All That Was Old Is New Again 0
At NJ.com, Keith E. Benson points out thqt the right-wing’s ginned up outrage over critical race theory (which, again, is a graduate-level subject not taught in primary and secondary schools) is part of a long pattern. Here’s a tiny bit of his article:
Under cover of opposing CRT, the right and the racists they wish to rally have gone farther. As noted elsewhere in these electrons, they are using CRT as a smokescreen to whitewash (a most appropriate term) America’s history of slavery and discrimination against and exploitation of black persons and other minorities. They want to go back to teaching the same sort of sanitized history that I was taught in the olden days, when I was a young ‘un, in Virginia’s segregated school system.
If You Don’t Talk about It, It Didn’t Happen 0
Shevrin Jones decodes Florida Man’s code. A bit of the translation (emphasis added):
I commend the entire article to your attention.
The Crypto Con 0
How it works, spelled out in pictures.
Immunity Impunity
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I suspect that I am not alone in avoiding watching the video of five Memphis, Tennessee, police officers murdering Tyre Nichols. I can be aware of it without subjecting myself to experiencing it in a (quasi-)first-hand manner.
Commenters routinely point out that both the victim and the perpetrators were black. Some would use this to argue that racism was not a factor, as if to pretend that America’s history of institutionalized and societal racism somehow does not insidiously affect everyone in some way or another.
At Psychology Today Blogs, Kevin Cokley considers this event and its implications. Here’s a short excerpt (emphasis added); the entire piece is worth you while.
(Broken link fixed.)
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner”–oh, well, you know the rest.
Rubbing away at Freedom 0
AL.com’s Francis Coleman suggests that some persons have a–er–misguided notion of the meaning of “freedom.” Here’s a bit from his article:
If you want to be free to do practically anything you want to, you have to extend the same to everyone else.
And there’s the rub.
Follow the link, where he expands on said rub.
Incongruously Assembled 0
In response to a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun, I regret to have to say that I think that we do have a truly representative House of Representatives.
The Republican majority truly represents the worst in us.
I’m going to blame some of this on the the Chicago School and their economics of me! Me! ME! (which, natch, they dressed up in multi-syllabic words), which portrays rank selfishness as a positive value, for helping mainstream this malignancy.
But that’s just me.