Politics of Hate category archive
The Climates They Are a-Changing, Reprise 0
At the Hartford Courant, Gary Yohe and Michael Mann discuss the other kind of climate change.
Both Sides Not 0
David runs the numbers.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Ed Kilgore argues that, when Donald Trump talks about “disloyal Jews”–“disloyal” meaning daring to disagree with Donald Trump–he is talking to his evangelical “Christians” devotees. A snippet:
Maybe he doesn’t; for an Ivy Leaguer, the president is impressively ignorant about an awful lot of things. But it’s more likely that all his talk about the Jews is really aimed at a very different audience: his white conservative Evangelical Christian electoral base, which has its own distinctive and unsettling form of philosemitism.
Suffer the Children 0
The Trump Administration wants to throw away the key.
Body Count 0
Mike muses about the confluence of Donald Trump’s Presidency and the spike in mass shootings. (Warning: Language.)
“Paranoid Delusions” 0
Jason Blazakis argues that paranoid delusions feed right-wing extremism and violence.
A snippet:
He goes on to suggest several remedies.
As most of his suggestions depend on a sane Executive, I do not wax optimistic.
Mails of the Trumpling 0
Elie Mystal reads his email.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Rosemary K. M. Sword and Philip Zimbardo point out that we’ve been here before. A nugget:
Follow the link for the rest of the article.
A Notion of Immigrants, Closing the Door Behind Them Dept. 0
Doesn’t anyone else see the irony?
It’s All about the Algorithm 0
Nancy LeTourneau reports on Youtube’s “recommendation engine” and what the engine spawned engineered in Brazil.
What’s in a Word? 0
A raid by any other name would smell as rancid.
Legally Unpresidented 0
Elie Mystal examines the “Trump Defense.”
What is the “Trump Defense,” you might ask?
Follow the link for Mystal’s thoughts on this–er–tactic.
