“That Conversation about Race” category archive
What’s in a Name? 0
As Chris Williams points out at Above the Law, quite a lot, apparently. A nugget:
Follow the link for context.
Cancellation Nation 0
David explains how it’s right-wing snowflakes that are doing the cancelling in our culture.
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Decoding de Code 0
Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville speaks the quiet part out loud.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Portland Press-Herald’s Victoria Hugo-Vidal muses on a proposal to deny MaineCare benefits to sick persons if they are not U. S. citizens. (MaineCare a form of insurance run by the state of Maine.) A snippet:
I think a lot of the knee-jerk opposition to it comes down to racism and nativism . . . .
Methinks she makes some excellent points.
Why Am I Not Surprised? 0
Going back to Philosophy 101, I’ll start by defining a term:
Romeo Vitelli, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, takes a look at the opposition of hate crime laws. Not surprisingly, he finds that those who oppose hate crime laws are motivated by (wait for it) hate. Here’s a tiny little bit from his much longer article:
Follow the link for context.
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0
F. T. Rea is taken aback by aghast at Republicans who would assert that history isn’t.
Here’s a bit from his post:
Precedented 0
Steve Bousquet, columnist for the Florida Sun Sentinel reminds Florida’s Governor DeSantis that, to paraprhase Mark Twain, history may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Driven to destruction.
We are a broken society.
(With a broken link, which is now unbroken.)
Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! 0
Trials, not to mention convictions, on the charge of seditious conspiracy are rare, but four leaders of the they-call-themselves Proud Boys beat the odds and were found guilty.
At the Inky, Philadelphia activist Gwen Snyder details the years of harassment she has endured from the they-call-themselves Proud Boys. This was how it started; follow the link for full account.
My downstairs neighbor was home, out on our building’s porch for a smoke break. The far-right gang members approached him, demanding to know if I was there.
He didn’t know, he told them. They demanded that he tell me to stop writing about their racist activities and posting members’ names on Twitter. Then they plastered a sticker with their logo onto my front door. They placed more around the neighborhood for good measure.
Image via Balloon-Juice, which has commentary.
