Politics of Hate category archive
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):
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
It was supposed to be a father-daughter fishing outing.
It turned into the daughter’s first encounter with a rock-throwing name-calling racist.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Sam and the crew note that persons are starting to push back at ICE and its brown shirt tactics.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Sam and the crew dissect ICE’s new catch-22.
Suffer the Children 0
One more time, that’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy. (Warning: Short promo at the end.)
An excerpt:
Trump and his allies play word games, they play semantic games, they don’t care about the Constitution, unless it’s the Second Amendment.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Rebecca Watson debunks Donald Trump’s “white genocide in South Africa” bunk.
Or you can read the transcript.
Republican Thought Police 0
Our wannabe dictator has sicced the Republican thought police on NPR and PBS. At Above the Law, Liz Dye points out that
Follw the link for the other stuff she points out.
Student Visa Tours 0
Daniel Ruth, writing at the Tampa Bay Times, takes issue with Donald Trump’s characterization of foreign students at American universities. He tell of his own experiences with foreign students at the University of South Florida. Here are a couple of excerpts from his article:
The contributions of these international students are profound.
Almost all of are engaged in STEM majors — bio med, engineering, physics, chemistry, math, biology. A few are business majors. All of them are a joy to be around. They are intellectually curious. They are very serious people, and they can be funny, too.
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. . . so many of them want to use their American education to return to their homelands to make things better — the medical students, the engineering students, the computer science students, the nursing students. They want to make their countries better. And Donald Trump wants to throw them out.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini, prompted by a communication from a reader, asked ICE why its agents are wearing masks while arresting immigrants who have broken no laws–who, in fact, have played by the rules. ICE did not respond when he asked for an explanation, so he offers his own theory:
Follow the link, where he explains how he came to that conclusion.