Politics of Hate category archive
The Rule of Lawless 0
The Pittsburgh-Post Gazette’s Gene Collier warns of some arresting developments.
Republican Thought Police 0
If the truth hurts, well, just tell truth to take a hike.
The Middle-East Misdirection Play 0
Kenneth Obel and Jennifer Obel are Jewish parents raising two daughters. From that perspective, they write at the Philadelphia Inquirer about the Trump maladministration’s efforts to dictate to universities what they can and cannot teach.
In particular, they submit that right-wing operatives are disguising efforts to restrict freedom of speech and learning under a cloak of fighting antisemitism. Here’s a tiny bit from their article:
This includes rounding up and incarcerating foreign students and misusing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to make drastic cuts in federal funding to universities. These actions do not protect Jews — they endanger the very freedoms and institutions that have made Jewish life in America possible.
Their piece is worth the few minutes it takes to read.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Suffer the children. It’s a Republican family value.
So is mean for the sake of mean.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Field argues that we must remain vigilant as the Trump maladministrationn seeks to (further) undermine the rule of law.
The Republican Thought Police 0
The Republican Thought Police have deployed a new unit: The Establishmentarian Thought Police.
“Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged” 0
Somehow, I can’t help thinking that that is the intended message here.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Rick Strom looks behind the curtain and explains it all in one simple sentence.
Because you are not a white person who is from this country, you are a target.
Watch the full clip for context:
America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority manufactured to justify it continue to poison our polity.
A Notion of Immigrants Meets Republican Family Values 0
We are again reminded that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.
A Definitional Issue 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Ricky Kendall argues that DEI is not the horrible thing that today’s Republican Party seems to think it is and offers to explain it to them in words of one syllable.
Still Rising Again after All the Years 0
The New Secesh have decided that, if they can’t acually undo history, they can hide it away so that no one remembers it.
The Rule of Lawless, Reprise 0
The Rule of Lawless 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini contrasts Donald Trump’s coddling of convicted rioters with his incarceration of innocent immigrants. A snippet:
That wasn’t the case for the 1,600 individuals charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
