We have been told a myth for too long. And the GOP is insistent that it remains that way. In fact, they continue to create new ones to maintain supremacy. Why does the GOP fear […]
Category: Coates
self-ownage: Jordan Peterson probably thinks a Red Skull comic is about him
You’d think that a scholar in psychology, however flawed, would understand projection, and that fascism is more than making trains run on time, even when they didn’t. Hail Hydra, because parody is meta-criticism and perhaps […]
#Uncivil on Facebook about #TRE45ON
I was a wee bit inspired by all the diaries today about being #uncivil in the supermarket checkout line. #Uncivil, of course, is what Trump supporters call anyone who speaks out against their bigotry, hatred, and […]
NYT has another interesting column on the White Working Class voter debate
Sarah Smarsh has a well written opinion piece up in the NYT titled “Liberal Blind Spots Are Hiding the Truth About “Trump Country.“ To give a flavor of her piece: WICHITA, Kan. — Is the […]
Ta-Nehisi Coates destroys the myth of the White Working Class voter as explanation for Trump's win
In “Donald Trump is the First White President,” Ta-Nehisi Coates provides a tour de force take down of the always absurd argument that Trump’s presidential victory was attributable to economic anxiety of the White working […]
'Freedmen,' an alternative to HBO’s alternative history, 'Confederate'
What if the South had won the Civil War? Hardly a new question, and it’s doubtless one of the most common counterfactual thought exercises in American history. It’s also already been recently asked—though not answered seriously—in […]
