Tag: bigotry

I'm not against Jews, I'm against the injustice of Zionism - a philosophy which dictates that one group of people are entitled to the land of another by virtue of their religious beliefs alone.

The federal trial of three Pennsylvania police officers accused of covering up the murder of an undocumented Mexican immigrant opened last week—reigniting critical discussion...

Sarah Palin's camp is in full retreat mode, and is now caught in a lie. By mal Adviser to Ms. Palin, Rebecca Mansour, says the cross-hairs...

"Let us face the facts. This is a harvest. It is the crop of things sown. It is the harvest of those so-called Christian...

'More Equal Than Others' … it’s the assumption shared by the oppressing class in societies and communities the world-over, and their useful idiots—The bigot...

While much condemnation has rightly been expressed toward Arizona's anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, a less-reported and potentially more sinister measure is set to take...

AND NOW COMES NEWS THAT ALL HUMAN LIFE BEGAN IN ISRAEL. According to the Israelis. Whether that's so or not, some of us fear that...

Update: Raw Story reports Bush-Cheney campaign pressured papers to keep campaign manager’s sexuality secret (from  November 11, 2004). Ken Mehlman ran the most hateful, anti-gay project in presidential...

- The phantasm—something seen but lacking reality—that is the 'Mosque' issue will likely blow back on the GOP, says a Party operative - Clearly, the GOP and...

 - Over at Fox News , Ted Olson silenced the states’-rights argument in favor of Prop 8 last weekend by asking Chris Wallace: “Would...

CANDIDATE FANELLI VIDEO ALL TIME WORST POLITICAL AD IN HISTORY By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Veteran's Today doesn't promote political candidates.  Fanelli, running against Alan...

I am not sure when I first detected the noxious fumes that would envelop the conservative movement in the Obama era. It might have been early on, in April 2009, when I visited a series of gun shows in rural California and Nevada. Perusing tables piled high with high-caliber semi-automatic weapons and chatting with anyone in my vicinity, I heard urgent warnings of mass roundups, concentration camps, and a socialist government in Washington. "These people that are purchasing these guns are people that are worried about what's going on in this country," a gun dealer told me outside a show in Reno. "Good luck Obama," a young gun enthusiast remarked to me. "We outnumber him 100 to 1." At this time, the Tea Party movement had not even registered on the national media's radar.

We've got to learn to stop thinking in terms of Black and White, Jew and Gentile, or whether a person is Gay or Straight. As long as we think in those terms and continue to antagonize one another, we sabotage every opportunity to form coalitions to fight for our common good. That's why people like Bush, Cheney, and much of the GOP crowd thrive in a hostile environment. They love keeping us ignorant, because ignorance keeps us divided, and that very division allows them to step in and conquer all of our hopes and dreams as a people. It is a must, therefore, that we develop the wisdom to understand that there are only two kinds of people in this world - good people, and bad people.

- Tea Partier: NAACP "make(s) more money off of race than any slave trader ever." - The white race baiters in our political culture assure...

Laboulaye conceived of the Statue of Liberty in 1865. That was a hundred years after the Revolutionary War, but it just happened to be the very year that the Civil War came to an end. And it also turns out that Laboulaye wasn't just any Frenchman--he was not only an abolitionist who had dedicated his entire life to the abolishment of slavery, he was a leader of the French abolitionist movement. In addition, the sculptor who actually created the Statue of Liberty, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, was connected with the abolitionist movement as well.

Update: The Hill reports that Lt. General William G. "Jerry" Boykin has now been disinvited from testifying at the confirmation hearing of Elena Kagan. Looks...

By the Democratic Strategist: In his latest 'Public Opinion Snapshot' at the Center for American Progress web pages, TDSCo-Editor Ruy Teixeira reports that U.S. public...

Amid a backlash from civil libertairans and law enforcement officials, Sarah Palin defedned Arizona's new immigration bill. Sarah Palin appeared on Fox News and straightened out the...

In case anyone missed the McCain madness; from Media Matters: McCain: AZ Bill's Racial Profiling Aspect Is Fine Because Immigrants "Are Intentionally Causing Accidents." April 20,...

Recent polls show empirically what is abundantally clear: Not a dime's bit of difference between the Tea Party and the GOP. Actually, the white partiers may wish...

Famed anti-apartheid activist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Desmond Tutu, blasts the anti-gay hatred sweeping the continent of Africa. Writes Tutu in the Washington Post: "The...

Update: Bob Cesca at Huffington Post:  "No matter how loud and obnoxious they might become, the urgency is to make sure the tea party...

As befits our political culture, appeals to the contemporary American bigot are accomplished with sophisticated brands, images, impressions, and coded vocabulary, and not overt prejudices and stereotypes. But...