tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post8672113340920028124..comments2024-03-29T05:05:01.273+11:00Comments on Thinking Out Aloud: How the rhetoric of denunciation distorts public affairsLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305933404442191098noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-88776268734129933002016-12-23T20:03:00.997+11:002016-12-23T20:03:00.997+11:00You might consider why such media developed. The b...You might consider why such media developed. The biggest spike in killings which can reasonably traced to politics is actually the post-Ferguson spike in homicides in various major US cities, Gabrielle Giffords was shot by a drug-addled crazy with severe personality disorders, abortion has been a frantic issue in the US for decades, and the issue with police shootings is not remotely limited to white cops--the disparities in rates of police killings vary so much by region that reducing it to "racism" is, sadly, pathetic. (If it was that simple, the issue would be easier to deal with.) I am not trying to pretend there is no bad behaviour elsewhere, merely pointing out that practices entrenched within the cultural "commanding heights" matter. Perhaps you need to look at events through a wider lens.Lorenzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00305933404442191098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-34141037331548759772016-12-23T16:38:41.855+11:002016-12-23T16:38:41.855+11:00The conservatives have their own shreiking moralis...The conservatives have their own shreiking moralising media (WND,Fox, the various Christian fundie radio and tv stations, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter etc etc ..) It is hardly any surprise that in recent years a white guy committed mass murder in a black church, a white Austrian economics gold standard afficionado shot a Democrat politician, numerous white guys have executed staff at abortion clinics and white cops pull these stunts every day of the week: http://heavy.com/news/2016/12/jacqueline-jackie-craig-brea-hymond-fort-worth-texas-police-arrest-video-facebook/<br /><br />The red in tooth and claw hatred that is inherent in much of the conservative media has no appreciable liberal counterpart. You might also like to learn what the word totalitarian actually means. It really doesn't mean offending the sensibilities of the privileged minority. You might sniff at the thought of the NYT, but it is hardly totalitarian.Willownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-51688855788008021902016-12-23T09:47:45.071+11:002016-12-23T09:47:45.071+11:00Thanks, they are informative pieces and do go to T...Thanks, they are informative pieces and do go to The Donald's appeal.Lorenzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00305933404442191098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-10324296794310697362016-12-23T09:39:20.506+11:002016-12-23T09:39:20.506+11:00Nothing in the post is specifically about Australi...Nothing in the post is specifically about Australia. Indeed, Australian politics are notable for mostly avoiding the patterns we see elsewhere. I have previously posted on why Australia's politics of immigration has not gone feral. http://lorenzo-thinkingoutaloud.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/why-hasnt-politics-of-immigration-in.htmlLorenzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00305933404442191098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-26255847024266514392016-12-22T20:54:13.475+11:002016-12-22T20:54:13.475+11:00Forgot to mention Trump announced in June and the ...Forgot to mention Trump announced in June and the 2015 article is from Febuary, others also pre-date the announcement.With the thoughts you'd be thinkinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-80099820182363102522016-12-22T17:20:41.569+11:002016-12-22T17:20:41.569+11:00If I can recall correctly the republican donors an...If I can recall correctly the republican donors and establishment had sufficiently different views on immigration from the base of the Republican party, enough that Trump in the primaries could grab on to it and being Trump it didn't affect his funding or get him blacklisted by the media. Plus he didn't alienate a significant chunk of primary voters by being a doctrinaire conservative in terms of privatising social security and other issues thus locking in the biggest chunk of support out of the republican candidates. Ultimately his plurality was enough to put him over the line to be the nominee.<br /><br />Also sorry in advance I couldn't find polling data but here are some articles from an era that is rapidly receding into the mists of time.<br /><br />From 2015: <br />http://theweek.com/articles/540850/how-gop-megadonors-burned-conservative-base-immigration<br /><br />Some others:<br />http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/233023-top-gop-donors-be-like-bush-on-immigration<br />https://www.texastribune.org/2013/01/29/republicans-sticky-immigration-problem/<br />http://thefederalist.com/2015/04/23/republicans-have-a-serious-immigration-challenge/With the thoughts you'd be thinkinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-70679671359640890132016-12-22T15:03:26.935+11:002016-12-22T15:03:26.935+11:00You must live in a different Australia from the on...You must live in a different Australia from the one I live in. When I turn on the telly I see ACA and TT going after the usual conservative hate targets like the unemployed and single mums, when I turn on the radio I hear the shock jocks denouncing lefties of all stripes and when I look for news online the right wing Murdoch rags are omnipresent. The left leaning media denounces X and the right leaning media denounces Y. If there is any difference between the two it is that the Right has much more vociferous denouncers, you really do not want to be in the firing line of Andrew Bolt, Janet Albrechtson and the other conservative enforcers. Willownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-3795166372034841232016-12-21T13:36:41.364+11:002016-12-21T13:36:41.364+11:00Thank you. No, I hadn't. Plausible "hor...Thank you. No, I hadn't. Plausible "horse race" analysis, except that it almost entirely fails to grapple with The Donald's appeal. Lorenzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00305933404442191098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-84779288518952322632016-12-21T13:23:02.753+11:002016-12-21T13:23:02.753+11:00Thank you :)Thank you :)Lorenzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00305933404442191098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-90303643324314143422016-12-19T01:16:11.055+11:002016-12-19T01:16:11.055+11:00Nice post, I hope many people will read and compre...Nice post, I hope many people will read and comprehend it. Lorenzo have you read the Ordinary Gentlemen posts on the 2016 republican nomination?<br /><br />Here is the link: <br />http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/tag/gopocalypse/With the thoughts you'd be thinkinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-60031854965261518862016-12-18T21:05:26.865+11:002016-12-18T21:05:26.865+11:00Excellent essayExcellent essayJim Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07337463816684447862noreply@blogger.com