Politics of Hate category archive
Detritus 0
Jim Wright looks at the first week of Trumpery and is less than impressed. A snippet:
Follow the link, read the rest, then weep for my country.
Next, don’t give up.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Patrick Rael points out what should be obvious.
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The Media Whitewashing 0
Badtux has had with corporate media’s narrative about the election’s having been about economics. (It wasn’t; had it been, the outcome would have been different.) A snippet.
He quite right, you know. The corporate media’s increasing tendency to treat this as politics as usual is a disservice to truth, to history, and to the polity. (Warning: Language at the link.)
Also, Mencken was right.
Lies and Lying Liars 0
You can’t make this stuff up, but they can.
Victory Dance 0
Via Job’s Anger.
Afterthought:
This is the ultimate legacy of Richard Nixon and his odious Southern strategy.
It’s about the Privilege 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., does not mince words about the core of Donald Trump’s victory. He recognizes that it’s not what the corporate media are saying it is. A snippet:
It isn’t the economy. It isn’t poverty or trade. It is the coming America in which white people no longer bear the stamp of demographic primacy, in which they will be reduced from lead actor to ensemble member.
Read the rest.
Floodgates 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Elizabeth J. Meyer looks at the wages of Trumpery. A snippet:
First, we have to be able to put these behaviors in context. I have been researching and writing about biased harassment in schools since the early 90’s, and never have I seen so many documented incidents covered in the media in such a short period of time.
It’s just starting.