“That Conversation about Race” category archive

More mean for the sake of mean.

Joe Conason looks at the racist and bigoted texts sent by Young Republicans and says, “No surprises here.” Here’s a bit from his article:

Replete with primitive bigotry and fantasies of horrific violence, the messages unearthed by Politico capture the essential character of Trumpism and those attracted to it.

Follow the link for context.

It appears that the Trump maladministration is getting even meaner for the sake of mean.

For some fool reason, I find myself thinking of a book I read a long time ago.

Rick Strom suggests that “Maddox” rhymes with “MAGA.”

Aside:

As Rick notes, half a century later, Jim Brown himself failed to parse the rhyme and supported Trump in 2016. The Nation’s Dave Zirin offers some thoughts as to why,
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*Mark Twain.

Thom hears a rhyme echoing across the sea from nearly a century ago.

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*Mark Twain.

Rick Strom discusses how comedian Josh Johnson ridicules the furor over Bad Bunny at the Superbowl while also pointing out the bigotry behind it.

Der Spiegel takes a deep dive into Republican attempts to suppress dissenting views. A snippet:

America at the moment is not just enduring attacks by a completely untethered president and his administration against critics and political rivals. It is an attack on thought itself.

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In a longer article about Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard to subjugate those who might disagree with his edicts occupy American cities, Roy S. Johnson decodes de code:

The deployment of National Guard troops in many cities has recently been massaged as protecting “federal officers and assets” against “ongoing violent riots and lawlessness.”

Translation: Trump is sending American troops to “protect” his swelling flotilla of barely-trained, masked and thuggish ICE agents who are attacking brown and Black people, including children and the elderly, even in their homes, as they did this week in Chicago.

David suggests that we are seeing

. . . authoritarian theater at its worst.

Grunge_e_Gene hears a rhyme that sounds a lot like “Blackwater.”

You remember Blackwater, do you not, the security firm mercenaries from the Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie in Iraq?

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*Mark Twain.