Politics of Hate category archive
Misdirection Play, the Projection Project Dept. 0
The SPLC analyzes how the right-wing blames everyone else for its violent ways. An excerpt:
The right’s refusal to acknowledge actual political violence only aids white nationalists, not only by downplaying their culpability but also by allowing white nationalists space to push the narrative that the “violent left” is the real threat. . . . Accordingly, the right wing has strategically pushed what one commenter on the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer called “the ‘out of control, violent left’ meme.”
For a large swath of extremists on the far right, violence is the ultimate goal; it’s not a desire they try to hide. On social media and white nationalist platforms, they openly pine for the opportunity to attack and kill leftists and fantasize about a potential civil war.
“Because It Sells” 0
Sheila Kohler explores the appeal of mongering hate as a political tactic.
Twits on Twitter 0
(Remember that Texas was part of Mexico far longer than it has been part of the U. S. A. and these kids of whom this twit twits may have deeper roots in Texas than she.)
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.
