Politics of Hate category archive
Cancel Culture, Unreconstructed Style 0
As Leonard Pitts, Jr., points out (see below), until white America is willing to confront its past, it will continue to deny its present.
The Cultist 0
Robert Bruce Adolph is a former U. S. Army special forces member and ex-U. N. Security Chief. In the Tampa Bay Times, he tells of meeting an unreconstructed Hitler fan while serving in Germany almost four decades ago.
The tale is a disturbing one which I fear may be relevant today to our politics today.
To attempt to excerpt or summarize would be to do it an injustice. Just read it.
Job Opening 0
(I’m certain there will be no lack of applicants eager to fill that seat.)
Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.
Facebook Frolics, Rule of Lawless Dept. 0
Yet another Florida Woman.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Arizona Congressperson Debbie Lesko takes a discriminating view. Here’s a snippet from the article by the Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts:
Just don’t put those “very good workers” in line to be vaccinated against a potentially fatal virus that has disproportionately attacked Latinos and other minority populations.
Aside:
Looking at this and the previous post, one is tempted to conclude that cruelty and callousness are Republican Family Values.
Parler Talk 0
A New Jersey school board member didn’t know that insults could be, well, insulting.
Left Dangling (on the Hook) 0
E. J. Montini has a idea as to why the previous federal executive did not preemptively pardon the January 6 insurrectionists, despite requests from many of them. He cites two of them:
Likewise, Adam Newbold, a retired U.S. Navy SEAL who boasted on Facebook about “breaching the Capitol,” told ABC News, “I would like to express to you just a cry for clemency, as you understand that my life now has been absolutely turned upside-down.”
Follow the link to see Montini’s theory as to why their pleas were ignored. Methinks he is onto something.
Aside:
Yes, I know that they should have known better than to fall for a pitch from a serial con artist who’s failed at everything he’s ever tried except acting a part on television. But they didn’t.
See below.
Facebook Frolics, No, You Can’t Unsay That Dept. 0
Connie Schultz looks at Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Facebook frolics and reminds us that, despite Greene’s recent (and likely less than sincere) repudiation thereof
Follow the link for her reasoning.
Lies and Lying Liars, Facebook Frolics Dept. 0
Rachel reads Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “lasers from space” Facebook post, after citing Congressman Kevin McCarthy’s statement that Greene told him she knows nothing about it.
Via C&L, which has commentary.
A Reader Writes . . . 0
. . . a colorful letter to the editor of The Roanoke Times.