Politics of Hate category archive
The Pettiest Officers 0
Andreas Kluth examines the maliciousness of what he calls “the petty purges of Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio” and concluces that
Follow the link for his path to that conclusion.
Republican Thought Police 0
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts writes about Arizona’ state Superintendent of Schools Tom Horne, who’s position on a history book that contains actual history can be summarized as “I haven’t read the book, and you shouldn’t either.”
I commend her article to your attention.
Aside:
As one who trained as an historian, I find today’s Republican Party’s efforts to claim that history wasn’t to be particularly offensive. And stupid. And insidiously, invidiously harmful to the polity.
Masked Marauders 0
Thom argues that Trump has given a green light to racists to act like racists.
The Predator’s Playbook 0
Michael in Norfolk perceives a pattern.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Washington Monthly, Garrett Epps hears a rhyme:
The struggle in the 1850s arose out of the federal government’s determination to return Black Americans to slavery (via the Fugitive Slave Act–ed.) even after they had escaped to the free North. What is happening on the streets of American cities—and most particularly, now, on the streets of Los Angeles—carries uncanny echoes of that decade-long battle, which ended in secession and Civil War.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
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*Mark Twain.
One Thing Is Not Like the Other Thing, Reprise 0
At AL.com, Jared Margulies, Emily Wittman, Janek Wasserman, and Luke Herrine, Jewish faculty members at the University of Alabama, argue that conflating opposing Israel’s actions in Gaza with antisemitism, as Alabama senator Katie Britt recently did, is a misdirection play. Given dis coarse discourse, methinks it a timely and worthwhile read. Here’s a tiny bit from early in the article:
The Ruler of Lawless 0
David analyzes the aspiring authoritarian’s actions. I cannot take issue with his analysis. (Warning: Short promo at the end.)
At AK,com, Roy S. Johnson has more.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Farron argues that Stephen Miller is upset because there’s no there there.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Now, I’m starting to hear a rhyme, and it sounds something sort of like, I can’t quite make it out, it’s a little distorted, maybe “Tempt Fate“?
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*Mark Twain.
One Thing Is Not Like the Other Thing 0
Wearing a mask to protect your health and slow the spread of a pandemic is not the same thing as wearing a mask to hide your identity while violating persons’ Constitutional rights, regardless of what some pipsqueak pol who’s in way over his head might say.
Separation of Posers 0
Sam and the crew dissect Donald Trump’s feud with Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, John Hill debunks de bunk. A snippet (emphasis added):