Politics of Hate category archive
Word Games 0
Bruce Lowry cuts through the double-speak. A snippet:
That’s like saying the president’s “birther” conspiracy claims toward former President Barack Obama were only “nativist,” and not intended to incite racism or stoke the race-fed rage in some “white nationalist” quarters still steaming over the election of our first black president.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom reflects on the return of overt racism to public discourse and muses as to what extent “social” media has contributed to it.
Republican Odyssey 0
From the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Stinkin’.
Follow the link for the cartoon, stay for the post.
Suffer the Children, One More Time 0
At AL.com, John Archibald writes of our current American dream nightmare. A snippet:
What all this really means is that we are hardly who we say we are. What it really means is that America is not what it claims to be.
The land of the free. The home of the brave. A beacon for the world and the promised land for those in search of opportunity.
Or a bully.
Suffer the Children 0
Seth and Heather Digby Parton dig into the situation at the southwestern border.
Base Desires, Cruel Delight Dept., Reprise 0
Charles Blow recognizes a common undercurrent in the Trumpling. A snippet:
Stop thinking that this is only about partisanship or polarization. It’s the cruelty, Stupid. It has always been about cruelty: racial cruelty, gender cruelty, religious cruelty. It has always been about bending the rest of America, the rest of reality, really, into subordination to the white supremacist patriarchy.
Do please read the rest. He makes a persuasive case.
