Culture Warriors category archive
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.
Culture Wars and Mongers of Culture Wars 0
It never occurred to me that, in the eyes of the Trump maladministration, bike lines are somehow “woke.”
Stray Thought, Devolution Dept. 0
I note in the “Today in History” item in my local rag that today marks the 18th anniversary of Sarah Palin’s selection to be John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 presidential election.
Although the origins of today’s Republican Party reach back at least to Nixon’s “Southern Strategy,” methinks that that might have been the “no turning back” point in that party’s devolution from the party of traditional conservatism to the party of the New Secesh.
Just saying.
American Stasi 0
In Hartford Courant report about how Connecticut officials are alarmed at tactics used by ICE, the state’s Attorney-General, William Tong, sums up what the Trump maladministration is doing: