Hate Sells category archive
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
SFGate talked with some flight attendants. What they learned about the conduct of passengers in these viral times is not pretty. A snippet:
We are not a civil society.
But we are a society of stupid.
Afterthought:
I see persons every day in stores wearing masks pulled down below their noses. I can’t help but wonder, “What the bleeding hell do they think they are accomplishing?”
I note that, in the past weeks, stores that once posted notices that masks for vaccinated visitors are optional have changed that to masks requested (or required) for all.
I find wearing a mask a small inconvenience in the face of the threat of death.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Yet another indication that “social” media isn’t.
Maskless Marauders, Reprise 0
Yet another marauded school board.
I used to think I lived in a civilized (and civil) society.
No more.
Maskless Marauders 0
Marauders at a school board meeting want to suffer the children.
Kudos to the school board for making the right decision, but, really, the stupid . . . .
True Believers 0
Farron, sitting in for David, discusses an article by Chancey DeVega discussing Trump loyalists fealty to their dear leader.
Read the article that Farron discusses.
A Failed State? 0
Writing at the Idaho State Journal, Leonard Hitchcock is less than optimistic. A nugget:
And even now, almost half of our citizens believe that the last presidential election was fraudulent. There is no verifiable evidence that that’s true, yet, because it’s the claim of the election’s loser — that same con-artist — millions of his followers choose to believe it.
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
I know someone with relatives in Hungary, relatives who just happen to be Jewish.
I know from them that Orban is as bad as bad can be.
Addicted to Rage 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Jeremy Sherman explores a behavior which he has dubbed “maladdiction,” an addiction to rage. Methinks he may be onto something.
Here’s a bit:
The more outraged we are at others, the more righteous we feel; the more righteous we feel, the more we feel duty-bound to be outraged at others. One can really rev out on that vicious cycle. It’s highly addictive.
Call it “maddiction” an addiction to getting mad for the self-purifying sensation. Maddiction is the source of common undiagnosed madness, a mental illness because, though it makes one feel purged of sin, it’s an indulgence in the greatest violation of all: Ignoring reality.
I commend the entire piece to your attention. I think it offers a perspective on dis coarse discourse.
Devolution 0
Writing at The Roanoke Times, Professor Robert Strong is not sanguine. A snippet:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0
If you wonder why there’s so much fuss over critical race theory, which nobody outside of academia had heard of until a couple of months ago, the answer is simple.
To paraphrase Jack Nicholson, “They can’t handle the truth,” so they want to look away, look away, look away, to Dixieland.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
And for the “they can dish it out but they can’t take it” dept. . . .
Aside:
This is not to imply that I endorse confronting lying racist mongers of hate on their days off, but, really, the irony.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
He politely “stood his ground” by shooting a woman who was running away in the back.