tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post3922540246388904078..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: Digging under the weedsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-54733811095038439732015-08-21T10:49:20.846-05:002015-08-21T10:49:20.846-05:00ntodd--I know, right?
TC--I realized yesterday ho...ntodd--I know, right?<br /><br />TC--I realized yesterday how much context matters here. Texas is already a "minority/majority" state, meaning Hispanics and Blacks outnumber whites in what is the second most populous state in the country.<br /><br />And that change in status quo is starting to scare hell outta white people, some of whom are sure the browns and blacks wanna do to whites what whites did to them for centuries.<br /><br />A not unreasonable fear, all things considered; but not likely to happen, either. Still, that's what we are seeing, at least on the fringes (Trump is still a fringe candidate, IMHO). A lower level of intensity, less localized response similar to the one created by Brown v. Board and then the civil rights marches.<br /><br />"May you live in interesting times" is a Chinese curse, right? Or at least it should be.....Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-78329473589935703702015-08-21T08:19:57.040-05:002015-08-21T08:19:57.040-05:00How can legal immigrants not be subject to US auth...How can legal immigrants not be subject to US authority? How can anybody not be when in our territory (save diplomats)? These guys love pretzels more than I do...ntoddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01068160577299501895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-76714499663518843602015-08-21T06:38:02.596-05:002015-08-21T06:38:02.596-05:00I see it as what some old Boston cynic said about ...I see it as what some old Boston cynic said about how you won elections by "getting the haters together". The Republican right and their corporate sponsors have made racism, anti-Latino bigotry and hatred and paranoia, in general, the winning combination for them. That can't work if the white folk who they can get out to vote aren't afraid or aren't a majority and there is no way that they can stay the majority in many states they've depended on. <br /><br />This is the lowest of gutter politics and the free "press" is the major means of spreading the filth. TV is the means of delivery of poison that is more dangerous than anthrax and imported terrorism. I seem to notice it flares up around elections, in this case the Republican race to the bottom where the nomination lies. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.com