Postcards from the culture wars (8.24)

Postcards from the culture wars (8.24) August 24, 2016

“‘I don’t think people have fully recognized the degree to which he’s transformed the party,’ said Richard Spencer, a clean-cut 38-year-old from Arlington, Virginia, who sipped Manhattans as he matter-of-factly called for removing African-Americans, Hispanics and Jews from the United States.”

“The federal court in Richmond found that the primary purpose of North Carolina’s law wasn’t to stop voter fraud, but rather to disenfranchise minority voters. The judges found that the provisions ‘target African Americans with almost surgical precision.'”

“Some of the most breathtakingly ignorant and dangerous statements in the book come from the lips (or pens) of well-respected Christian leaders — men who, instead of wisely offering safe-haven to abuse victims, make female submission both the problem and the solution, sending desperate women back into harm’s way to try harder.”

“Laurie Luhn told the lawyers at Paul, Weiss that she had been harassed by [Fox News chief Roger] Ailes for more than 20 years, that executives at Fox News had known about it and helped cover it up, and that it had ruined her life.”

“Support for pro-gun legislation, in other words, is a consequence of fear inconsistent with actual danger.”

It seems very clear in the scripture that a woman should not be in authority over men, which would limit a woman from being the president of the United States of America.”

When you’re used to having power look like you, it’s baffling to live in a moment that isn’t yours.”

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“When people who aren’t married to each other have sex, it’s sort of like putting a pet in the microwave.”

“The problem with this paragraph is that it claims to be about ‘science,’ but is made up of errors or falsehoods.”

“Of the 2.6 million clients who visited crisis pregnancy centers since 2004, 3.52 percent, or 92,679 people, decided against having an abortion.”

“Somewhere in Trump’s pre-frontal cortex the realization arose that the amazingly widespread and totally-not-racist idea that Obama wasn’t really an American indicated that it might well be possible to win the GOP nomination by simply taking it as a given that real Americans are white Americans, and that political decisions taken without the support of a majority of white Americans are illegitimate by definition.”

“We’re going to some of the big gun shows in the middle of the state, because that’s a great place to meet people of our, of our stripe, and we’ve been getting so much support from these places.”

We have the right to protect ourselves and our country.”

“Other than mandating that they may not actively discriminate, has any agency or law constrained the freedom or rights of evangelicals in the way that they themselves have sought to limit and marginalize the objects of their disapproval?”

It’s aggressive dehumanization, reduction [of] real people to ghastly stick figures, not a bungled departure from but actually at the heart of his increasingly white nationalist message.”

“They almost immediately began shouting ‘God hates fags’ before they changed tack for less volatile chants like ‘Obey God’s law’ and ‘Support Christian marriage.'”


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