Politics of Hate category archive
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.
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.
