Politics of Hate category archive
Freedom from Fear, at Last* 0
Meet the people that Republicans demonize and remind yourself that a refugee is one who seeks refuge.
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Chris-Crossed, Kick ‘Em While They’re Down Dept. 0
Mike Kelly considers Chris Christy’s Bully’s Pulpit:
So listen up. Uncle Chris is talking. He had quite a lot to say last week.
Christie, who made his political bones and attracted national attention by picking on teachers, has a new and even weaker group to attack – refugees from war.
Do please read the rest.
The Republican Party has become a vile and loathsome thing.
Misdirection Play 0
Trevor Timm tries to track all the misdirection plays since the attacks in Paris. Two nuggets:
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As dishonest as the “debate” over encryption has been, the dark descension of the Republican party into outright racism and cynically playing off the irrational fears of the public over the Syrian refugee crisis has been worse. We now know the attackers weren’t Syrian and weren’t even refugees. It was a cruel rumor or hoax that one was thought to have come through Europe with a Syrian passport system, but that was cleared up days ago. But in the world of Republican primaries, who cares about facts?
Follow the link for the misdirection play-by-play.
A Nation of Scaredy-Cats 0
I am ashamed of my country and of its having a major political party that panders to, stokes, and relies on bigotry.
I shall stop now, because all I have left is profanity.
Addendum, the Next Morning:
Crank Bear has the profanity so I don’t have to.
Facebook Frolics 0
Facebook (and many others) seem to have forgotten that, 4,000 years before ISIS was an acronym, Isis was an Egyptian goddess.
We are a society of stupid.
Land of the Free, Home of the Ch**kenshit 0
Elsewhere, Werner Herzog’s Bear looks at America’s long history of chickenshit and Bad Tux marvels at the cowardice of right-wing banty roosters.
Video via Raw Story.
American Taliban 0
Warning: Language.
Plus Ca Change 0
When I was a young ‘un, back in the olden days, my school district finally gave in to Brown v. Board of Education, a decision rendered eleven years earlier. (My county had not participated in “massive resistance”; its resistance had been quite passive.)
We “integrated” (this was in 1965) which meant that one very brave black girl (who I am certain was carefully chosen for toughness and resilience) from the black high school joined the white high school’s senior class; no white students moved to the black high school.* The next year, a few more black students joined a few more classes at the white high school.
This was known as “gradual integration.”
Proms and school dances for that and I-don’t-know-how-many subsequent years were then cancelled because one of them and one of us might dance together.
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*Many white students, though, were pulled out of the white high school to attend the new seg academy all-white “private” school.
By the by, whenever I hear anyone complain of “forced busing,” I will remember that I was forced-bused right by the black high school to the white one.
