Politics of Hate category archive
Facebook Frolics 0
One more time, the internet is a public place.
Suffer the Children 0
Brian Greenspun marvels at the Republican Family Values of ripping the children or immigrants and asylum-seekers from the arms of their parents. A snippet:
Through the decades, though, as the nature of human interaction and the darker human instincts overruled decency and neighborliness, there has never been the slightest concern about the role of government in the fight to protect children from harm.
Until Donald Trump.
Do please read the rest.
Suffer the Children 0
The Trump administration has created a predators’ paradise by ripping children from their parents and putting them on the counters of old Walmarts.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
When life gives you lemonade, make a lemon.
Viktor Stevenson, a black man who is the owner of Gourmonade, told AJ+ in an interview that he was checking to see if the security system for his lemonade stand was working when four cops approached him. He said one of the officers had his hand on his gun.
Fatal Attraction 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of the Portland Press-Herald struggles to understand white working class voters’* fealty to Donald Trump. A nugget; follow the link for the rest:
But why have the middle class and poor supported this? Is it because their fear of “the others” has blinded them to this picking of their pockets?
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*Hint: The key word in the preceding phrase is “white.”
“This Is Not a Dog Whistle. This Is a Bullhorn.” 0
Thom cuts to the chase.
Pursuing a Purity of Paleness 0
Will Bunch minces no words in describing Donald Trump’s policy towards immigrants, at least, towards immigrants who aren’t from Norway. A nugget:
The United Nations defines ethnic cleansing as “rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove from a given area persons of another ethnic or religious group.” It’s hard to look at the big picture of Trump’s policies on refugees and harsh immigration enforcement and not conclude the goal is to make America more ethnically homogeneous.
In a harsh, realpolitick sense, Trump’s policies may be the only last-gasp long-term survival policy for his Republican Party, which has shown itself each election cycle to be increasing older and more white even as it’s held onto Congress and regained the White House. But immigration brutality is also the policy most guaranteed to earn the continued political gratitude of the conservative base that elected him.