Hate Sells category archive
Backfire, a Notion of Immigrants Dept. 0
It’s almost poetic . . . .
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar’s certifications allow the mostly Venezuelan migrants to apply for special U-visas pending his department’s investigation of the Sept. 14 flight to Martha’s Vineyard, according to an ACLU Massachusetts statement Thursday. U-visas would allow the migrants to remain in the U.S. lawfully as the criminal investigation by Salazar’s department and the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office proceeds.
In another statement, Salazar said that “based upon the claims of migrants being transported from Bexar County under false pretenses, we are investigating this case as possible unlawful restraint,” a misdemeanor.
Follow the link for the complete report.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
From the Daily Show, which reminds us that old times there are not forgotten:
Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy has come full circle and consumed the Republican Party.
Via C&L.
Dis Coarse Discourse, the Gulled and the Gullible Dept. 0
Sam and his crew discuss the Republicans’ demonizing of trans persons (who, again, are a minuscule portion of the population).
We will remain in peril as long as a significant portion of our polity eagerly laps up lies. And as long as “social” media persists in propogating prevarication.
Aside:
Why are Republicans so obsessed with sex?
Twits Who Would Own Twitter 0
SFGate’s Drew Magary phones it in.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Athens State University Professor Sean R. Busick is not sanguine. Here’s a bit from his article (emphasis added):
(snip)
Like some politicians from the 1850s, their extremism is selfish and short-sighted. Normalizing talk of political violence leads to political violence. Though the extremists who plague us may not be serious people, some of their followers take them seriously.
We too should take them seriously. We should recognize the danger they pose and vote them out.
Freedom of Screech 0
Jonathan Friedman of PEN America argues forcefully that the current crusade against books, particularly books available to students, is ideologically driven and unprecedented in the level of coordination amongst the anti-idea brigades and that it is part of a larger crusade against public education in general. Here’s a bit from his article:
In Walton, Florida, when the superintendent decided to yank two dozen books off school library shelves, for example, he told the press, “I haven’t read one paragraph of the books at this time.” His decision to pull those titles was done unilaterally, based on a list emailed to him by one of these advocacy groups. Those groups somehow held more sway than the views of teachers, librarians and parents who disagreed with the bans in the district.
The entire article is worth the three or four minutes it will take you to read it.
Facebook Frolics 0
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
Rather, it is a pipeline of puerile and viaduct of vile.
Playing the Pawns 0
Michael Paul Williams has serious qualms about and see grave ethical issues with Virginia Governor Trumpkin’s decision to use transgender students (which, remember, are an almost infinitesimal proportion of the populace) as political pawns.
But, then, using innocent persons as pawns seems to be all the rage with today’s Republican Party.
“But It’s the Only Possible Explanation” 0
Joseph Mazur takes a look at how paranoid and/or manipulative thinkers turn coincidences into conspiracies. An excerpt:
Follow the link, where he expands on that thought.
What’s in a Word? 0
Per PoliticalProf, not nearly enough.
“We Were Only Following Orders”* 0
The “Oath Keepers” going on trial Monday for their participation in the January 6 Capitol riot plan to blame Trump attribute their conduct to their obedience to the wishes of Donald Trump.
I suppose it’s too much to hope that they will subpoena Trump to testify on their behalf.
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*Where have we heard that defense before?
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At the Roanoke Times, Roland Lazenby describes how Virginia Military Institute’s “Old Guard” has united with Virginia’s Governor Trumpkin to fight a rear guard action.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Miami Herald columnist Fabiola Santiago catalogs Florida Governor DeSantis’s lies about the asylum seekers he had kidnapped and transported. Here’s a bit from her article:
“They aren’t from Jupiter or Mars,” says Emilio Martinez, a Cuban American immigration lawyer. “And the ‘unauthorized’ is categorically untrue.”
“What they’re doing [arriving at the border and asking for asylum] is not illegal,” Martinez said, an assertion echoed by other lawyers, citing federal laws.