Politics of Hate category archive
Hate in the Mainstream 0
Ashley C. Rondini suggests that the right-wing makes up dangers to use the resultant fear as vector to spread their politics of hate. Here’s a bit.
These ideas should sound familiar for another reason: They now echo from our nation’s highest office as rhetorical strategies President Trump repeatedly returns to, bearing a familiar narrative structure.
Follow the link for the whole thing; it’s worth the three minutes of your time that you will need to read it.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
From the Raleigh News and Observer (more at the link):
Zainab Baloch, who is Muslim, is one of seven candidates running for two at-large seats on the council. Early voting is ongoing and Election Day is Tuesday.
Her campaign posted a video on her Facebook page Friday morning showing the sign, located at 5520 Louisburg Road in northeast Raleigh.
The words “sand n—–” are painted across a photo of Baloch’s face.
Falsehood Prophets 0
Using the Las Vegas shooting as a springboard, Mike discusses the venality and hypocrisy of the religious right.
Warning: Language.
Elections Have Consequences . . . 0
. . . and they are not always positive.
Not Knowing Their Place 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., notes that there seems no “right way” to protest against discrimination. A snippet (follow the link for the rest):
When there was violence in the streets over unpunished police killings of African-American men, they said that was the wrong way to go about it. Most of us agreed.
But when peaceful street demonstrations took place, conservatives didn’t like them, either. Then, last year, NFL player Colin Kaepernick hit on the idea of sitting through the national anthem.
But conservatives said that was disrespectful to veterans. So Kaepernick started taking a knee instead. Many others followed suit.
Conservatives said that was still wrong . . . .
It’s not the protests that conservatives find distasteful.
It’s the uppity.
Since protest of any kind is inherently uppity, there is no form of protest that conservatives will find acceptable.
Twits on Twitter 0
Lost in translation twits.
Facebook Frolics, Yet More Racist Frolickers Dept. 0
In the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Tony Norman comments on the (now ex-)Fire Chief who posted a racist statement about NFL coach Mike Tomlin and then claimed it was not racist, no sirree, not racist at all. A snippet:
I know what you’re thinking: What’s the race-ish card?
Follow the link for the answer.
Facebook Frolics, Mining the Depths Dept. 0
Will Bunch critiques the minecraft:
Follow the link for thoughtful and considered discussion of what happens when forces of deception and disruption prey on ersatz patriotism.
“Let No Good Deed Go Unpunished” 0
The Des Moines Register’s Rehka Basu reports on what she calls “the new self-righteousness.” (Hint: It’s all self and no righteousness.)
Plus ca Change 0
David Farmer has heard it before. A nugget:
It was echo of the stinging voice of Alabama Gov. George Wallace that I heard in Alabama last week.
The speaker was President Donald Trump, but his words carried themes from the not-so-distant and ugly past.
The Unmasking 0
Jenee Osterholt points out what was obvious to anyone who paid attention. An excerpt:
Donald Trump is the president America deserves.
He’s forcing the country to take the mask off, to confront its systemically oppressive ways, to deal with the fact that xenophobia, homophobia, sexism, able-ism, anti-Semitism, Islamaphobia and, yes, racism, are real. Say it with me: Racism is real.
(snip)
Perhaps this is what happens when a rich reality TV star who gets off on debasing and firing people storms into the White House. Or maybe we’re watching the institutional racism that has been remixed and masked in mass incarceration, mortgage discrimination, redlining and more stack together like Voltron and become a president.