Hate Sells category archive
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?
Suffer the Children 0
It’s not scripture. It’s Republican policy.
Aside:
The percentage of the population that is transgender is minimal, almost infinitesimal. I don’t get the right-wing furor about it.
Oh, wait a minute.
I get it.
It’s red flag for the haters.
True Believers 0
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier marvels at the delusional and the deluded.
The Graham Cracker 0
Field thinks that we–well, he says the media, but I think it’s not just them–may have become numb to the outrageous.
Follow the link and decide for yourself.
Closing Books, Closing Minds 0
Michael in Norfolk looks at the motivation for the right-wing’s current book-banning frenzy. A snippet:
On Establishmentarianism 0
At the Des Moines Register, retired professor Norma Cook Everist discusses the dangers of establishmentarianism. Here’s tiny bit from her article (emphasis added); follow the link for the rest.
(Broken link fixed.)
Mongers of Fear, What’s in a Word? Dept. 0
What’s in a word? The short answer is, well, “fear.”
Via Job’s Anger.
Aside:
You can see the full quotation at Wikiquote.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At NJ.com, Michael A. Gottesman argues convincingly that DEI is the new CRT.
Stray Question 0
When you cut through the persiflage, you realize that “woke” means “aware.”
What does that tell you about folks who don’t want persons to be “woke”?
All the News that Fits, Foxy Shady Dept. 0
I think I might just read this book . . . .
All the News that Fits, Foxy Shady Dept. 0
Aside:
I must say, I’m getting increasingly annoyed by persons who don’t know what “begs the question” means.
We are watching words lose their meaning before our very ears.