Showing posts with label sexism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sexism. Show all posts
Saturday, February 17, 2018

Chauncey DeVega on "Oppressed" White Males as Shock Troops of Alt-Right and GOP White Identity Movement

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Here's Chauncey DeVega writing one day  before 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz took an assault rifle to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High Scho...

SPLC on How Alt-Right Is Killing People: "Young, White, Middle Class, Heterosexual Males Commit Mass Murder at a Disproportionately High Rate"

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Southern Poverty Law Center published this valuable essay by Keegan Hankes and Alex Amend entitled "The Alt-Right Is Killing Peopl...
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Is the Problem That Brought Us Trump Racism or Sexism? Or Both? Commentary in Today's Newsfeed

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A reader of Talking Points Memo gives Josh Marshall some feedback about the interconnection of racism and sexism in the rise of Don...
Sunday, July 2, 2017

Zoe Williams on Rise of Homophobia, Racism, Sexism, and Dim-Witted Nationalism — And the Choice of Affluent Elderly White Voters to Elect Donald Trump

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Zoe Williams writes  in today's Guardian , 
Friday, October 7, 2016

Twitter Responds to Trump's Lewd, Gross, Sexist Remarks: " 'I Think What Animates Donald Trump Is Faith in God,' Said Mike Pence YESTERDAY"

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This recording of Trump should force him to withdraw his name from the race. He is simply not fit to lead. https://t.co/RjCLwWfk8L — dera...
Sunday, September 11, 2016

Twitter Has Field Day with Ridiculous GOP (and Mainstream Media) Pearl-Clutching at Discovery That Women — Like Men — Can Develop Pneumonia

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1. If you want to know what's wrong with media coverage in 2016, read this paragraph https://t.co/LJ6cr0VoGV pic.twitter.com/u7sCd00n...
Wednesday, March 9, 2016

A Footnote to Previous Posting: Trump's Appeal to White Catholic Voters Demonstrates Colossal Pastoral and Intellectual Failure of U.S. Catholic "Leaders"

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To put the point of my previous posting very succinctly: the people who profess to "lead" the U.S. Catholic church — its bishops...
Friday, March 4, 2016

New Normal in U.S. Politics As Trump Rises: "Little Führers" and White Supremacists Foment Race Hatred, Evangelicals Applaud, Establishment Pretends

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Out of curiosity, I found the first NYT reference to Adolf Hitler. Nov. 21, 1922. Amazing last three paragraphs. pic.twitter.com/VhBnlSsf...
Monday, September 28, 2015

From Nuns on the Bus Town Hall Meeting in Little Rock: Rev. Wendell Griffen on Radical Revolution of Values

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I recently blogged about the town hall meeting the Nuns on the Bus held in my community of Little Rock on 13 September, which my husband...
Friday, July 31, 2015

Jacob J. Erickson on Killing of Cecil the Lion As Part of "Larger Theological History of Environmental, Gendered, and Colonial Injustice"

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In several comments yesterday, I recommended Jacob J. Erickson's recent essay at Religion Dispatches entitled " The Martyrdo...
Saturday, July 2, 2011

More on Twists in Strauss-Kahn Story: New York Tabloid Calls DSK Accuser a Hooker

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Later the same day: I've just now seen this posting by Lauren Kelly at the Alternet site, about an article in New York Post smearing...

Lynn Parramore on Twists in Dominique Strauss-Kahn Story

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Lynn Parramore, on the initial skepticism with which many of us have long greeted reports by women that they've been raped: 
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Thought for the Day: "Hell. What's the Presidency for?"

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When Lyndon Johnson advised his aides, just days after President Kennedy was assassinated, that he intended to use his presidency to enact l...
Friday, September 19, 2008

Caged Birds and Songs They Sing

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Thinking of cages as this day goes on. Specifically, of Maya Angelou’s autobiographical statement about why the caged bird sings. From the ...
Friday, September 5, 2008

The Kind of Place from Which Hate Comes: Discerning the Spirit in Political Decisions

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In a previous posting on this blog, I noted a brilliant observation of Rev. Gilbert H. Caldwell from this year’s United Methodist General C...
Thursday, June 26, 2008

Obama on the LGBT Community: Hope for Change or A New Smokescreen?

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For anyone interested in the interplay of religion and public life in the U.S., this presidential election is proving fascinating. And sin...
Monday, May 26, 2008

Keep the Door Shut!: Churches and the Threat of Gay Energy

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Colleen, Once again, you’ve left a comment that is so rich, I want to lift it from the comments section and reply to it in my blog prope...