Politics of Hate category archive
No Compromise 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Susan Krauss Whitbourne explores the interplay between narcissism and intransigence. Here’s a tiny bit:
Follow the link, read the whole thing, and ask yourself, “Does this sound like anyone on the telly-vision?”
Scaredy Cats 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Rosalind C. Barnett and Caryl Rivers explore the theory then white men are afraid that they are losing out. A snippet:
Henry James echoed this sentiment in his novel of the same era, The Bostonians: “The whole generation is womanized; the masculine tone is passing out of the world; it’s a feminine, a nervous, hysterical, chattering, canting age, an age of hollow phrases and false delicacy and exaggerated solicitudes and coddled sensibilities.”
Today’s closing frontier is not a geographical space but a psychological one. Ever since the founding of the nation, white men–especially straight white Christian men–have been in charge. They have been our presidents, our captains of industry, our generals, our Wall Street titans, and they held all the power. They were the ones in “The room where it happens,” as the Hamilton lyric observes.
Even men who had no wealth or celebrity or grand accomplishments could bask in the glow of white male hegemony. They could at least imagine themselves in those “happening” rooms because all the people there looked like them.
I commend the article to your attention. It raises points worthy of consideration.
The Privatization Scam Meets the Huddled Masses Yearning To Breathe Free 0
It’s supply and demand.
Privatizing prisons creates a demand for prisoners, a demand that the enforcers are happy to supply.
By any means possible.
The Year in Rebuke, One More Time 0
Juanita Jean catalogs all the winning, so much winning.
Wahrheitdämmerung 0
Ned Barnett muses on the twilight of truth.
Have a Trumpled New Year 0
Via Job’s Anger.
Addendum:
The link to the original image was broken and I could not fix it, but this one expresses a similar thought.
Suffer the Children 0
Again, that’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy.
Mike comments (warning: language).
A Shunning City on a Hill 0
In the Roanoke Times, a descendant of pilgrims who came to America on the Mayflower pens a stunning rebuke to the cold-hearted callousness of Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security, and by extension, to the administration in which she serves. An excerpt:
Suffer the Children 0
There’s nothing quite like Christmas in Donald Trump’s kiddie koncentration kamps.
Suffer the Children 0
It’s not scripture. It’s Republican policy.
Spreading the Sepsis 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Mike Wood explores how “social” media propagate misinformation and lies. A snippet:
The Cycle of Strife 0
(Syntax error fixed and that was a new one for me. If you use carets even surrounded by quotation marks in the alt-text for an image, they can still affect the markup.)