Anti-South Asian?

 

Who They Really Are

This is bloody scary. It seems that the Right has now turned on that most model of all model minorities, South Asians. Yes, your Indian doctor, your Bangladeshi dentist, and that programmer from Pakistan are all in the crosshairs. For more on that, the following article: Why the Right turned on Indians From model minority to rapacious menace, by Richard Hanania,

How on earth is this possible?

Probably because the Right is insane. But, no matter why, the important thing is that once again the MAGAs and others are causing serious damage to the American economy, culture, and psyche. They cannot be forgiven for that. 

MAGA is killing American Science…and America

 

Powerful piece in the Economist recently, “MAGA’s assault on science is an act of grievous self-harm.” In it, the editors note that the Trump Administration’s current attack on science is among the worst things that’s ever happened to the United States. It is driving the best researchers out of the country, and depriving us of myriad scientific and technical advances – the sort of thing that builds economies and prosperity.

It concludes (chillingly) that what Trump and his minions are doing is effectively turning over the future to China, and anyone else who might hate us.

Killing The Black Middle Class

Killing The Black Middle Class

There’s a fascinating article in a recent issue of Fast Company, How Trump’s mass firings could quickly hollow out the Black middle class: The president has gone nuclear against federal union jobs—historically African Americans’ ladder to economic equality, originally in Capital and Main and written by Mark Kreidler.

The piece looks at how Trump’s furious assault on federal workers and unions is hitting Black Americans hardest. Government jobs have been one of the traditional routes by which African-Americans have entered the Middle Class. Now, those jobs are going away, and they could take the Black Middle Class with them.

The question, of course, is whether this is strictly an accident. Trump and the GOP have waged a war of annihilation on federal workers for a long time. And perhaps the demise of African-American employment is just collateral damage.

Or is it? Could there be more? Could there be a design here? After all, Trump and his MAGAts are no fan of racial equality. Perhaps the point of the war against the civil service (or at least part of the point) is to remove those men and women whose ethnic heritage is distasteful to them?

Perhaps we’ll never know for certain. But, that’s irrelevant. It is clear that the current Administration is a disaster for Black America. Whether that disaster is by accident or design does not, even remotely, change the larger effect.  

Happy Cinco de Mayo

Happy Cinco de Mayo

Happy Cinco de Mayo to everyone.

It’s an odd thing, really, this Mexican holiday which isn’t that big a deal in Mexico, but which has been adopted wholehog by the United States. We celebrate it like it was us, and not the Mexicans who defeated (for a while) the French at the Battle of Puebla in 1862.

I mention all of this because there is an interesting bit of irony here. We’ve adopted the holiday, and it has become a major North American celebration of Hispanic culture, while at the same time our government and MAGA is doing its best to force Hispanic people out of the country. 

Tell me, when it is all done and said, and His Imperial Majesty King Trump III rules in the district of post-democratic Columnia, will we still be allowed to mark Cinco de Mayo on the calendar? Or will it be erased forever? And we’ll just just from 4 May to 6 May, without so much as a moment’s hesitation?

This is not a joke. Even if it should be.

 

Husband Material?

Some stories you see in the news and you think, “This is a joke, right?” Except it isn’t. And you can’t believe it. So you check again. And it still isn’t. 

This is one such story: “Republican Governor Candidate Proposes Female Undocumented Immigrants Can Stay If They Marry ‘Incels’”

No. I’m not making that up. 

Kinda wish I were, though.

They Will Not Listen

Like a lot of people on the Left, I eagerly read the stories in the press and online about Trump voters who have changed their minds. I read that they have “buyer’s remorse,” and they regret their vote.

But, come, let’s be honest. Those Trump voters who are genuinely disappointed in Trump, and who might vote for someone else in future (if we still have elections in future) are the few, the proud, and the brave. 

The rest…don’t give a rat’s ass. From their point of view, things are just fine, thank you very much. Women and minorities are getting dinged. Immigrants and “foreigners” are being deported. College professors and intellectuals are being ignored. Know-it-alls …like scientists and doctors…have been chastened. All the people they hate are getting a middle finger…or a fist…squarely in the face.

It’s what they want. It’s what they longed for for years and years.

If, in the process, they lose their health care, or they cannot feed their children, or they lose their jobs and homes, or they suffer poverty, want, and disease…

Well, no problem.

They still get to own the libtards.

And nothing else matters.