Politics of Hate category archive
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Shorter Bill Nemitz: Remember, Hogan was the good guy.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Just can’t stand the uppity.
Michael Tippins accused the attendant of ogling his girlfriend, Lexie Muffett, as they paid for their items Tuesday night at a Rome gas station, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Here’s a tale of a Trumpled school. An excerpt (emphasis added):
The first time she encountered it was in early September as she walked home alone from school. She said a truck filled with white classmates, mostly boys, drove by.
“I was just minding my business and then a car with a group of white kids sticks out their heads and calls me the N-word with a hard ‘r,’ zooms away, and I’m just there like, ‘Well what do I do?’ ” she said.
Follow the link for the rest of the story.
Machinationists 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, David Ludden explores the reasons that persons are susceptible to conspiracy theories. He cites three:
- The desire for understanding and certainty
- The desire for control and security
- The desire to maintain a positive self-image
Follow the link for a detailed discussion of each.
Base Desires 0
Dick Polman suggests that the news media’s fascination with Donald Trump’s base is old news. A snippet:
You know what? Enough already with these people. They’re not newsworthy anymore.
They’re the impenetrable hard core. They’re not going to change, no matter how much damage Trump does. Last week, after I listed a mere 40 of Trump’s most blatant bald-faced lies, I was emailed by a Trump fan who acknowledged none of them. Doris, who lives in central Pennsylvania, instead told me this (I’ve preserved her spellings): “Your column degraded our president who wants only to make America a great country for all that live here. I hope in the future you right a piece about all his accomplishments as he swims upstream in the ocean of democrates that seeks only to bring him down. He wants to make America GREAT and strong to be the backbone of democracy around the globe to promote peace, as I believe he will accomplish better than any president we ever had.”
Wait a sec … Trump, the devotee of dictators, is “the backbone of democracy around the globe”? Nothing penetrates the fan base.
Here’s a New Year’s resolution for the mainstream press: Dial it down with the Trumpkins. They are just 35 percent of Americans.
I suspect that part of the media’s fascination with Trump’s base is an inability or unwillingness to understand what activates them (I’m betting on “unwillingness” here).
What activates the Trump base is racism. There are, natch, other stones in the arch of Trumpery, but racism is the keystone.
The corporate media, which wants the Trump base to read its columns and watch its television networks, doesn’t say that out loud because it might offend 35% of its viewers, readers, and masters.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Breakfast with a side of bigot:
A Texas waitress said some customers left a racist symbol behind when they left their table.
Tenasha Ballard said she had been serving four high school students recently at an IHOP in Sherman, and they asked for a takeaway coffee cup, reported KXII-TV.
When she returned with the cup, Ballard found the teens had cut some leftover pancakes into the letters “KKK” and fled.
More Trumpling at the link.
The Five Legs of a Trumpled Stool 0
Bobby Azarian analyzes the news and suggests five psychological traits that characterize Donald Trump’s core supporters.
Note that these are technical terms and may not necessarily mean what they would in normal parlance. For example, “relative deprivation” does not mean that some is deprived; rather, it means that he or she thinks he or she is deprived relative to some other group (say, for example, black folks or millennials, whatever they are).
Here’s the thumbnail; follow the link for a discussion of each one.
- 1. Authoritarian Personality Syndrome
- 2. Social dominance orientation
- 3. Prejudice
- 4. Intergroup contact
- 5. Relative deprivation
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Our Trumpled youth speak out.
“Black people are trash; they need to die,” she said.
The racist, hate-filled rant has gone viral on social media, of two Pleasant Grove High students — one is seen in the background laughing at her friend’s racist remarks.
The girl in the video went on to say: “When the police were killing all those black people I was so happy.”
Scandal’s Children 0
Andrés Miguel Rondón, a Venezuelan now living in Madrid, sees parallels between Donald Trump and the late Hugo Chavez and offers advice on understanding Trump and the Trumpettes:
(snip)
Normal politicians collapse in the face of scandal because the scandals show them dozing on the job or falling back on their promises. . . .
However, like all populists, Trump offers a much different deal — “Vote for me: I will destroy your enemies. They are the reason you are not rich/have less rights/America is not great anymore.” Scandal is the populist’s natural element for the same reason that demolishing buildings makes more noise than constructing them. His supporters didn’t vote for silence. They voted for a bang.
Follow the link for the rest.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
And the Trumpling continues . . . .
(snip)
According to Johnson (recipient of the letter–ed.), the letter was loaded with N-words and contained the threat: “We are asking nicely but one time only.”
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Trumpling the coffee bar.
While they didn’t understand what she wanted at first, they quickly realized that she was upset that they were speaking Korean to one another.
At one point in the dispute, Starbucks staff members came over to ask the woman what her problem was.
At one point in the dispute, Starbucks staff members came over to ask the woman what her problem was.
“They’re speaking in Oriental,” she replied. “I hate it.”
Afterthought:
Is is not ironic in that one must needs learn a made-up ersatz language just to order a coffee at Starbucks?
To the Contrary 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Ronald Riggio explores the reasons why persons will vote against their own self-interest. Here’s a bit of his piece:
In the U.S. Presidential election, two other psychological processes come into play: (1) the limitations caused by a two-party system; and (2) the we-they feeling (or in-group, out-group bias).
Follow the link for the rest.
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*I must quibble with his use of “surprisingly.” The Republican Party has quite skillfully marshaled white resentment and racism since the days of Richard Nixon and his odious “southern strategy.”
Republicans listened to Lyndon Johnson, even if no one else did, and took his words to heart.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
This is your country on Trump.
As Washington’s KHQ station reports, the manager, Jade Cardwell, was sticking up for a black bartender against two unruly customers before the situation escalated to violence.
“Right away, when they came in, they were dropping the N word,” Cardwell said. “We have a black bar tender we just employed. We weren’t having it. We wanted them gone.”
The Trumplers left him severely injured and in need of surgery.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Ryan Bills of Las Vegas, Nevada, was charged with criminal mischief, a serious misdemeanor, Storm Lake police said. His case did not appear in Iowa’s online courts records system Tuesday afternoon.
More Trumpling at the link.