Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Just as I have blogged on the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, racism, and intolerance previously (as found via my blog tags), today I am doing it again.
Warning: This post contains some graphic, or disturbing photos.
An owl's eye view of forests and trees
Tag: Manipulation (Page 1 of 2)
Critical Thought Exercise: Learn to Set Aside Discomfort to Discover Reality
People use words and phrases to persuade us, not with the truth, but with feeling comfortable. If it sounds good, we want to believe it. As long as what gets said doesn’t fall in to the “too good to be true” category, alarms do not go off, and words lull us down the path laid out for us.
Let me give you a small example of what I mean so that you can try to be on the lookout for it in the big scale. Think of this as another critical thought exercise.
Where Do We Draw Lines on Free Speech, Censorship, and Cancel Culture? Part I
Let’s talk about cancel culture, free speech, and that Harper’s letter. You know the one I mean.
Even if you have a normal forty-hour work week, you probably work way more than forty hours per seven days. You just may not realize it yet.
Ken Cuccinelli recently mutilated of meaning behind the Statue of Liberty and “The New Colossus” to justify his racist policies. White nationalists right now sit in the highest seats of power in the land, pushing their horrid agendas and vandalizing our history to give them a sense of legitimacy. I broke down what’s going on. Check it out at Torchlight Media.
Torchlight Media: Trump’s White Nationalist Administration Slaps Liberty in the Face Again
Calling President Trump a narcissistic bully means little if we don’t understand how to apply the terms to our analysis of Trump’s behavior. The media keeps falling down in this area, although it may in part be because they are also the bully’s victims here. Hence, part 2 of my series talking about Trump as a narcissistic bully at Torchlight Media:
The Schoolyard Bully Pulpit – Part 2: The Media Misses the Boat
Please take a look. In understanding how the media is not properly applying the narcissistic bully analytical model to Trump’s behavior, we better understand the model ourselves.
Narcissism and bullying, and stupidity fueled ignorance; that’s was Donald Trump is made of.
The Schoolyard Bully Pulpit – Part 1: Breaking the Silence
Just Who Was in Control at the Singapore Summit?
This photo sums up a lot of my feelings on the recent North Korea summit.
Notice I did not say summit with North Korea?
Look at the photo. Who’s really in charge?
Breaking Down Barr, Bee, and the Arts of Intolerant Bullies Part 4: It’s Okay to Shut Down the Bully
Now we come to my final part of this series. Bear with me here. I’m going to be making the same point multiple times but in different ways. I’m covering a concept that was hard for me to grasp, so I figure I should hedge my bets and present it in a bunch of different ways, just in case the one way I present it is hard for you to grasp too.
Roseanne Barr’s comments and the responses to them helped clarify for me some big problems with the current arguments by Conservatives when someone like Barr does something like this. They boil down to:
- Tolerate the bully, or you are a hypocrite.
- The bully is the victim here.
F*ck that noise.
A Reaction to the Nunes Memo: Move It or Lose It
The release of the Nunes memo brought into clear focus for me some very big concerns about the state of this republic. The memo certainly does not entirely undermine our government. But it shows just how far things eroded in one year. And that should concern all of us.
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