigrants 0
Republicans play the race card because it’s the only card they have left. Otherwise, they got nothing other than their fealty to the robber barons of our New Gilded Age.
The Republican Party of my youth–the party that could include persons of integrity, such as Dwight Eisenhower, Nelson Rockefeller, and Everett Dirksen–no longer exists.
Richard Nixon’s racist Southern Strategy is all that remains of it.
The Actual Cancel Culture 0
At the Des Moines Register, Shoshana Salowitz discusses the recent and escalating right-wing campaigns to ban books. A nugget:
They are about denying the humanity of Queer folks, Black folks, Brown folks.
Methinks she is onto something.
Aside:
Facing consequences for one’s own actions is not “cancel culture.”
It’s consequences. Consequences that one brings on oneself.
Word Prey 0
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Angry Grammarian thinks he may have identified the word in the right-wing’s crosshairs:
Now it’s intersectionality’s turn.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Emma and the crew discuss Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Woke War III.
Aside:
She says she believes in freedom.
Just not in letting persons vote.
Decoding de Code 0
At The Seattle Times, Solomon D. Stevens decodes the code word, “woke.”
It is a culture war badge.
Follow the link for context.
It’s Celebration Time, Come On! 0
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier remarks on how one celebrant observed President’s Day. A snippet (emphasis added); follow the link for the complete piece.
But most American are not Marjorie Taylor Greene, congresswoman from Georgia, who celebrated Presidents Day by honoring her favorite president, Jefferson Davis.
Extra-Special Bonus QOTD 0
Bob Cesca and Buzz Burbank, in yesterday’s edition of The Bob Cesca Show, discussing Marjorie Taylor Greene and the New Secesh:
Cesca: Republican are the party of Lincoln, except for the things Lincoln believed in most.
Burbank: Repblicans are the party of Jesus, except for the things Jesus believed in most.
