Learn sumpthin', bubba
Let us be clear.— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 16, 2017
Putting the statues up in the first place was "sanitizing history."
What's going on now is fumigating history.
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Today's Tweet
Learn sumpthin', bubba
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Hardening Evidence
So, this isn't fully baked yet - it has to be submitted for peer-review and then maybe we'll see it in the journals.
Vox, Brian Resnick
One of the starkest, darkest findings in the survey comes from a simple question: How evolved do you think other people are?
Kteily, the co-author on this paper, pioneered this new and disturbing way to measure dehumanization — the tendency to see others as being less than human. He simply shows study participants the following (scientifically inaccurate) image of a human ancestor slowly learning how to stand on two legs and become fully human.
Participants are asked to rate where certain groups fall on this scale from 0 to 100. Zero is not human at all; 100 is fully human.
Vox, Brian Resnick
One of the starkest, darkest findings in the survey comes from a simple question: How evolved do you think other people are?
Kteily, the co-author on this paper, pioneered this new and disturbing way to measure dehumanization — the tendency to see others as being less than human. He simply shows study participants the following (scientifically inaccurate) image of a human ancestor slowly learning how to stand on two legs and become fully human.
Participants are asked to rate where certain groups fall on this scale from 0 to 100. Zero is not human at all; 100 is fully human.
- and (btw) -
Also important: Alt-righters in the sample aren’t all that concerned about the economy. The survey used a common set of Pew question that asks about the current state of the economy, and about whether participants feel like things are going to improve for them. Here, both groups reported about the same levels of confidence in the economy.
What’s more, “the alt-right expected more improvement in the state of the economy relative to the non-alt-right sample,” the study states (perhaps because their preferred leader is president).
Fake Jesus wept.
Also important: Alt-righters in the sample aren’t all that concerned about the economy. The survey used a common set of Pew question that asks about the current state of the economy, and about whether participants feel like things are going to improve for them. Here, both groups reported about the same levels of confidence in the economy.
What’s more, “the alt-right expected more improvement in the state of the economy relative to the non-alt-right sample,” the study states (perhaps because their preferred leader is president).
Fake Jesus wept.
This Gets Weirder Still
"So you're not really a White Supremacist?"
"Apparently not."
It's a wonderment.
hat tip =@justcallmeBABA
"Apparently not."
It's a wonderment.
hat tip =
Cornered
Christopher Cantwell - Alt-Right, Smug-White, Fucking Nazi Ass-Wipe - the guy they spotlighted in that VICE piece on HBO a few days ago.
It's the Age Of Poor Poor Pitiful Me.
It's the Age Of Poor Poor Pitiful Me.
Something that just got clearer: these jagoffs talk trash all the time about how "all those people" are getting everything for free, and they're a burden to society, and honest tax-paying Americans always have to pick up the tab, and blah blah blah.
But Cantwell's not bitchin' because somebody else is gettin' the goodies - he's bitchin' cuz he's not gettin' the goodies.
There's a lot of weirdness rattling around in my brain about all this - economic pyramids, and wealth disparity, and Maslov's Hierarchy, and the downward pressure of that Supply Side crap, and what always happens when there's too much power in too few hands and too many people with nothing more to lose.
The kicker is - I wasn't expecting Cantwell to be so scared. You don't cry like that if you're not scared. And that's quite the odd little wrinkle.
Mr Colbert
Stephen brings it. And even tho' it seems like the jokes are writing themselves, this is work, kids. It's not as easy as it might look.
Today's Tweet
Now that's one eloquent lady
I'm a rabbi.— Rav Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) August 15, 2017
I believe words have power.
I try to choose mine carefully.
Fuck you, Trump.
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Scary Shit
HBO's VICE News via YouTube:
...but a little bit encouraging in spite of it all.
Because we've been here before, and we managed to muddle thru just by stumbling forward.
...but a little bit encouraging in spite of it all.
Because we've been here before, and we managed to muddle thru just by stumbling forward.
And Away We Go
This is not right. Even though I sure as hell understand the impulse, I can't encourage or approve or condone. I have to condemn this action unless these people stayed to be arrested and jailed and fined for it.
Civil Disobedience is not about Justice if you don't follow through - you have to play the whole 9 innings.
Civil Disobedience is not about Justice if you don't follow through - you have to play the whole 9 innings.
We need to maintain a healthy skepticism and be wary of "movements". Once put in motion, these things take on a life and a will of their own, and they can go in directions we can't anticipate and don't control.
Today's Tweet
Because of course it has to be all about 45* - that's where we are now - The Era Of Victimized Privilege.
Made additional remarks on Charlottesville and realize once again that the #Fake News Media will never be satisfied...truly bad people!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 14, 2017
Monday, August 14, 2017
Be Aware
Heading for some fun in the big city? Don't forget the big advice:
Notice what's going on around you, and don't act like a victim
Same goes with this fight against the Alt-Right assholes among us. We need to know what's up, and we need to know who's who.
- Check the locations of these groups
- Compare with the map of your Congressional District
- Call your Representative and make it known that you expect loud public condemnation of them
A Look Inside
Good Men Project:
We are at what Lisa Hickey rightly calls an inflection point in the United States. White Supremacists and White Nationalists are marching around the nation, ostensibly to protest things like the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, VA. It is time for every white person in this country to decide where they stand. It is far too easy to describe the torch-carrying Supremacists as some other sort of species, as monsters and not as humans.
We can create mental walls: They are them, and we are us. We’re not like them. But this is intellectually dishonest. These people are our co-workers, our family, and our friends. They’re people we pass on the street.
Anti-racist author Tim Wise: White America desperately wants to be numb, and Donald Trump “is a walking, talking opioid”
We are at what Lisa Hickey rightly calls an inflection point in the United States. White Supremacists and White Nationalists are marching around the nation, ostensibly to protest things like the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, VA. It is time for every white person in this country to decide where they stand. It is far too easy to describe the torch-carrying Supremacists as some other sort of species, as monsters and not as humans.
We can create mental walls: They are them, and we are us. We’re not like them. But this is intellectually dishonest. These people are our co-workers, our family, and our friends. They’re people we pass on the street.
hat tip = Walker Thornton
Check in with Tim Wise.
My Go-To Tim Wise:
Today's Told Ya So
From 2014 in PoliticusUSA:
During the protests against America’s involvement in the Viet Nam war, it became very popular for warmongers and so-called patriots to tell young men facing losing their lives in a worthless war and those protesting to save them that this is “America, love it or leave it.” The implication was that since Congress adhered to the Constitution in waging war, regardless the devastating consequences, the American people were obliged to either show their love of country and support the war or get out. There is a segment of the population today that hates America, its people, and the nation’s founding document, but instead of packing up and leaving the country, they have tasked Republicans to punish the entire population by legislating that all Americans suffer their lifestyle founded on poverty, bigotry, ill-health, and religious ignorance. Although there are Americans who hate this nation across the country, it is the former Confederacy that is punishing the people because they failed in their attempt to destroy America of their rejection of the United States Constitution they claim to love.
Southern states are still resentful they were unable to rip America apart because the Constitution forbade them from keeping dark-skinned human beings as livestock, so they spent the past 149 years punishing different groups of Americans based on their religion’s instruction manual (Christian bible). Over the past thirty years, angry southerners began electing Republicans to strip everything from the people until they relented to a government by bible that drove their attempt to restrict other Americans from their Constitutional freedoms. Republicans have happily accommodated southerners to bring down the rest of the nation to their level of poverty and distress that southern red state voters embrace so long as they have imaginary enemies who believe Americans deserve more than slave wages, sickness, dire poverty, prayer, and firearms.
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