Politics of Hate category archive
The Privatization Scam Meets Suffer the Children 0
Pam Dockery explains in the Tampa Bay Times.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Thom tangles with a caller who can’t handle the facts.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Elie Mystal reacts to the Trump Administration’s latest barrage in its never-ending fusillade of racism and bigotry, this one directed at the Trumpists’ attempt to rip protections from Haitian refugees legally present in the United States.
Just read it.
California Schemin’ 0
Paul Krugman looks for the motives behind Donald Trump’s war on California. A snippet:
Conservatives confidently predicted disaster, declaring that the state was committing “economic suicide.” You might think that the failure of that disaster to materialize, especially combined with the way California has outperformed states like Kansas and North Carolina that turned hard right while it was turning left, might induce them to reconsider their worldview. That is, you might think that if you haven’t been paying any attention to the right-wing mindset.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
David discusses a recent ADL report and muses about Donald Trump’s role in weaponizing white supremacy.
Suffer the Children 0
Esther Cepeda marvels at the Trump administration’s institutionalization of cruelty.
The Institutionalization of Sadism 0
That’s what happens when cruelty becomes routine . . . .
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Sam posits that American conservatism has devolved into a mix of greed and racism, then discusses how it intertwines with gunnuttery.
“Otherization” 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Pamela Paresky, explores the language of dehumanization and how it fosters an “us vs. them” mentality. A snippet:
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President Trump uses similar dehumanizing language. New York Times Correspondent Maggie Haberman noted that Trump’s terminology of “infestation” makes immigrants into insects. Using metaphors such as insects, vermin, parasites, garbage, and such elicits the feelings of disgust one has for those things and connects that emotion of disgust with the person or group of people described.
Suffer the Children 0
The cruelty just keeps getting more overt . . . .
