Hate Sells category archive
A Notion of Immigrants, Reprise 0
Stephen discusses Governor DeSantis’s human trafficking of immigrants, plus a couple of other matters.
“But It’s the Only Possible Explanation” 0
At The Roanoke Times, retired professor Fred Waddell offers a theory as to why people fall for conspiracy theories gain acceptance. He identifies four operative factors; here’s one of them (emphasis added):
Follow the link for the other three.
(Spellink erorr correxted.)
A Notion of Immigrants 0
As near as I can tell, the single underlying core value of today’s Republican Party is mean for the sake of mean.
PoliticalProf has a thought on this same issue.
DQAnon 0
Well, I guess if you could think a pizza joint is some kind of sinister gathering place, you could think the same of a Dairy Queen.
But only if your thinker is misfiring.
We are a broken society.
Misdirection Play, CRT Dept. 0
At Crooks and Liars, Newshound Ellen follows the money.
Twits on Twitter 0
Yet more hate-full twits.
“Social” media isn’t. Rather, it compounds the coarseness of dis coarse discourse.
Projection 0
Methinks Juanita Jean has a point.
Establishmentarians 0
Sam and his guest discuss the threat posed by Christian nationalist establishmentarianism.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Dennis Clausen explores the toxic effects of violent rhetoric. Here’s how he starts his article; follow the link for the rest.
The Art of the Con 0
At The St. Louis Post Dispatch, Janet Y. Jackson show that she can recognize talent when she sees it.
Follow the link for the rest.
Death Sentence 0
Aside:
Many years ago, a friend and co-worker of mine died of AIDS, back when it was still referred to by many as GRID (gay-related immune deficiency disease) and was therefore considered by far too many persons, somehow and sickeningly, to be no big deal.
At the time, he was still in Washington at Amtrak headquarters and I had been transferred to Philly, but, after his diagnosis was known to those that cared, I had the good fortune to run into him on the platform at Washington Union Station and we shared a farewell hug.
(I will add that his supervisor, one of the company’s vice presidents, treated him with kindness, consideration, and charity.)
He was a good man and a good friend.
These hate-full bigots who call themselves “Christian” worship no Jesus that I know.
Deja Vu All Over Again 0
As Mark Twain once said, “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
Missing the Mythic Past 0
At AL.com, Roy S. Johnson waxes optimistic about the fate of what President Biden refers to as “MAGA Republicans,” who bristled at his referring to their credo as “semi fascism.”
I’m not sure I can wholly buy into Johnson’s optimism, but there is one bit of his article that particularly caught my attention:
Consider that passage and ask yourself whether it describes anyone in contemporary American politics.
School Daze 0
Above the Law’s Chris Williams surveys the havoc that Florida’s “Stop WOKE” act is working in Florida’s schools. A snippet:
The people who call anything they don’t like “woke”, “communist”, or “socialist” want you to stop calling them fascist because it’s divisive.
— Stefan ? (@stefanthinks) August 29, 2022
Am I missing something, or is it ridiculous to call out CRT for “Creating Racial Tension” on the one hand and self identify as a (white) Christian Nationalist prepared and happy to start crusading on the other?
