Politics of Hate category archive
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At AL.com, Daniel Price reminds us that the United States, and before it the colonies, has always welcomed illegal immigrants of questionable provenance. Here’s how he introduces his topic:
Follow the link for the rest.
Borderline Disorder 0
At AL.com, Joyce Vance agrees that there is a crisis at the border. An excerpt:
Borderline Disorder 0
And, natch, “social” media is a carrier.
Concentration Camps for Kiddies 0
At The Sacramento Bee, Gil Duran remembers a holocaust survivor who recently passed away and then turns his attention to Donald Trump’s concentration camps for kiddies. Please do give it a read.
An excerpt:
“The dangers of fascist politics come from the particular way in which it dehumanizes segments of the population,” writes Yale Professor Jason Stanley in “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them.” “By excluding these groups, it limits the capacity for empathy among other citizens, leading to the justification of inhumane treatment, from repression of freedom, mass imprisonment, and expulsion to, in extreme cases, mass extermination.”
Suffer the Children 0
Your tax dollars at work.
In These Trumpled Times . . . 2
. . . even Highlights Magazine has had enough.
A Picture Is Worth 0
Tony Norman wonders, just how much?
Immunity Impunity
0
Steven M., considering the threatened militia attacks in Oregon, espies a double-standard. A snippet:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Facebook Frolics, Suffer the Children Dept. 0
The Trump Administration’s Sarah Fabian goes up against the (Facebook) wall.
Moore of the Same 0
Dana Hall McCain, writing at AL.com, considers Roy Moore’s candidacy for the Republican nomination for an Alabama Senate seat and concludes that his underlying campaign strategy is that hate sells.
Suffer the Children 0
In case you haven’t noticed, that’s now a Republican Family Value.
We have gone from the American Ideal to become the American Ordeal.