The Secesh category archive
Lurkers in the Dark, Reprise 0
The Sunday New York Times Magazine explores how and why law enforcement misread the threat of right-wing domestic terrorism.
It’s a long, complex, and depressing tale and, unfortunately, required reading for our times.
The Sessions Is Adjourned 0
Despite any ancillary circumstances, Tony Norman can’t find it in him to regret the firing of Jeff Sessions. A snippet:
Even as Mr. Trump regularly berated him on Twitter as “weak,” Mr. Sessions used his knowledge of the arcane ways of Washington to effectively undermine every reasonable expectation of justice on every level. Like a beaten dog that never tires of licking the hand of its abusive master, Mr. Sessions was always eager to please the president with some nefarious act of cruelty after disappointing him in the one matter that meant the most to him.
The abbreviated version of the sins of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III as attorney general reads like a reverse polaroid of American values.
Follow the link for the bill of particulars.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
David explains how Donald Trump doesn’t use dog whistles; he shouts out loud.
Mythology 0
One more time, when you hear persons lament The Lost Cause, ask them what specifically was the cause that was lost.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom discusses how racism and racist violence have ramped up in the last few years and suggests that the unifying force on the far right is hatred.
Monumental Lapses 0
Jon Broadway points out that those who defend Confederate monuments to secession and rebellion as representing “history” conveniently forget the history that they represent.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
In a titanic struggle between rationality and rationalization, Thom tangles with a Confederate monument apologist.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Austin, Texas, city council has passed a measure eliminating “fee waivers” for Confederate groups who wish to march in the Austin Veterans Day Parade. Said groups, natch, are protesting that they are being discriminated against. At the Austin Statesman, Alberta Phillips points out the ludicrousness of their plaints. Here’s a bit (emphasis added):
Follow the link for the rest.
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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Badtux cuts through the sophistry about “birthright citizenship.” An excerpt:
Opposition to birthright citizenship by Republicans is often claimed to be about immigration.
It isn’t. This is good ole’ fashioned neo-Confederate pining for the return of slavery.
Follow the link to see why he says that.
Propagating Propaganda To Perpetuate Privilege 0
The Roanoke Times explores how the Commonwealth of Virginia slanted textbooks to whitewash–you will pardon the expression–slavery. A snippet:
Springston’s story says: “Lawmakers thought that requiring schoolteachers to promote the Byrd organization’s view of history would set students straight and keep teachers from spreading socialist or communist ideas.” Ironically, that’s no different than what the Bolsheviks did when they instituted communism in the Soviet Union — they taught students a different version of history.
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On the website Politichicks, Eichelman writes: “One former commission member admitted to me that the goal of the seventh grade book was to ‘make every seventh-grader aspire to the colonnaded mansion; and if he can’t get there, make him happy in the cabin.’
These were the textbooks I had when I was in school. I realized by the time I graduated high school that they were–er–slanted (perhaps that’s why I chose to get my degree in history with a focus on U. S. Southern–as a rebellion against the attempt to indoctrinate me in bigotry).
On the Beach 0
My local rag looks back to a time in the recent past, when black folks weren’t allowed on a beach. Here’s a bit; follow the for the rest, and, all the while, remember that there are those amongst us who would happily return to recreate those times.
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A year later, most of Bright’s beach buildings were consumed in a mysterious fire. The Guide reported that it was likely set by disgruntled whites. The story also said the arsonists were probably among those who appeared at a zoning meeting and shut down African Americans’ requests to rebuild.
A Tip o’ the (MAGA) Hat 0
Elie Mystal takes exception to the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that states cannot ban partisan clothing at polling places. As a side note, the item in question was a “Gadsden Flag” tee shirt; despite the Gadsden Flag’s roots in the Revolutionary War, it has become an ensign of the new Secesh.
A snippet (follow the link for the rest):
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. . . I’ve been to Mississippi and I know what black people have to go through in order to exercise their franchise.
Virginia offers Gadsden Flag license plates. I recall discussing them with someone once.
We agreed that they performed a service, in that that notified others that persons driving vehicles so adorned were likely–oh, never mind.
Twits on Twitter, Base Desires Dept. 0
In a thoughtful article that slices through the fog of point-counterpoint claims about Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet and the subsequent cancellation of her television show, Bret Stephen’s concludes
Follow the link to learn why he reached that conclusion.
Twits on Twitter, Meet Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The linguistic gymnastics of the Secesh to convince others and themselves that the United States Civil War was something other than what it was–an attempt to preserve an economy based on oppression, exploitation, and theft of labor–never cease to amaze.