“That Conversation about Race” category archive
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.
Base Thoughts 0
Steve M. has the round-up.
Different Strokes at Different Folks 0
Eric Foster tells a tale or people, pigment, and perception.
School for Scamdal 0
At the Des Moines Register, Steve Westerberg dissects the lies that lying liars are spreading about public schools and libraries to advance an agenda of racism and privatization.
He focuses on Iowa, but it’s happening all over the country.
Here’s one bit of bunk he debunks; follow the link for more.
“I Don’t Think That Word Means What You Think It Means” 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun tries to understand the Republicans’ War on Woke.
Motivations for Meanness 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Bernard Golden explores seven factors which he posits contribute to group violence. Here’s part of what he says about one of them, characterized as “Relative Deprivation and Basic Needs”; follow a link for a discussion of the seven.
Meanwhile, Down on the Animal Farm . . . 0
Jeffery Leving considers Florida Man’s attempt to prevent the teaching of America’s history and reminds us that George Orwell knew whereof he writ (emphasis added):.
It’s ironic that one of the arguments DeSantis is making in favor of limiting what can be taught in schools is that these actions are in the interest of academic freedom — when the exact opposite appears to be true. It reminds me of another Orwell quote, from his novel “Animal Farm”: “If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
At the Kansas City Star, Dion Lefler sees echoes–well, heck, more than echoes–of Joe McCarthy’s Red Scare in the tactics Republicans are deploying to stoke fears the American students might (gasp!) be taught America’s history. Here’s how he starts his article:
The best answer to that question is another question: Why are we allowing it in Kansas, in 2023?
Follow the link for his reasoning.