Politics of Hate category archive
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Thom tangles with a caller who can’t handle the facts.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Elie Mystal reacts to the Trump Administration’s latest barrage in its never-ending fusillade of racism and bigotry, this one directed at the Trumpists’ attempt to rip protections from Haitian refugees legally present in the United States.
Just read it.
California Schemin’ 0
Paul Krugman looks for the motives behind Donald Trump’s war on California. A snippet:
Conservatives confidently predicted disaster, declaring that the state was committing “economic suicide.” You might think that the failure of that disaster to materialize, especially combined with the way California has outperformed states like Kansas and North Carolina that turned hard right while it was turning left, might induce them to reconsider their worldview. That is, you might think that if you haven’t been paying any attention to the right-wing mindset.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
David discusses a recent ADL report and muses about Donald Trump’s role in weaponizing white supremacy.
Suffer the Children 0
Esther Cepeda marvels at the Trump administration’s institutionalization of cruelty.
The Institutionalization of Sadism 0
That’s what happens when cruelty becomes routine . . . .
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Sam posits that American conservatism has devolved into a mix of greed and racism, then discusses how it intertwines with gunnuttery.
“Otherization” 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Pamela Paresky, explores the language of dehumanization and how it fosters an “us vs. them” mentality. A snippet:
(snip)
President Trump uses similar dehumanizing language. New York Times Correspondent Maggie Haberman noted that Trump’s terminology of “infestation” makes immigrants into insects. Using metaphors such as insects, vermin, parasites, garbage, and such elicits the feelings of disgust one has for those things and connects that emotion of disgust with the person or group of people described.
Suffer the Children 0
The cruelty just keeps getting more overt . . . .
The Climates They Are a-Changing, Reprise 0
At the Hartford Courant, Gary Yohe and Michael Mann discuss the other kind of climate change.
Both Sides Not 0
David runs the numbers.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Ed Kilgore argues that, when Donald Trump talks about “disloyal Jews”–“disloyal” meaning daring to disagree with Donald Trump–he is talking to his evangelical “Christians” devotees. A snippet:
Maybe he doesn’t; for an Ivy Leaguer, the president is impressively ignorant about an awful lot of things. But it’s more likely that all his talk about the Jews is really aimed at a very different audience: his white conservative Evangelical Christian electoral base, which has its own distinctive and unsettling form of philosemitism.