Postcards from the culture war (12.1.16)

Postcards from the culture war (12.1.16) December 1, 2016

“By 1909, the hatpin was considered an international threat, with the police chiefs in Hamburg and Paris considering measures to regulate their length.”

We’re not doctors.”

“She was especially excited about this because, she said, self-proclaimed prophet Cindy Jacobs had told her that her semi-autobiographical romantic comedy/anti-abortion polemic would be ‘the tipping point to end abortion’ in America.”

“We try to remain nonpartisan but we’re unabashedly pro-child and that’s a hard place to sit right now.”

“The incidents documented here almost certainly represent a small fraction of the actual number of election-related hate incidents that have occurred since November 8.”

“Even if people wanted to commit acts of violence against me before, like, they weren’t emboldened to. Now all of a sudden I wonder, What does this country look like?

“Beyond the well-known names, [white] evangelical churches are being flooded with a whole host of speakers who marry the message of Islamophobia to Christianity.”

We want to stand up for white America.”

“Michael Flynn’s Son (And Chief Of Staff!) Very Concerned About Dating Sites For White People

“Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke called Bannon’s hiring ‘excellent’ in an interview Monday on CNN.” / “I also commend the selection of Stephen Bannon, a talented strategist.”

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The Liar Tony Perkins is all smiles in this 2001 photo of his appearance as guest speaker for a white nationalist group in Louisiana.

“[The letters] are signed anonymously as ‘Americans for a Better Way’ and say that Trump would ‘cleanse America and make it shine again’ and would carry out a genocide against Muslims.”

He was good at convincing followers he was a revolutionary and others that he was harmless.”

Why don’t Americans see the Confederate flag the same way the Germans view the Nazi flag?

“Hundreds of Jewish scholars of the Holocaust have signed a statement condemning the ‘hateful and discriminatory language and threats’ against minorities during Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, and called on Americans to ‘resist attempts to place vulnerable groups in the crosshairs of nativist racisms.'”

“You and I will all need to make our choices about whether we will stand up against oppression in ways that a lot of our ancestors did not stand up to Jim Crow, to Chinese Exclusion, to the Japanese internment camps, etc.”

“Today and every day, if Javier and his family choose to stay with us, they will have a home with us.”

“We live in a constitutional democracy, one that is expressly designed to check the impulses of dangerous men. It will do so if and only if we insist on it. ”

 

 


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