Politics of Hate category archive
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
At NorthJersey.com, Bruce Lowry describes how the trickle has become a flood in Sussex County, New Jersey. An excerpt:
Still another tweet, shared July 17, has a photo of the four and the words: “America is demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of these radical terrorists for traitorous and slanderous remarks and attacks against America and the president of the United States of America.”
Trapped in a Cell (Phone) 0
Glen Geher explores the dark side of living in a screen-based world. A snippet:
Intuitively, we can understand why. Someone who is posting anonymously to a blog probably will never meet the blogger in person. They probably have little investment in the blogger’s personal success. Further, unless the blogger is some kind of super computer hacker, the anonymous commenter is probably never going to “get caught.” So the possibility of retribution is unlikely.
Of course, evolved human conditions were not like this at all. However, the “anonymous blog comment” is, as we all know, just the tip of the iceberg. These days, people are regularly, across a broad array of platforms, communicating with others in anonymous, deindividuated* ways. This is a highly mismatched, unnatural way for humans to communicate with one another, and for a variety of reasons, it brings out the worst in us.
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*From Britannica.com (more at the link): “Deindividuation, phenomenon in which people engage in seemingly impulsive, deviant, and sometimes violent acts in situations in which they believe they cannot be personally identified (e.g., in groups and crowds and on the Internet).”
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Words fail me.
Roots 0
Solomon Jones marvels at the capacity that some have for forgetting where they came from.
(Misplet wrod correxd.)
Tutorials of Toxicity, Reprise 0
Charles Blow finds the lessons that Donald Trump is teaching through his behavior to be troubling (to put it mildly). Here are some of the lessons Blow sees:
He is teaching little boys that women’s bodies exist as playgrounds for privileged men and that there is no price to be paid if you are popular enough or rich enough.
He is teaching little girls that if they are ever victims of sexual assault by a popular, wealthy boy and deign to reveal it, they will likely come under withering verbal assault.
Follow the link for the rest of the curriculum.
The Senders 0
In the aftermath of last week’s Trump rally in Greenville, North Carolina, Daniel J. Winarick wonders about the characteristics of persons who would chant, “Send her back.”
Tutorials of Toxicity 0
Will Bunch, in the course of a long column about the spread of the Trump toxin through our polity, notes a particularly distressing incident involving a young girl in the audience behind Donald Trump at last week’s rally in Greenville, North Carolina. He suggests that Trump’s rallies are training seminars for hate and the hate-full:
Follow the link for the rest of his thoughts.
Metamorphosis 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., wonders whether the Republican Party is still a political party or has it become something else.
Interrogation 0
The Roanoke Times editorial board has some questions for Republicans who refuse to condemn Donald Trump’s racism.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Eugene Robinson sees the past in the present. Here’s a bit from the beginning of the article; follow the link for the rest.
Twittering Twits 0
Dr. B. Joyce Stallworth remarks on the unintentional–nay, ignorant and oblivious–irony of this twit.
