Politics of Hate category archive
Out of the Woodwork, Origins Issue 0
Update: Edited to fix the goofs.
Lee Camp notes that, during Trump’s campaign, white supremacists, white nationalists, and wannabe robber barons were not evident in the Trumpian entourage (though garden-variety rascists and bigots certainly were). He wonders where they came from. The relevant section is the first 10 minutes or so in the video (warning: language).
Facebook Frolics 0
Case dismissed.
Modamani wanted the US social media giant, represented by Facebook Ireland Limited, to stop the spread of such defamatory fake news, which have been shared countless times.
He was represented by German lawyer Chan-jo Jun, who has previously launched legal action against Facebook, demanding it stop the spread of racist hate speech and other content illegal under German law.
Decoding De Code 0
Farron Cousins translates Jason Chavetz:
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Such as, for example, alternative facts.
Molten Pot 2
The Philadelphia Daily News’s Sandy Shea tries to make sense of recent events. A snippet:
What worries me is that the reappearance of these incidents says something ugly about all of us – and not only those who are filled with hate.
We’ve told ourselves for generations that we are a tolerant nation, that we welcome outsiders, that we are a melting pot of cultures and nationalities. I’ve believed it. But now I have to wonder: Was that tolerance only skin deep? Was collective hatred so close to the surface that all it took was implied (and explicit) permission from someone who encourages suspicion and fear?
Nothing Doin’ 0
Above the Law discusses life with a do-nothing.
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses
Oh, Forget It, Reprise
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A doctor describes the results of being mean for the sake of mean.
Follow the link for more.
All that Was Old Is New Again 0
Pamela Grundy sees a parallel:
Follow the link for the rest.
“Ve Vere Just Followink Orders” (Updated) 0
The number of reports of gratuitous cruelty, mixed with a large dose of bigotry, by those charged with patrolling the nation’s borders during the last month has been staggering; I’ve noted a few of them in these electrons.
Innocent citizens and non-citizens, distinguished personages and ordinary persons alike have been detained solely because of the sound of their names or the color of their skin.
Will Bunch writes of this today; here’s a snippet from his article.
It was a striking piece, but now a few weeks later the situation seems actually worse than what he wrote, with these so-called “unexceptional people” actually finding “fun” in carrying out brutal policies for America’s new strongman in the White House.
Read the rest.
Addendum, Later That Same Day:
Yes, it can happen here.
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses
Oh, Forget It, Reprise
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The Des Moines Register’s Rekha Basu is disheartened at the Trumpling of immigrants and refugees. Here’s a snippet from her column:
Do please read the rest.
“Those Who Forget the Past . . . .” 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., channels George Santayana.
“Undermined from Within” 0
I don’t know to what extent I buy this, but the truly scary thing is that it does not sound impossible.
You can find another take in the same vein here.
“Five Signs of Totalitarianism” 0
Christopher Lebron lists them at the Boston Review. Do any of them sound familiar?
Sign 1: Leader Insists on Mass Public Adoration.
Sign 2: Regime Controls the Truth.
Sign 3: Regime Suppresses Knowledge Producers.
Sign 4: Regime Invents Common Enemies.
Sign 5: Leader Is Surrounded by Cronies and Sycophants.
Follow the link for a detailed discussion of each one.
Lies and Lying Liars
(and the People Who Love Them)
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Warning: Language.