Politics of Hate category archive
Facebook Frolics 0
The SPLC reports that Facebook
Details at the link.
Co-opting Covidiocy 0
Snopes has an article exploring why far-right groups, like the Proud Boys, are embracing the “reopen the economy” protests. An excerpt:
Once they’re standing side by side at a protest, members of far-right hate groups begin to share their ideas. That lures some people deeper into online groups and forums where they can be radicalized against immigrants, Jews or other stereotypical scapegoats.
Pay Attention to the Men behind the Curtain 0
Thom examines who is behind the astro-turf “reopen America” protests by reviewing analyses of Google Analytics trackers on their websites.
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: