The Secesh category archive

David comments on Donald Trump’s efforts to whitewash–you will pardon the expression–America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the doctrine of racial superiority that was fabricated to rationalize it.

Via The Sacramento Bee, Bryan Clark takes a look behind the robes of America’s establishmentarians. A snippet; follow the link for context.

The point is to gain power for a reactionary kind of political and cultural view — hence the movement’s constant insistence on the submission of women to men; the sympathy for the Old South, even to the point of defending slavery; constant attacks on gay and transgender people; occasionally downplaying the Holocaust and so on — and Christianity is a pretty cloak to wrap that foul project in.

Also, too . . . .

America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority that was fabricated to justify excuse it continue to exact their toll. (Warning: Language.)

Thom discusses the current gerrymandering struggle going on in Texas. (Warning: Short commercial at about the two minute mark.)

In a longer article about some of the ways in which J. D. Vance tries to twist history, Yastreblyansky makes a telling observation: that, in attacking birthright citizenship, today’s Republican party, AKA the Party of the New Secesh, echoes the arguments of pre-civil war slaveholders.

. . . in his arguments against birthright citizenship, Vance is aligning himself with Taney, and the Dred Scott decision, against Lincoln and the outcome of the war.

Michael in Norfolk is not sanguine. A snippet; follow the link for the rest.

. . . most Republicans seem totally fine with the destruction of civil rights and an agenda to take America back to a mix of the Gilded Age and the 1950’s.

. . . and still trying to promote the lie that the Civil War was about something other than perpetuating chattel slavery.

SFGate reports that the Trump maladministration’s attempt to whitewash (I use that term advisedly) America’s history as told in America’s National Parks is not being received well by vistors to said parks.

Grung_e_Gene minces no words as to what he sees as the goal of today’s Republican Party. Here’s a bit from his article:

Project 2025 and Trump’s first 6 months have demonstrated exactly what I wrote was going to happen and multi-front, concentrated effort to destroy the United States and replace it with a Neo-Confederate Nation State built upon the Twin Pillars of Corporate Hegemony and White Supremacy.

Sam and the crew explain why the Trump maladministration is renditioning refugees, including Afghan refugees who helped American forces during George Bush’s Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie, but making exceptions for white folks from South Africa.

(Spoiler alert: No surprises here.)

“Woke”? Not if today’s Republican Party gets its way.

Via Boston.com, Republicans are now opposing efforts to remove bigotry and racism from AI.

In the White House and the Republican-led Congress, “woke AI” has replaced harmful algorithmic discrimination as a problem that needs fixing.