Politics of Hate category archive
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
Ring of Fire’s Jerrod Zisser reacts to Donald Trump’s welcoming Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman into the Oval Office.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Via the Washington Monthly, Paul Finkelman looks at Donald Trump’s proposed immigration “policy” changes and hears a rhyme from the past. Here’s a tiny bit (emphasis added); follow the link for the rest.
And the Trump maladministration moves to close that door once more.
America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority fabricated to rationalize it continue to take their toll.
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*Mark Twain.
Skin of Thin 0
Farron points out that Donald Trump can’t take a joke and wants to punish the jokesters.
Republican Thought Police 0
Remember, the purpose of intimidation is to motivate persons to censor themselves.
Via the Sacramento Bee, Alli Aldis looks at how intimidation is stifling thought and learning. He explains that teachers are starting the censor themselves due to pressure from government and parents. He cites a survey:
Follow the link for context.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
History professor Michael E. Neagle listens to the Trump maladministration’s justifications for bombing South American fishing boats and hears a number of rhymes. Here’s just one of them:
Applied during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the label denied captured insurgents international rights and protections otherwise afforded state-sanctioned “prisoners of war.”
It enabled the indefinite detention and torture of these individuals, which eroded America’s moral standing in the world and crippled judicial efforts to convict suspected 9/11 planners.
Follow the link for the rest.
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*Mark Twain.
Devolution 0
I fear that my old Philly DL friend Noz is quite correct about one aspect of Donald Trump’s legacy.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, Don Lattin, who covered Jonestown, hears a rhyme. Here’s but a tiny bit from his article:
Follow the link to see why hears such eerie echoes.
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*Mark Twain.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The mean for the sake of mean takes one’s breath away–not to mention taking away the lives and livelihoods of persons because they are brown or speak with an accent.
A Notion of Immigrants . . . 0
. . . Meet the privatization scam.
Republican Thought Police 0
If you don’t like history, well, just apply a little white out.
The Conflicted 0
Via the Las Vegas Sun, Anita Chabria argues that MAGA Republicans are facing a quandary.
They are having trouble agreeing about who to hate.
Here’s a brief excerpt (emphasis added); follow the link for context.
It comes amid the first real rebellion about rampant and increasingly open antisemitism within the MAGAverse, creating a massive rift between traditional conservatives and a younger, rabidly anti-Jewish contingent called groypers whose leader, Nick Fuentes, recently posted that he is “team Hitler.”
Turns out, when you cultivate a political movement based on hate, at some point the hate is uncontrollable. In fact, that hate needs to be fed to maintain power — even if it means feasting on its own.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Writing at The Sacramento Bee, Jonathan van Harmelen hears a rhyme. Here’s one brief couplet (emphasis added):
Follow the link for the rest of the verses.
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*Mark Twain.
American Stasi 0
Apparently, if ICE arrests the wrong persons because of mistaken identity, they just get to keep them anyway, because they can.
Welcome to the rule of lawless.