Politics of Hate category archive
“Collusion Galore,” Reprise 0
PoliticalProf explains why Trumpettes don’t care about the Trump clan’s collusion with a foreign power.
Dick Polman covers the latest (at least as of the time he penned–er, clicked–his piece); his post includes this tidbit:
“And, in That Corner . . . .” 1
During the 2016 election campaign, Chauncey Devega often remarked on the parallels between the behavior of Donald Trump and that of professional wrestling bad guys. Tony Norman picks up that theme. A snippet:
The doctored video probably wasn’t intended as such, but there hasn’t been a more astute metaphor for the emptiness and triviality of the Trump presidency than using an old snippet from a fake wrestling match as a commentary on the media. A fake sport promoting fake news from a president widely considered to be fake.
Immunity Impunity
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Elie Mystal comments on the Supreme Court’s refusal to review law enforcement’s license to kill.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Hate joins the parade:
The puppet, which was spotted along the parade route, portrayed a woman in blackface caricature. Its presence generated disappointment and anger from many in attendance.
Follow the link for a photo. The “costume” is truly grotesque.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
The Trumpling tramps on.
The symbols were found painted in black on the K Street side of the St. Francis of Assisi Parish on Saturday morning, said the Rev. Desmond O’Reilly. He said the church thinks the vandalism occurred Thursday night or early Friday morning.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
A noose was found Saturday on the Mall, at least the third in that area in recent weeks.
The noose was found hanging from a lamppost near the National Gallery of Art, said Sgt. Anna Rose, the spokeswoman for the U.S. Park Police.
Words fail me.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Trumpling a nation of immigrants.
Court documents indicate Kenneth Sjarpe initiated a shouting match with a trio of relatives, using racial slurs, telling them to get out of the country, and threatening to shoot them.
The Supremes 0
At The Roanoke Times, Keisha Graziadei-Shup offers a thoughtful meditation on the origins and fostering of feelings of supremacy, white or otherwise. A snippet:
Do I think evil is in everyone else but me?
The reality may be too horrible for most of us to face.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
This is your country on Trump.
“Oh, my god, it’s me being lynched,” Aina Adewunmi told CBSLA. “Looking at an image of yourself like that hurts.”
Aina is new to Palisades, having just transferred to the charter school back in January. She said she’s mostly felt welcomed and accepted by students there, but three boys in particular started to use racial slurs.
Groups Think 0
Afshan Jafar, professor of sociology at Connecticut College, discusses how stereotypes reinforce stigma and bigotry. He’s discussing contemporary stereotypes of Muslims, but he could as easily be discussing any other group target for bigots to take the blame.
Here’s a bit; follow the link for the rest.
As a professor of sociology at Connecticut College, this is a lesson I teach my students early, by asking them to finish the sentence: “Muslim women are … ?” which they do readily and predictably (by using words such as “oppressed,” “silenced,” “passive,” “subjugated” and sometimes by using what they consider to be positive words such as “beautiful” or “strong”). I then ask them to imagine instead that the question is “Christian women are … ?” The second question makes no sense, they say. How, they ask, could we speak for all Christian women or make a universal remark about them?
American Taliban 0
In the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Tony Norman marvels at evangelical “Christians” (Michael in Norfolk calls then “Christofacists”) support for Donald Trump. A snippet:
In the universe that I come from, Christians would rather have been fed to the lions than to have been allied with a vulgarian like Donald Trump. In this simulated universe, the American faction of Christianity appears to worship a Jesus that has contempt for the poor, hates refugees and embraces militarism. Here, Jesus blesses wealth and power and those who seek it relentlessly.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Blame the victim.
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The group (Council on American-Islamic Relations or CAIR–ed.) released a statement Saturday demanding an investigation into the Thursday incident. They say a female Muslim student, a 15-year-old sophomore, was harassed by a male student and called a terrorist. An altercation between the students ensued and the security guard intervened, along with the school resource officer, a police officer assigned to the school.
“The security guard focused completely on her,” Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Minnesota chapter of CAIR, said Monday. “He proceeded to grab her.”
The story goes on to say that the guard ripped the girl’s hijab off her head, then was taken to the police station. No action was taken against the fine upstanding young man who started it.
Via The Root.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
This is your country on Trump.
Seventeen-year-old Sawin Osman allowed herself to be identified so she could speak out against the comments.
“We were walking past him on our way out of the restaurant. He yelled, ‘That girl could break a camel’s back,’” Osman recounted to Yahoo News.
As the girls attempted to leave, he screamed, “F***ing goddamn, camel-jacking mother f***ing c***s.”
More Trumpery at the link.