I had a couple interesting links to post today, but Facebook and the site The Verge, are not cooperating, so I’ll post the link there later.<\/p>\n
So a few links from earlier this month, about stupidity vs. enmity, laws that won’t make things go away, and the priority of freedom over death.<\/p>\n
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Salon, 18 Sep, Amanda Marcotte: Greg Abbott is not ignorant \u2014 he’s a liar: Why the difference matters for the future of democracy<\/a>, subtitled “There is a real danger in ascribing to stupidity what is born from enmity.”<\/p>\n Amanda Marcotte thinks Republicans (like Texas governor Greg Abbott) say dumb things not because they\u2019re dumb, but to outrage liberals and thereby bolster their cred with right-wingers.<\/p>\n \\\\<\/p>\n AlterNet: Christian nationalists\u2019 end game may not be abortion and Roe v. Wade<\/a><\/p>\n It’s simplistic to think that by passing a law to make something illegal, that thing will go away. It won’t. I suspect the real motive of conservatives in these cases is to provide an excuse to punish people they don’t like.<\/p>\n \\\\<\/p>\n NYT, 6 Sep, Margaret Renkl: The South\u2019s Republicans Talk About Freedom While People Die<\/a.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had a couple interesting links to post today, but Facebook and the site The Verge, are not cooperating, so I’ll post the link there later. So a few links from earlier this month, about stupidity vs. enmity, laws that … Continue reading