Culture Warriors category archive
Republican Newspeak 0
Clarence Page decodes de code.
Republican Thought Police 0
Thom sees a disturbing pattern in the Trump’s attempt to change history into his story.
Domestic Tranquility 0
I gather there’s a movement called “tradwives,” women yearning for the good old days when men were men and women were possessions. (I also gather that some these self-styled “tradwives” are busily monetizing themselves on various “social” media platforms, but that’s a topic for another day.)
At the Psychology Today website, Melissa Rampelli explains why Victorian women were–er–content to remain housebound. A snippet:
Victorian doctors increasingly prescribed sedatives and opiates for middle-class women.
Follow the link for the rest.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom explains how Doanld Trump’s campaign against Haitian immigrants is rooted in racism and how the Republican-controlled Supreme Supremacist Court chose not to see the truth when it was right there in front of their faces.
America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority manufactured to legitimize it continue to exact their toll.
American Stasi, Republican Thought Police Dept. 0
Deport them if they dare to disagree.
In these Trumpled times, it seems that’s the new American way.
Real Big Men 0
Veteran journalist John Young argues that today’s Republican Party carries the taint of the Tates.
Still Rising Again after All These Years,
American Stasi Dept.
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Personally, I can’t argue with her, because she is quite correct:
More at the link.
American Stasi 0
Rebecca Watson offers a theory as to the targets of ICE’s recruiting process.
Or you can read the transcript.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Still rising again after all these years? At the Psychology Today website, psychology professor Glenn Geher reports that “AI-related technology has been shown to include implicit racist messaging.”
Follow the link for the evidence.
Republican Thought Police 0
When you cut through the Trumpian gobbledygook quoted in this report, it becomes clear that the Trump maladministration wants the Smithsonian Institution to promote partisan propaganda, rather than nurture knowledge.
The Unwelcome Mat 0
Once again, the Trump maladministration exercises its freedom of repress.
Suffer the Children 0
We are again reminded that that is a Republican family value.
Republican Thought Police 0
The Trump maladministration seems to believe that, if we don’t talk about America’s originial sin of chattel slavery, then, by jimiminy, it really couldn’t have been all that bad.
Afterthought:
It’s all about whitewashing–you will pardon the expression–the racism.
They claim that they don’t wan’t to discuss things that make America look bad.
What they mean is that they don’t want to discuss things that make white American racists look bad.
American Stasi 0
Grung_e_Gene, who happens to work in law enforcement, ain’t buying the Trump maladministration’s attempt to justify lynchings extra-judicial killings by ICE. Here’s a bit from his post: