Politics of Hate category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Vanessa Williamson, Sam’s guest, historian Vannessa Williamson, discusses the ways in which white persons rhetoric and tactics in rolling back Reconstruction continues to affect our politics today.
It’s a relatively long segment, but well worth a listen. As you listen to Williamson talk about events a century and a half ago, you will find disquieting parallels with what passes for discourse today.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun has a question.
Suburban Guerillas 0
The Washington Post reports on the domestic terrorists next door.
Boebert Is the New Gohmert, Reprise 0
Mike Littwin looks at the fuss newly installed Colorado representative and QAnon fan Lauren Boebert has stirred up since arriving in Washington, D. C. A snippet:
But Boebert, who knows nothing more than how to get noticed, put up a video that would go viral of her walking down what she called dangerous Washington streets, explaining why she needed a Glock at her side all times. Turns out, she didn’t yet have a D.C. concealed carry license and that the dangerous neighborhood is made up of multimillion-dollar houses.
The Festering 0
At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Susan Benesch makes the case that hate-full speech corrodes the polity, not all at once, but slowly, over time. A nugget:
Every time Trump has made an inflammatory, hateful, and/or false remark since, journalists and Democrats called it out. But not Republicans, with the rarest of exceptions . . . .
Freedom of Screech 0
From the Bangor Daily News editorial board, in considering Missouri Senator Josh Hawley’s discomfiture at being held accountable for his actions:
The First Amendment doesn’t say Simon & Schuster shall publish all books
Give it a read.
Who Cudda Knowed? Reprise 0
Shorter Werner Herzog’s Bear: Anyone and everyone.
“The Pottery Barn Insurrection” 0
Writing at The Philadelphia Inquirer, Will Bunch notes that most of the persons who stormed the Capitol last week were not poor and downtrodden. He points out that
He goes on to explore why persons from the middle, if not upper, echelons of society chose to attempt to overturn the election. Follow the link for his conclusions.
A Picture Is Worth 0
At the Inky, Tim Tai explains.
Phoning It In 0
The Roanoke Times’s Dan Casey is making a list for the “Democracy Stoppers Hotline.”