Culture Warriors category archive
Aghast and Furryous, Reprise 0
Kyle Whitmire looks at Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville’s bizarre claim that airliners are crewed by furries, then proceeds to decode de code (emphasis in the original):
Tommy Tuberville’s political pitch to Alabama has been as simple as it is old.
I hate all the same people you do.
Follow the link for his evidence.
American Stasi 0
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump maladministration needs to improve the conditions in its concentration camps detention centers. Here’s a bit from the news report:
“Make no mistake, decisions about immigration and related enforcement policies are largely committed to the political branches of our government – Congress and the Executive, not the courts. But there are limits. The Constitution demands humane treatment of everyone in government custody. It requires that they receive due process of law. And it limits the Executive to enforcing the laws that Congress has enacted rather than doing whatever it wishes,” Kaplan wrote.
Hoist on His Own Party’s Petard 0
As my old professor of the Early Federal Period was fond of saying, “Hstory is irony.”
American Stasa 0
If the American Stasi weren’t wearing uniforms issued by the Trump maladministration, they’d be wearing their traditional garb–hoods and sheets.
Republican Thought Police 0
Apparently this Republican believes that teachers must be spied upon so as to ensure that do not waver from his party’s line,
Aside:
As far as I can tell, “woke” is Republican newspeak for “not racist and not bigoted.”
American Stasi 0
AL.com’s John Archibald tells another family’s story. An excerpt:
Leaving those grandchildren, scarred by heartache, to wonder again what would become of them, and the people they love.
Again we are reminded that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.
“Barefoot and Pregnant” 0
At the Des Moines Register, Rehka Basu looks at recent remarks by J. D. Vance about the role of women in families and decodes de code.
Real Big Men 0
At the Psychology Today website, Ross G. White explores the appeal of the “manosphere,” yet another “social” media construction that is polluting the polity and poisoning dis coarse discourse. A snippet; follow the link for the rest.
Yet conspiracy theories can be psychologically attractive.
Thought Police 0
At the Psychology Today website, Matthew Clemente and David Goodman explain why book banning, however pure the book banners’ (think their) motives, is a bad idea. They make four main points:
- In recent years, the calls for censorship and banning books has increased.
- Critiques of the dangerous or immoral nature of literature have been around for thousands of years.
- Yet one of literature’s great strengths is to depict the complexity of the human condition.
- Showing truth through fiction and revealing virtue by depicting vice, literature helps us to mature ethically.
In these censorious times, methinks their article a worthwhile read.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
University of Dayton professor Art Jipson looks at the right-wing’s response to the Trump maladministration’s farcical indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center for daring to fight against prejudice, bigotry, and racism and argues that
Follow the link, where he decodes de code.
The Rule of Lawless 0
The Trump maladministration plays a “Get Out of Jail Free” card for an American Stasi.
The Rule of Lawless 0
If the numbers don’t support the Trump maladministration’s position, its solution is simple:
The Rule of Lawless 0
It appears that the Trump maladministration has decided that, if they can’t get judges to agree with their actions, they needn’t try to change the law. Instead, they can just change the judges.
American Stasi 0
Via The Charlotte Observer, Amelia Robinson tells the story of a legal Haitian immigrant driven to suicide. A snippet:
Follow the link for context.
Suffer the Children 0
We are again reminded that that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.
Republican Family Values 0
“Republican family values” have always been nothing more than a grift that keeps on grifting.
A Tune for the Times 0
Warning: Language.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At AL.com, John Archibald looks at some hate-ful rhetoric directed at Moslems in Alabama on behalf of Senator Tommy Tuberville and hears a rhyme from another hate-filled time.
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*Mark Twain.