Category: 3. Enemies and Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
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Matt Taibbi on Peasant Mentality
But actual rich people can’t ever be the target. It’s a classic peasant mentality: going into fits of groveling and bowing whenever the master’s carriage rides by, then fuming against the Turks in Crimea or the Jews in the Pale or whoever after spending fifteen hard hours in the fields. You know you’re a peasant […]
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Michelle Malkin is a Lying Sack of Shit
Matt Kibbe, president of the astroturfing agency known as FreedomWorks, told the teabaggers assembled in Washington that ABC News had reported crowd size as 1 million to 1.5 million people. Problem is, ABC never said that: “At no time did ABC News, or its affiliates, report a number anywhere near as large. ABCNews.com reported an […]
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UK's Apology for Alan Turing's Persecution
Alan Turing, genius cryptologist and a key player in code-breaking German communications during WWII was also a gay man who was later convicted of homosexuality and sentenced to chemical castration with injections of female hormones. He killed himself soon after. After an online petition, the British Prime Minister presented what seems like one of the […]
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Czech Town Confronts 1945 Massacre
The officials sent a report back to their minister recommending that the bodies be exhumed and burnt so that “[the victims] should have no memorials to which they could point as a source of suffering by their people.” In a top-secret operation in August 1947, several mass graves were dug up, and 763 bodies were […]
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What About the You-Know-Whats
What does it say about our nation that some parents are refusing to allow their children to listen to a speech by the President? It stuns me. All I can think is that these same people are afraid that their ideas are so unattractive, so indefensible, that allowing their children to hear other points of […]
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Another First for Obama
This is the first time in recorded history a black man has been criticized for telling kids to stay in school. Hell, it’s probably the first time anyone of any race has been criticized for telling kids that. via Commenter on MetaFilter
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Right-Wing Dog Whistles
#5. Sovereign: In the right wing, this term has two meanings. The most troubling refers to a notion called “sovereign citizen,” a term popularized by the violent Posse Comitatus militia formation in the 1970s to argue that white people have a superior form of citizenship to that of black people. More commonly, the term “sovereign” […]
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Founders Like Me
Beck has a very clever way of being racist without actually directly saying anything racist. He’s always applauding the Founding Fathers as brilliant, wonderful men who are, most importantly, Beck will stress as he leans toward the audience, “just like us.” And he’s right, in that the only people in his theater are old and […]
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Secessionists Rally at TX Capitol
Go ahead and secede. But you’ll probably want to make Austin an annex: “I hate that flag up there,” Kilgore said pointing to the American flag flying over the Capitol. “I hate the United States government. … They’re an evil, corrupt government. They need to go. Sovereignty is not good enough. Secession is what we […]
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Chris Wallace Fellates Cheney
Now look: there are softball interviews; and then there are interviews like this. It cannot be described as journalism in any fashion. Even as propaganda, which is its point, it doesn’t work – because it’s far too cloying and supportive of Cheney to be convincing to anyone outside the true-believers. When it comes to Cheney, […]