Culture Warriors category archive
Culture?
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David’s guest contends that there is such a thing as “cancel culture,” but it’s not what the right is portraying it as. It is a nuanced discussion worth a listen in the current environment. From the description:
Dan Kovalik, labor and human rights attorney and author of the book “Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture,” joins David to discuss the book and cancel culture.
The Anachronism 0
I find Prince Harry and Meghan Markel’s stories of how they were treated credible. After all, it was English settlers who fostered America’s original sin of chattel slavery and created the myth of white racial superiority so as to ease their consciences (and line their wallets).
What most strikes me, though, is the downright petty nastiness of the treatment they received. Even bigots are capable of being polite.
I’m a Southern Boy. I have known in my lifetime many bigots who are capable of politeness. It doesn’t make them any less bigoted, but at least they were able to dress up their bigotry in Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes.
Also, I don’t get Americans’ fascination with the British royal family. Nor that of PBS viewers with soap operas set in Edwardian England. Grump, grump, grump.
Misdirection Play, Cancel Culture Dept. 0
A snippet:
When in doubt, create a moral panic.
From Dystopian Fiction to Dystopia 0
Gene Collier, writing at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, makes a strong case that we are descending (have descended?) into Idiocracy.
Methinks he makes a pretty good case.
Patriot Gamers 0
Capitol insurrectionist is tired of waiting and wants out of the pokey.
“Nobody Expects the Spanish American Inquisition”*
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At the Des Moines Register, Connie Ryan reminds us that the freedom to practice your own religion (or lack thereof) does not grant the privilege of imposing it on others.
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*With apologies to Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
Just the Vaxx, Ma’am 0
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You can blame a lot of this delusional thinking on the disinformation superhighway and persons’ willingness to believe anything they see on a computer screen when they wouldn’t believe the same damn thing if it happened right before their eyes.
