Politics of Hate category archive
The Rule of Lawless Meets the Wall-eyed Piker 0
What’s a few less laws, anyway?
The new Wild West of the border wall is an authoritarian dreamscape where the boss man faces no limits and no obligations. It’s as though Marshall Wyatt Earp, reborn as an orange-haired easterner with no knowledge of the actual West, were back in charge, deciding who’s in and who’s out, what goes and what stays.
More lawlessness at the link.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At The Seattle Times, Clyde W. Ford discusses the “intellectual” constructs used to rationalize racism and white nationalism, or, to put it another way, how haters convince themselves that their hate is okay.
Twelfth Night 0
Afterthought:
“Cleaning up homelessness” and “mopping up the homeless” are not the same thing.
Misdirection Plays, All the News that Fits Dept. 0
David looks back at a year of Foxy shadiness.
The Propagation 0
The Des Moines Register’s marvelous Reka Basu looks at the effects of three years of Trumpery. A snippet:
At high school sports events, fans have used the chants to intimidate opposing teams’ nonwhite players. In 2017 after a high school girls’ basketball varsity game between Mediapolis and Columbus Junction (which has a large Latino population), a message saying “Go back to the border” and “Go Trump” was scribbled on a whiteboard in a locker room.
Close Encounters 0
In The Seattle Times, Elisabeth Becker Topkara recalls her grandmother’s warning her that antisemitism would not go away during her granddaughter’s lifetime. She offers proof that her grandmother was correct.
Follow the link for the rest.
The Replication 0
Matt Welch muses about how the Republican Party is remaking itself in the image of Donald Trump. A nugget:
“Modern Day McCarthyism” 0
Mike considers the potential fallout to the polity from Donald Trump’s campaign against decent and upright government officials. (Warning: Language.)
Read the column that Mike refers to.
