Politics of Hate category archive
The Enablers 0
Thom speaks with the Lt. Governor of Michigan about the plot to kidnap the Governor of Michigan.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery (Updated) (Updated Again) 0
Addendum:
And a special bonus Trumpling at an Aldi.
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The sign made of bales of hay that was subjected to a fiery Trumpling has been reborn with a new message.
Suffer the Children–It’s Republican Policy 0
In an article carried by the Las Vegas Sun, Tim Stellar dissects the lies the Trump administration has used to defend its practice of separating migrant children from their parents.
He explores four specific lies. Follow the link for a detailed debunking of each one.
- Lie 1. DHS did not have a policy of separating families to deter migration
- Lie 2: Separating migrant families is just like arresting American parents
- Lie 3: Obama and Bush separated families like this, too
- Lie 4: Family separation has ended
Human Beings: Simultaneously the Salt and the Scum of the Earth 0
Scientific Blogging carries psychologist Simon McCarthy-Jones’s exploration how and why some persons find cruelty gratifying.
It’s fascinating and timely read; here’s a bit:
Humans typically do things to get pleasure or avoid pain. For most of us, hurting others causes us to feel their pain. And we don’t like this feeling. This suggests two reasons people may harm the harmless – either they don’t feel the others’ pain or they enjoy feeling the others’ pain.
Another reason people harm the harmless is because they nonetheless see a threat. Someone who doesn’t imperil your body or wallet can still threaten your social status. This helps explain otherwise puzzling actions, such as when people harm others who help them financially.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Still remembering Professor Shade, I wonder whether he would find irony in the Republican Party’s transformation into the party of the Secesh.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Thom remarks on the similarities between stuff that appears on QAnon and Nazi (and before that Russian) antisemitic propaganda and posits that there is a direct link from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion to Nazism to QAnon.
Complicit 0
A recurring phenomenon during the Black Lives Matter protests has been the appearance of white supremacists and other far-right agitators at otherwise generally peaceful protests in order to foment violence.
At Psychology Today Blogs, Rosemary Sword and Philip Zimbardo explore the minds and motivations of white supremacists. They start by citing an interview with former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official Elizabeth Neumann, then go on to delve what motivates the embrace white supremacy and that embrace affects the behavior of the embracers.
It ain’t pretty.
Here’s a bit about the Neumann interview; follow the link for the rest of the discussion.
Neumann states further, “White supremacy groups are emboldened by the refusal (of the president and vice-president) to condemn them. The extreme fringe on the right believes the country should be white and controlled by white men…As recruitment occurs, there’s more violence; which we’ve seen the last three years.”
Bat Signals 0
Will Bunch looks back at the Republican convention coronation. An excerpt (emphasis added):
Only 26 hours after the disgraced former Party of Lincoln hit rock bottom by inviting racial vigilantes into your living room came the heartbreaking yet utterly predictable response: American carnage. Two people lay dead in the streets of strife-torn Kenosha, Wis. The 17-year-old — his life, too, forever broken by the lies of a movement he’d embraced — was finally arrested. But only after calmly walking right past police officers who apparently were there not to prevent disorder but to preserve it.
Do please read the rest.