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“That Conversation about Race” category archive

Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Still rising again after all these years? At the Psychology Today website, psychology professor Glenn Geher reports that “AI-related technology has been shown to include implicit racist messaging.”

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Republican Thought Police 0

When you cut through the Trumpian gobbledygook quoted in this report, it becomes clear that the Trump maladministration wants the Smithsonian Institution to promote partisan propaganda, rather than nurture knowledge.

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American Stasi 0

Couple approaching

Via Job’s Anger.

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The Unwelcome Mat 0

Once again, the Trump maladministration exercises its freedom of repress.

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Suffer the Children 0

We are again reminded that that is a Republican family value.

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American Stasi 0

ICE agent fires gun, then shouts

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The Unholy Alliance 0

Michael in Norfolk.

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Republican Thought Police 0

The Trump maladministration seems to believe that, if we don’t talk about America’s originial sin of chattel slavery, then, by jimiminy, it really couldn’t have been all that bad.

Afterthought:

It’s all about whitewashing–you will pardon the expression–the racism.

They claim that they don’t wan’t to discuss things that make America look bad.

What they mean is that they don’t want to discuss things that make white American racists look bad.

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By the Book* 0

Title:  Official ICE Procedure.  Image:  1.  Turn off bodycam.  2.  Shoot.  3.  Issue statement. (Example:

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*By the way, this has a rhyme from the past.

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American Stasi 0

Grung_e_Gene, who happens to work in law enforcement, ain’t buying the Trump maladministration’s attempt to justify lynchings extra-judicial killings by ICE. Here’s a bit from his post:

Yet, again the Gestapho imitators at ICE have launched an attack on a person not committing a crime, in unmarked vehicles, while not in uniform, wearing regular clothing, while masked, guns drawn, seemingly without identifying themselves, using their vehicles as a weapon, and thus ended up executing a man.

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American flag with the field pieced by bullet holes reading

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Farron reports on a federal judge who called out the Trump maladministration’s overt racism.

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Boss Trump 0

Crow labeled

Via Job’s Anger, where I also cribbed the title for this post.

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Stray Thought 0

As I read this piece by the Rude One (warning: rudeness), I couldn’t help but remember that one of the primary motives for promoting racism (and indeed hatred and bigotry in general) is to keep the working classes divided and unable to unite against their oppressors.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Ring of Fire’s Josh Gay discusses a Trump-appointed judge’s ruling against Florida Man’s attempt to control what college professors teach.

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American Stasi 0

Thom is not sanguine.

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The Unifying Factor 0

Michael in Norfolk looks at how Trump and the Trumpettes are reacting to the Supreme Supremacist Court’s decision to uphold the U. S. Constitution–specifically birthright citizenship–and points out what should be obvious to anyone who has been paying attention:

Despite what they may say, one of the underlying motivation for the MAGA base – and the Felon and his minions – is racism.

Follow the link for the evidence.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Ring of Fire’s Josh Gay discusses the Trump maladministration’s attempt to desecrate the Smithsonian Museum. A quote from his commentary:

Telling the truth is not “activism.”

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Establishmentarians 0

Michael in Norfolk calls out the goal of the unholy alliance between Trump and right-wing Christians:

It’s an agenda long pushed by far right “Christians” who want nothing less than a de facto theocracy with themselves in charge. Ironically, these same people rail against Iran’s Islamic theocracy and its abuse of citizens even as they seek to impose a theocracy of their own that will abuse and marginalize those who do not subscribe to their hate and fear based beliefs.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Donald Trump stands before the copy of the U. S. Consitution, where he has rewritten the first phrase to read,

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C&L has more.

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