Politics of Hate category archive
Suffer the Children 0
One more time, it’s not scripture. It’s Republican policy.
The Republican Party–the party of mean for the sake of mean.
Facebook Frolics, Rule of Lawless Dept. 0
Will Bunch considers the Philadelphia police officers who have been outed for racist rants on the Zuckerborg and the implications of their behavior. An excerpt:
In a related item, the Philadelphia Inquirer’s editorial board points out that
That’s why the existence of these posts represents a crisis in this city and elsewhere.
It’s not just in Philly, folks.
Unnaturalizing Citizens 0
David points out the absurd lengths to which wingnuts will take their conspiratorial thinking.
Devolution 0
In The Atlantic, George Packer tracks the devolution of the modern Republican Party. A snippet:
Republicans have chosen contraction and authoritarianism because, unlike the Democrats, their party isn’t a coalition of interests in search of a majority. Its character is ideological. The Republican Party we know is a product of the modern conservative movement, and that movement is a series of insurgencies against the established order. Several of its intellectual founders—Whittaker Chambers and James Burnham, among others—were shaped early on by Communist ideology and practice, and their Manichean thinking, their conviction that the salvation of Western civilization depended on the devoted work of a small group of illuminati, marked the movement at its birth.
Via Juanita Jean.
Afterthought:
I think the author failed to give adequate emphasis to Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy, in which appeal to racism and racists became an overt tactic of the Republican Party. The Southern Strategy was key to the Republican Party’s march from being personified by Nelson Rockefeller and Everett Dirksen to being personified by Steve King and Louie Gohmert.
On the Other Side of the World . . . . 0
Does this sound familiar?
Trump, Catalyst of Crazy 0
David argues that Donald Trump is a symptom, not a cause, but that he has served as rallying point for racism and the far right.
You can read the article David refers to.
Plus ca Change 0
Farron remarks on the Party of No Ideas.
The Initiation 0
I’ve cited this quotation from Lyndon Johnson before, but it bears repeating, because we are watching it play out during every day of the Trumpling:
Image via Juanita Jean.
Facebook Frolics: A Question of Identity 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, John Diaz considers Facebook’s half-hearted and sporadic efforts to reign in hate speech. After pointing out that Facebook is a private entity and can limit speech if it chooses to, he cuts to what he considers a crucial issue:
Facebook has essentially claimed each role, depending on the convenience of the moment.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Provoking Discord 0
The SPLC examines how members of right-wing hate groups are attempting to cover their digital tracks on “social” media in the wake of the New Zealand shootings.
Freedom of Screech in the Age of Trump 0
David looks at the jump in assaults on Jews in the U. S. in the past year and Donald Trump’s lack of–or, perhaps more accurately, negative–leadership on this.