Tag: Minorities

Israel

No More Silence

If Zionist ideology ever fit into the modern world, and I will leave this an outstanding question, it no longer does.

“All of the disasters I’ve seen, combined — 40 mission trips, 30 years, Ground Zero, earthquakes, all of that combined — doesn’t equal the level of carnage that I saw against civilians in just my first week in Gaza…. I’ve seen more incinerated children than I’ve ever seen in my entire life, combined. I’ve seen more shredded children in just the first week … missing body parts, being crushed by buildings, the greatest majority, or bomb explosions, the next greatest majority. We’ve taken shrapnel as big as my thumb out of 8-year-olds. 

And then there’s sniper bullets. I have two children that I have photographs of that were shot so perfectly in the chest, I couldn’t put my stethoscope over their heart more accurately, and directly on the side of the head, in the same child. No toddler gets shot twice by mistake by the ‘world’s best sniper.’ And they’re dead-center shots.”

Patrick Lawrence: No More Silence

July 27, 2024

Trumpland Revealed

The GOP’s Dark Side: Trumpism puts Jews and other Minorities in the Crosshairs

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Republican Party is not directly responsible for the spike in hate crimes toward minorities. But it is indirectly responsible in three ways:

1. The party has largely allowed itself to be captured by the alien ideology of Trumpism

2. The party is running at least 16 far, far right extremists [with two ‘fars’] for national office, and many more far right extremists [with just one ‘far’].

3. Media catering to the GOP, such as Fox Cable News and right wing talk radio, is vicious toward minorities and often uses dog whistles against Jews.

While the Democratic Party is not entirely free of far right racists, the phenomenon in that party is tiny compared to the problem in the Republican Party. This difference comes in part from the way the three considerations listed above are entangled with and reinforce one another.

via The GOP’s Dark Side: Trumpism puts Jews and other Minorities in the Crosshairs

Police, USA

Chris Hedges: A Society of Captives – Chris Hedges – Truthdig

 

Chris Hedges: A Society of Captives – Chris Hedges – Truthdig.