Politics of Hate category archive
A Taxonomy of Trolls 0
You can’t tell the preyers without a program.
Them What Has . . . . 0
Gene Nichol looks at the effect of Donald Trump’s economic it-would-be-dressing-them-up-in-Sunday-go-to-meeting-clothes-to-call-them policies. A snippet:
The Rule of Lawless 0
Judge throws in the towel on the rule of law.
The Rule of Lawless Meets the Wall-eyed Piker 0
What’s a few less laws, anyway?
The new Wild West of the border wall is an authoritarian dreamscape where the boss man faces no limits and no obligations. It’s as though Marshall Wyatt Earp, reborn as an orange-haired easterner with no knowledge of the actual West, were back in charge, deciding who’s in and who’s out, what goes and what stays.
More lawlessness at the link.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At The Seattle Times, Clyde W. Ford discusses the “intellectual” constructs used to rationalize racism and white nationalism, or, to put it another way, how haters convince themselves that their hate is okay.
Twelfth Night 0
Afterthought:
“Cleaning up homelessness” and “mopping up the homeless” are not the same thing.