The Politics Thread

[DRW50]

I have a lot of issues with the likes of Splinter, but generally they saw the coverage as half-assed and hesitant, or enabling. I'd tend to agree.

 

 

https://splinternews.com/the-failing-to-accurately-describe-racism-as-racism-n-1836376695

[DramatistDreamer]

What we certainly already knew: locking up and/or detaining children is profitable for these unconscionable folks. I wonder how many Trump officials have investments in these shelters?

 

[Khan]

Is anyone surprised by this turn of events?

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/nyregion/eric-garner-case-death-daniel-pantaleo.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Edited July 16, 2019 by Khan

[DramatistDreamer]

Nope, can't say that I am surprised at all. Sadly.  Eric Garner's mother lost a son Eric at the hands of police and his daughter Erica who spent so much of her life trying to champion the cause of justice for her father and had a rapid decline of health as a result.  Very tragic. 

Edited July 16, 2019 by DramatistDreamer

[marceline]

 

The AP Stylebook finally gave journalists permission to use the word "racist." That's what's changed.

 

 

[DramatistDreamer]

 

Someone should ask Trump the exact same question?

[Khan]

 

At the risk of sounding like Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof," they did not have permission?

Edited July 16, 2019 by Khan

[Khan]

There's an episode of "Law & Order: SVU" where (I think) Malcolm McDowell plays a Rupert Murdoch-esque figure with an Asian wife.  (Murdoch, if you recall, was once married to Chinese-born Wendi Dang).  As viewers, we're supposed to believe theirs to be a happy, loving relationship.  However, at the episode's climax, when Vincent D'Onofrio (or whoever was his surrogate for that season) exposes McDowell's culpability in the Murder of the Week, his true feelings toward his wife and Asians in general is revealed...and no, it's not pretty.

 

Similarly, like I always said about my now-ex-sister-in-law: just because you lay with us and you make our babies, that doesn't mean you're not racist.  In fact, she proved time and time again just how racist she really was, and continues to be.  (And then there's my second cousin, who said -- and I quote -- "When I marry, I'm marrying a white man, because black men are ugly"; and who, when busted by her mother, busted my ex-cousin-in-law, saying, "Well, didn't you say that the next time you got married, it would be to a white man, too!?")

 

Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell share similar attitudes toward their respective spouses.  Just because they married women who are not American-born (and in Chao's case, are non-Caucasian), that doesn't mean they are racially tolerant.  If anything, it shows how desperate both men were to find wives who were NOT American-born and therefore, were more submissive toward them than their previous wives had been -- which is misogynistic AND racist.

Edited July 16, 2019 by Khan

[Khan]

Roger Stone in "Can't Stop, Won't Stop":

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/16/roger-stone-banned-from-social-media-after-judge-rules-gag-order-breached.html

[dragonflies]

 

[Wendy]

 

Just to clarify, that was from Law & Order: Criminal Intent. But yeah, that episode now looks like it was predicting the future by 14 years or so. (Think the episode was in S5, so about 2005.)

[Khan]

Oops, lol!  Thanks, @Wendy, for the clarification!

[Wendy]

 

Glad to be of service. 

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[Khan]

The events that have unfolded today on the House floor have me shaken.  I'm just so worried that the hateful, racist rhetoric that has engulfed this country since that man took office will culminate one day in literal bloodshed.

[Wendy]

 

I think the "United" States is done. I think blue states should secede from red and let's just coexist with different Americas and different laws. The trouble there is, blue states subsidize red, so... *shrug* I wish I had the answer.