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Post by gregfordyce on Aug 19, 2019 14:14:04 GMT
I realize racism and bigotry have no political affiliation, but the subject of the Right and their long wink-wink dog-whistle relationship with racism is nothing new. Under Trump it has become far less dog-whistle and more in-your-face. Lots of books and discussions out there of how the Republican Party is becoming inextricably synonymous with racism (and authoritarianism/fascism, but that is for another discussion) - any thoughts? Or is this such an obvious topic that it doesn't need a thread?  Oh - and....  |
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Post by gregfordyce on Aug 20, 2019 16:35:35 GMT
I found this story to be quite compelling on this subject: Trump Movement Will Outlast His PresidencySome highlights: "At Trump's latest rally in NH, he said ""There's never been a movement like this," he told his worshipful following in the Granite State. "Never. Our movement is built on love." Trump's love inspires perverse acts of devotion, including right-wing terrorism and other forms political violence, which he has tacitly encouraged ever since the beginning of his presidential campaign. In Charlottesville, El Paso, Portland and other places around the United States and the world Donald Trump's white supremacist paramilitaries proudly wear his MAGA regalia while they chant racist slogans and commit acts of violence against nonwhite people, Jews, Muslims and other "enemies" of the Trump regime." The MAGA hat has become virtually symbolic of racism in general. "Public opinion polls and other research have repeatedly shown that racial authoritarianism and white rage are the glue that binds together and motivates Donald Trump's movement. Trump knows this to be true, which is why he and his strategists have decided upon using overt white supremacy — replacing the conservative movement's traditional "dog whistle" racism of the post-civil rights era — to win the 2020 presidential election. Trump's electoral coalition, like that of the Republican Party more generally, is 90 percent white. Under Trump, the Republican Party has become America and the world's largest white identity organization; racism and conservatism are now fully one and the same." "Sydney J. Harris warned, in his 1953 collection of essays "Strictly Personal," that the difference between patriotism and nationalism could be dangerous: “[T]he patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.” Such political combustion is made even more likely when racism and ethnocentrism are added to the mix." |
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Post by paulus on Aug 20, 2019 19:33:54 GMT
“[T]he patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.” That's the nutshell right there. QFT. |
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Post by cliffs on Aug 21, 2019 10:50:13 GMT
President Trump said Tuesday that Jews who vote for Democrats were either ignorant or disloyal.
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Post by gregfordyce on Aug 21, 2019 13:36:15 GMT
President Trump said Tuesday that Jews who vote for Democrats were either ignorant or disloyal. All he does is divide and set people against one another. And he is proud of it, as are his worshippers. I find it absolutely vile and disgusting. This piece of shit calls certain Jews disloyal if they don't agree with him or the Right's ideology on everything - same as he calls Democrats and progressives "traitors" for the same thing - but at the same time he calls Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib anti-semites for criticizing Israel's government. Not Judaism or Jews in general, just the Zionist government that currently leads Israel. What a fucking hypocrite. |
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Post by paulus on Sept 4, 2019 12:33:53 GMT
Not sure if this is the “right” thread, but I’m gonna go out on a limb and say the owners of this place are highly likely to be Republican voters... A wedding venue in Mississippi refused to marry a couple because “we don’t do gay weddings or mixed race”... 😮 www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49571207 |
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Post by ErixonStone on Sept 4, 2019 13:34:20 GMT
The appropriate response is, "Then you cannot operate a business in the public square." |
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Post by ErixonStone on Sept 4, 2019 13:44:30 GMT
To its credit, the city of Booneville condemned the venue's reaction. Unfortunately, Mississippi passed a "religious freedom" law that allows discrimination based on "a sincerely held religious belief" which prevents legal action on the same-sex marriage part.
My biggest takeaway from the article is that the venue owner reversed her decision about interracial marriage when her pastor told her there isn't anything in the Bible against it. So, the owner is seeking guidance from authority and just following the authority's sense of morality instead of using her own judgment. If the pastor had told her that she was right, she would not have changed her mind.
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Post by paulus on Sept 4, 2019 14:28:03 GMT
Didn't realise that about Mississippi - nuts really. So as a country you've decided that being gay is OK and enshrined tolerance for that subset of society into law - but individual states can overturn that based on a spurious belief system. Given the Bible and other religious texts can be interpreted in almost as many ways as their are people - surely opens up the path to legalised abuse.
Separation of church & state a cherished ideal for a reason...
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Post by ErixonStone on Sept 4, 2019 21:05:00 GMT
Sexual orientation is not a protected class in the US. There was an amendment that was proposed but never ratified, and there is a bill in Congress (passed by the House of Representatives) that seeks to add sexual minorities to the list of protected classes.
Most people assume that sexual minorities are protected, and in many states, they are, but federally, they are not. That gives the states the ability to pass these types of laws.
There are many people in the US that would turn the country into a Christian theocracy if given the chance.
I wonder what life would be like had the Union not won the American Civil War and the Confederate States were allowed to secede.
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