“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Let’s Do the Time Warp Again 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Leonard Hitchcock argues that today’s right-wing wants to roll back America’s clock to the 1950s.
Personally, I think he’s off by about precisely a century, but his article is worth a read.
Dropping the Mask? 0
Writing at the Philadelphia Inquirer, Solomon Jones argues that Republicans’ attempts to shield Donald Trump from legitimate legal investigations reveals an ugly truth.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
The Green Book is returning, thanks to Florida Man.
Decoding De Code, Little Chickens Dept. 0
Roy Johnson has figured out the right-wing’s definition of “woke.”
Something they can’t comprehend? It’s woke!
Something they don’t know—and don’t want to know the truth? It’s woke!
Global warming? Gun reform? Expand Medicaid so working-class Alabamians have access to quality healthcare? It’s all woke!
Woke is the far right’s sky is falling.
Follow the link for context.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Will Bunch sums up the evidence for Jim Crow redux.
Woke to the Misdirection Play, Reprise 0
You can see the “woke” misdirection play in all its gloried story in one of the most appallingly bogus pieces of deceptive drivel that I’ve read in years. I hesitated about mentioning it, but it illustrates how a misdirection play spreads and pollutes dis coarse discourse.
For one thing, the author claims that “woke” is a movement, when it is, in fact, a right-wing pejorative. There is no “woke” movement except in the minds of bigots who resent being called out for their bigotry.
Then he argues that somehow “woke” is a mirror image of MAGA, whereas, if there were a “woke” movement (remember, no such movement), it would not be a mirror image, it would be the antithesis of MAGA, of bigotry, the antithesis of hate, of–oh, heck, words fail me.
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0
It’s also on the curriculum in a nearby county’s public schools.
(snip)
Other new principles outlined in the policy include that “parents or guardians have the sole responsibility for guiding their children’s views on controversial topics” and that “no one is inherently a victim or oppressed due to their race (consciously or unconsciously), skin color, gender, religion, national origin, sex, medical condition, age, martial status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military status, or disability.”
Aside:
Oh, yeah, by the way, it’s this county.
The White-Washing 0
Why am I not surprised?
. . . which is, natch, exactly what the New Secesh want: to pretend–and to teach the children–that the past never happened.
Full story at the link.
Riding with a Racist 0
New York Daily News columnist Leonard Greene tells the story of a bus ride with an unpleasant companion.
Just read it for yourself.
But, be forewarned, it’s a truly appalling tale.
In Translation 0
Finally! Someone has come up with a reasonable definition of the right-wing’s favorite new pejorative
Yastreblyansky offers a definition of “woke.”
The Way-Back Machinationist 0
Anthony Dixon argues that
DeSantis has chosen education as a tool to set this country back 100 years.
His reasoning is spot on (follow the link for details), but methinks his math is off.
A more accurate figure is 164 years.
Precisely 164 years.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Sam speaks with Suzanne Nossel about Florida Man’s thought police.
Afterthought:
Richard Nixon’s southern strategy has come full circle and consumed the Republican Party. Florida Man’s antics are rooted in America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the ideology of racism that was fabricated to justify it.
If you can’t see that, you just aren’t looking.
Stormin’ Snowflakes 0
Badtux catches the drift.
