Politics of Hate category archive
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Haajrah Gilani writes that Americans of Japanese descent see Donald Trump’s treatment of immigrants and hear rhymes of the Japanese internment camps of World War II. Here’s a bit from his article:
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*Mark Twain.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Laura Loomer complains that “uppity blacks” don’t know their place.
Yup, she actually said, “Uppity.”
They’ve taken off their hoods.
They’re not even trying to hide their racism in these Trumpled times.
(Slightly edited for style.)
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Emily Wax-Thibodeaux tells of several persons who fled to the United States to escape tyranny and oppression. Unfortunatel, they are now hearing in the U. S. rhymes of the lands they left behind. Here’s a tiny bit:
“Khomeini felt that Iranian universities had turned into a breeding ground for Western and communist influences,” he said. The higher education ministry was told to end suspect activity on college campuses, which soon after were shut down. Textbooks were rewritten “to remove all mentions of what was considered un-Islamic.”
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*Mark Twain.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Via the Las Vegas Son, Juan Esparza Loera notices a pattern (emphasis added):
Follow the link for the context of his conclusion.
Aside:
Why am I not surprised?
The Rule of Lawless 0
The quiet part is now out loud.
Real Big Men, Reprise 0
Via AL.com, Tom Moran marvels at the Trump administration’s and today’s Republican Party’s embrace of mean for the sake of mean.
No excerpt or summary will do his piece justice. Just go read it.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Michael in Norfolk hears several most unpleasant rhymes. Here’s the first line from one of them; follow the link for more.
You can find the second line of this couplet over at Boston.com.
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*Mark Twain.
The Golden Trumpled Door, Reprise
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At The Sacramento Bee, Erwin Chemerinsky calls out Donald Trump and the Republican thought police. Here’s how his article starts (emphasis added); follow the link for the rest.
In fact, Immigration and Customs Enforcement posted on social media that its goal was to stop illegal ideas from coming into the country (this post was later taken down). But under the First Amendment, there is no such thing as an illegal idea.
The Golden Trumpled Door
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Via Job’s Anger.
Afterthought:
The American dream, however imperfect it may have been in its reality, is being throttled before our eyes.
The Woman without a Country? 0
The Trump maladministration orders a native-born U. S. citizen to deport herself.
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts has more on Republicans’ mean for the sake of mean.
Video via C&L, which has commentary.
The Rule of Lawless 0
It appears that Donald Trump believes that “freedom of the press” should be subordinate to “fee-fees of the president.”
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Clarence Page takes a look at Donald Trump’s recent directive, in which he directed the Republican thought police to assault the Smithsonian Institution for having the unmitigated gall to attempt to portray American history with accuracy. A snippet:
Follow the link for the rest.
Disappeared under the Rule of Lawless 0
Emma talks with journalist Prem Trakker about how Trump and ICE are disappearing persons without showing legal cause for doing so and about the implications thereof.
Afterthought:
I do not think it is an exaggeration to fear that, if we continue on this course, we in danger of becoming a police state.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Farron debunks de bunk that Trump and the Trumpettes spew to justify sending persons who don’t look like them to concentration camps (I do not use that term loosely) in foreign countries.
Trump has succeeded in at least one thing.
He has made me ashamed of being an American.
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
Although we all have had years and years to witness Trump’s cruelty, his stupidity, his arrogance, his simple-mindedness, his narcissism, and his ineptitude, many Republicans are feigning surprise at the horrors of what Trump is now doing. If only they’d had some inkling of what he was really like. (Yeah, right.)