Culture Warriors category archive
American Stasi 0
Farron discusses how ICE agents were recorded trying to cook up false charges against a protestor.
Real Big Men 0
At the Psychology Today website, Steven A Hassan reflects on the (mostly online movement called the) “manosphere” and warns that it is, if not a cult, at least cult-like. Given that the Trump maladministration seems infested with text-book toxic masculines, methinks it a timely and worthwhile read.
He makes four main points:
- The manosphere uses the same tactics as cults by regulating behavior, information, thought, and emotion.
- Loaded language like “red pill,” “cope,” and “AWALT” simplifies complex ideas and sabotages critical thinking.
- Framing women as the enemy isolates men from anyone who might challenge the ideology.
- Healthy masculinity resources exist and promote confidence through unlearning unfair societal pressures.
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0
It’s also how the Trump maladministration approaches U. S. History, but some people are fighting back for truth, justice, and the American way.
Karen Karen-Like 0
Rick Strom finds himself sadly not taken aback by the racism and bigotry which, as far as I cant tell, is the beating heart of MAGA.
ICEcapades of the Air, Reprise 0
My old Philly DL friend Noz thinks that Trump’s deploying ICE agents in airports may
Follow the link and decide whether you agree.
Establishmentarians 0
Michael in Norfolk decodes de code:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
American Stasi 0
Rick Strom reports on an ICE agent’s violence against an 62-old man who was filming him as a form of a protest and said agent’s attempts to claim self-defense. (You can read the report in the Chicago Sun-Times.)
The Injustice League of America 0
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It is right and proper to prosecute a person who violates a just law.
It is wrong to persecute persons just for being who they are.
Yet Trump maladministration spurns the first, embraces the second.
This methinks is the very definition of the rule of flaw.
American Stasi 0
Apparently, they do indeed want to use “indiscriminate force against persons exercising their freedom of speech.
American Exceptionalism
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Richard French, in a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun, makes a convincing case that, if such a thing ever were, it ain’t no more. He argues that, under the Trump maladministration,
. . . .the U.S. is retreating from the values it once claimed as its moral core.
I fear that he is correct. Follow the link for his reasoning.
Republican Thought Police 0
The Republican thought police are now coming for the National Parks’ Junior Ranger program. Via SFgate, By Kylie Mohr lists examples of material that’s being examined for casting aspersion on the United States. Here’s one example:
More stupid at the link.
Afterthought:
Denial is not just a river in Egypt. It’s the Trump maladministration’s approach to American history.
As one who trained as an historian (and whose ancestors wore the grey, for that matter), I find that repulsive and disgusting.
American Stasi 0
Rick Strom discusses investigative news reports of–er–less than legal behavior by ICE agents.
Visit the Youtube page for links to the reports that Rick discusses.
Suffer the Children 0
One more time, that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.