Steven Jonas | March 29, 2021 Steve Jonas has provided us with a brief background to the Republican Party’s history of xenophobia and racism. At the recent House of Representatives hearing on…
Category: The Culture of Bigotry
"The World Can’t Wait organizes people living in the United States to repudiate and stop the fascist direction initiated by the Bush Regime, including: the murderous, unjust and illegitimate occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan; the global “war of terror” of torture, rendition and spying; and the culture of bigotry, intolerance and greed."
-from World Can't Wait's mission statement adopted 2009
To understand the Tea Party and other movements representing the "Culture of Bigotry" also see these topics:
Immigrants
Theocracy
Reproductive Rights
Real History Lessons
Anti-Asian Violence at Imperialist Scale
Debra Sweet | March 25, 2021 The spike in physical and verbal attacks on Asian American Pacific Islanders in the U.S. is horrific, unacceptable and predictable. Think, for example, that Asians were…
Racism and Genocide in the United States
Tom Keough | December 21, 2020 Paul Robeson presents “We Charge Genocide” to the UN Secretariat, Dec. 17, 1951. There have been several attempts in the past 75 years by people…
American Fascism Inspires White Nationalist Movements in Countries Around the World
Curt Wechsler | April 7, 2019 The membership of American white-nationalist movements has grown by more than 600% since 2012, found extremism researcher J.M. Berger in a 2016 study. “Today, they outperform ISIS…
“The President of the United States Is a White Nationalist, Is a White Supremacist,” Concludes Mychal Denzel Smith. “That Is Who He Is.”
Curt Wechsler | August 11, 2018 He’s hardly the only one rejecting ‘civil’ discussion of Trump’s legitimacy. “We’ve known he’s a racist since at least 1989, when he tried to get the Central Park…
The Dangers of Mike Pence
Harley | May 9, 2018 {jathumbnailoff} The call to impeach Trump has been stated by many, but impeaching Trump means that Mike Pence would become the next president. To some, this is…
NO BAN, NO WALL IV
Cecile Pineda | May 1, 2018 One of my readers recently remarked that, by addressing themes of immigration, and immigrant detention and deportation, this newsletter seemed to be wandering off topic. I…
United States of Denial
Curt Wechsler | March 30, 2018 {jathumbnailoff} From the American “foundational atrocity” of slavery to the ascendance of German Nazification in the 1930s, a refusal of collective responsibility hindered a national reckoning for…
Comparison of ICE Raids to Nazi-era Roundups Is Hard to Avoid
Curt Wechsler | March 14, 2018 {jathumbnailoff} The French term for targeted arrest of wartime Jews was rafle; in Denmark and the Netherlands, the practice was called razzia. The Polish lapanka can be translated as “to…
War Is Peace, Bad Is Good, and Mike Pompeo Is a Diplomat
Curt Wechsler | March 14, 2018 If confirmed as secretary of state, the former Kansas congressman “would become the first person to have served as both the United States’ top spy and top…