racism

The Trump movement uses racism and immigration to turn the Roseanne Barrs of the world from eco-feminists to Trump supporters. Washington, D.C. (Foreign Policy in Focus) – The actress/comedian received the nomination of California’s feminist-socialist Peace and Freedom Party. She chose Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war activist, as her running mate. Barr took strong positions on […]

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Is Roseanne Barr what America has Become?

Juan Cole

The cancellation of Roseanne Barr’s situation comedy reboot at ABC/Disney is not, as some of my more serious acquaintances on social media are saying, unimportant. Barr’s attack via Twitter on former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett (who, Barr said, looked like the offspring of a union of the Muslim Brotherhood and planet of the apes), is […]

racism

NFL Commissioner takes a Knee in Pitiful Pandering (Cartoon)

Paul Jamiol

Via: Jamiol’s World – Get Paul Jamiol’s latest book of political cartoons, Hatred Rising

racism

Ethnic hostility is contagious: Czech-Slovak study

AFP

Prague (AFP) – Hostility towards ethnic minorities is contagious and the acceptability of destructive behaviour towards them can easily change depending on how others behave, according to a new study by a Czech-Slovak team. “Social norms regulating anti-social behaviour are very fragile if this behaviour is aimed at ethnic minorities,” researchers Michal Bauer and Julie […]

Donald Trump

When Trump calls Latinos “Animals,” should we hear echoes of the SS’s Undermen?

Juan Cole

In the beginning of the internet back in the late 1980s and early 1990s when you for the first time had large and contentious discussions online at bulletin boards like Usenet, attorney Mike Godwin noticed that the longer a discussion went on, the more likely it was that someone would make a Hitler comparison. Some […]

Donald Trump

Kelly’s “Family Separation” recalls Slave Era practice of Selling Parents down the River

Juan Cole

John Kelly, White House chief of staff, is an immigrant-hating bigot, as demonstrated by a long series of Draconian statements and measures that would have embarrassed most normal people into a lifetime vow of silence in their wake. Kelly bizarrely defended Confederate slave drivers of the 1860s as having lived at a time before the […]

Christianity

Jesus wasn’t white: he was a brown-skinned, Middle Eastern Jew: & why that matters

Juan Cole

By Robyn J. Whitaker | (The Conversation) | – – I grew up in a Christian home, where a photo of Jesus hung on my bedroom wall. I still have it. It is schmaltzy and rather tacky in that 1970s kind of way, but as a little girl I loved it. In this picture, Jesus […]

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How Racism in the West is Changing: from Exploitation to Competition

contributors

By Anne-Ruth Wertheim | ( Joop ) In addition to racism in our parts predominantly taking the guise of Islamophobia in recent decades, now all those moldy myths about differences in IQ between the races people are being dusted off. Not that horror stories about Muslims have vanished or any other prejudices about minority groups. […]

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A “Serial Bomber” in Austin? Civil Rights Activists Targeted and Trump is Silent

contributors

TeleSur | – – Two of the people who were killed belonged to African-American families with deep roots to city’s Black, religious and civil-rights groups. After the 4th bomb went off in Austin, Texas, with the latest bombing injuring two men Sunday, investigators have suggested that there could be a possible link between the four […]