Politics of Hate category archive
The Bullies’ Pulpit 0
Thom reports on a Washington Post article about the proliferation of bullying in Donald Trump’s image.
Epidemiology, Reprise 0
As I have mentioned before, the panic being fomented, primarily on cable news and “social” media, over the coronavirus is wholly disproportional to the threat. And now that panic is going viral in its own inimical way.
Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich explore this at Psychology Today Blogs. A snippet:
This is because growing fears toward groups associated with emerging epidemic diseases act to hasten disease spread. This may seem counterintuitive, but it is all because of the way stigma undermines effective public health responses. For coronavirus, that stigma is targeting people from China. It is happening all over, including at Arizona State, our own university campus . . . .
Follow the link for their description of how such reactions hinder effective public health responses.
The Unfringed 0
An AP story in the Denver Post highlights the spread of unhinged conspiracy theories, assisted by “social” media and Donald Trump and the Trumpettes. Here’s a bit.
Conspiracy theories are nothing new, but experts fear the powerful engine of social media and a volatile political climate have ramped up the threat of violence.
Aside:
Methinks one of the fuels for conspiracy theories is persons’ inability to deal with the complexity of real life. Instead, they embrace the absurd in a search for the easy.
A Taxonomy of Trolls 0
You can’t tell the preyers without a program.
Them What Has . . . . 0
Gene Nichol looks at the effect of Donald Trump’s economic it-would-be-dressing-them-up-in-Sunday-go-to-meeting-clothes-to-call-them policies. A snippet:
The Rule of Lawless 0
Judge throws in the towel on the rule of law.
The Rule of Lawless Meets the Wall-eyed Piker 0
What’s a few less laws, anyway?
The new Wild West of the border wall is an authoritarian dreamscape where the boss man faces no limits and no obligations. It’s as though Marshall Wyatt Earp, reborn as an orange-haired easterner with no knowledge of the actual West, were back in charge, deciding who’s in and who’s out, what goes and what stays.
More lawlessness at the link.