Politics of Hate category archive
The Rule of Lawless 0
In a longer article cataloguing the many Capitol rioters who outed themselves on “social” media during their brief time in that building, the AP includes what I think is a telling comment:
On that same topic, can you do soul-searching if you have no soul?
Patriot Gamers 0
Franita Tolson explores the pretzeled words of the seditionists telling themselves that they are patriots. A nugget:
Not coincidentally, the language of revolution reemerges when white Americans feel threatened by the rise of minority political power.
Parler Talk 0
A federal judge unsurprisingly rules that the Constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech does not convey the right to violate a private hosting provider’s terms of service.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
A woman from India, now a Bollywood star, remembers the racist bullying she experienced attending high school in the United States.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Vanessa Williamson, Sam’s guest, historian Vannessa Williamson, discusses the ways in which white persons rhetoric and tactics in rolling back Reconstruction continues to affect our politics today.
It’s a relatively long segment, but well worth a listen. As you listen to Williamson talk about events a century and a half ago, you will find disquieting parallels with what passes for discourse today.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun has a question.
Suburban Guerillas 0
The Washington Post reports on the domestic terrorists next door.
Misdirection Play, Insurrection Resurrection Dept. 0
Thom marvels at the Republicans’ attempts to blame anybody but themselves for what happened at the Capitol on January 6. As an aside, this segues nicely to Paul Krugman’s article linked in my previous post. (The relevant comment starts at about the four minute mark, after the introduction.)
Boebert Is the New Gohmert, Reprise 0
Mike Littwin looks at the fuss newly installed Colorado representative and QAnon fan Lauren Boebert has stirred up since arriving in Washington, D. C. A snippet:
But Boebert, who knows nothing more than how to get noticed, put up a video that would go viral of her walking down what she called dangerous Washington streets, explaining why she needed a Glock at her side all times. Turns out, she didn’t yet have a D.C. concealed carry license and that the dangerous neighborhood is made up of multimillion-dollar houses.
The Festering 0
At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Susan Benesch makes the case that hate-full speech corrodes the polity, not all at once, but slowly, over time. A nugget:
Every time Trump has made an inflammatory, hateful, and/or false remark since, journalists and Democrats called it out. But not Republicans, with the rarest of exceptions . . . .