Culture Warriors category archive
Masked Marauders 0
Grung_e_Gene rips off the mask, and what he sees ain’t pretty.
Trump and the Watergates 0
Emma and the crew discuss how the Trump maladministration’s actions helped stall FEMA’s response to the floods in Texas, how said maladministration is attempting to wiggle out from under the facts, and how FEMA money was misappropriated diverted to pay for Trump’s Florida concentration camp “Alligator Alcatraz.”
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, Elizabeth Bird hears something from the past that sounds eerily like “Alligator Alcatraz.”
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*Mark Twain.
Republican Thought Police 0
Heaven forbid that university students might have to–gasp!–think about ideas.
Republican Family Values 0
The editorial board of the Bangor Daily News is–er–somewhat taken aback by Trump maladministration’s and today’s Republican Party’s embrace of mean for the sake of mean.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The spirit of George Wallace lives on in today’s Republican Party.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Laura A. Cariola explores how media portrayals affect our notion of immigrants. She focuses on British studies, as she is British, but I suspect her findings are equally applicable here, as the Trump maladministration persists in demonizing every other it can target.
Here’s a bit:
Still Rising Again after All These Years . . . . 0
. . . and still trying to promote the lie that the Civil War was about something other than perpetuating chattel slavery.
America’s Stasi 0
Emma and the crew make a compelling case that ICE is being turned into, for want of a better term, my words, not theirs, America’s Stasi.
The Rule of Lawless 0
The Arizona Republic reports that right leaning Arizona State Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick is worried. Here’s a bit of the story, which refers to the Trump maladministration’s arresting and detaining immigrants (and some American citizens thought to immigrants, likely because of the color of their skin), often without cause and with observing due process:
Bolick said Miller’s comment about potentially suspending habeas corpus if the courts didn’t do the right thing could be seen as a way “to intimidate the courts to reach decisions that they favor.”
The entire report is worthy of your attention.
Patriot Gamers 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, psychology professor Noam Shpancer argues that feeling too much patriotism can be harmful. Methinks we evidence that he is onto something every day, as illustrated by the two posts in today’s bloggery. Here’s a tiny bit (emphasis added):
Yet at the extremes, group loyalty may become harmful. We are capable of overdosing on our group identity, a process by which our loyalty becomes blind, our devotion rigid, and our relations with outsiders hostile. This is true in the local sense, regarding our proximal groups, such as, say, the local college football team. It is also true in the broader sense.
Methinks this a quite timely read.