Does Bigotry Come with a Dress Code?

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Drag queen = pedophile?

Does that mean no one in the Proud Boys owns a dictionary?

Does bigotry carry a dress code?

So many questions.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Tells Proud Boys To Dress Appropriately for Protests

BY DARRAGH ROCHE ON 6/18/22

https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-proud-boys-dress-appropriately-protests-1717116

Fabricated Panic

 

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Fabricated Panic

That Critical Race Theory is not taught in the public school system has been known by the Left since the first day that the Right turned it into an engineered panic response. The theory sounds to the cognitively biased as a supplement to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. But then, anything that speaks to the problem of racism elicits panic from racists in the party of the Proud Boys.

What has happened to my once-proud Republican Party? 

I had thought that, after the Joe McCarthy debacle and the civil rights movement, the party and the political right would its ranks of witch-hunters, jingoists, white supremacists, and conspiracy theorists--and they did, for a while. It only took a budding Mussolini to bring out the worst of them again.

I ask my Republican friends if the Republicans will ever return to common-sense politics that made them the favorite of the American people before the party went off the rails. Their answer: The GOP is the favorite of God and that the American people have abandoned God and therefore have abandoned conservatism. It's not conservatism that I question, but the catering to nutcases.

I feel the GOP abandoned me when today's moderate Democrats look like the former Grand Old Party.

See the news story at:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/critical-race-theory-teachers-union-honest-history/

The Failure of Magical Reality

 

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The Failure of Magical Reality

If I were a religious person, I would be praying that our post-modern experiment with relative truths and "alternative facts" is done. Finis. Kaput. 

The January 6 insurrection was, we can only hope, the death knell of that ignoble episode in our history. The trials and imprisonment of some of the leaders of that event, and the recent banning of its cheerleader, Rudy Giuliani, from practicing law in New York are encouraging signs that the legal system agrees that, yes, there is a reality separate from our fantasies. Magical reality is an entertaining concept in movies and literature but has no place in Ideology.

Facts are facts and ideological fantasies and propaganda don't change that, regardless of the number of people who believe it. Reality doesn't care about our denial of it. But it appears to me that Rudy, like the pillow guy, will deny reality even while the world points and laughs at their folly.

Not me. I feel the same sympathy for them that I feel for any person who has made bad choices.