Politics of Hate category archive
Republican Thought Police 0
Der Spiegel takes a deep dive into Republican attempts to suppress dissenting views. A snippet:
Follow the link for context.
The Rule of Lawless 0
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:
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.
The Rule of Lawless 0
David suggests that we are seeing
. . . authoritarian theater at its worst.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
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.
Republican Family Values Meet a Notion of Immigrants 0
Hones to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
The Rule of Lawless 0
The Trump maladministration decrees, “Hatch Act, schmatch act.”
“Look in the Mirror, Boy!” 0
This article describes as clear a case of psychological projection as we are ever likely to see.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
In an article about the mean for the sake of mean that the Trump maladministration is displaying toward immigrants, persons who look like immigrants, and even natural-born American citizens who happen to be brown, Gustavo Arellano hears a rhyme:
That’s one step away from “The Eternal Jew,” the infamous Nazi propaganda movie that compared Jews to rats and argued they needed to be eradicated.
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*Mark Twain.
Separation of Church and State
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Der Spiegel takes a deep dive into the right-wing they-call-themselves Christians who (rather incongruously, considering Donald Trump’s history) wield great influence in the Trump maladministration. Their findings are not comforting. Here’s a tiny bit from the artilce:
(snip)
It sounds a lot more like radicalism than like faith. It is the attempt to turn the clock back by several decades, if not centuries – back to a time when men were still men and conflicts were solved with faith in God and a revolver. Jesus and Jesse James. The resuscitation of a quintessentially American myth. An overtly far-right response to left-wing identity politics seen as overly feminine and moralizing. And, ultimately, it is an attempt to dismantle the rule of law.
The Trumpling, in One Sentence 0
In a column musing on who will take get saddled with the blame for a (potential at the time the column was written) government shutdown, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier sums up the status quo.
It’s not pretty, but it is where we are.
Follow the link for the rest, in which Collier reveals that he is less than optimistic.
Republican Thought Police 0
Rebecca Watson looks at the Republican thought policing currently being exercised at Texas A&M University. (Warning: Mild language.)
Or you can read the transcript.
Republican Thought Police 0
In the course of a longer article about recent events at Texas A&M University, Mary Ellen Klas summarizes the tactics of the Republican thought police (emphasis added):
Occupation Nation, Reprise 0
Sam and the crew discuss the tactics of the occupiers. (Warning: There’s language in some of the video clips that they show.)
Afterthought:
Late in his life, my father said to me, “I’m glad those days are over.”
He was referring to the days of racism and segregation during which he and later I as Southern boys were raised.
But they’re not over. They may have been in abeyance for a while, but they are most certainly back with crosses burning.
America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the racist mythology created to rationalize it continue to exact their toll.