Politics of Hate category archive
Facebook Frolics, Twits on Twitter, Idiots on Instagram, Yahoos on Youtube 0
You can’t make this stuff up, but they can. And do.
Tapping the Reserve 0
Thom and Professor Richard Wolff discuss how the Federal Reserve creates money with mouse clicks.
Remember, every currency is a fiat currency. Even diamonds, gold, and silver are valuable only because persons think they are valuable.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
In The Seattle Times, Danny Westneat argues that the spread of the coronavirus has stripped the mask from the United States’s hypocritical treatment of immigrants. A snippet:
Many migrant workers are now being given letters — papers, if you will — that grant them special license to violate stay-at-home orders so they can freely go to work to pick vegetables and fruit.
I commend the article to your attention.
Tales of the Trumpling: the Trumpling Goes Viral 0
Trumpled in the grocery store:
The man coughed on an employee, who backed away from the encounter.
A second employee intervened, and that’s when the man said that racial minorities are to blame for the coronavirus pandemic. Both employees were minorities, one black and the other of Asian descent.
The story goes on to report that the man was arrested, detained for a short time, then released “as police prepare a case for consideration of charges,” whatever that means.
The Cost of Living 0
Werner Herzog’s Bear argues that it’s lower than you think in the United States. In fact, suggests he, life is cheap in America.
Both Sides Don’t 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., fears that the United States will not find unity to combat the threat of the coronavirus. Here’s a snippet (emphasis added):
And I’m sorry, but you’ll read no false equivalence here — not even in the service of hoped-for reconciliation. Because the truth matters. And the truth is, it was the political right that seceded from that greater and larger “us,” that inculcated in its adherents a sense of separateness, that made of them an island warmed by a burn of permanent grievance.
Follow the link for the rest.
Tales of the Trumpling: the Trumpling Goes Viral 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, Bonnie Tsui tells tales of Trumpling in these viral times. A snippet:
The Trumpling Goes Viral 0
This is your–our–country on Trump.
(snip)
But as a bus rolled past, the man again yelled out, this time screaming at the driver to “run them all over,” Zhu said.
He turned to her and she knew it was coming.
“Please don’t,” she said.
“Right after I said that, he spit on me,” Zhu said. “I didn’t really know what to do.”
The story goes on to describe a web site being created to track such hate-full incidents.
Words fail me.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Des Moines Register’s brilliant Rekha Basu tags the Maytag Foundation (which is no longer in any way related to the appliance manufacturer) for its financial support of an anti-immigrant spin factory.
Bigotry Goes (Corona)Viral 0
I have noted from time to time in these electrons the increase of incidents of cruelty and bigotry directed at persons (who look as if they might be) of Asian descent since stories of the coronavirus entered the news. As if a virus gave a damn . . . .
Valentina Stoycheva, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, examines how persons excuse themselves from culpability for their cruelty during such a health scare. An excerpt (emphasis added):
