Politics of Hate category archive
Concentrate on This 0
Esther Cepeda marvels at the apathy towards the barbaric treatment of migrants along our southern border. A snippet:
These frivolous spats effectively overshadow the tough-to-stomach reality that migrants are being penned in cages and locked in freezing-cold holding cells — that is, when they’re not fenced in under bridges and made to sit on the ground in 100-plus degree weather.
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Eladio Bobadilla, an assistant professor of history at the University of Kentucky, put it this way in a recent post on the Latino Rebels website: “[Conservative] commentators are wrong, both historically and morally. Not only is it historically accurate to call these detention centers concentration camps, but the uproar reveals a curious and cruel irony: Conservatives are more outraged by the terms used to describe the detention camps than they are by the conditions inside them.”
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Rude One does the math.
Twits on Twitter 0
Peter St. Onge has a sobering experience.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
“Fear, ignorance, bigotry, and smears.”
Moore of the Same 0
At AL.com, John Archibald notes that Roy Moore is again going to run for the Republican Senatorial nomination. As he reviews the field opposing Moore, Archibald reaches a distressing conclusion:
Boy, was I wrong.
Because Roy Moore already won.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
A Bumble of Contradictions 0
Dana Milbank examines the dialectic of Trumpery.
F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote that “the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” Trump’s ability to function is a matter of much dispute, but if the ability to hold opposing thoughts in mind is a measure of intelligence, Trump is a very stable genius indeed. Nobody contradicts himself as forcefully, fluently and frequently.
The Entitlement Society 0
Thomas Chatterton Williams points out that not being hate-full is not a high hurdle to surmount.
Sacrifices 0
Kimberley A. Johnson wonders how many more must die at the hands of the Trump administration before Americans react.
Misdirection Play, the Projection Project Dept. 0
The SPLC analyzes how the right-wing blames everyone else for its violent ways. An excerpt:
The right’s refusal to acknowledge actual political violence only aids white nationalists, not only by downplaying their culpability but also by allowing white nationalists space to push the narrative that the “violent left” is the real threat. . . . Accordingly, the right wing has strategically pushed what one commenter on the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer called “the ‘out of control, violent left’ meme.”
For a large swath of extremists on the far right, violence is the ultimate goal; it’s not a desire they try to hide. On social media and white nationalist platforms, they openly pine for the opportunity to attack and kill leftists and fantasize about a potential civil war.
“Because It Sells” 0
Sheila Kohler explores the appeal of mongering hate as a political tactic.
Twits on Twitter 0
(Remember that Texas was part of Mexico far longer than it has been part of the U. S. A. and these kids of whom this twit twits may have deeper roots in Texas than she.)