Politics of Hate category archive
The Court Is in Sessions 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice details a recent and Kafkaesque attempt by the Sessions Department of “you can laughingly call it” Justice to deny immigrants access to legal advice.
It appears the vile is in style.
The Ban That Dare Not Speak Its Name 0
At The Charlotte Observer, historian David B. Parker finds a parallel to Donald Trump’s “oh, no, it’s not really a Muslim ban” ban. It’s not pretty. Here’s the gist:
It might be useful to consider a historical analogy.
In the late 19th century, Mississippi’s Democratic leaders were concerned about the state’s political future. Democrats had controlled Mississippi since the end of Reconstruction, but the black population was growing, and Republicans (at the time, the more civil rights-oriented party) had just gained control of both houses of Congress and the White House. How could Democrats ensure that they would stay on top?
If only there were some way to limit the black vote, they would be safe. If only they could pass a law that said, “Negroes may not vote in Mississippi,” that would settle it. But the Fifteenth Amendment prohibited states from denying anyone the right to vote “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” So this is the problem that white Mississippians faced: how to cut out the black vote without looking like they were cutting out the black vote.
“Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.” 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, David Ropeik explores the politics of fear.
Or is there something else we need to worry about, something far deeper, something far more potentially dangerous? Shouldn’t we also be afraid of the subjective way we figure out what to be afraid of in the first place, the cognitive system that leads to these disparate views on what we need to fear based on precisely the same evidence?
Follow the link for his answers to those questions.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
At the Guardian, Steven W Thrasher explains that it’s all about the racism. A snippet:
Read the whole thing.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., points out that racism elected Trump (of course, if you have been paying attention, you knew that already). A snippet:
In words of one syllable: I told you so.
There was a neon line leading straight from the lavish abuse heaped on Barack Obama to Trump, who asks a black reporter to set up a meeting for him with the Congressional Black Caucus (“Are they friends of yours?”) and tries to hang a “No Muslims” sign on the Statue of Liberty. Yet many white journalists, pundits, authors and academics simply could not see it.
Amen.
Twits on Twitter, Still Rising Again after All These Years Dept. 0
“War of Northern Aggression” twits.
Quiet Zone 0
Alex and his caller discuss Republican attempts to lock up peaceful protestors on Trumped up charges.
Image via Juanita Jean.
True Confessions 0
Honest to Pete, you couldn’t make this stuff up.
Mutual Assistance Pact 0
You may recall that, in the dim dark past of about a year ago, many Republican regulars were skeptical of Donald Trump’s campaign and even of his competence.
No more. Now they appear to be all in for Trump.
Werner Herzog’s Bear explains why. Here’s a nugget; follow the link for the whole article:
Paying for Poison 0
Your guide to being Flint-hearted:
More than 8,000 residents who have unpaid bills have received notices that if their balances are not paid by May 19, a tax lien will be placed on their homes, according to a report by NBC News.
Brain Drain 0
Words fail me.
Robin Attas, an assistant professor of music at the school near Burlington, says her husband, Nicolás Narváez Soza, who is from Nicaragua, and their children have endured a number of incidents that made her family feel threatened and unwelcome.
More at the link.
47 Years Ago . . . 0
. . . American soldiers turned their guns on American citizens exercising their First Amendment rights to protest one of America’s wars for a lie–not for the first nor for the last time.
I learned about it when one of my friends came into the Campus Center (aka Student Union) at my college and said, “They’re killing us.”