Study reveals that severe #drought conditions are expanding across the topography of the middle East. Are we ready for #climate#refugees and extreme #xenophobia plaguing our societies?
"There is also this incorrect narrative that evangelicals held their nose and voted for Trump. But there is really no evidence for that. White evangelicals support Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric and his anti-black rhetoric and all those related racial grievance issues. They were breathing comfortably and freely when they pulled the lever for Trump in both 2016 and 2020."
To be clear, I hate no one, but I do have disdain for racists, bigots, misogynists, xenophobes and assholes, which covers MAGA, Republicans, and the orange anus Trump, since he is covered 24/7 by the MSN, so he gets an exclusive disdain.
Switzerland: Outspoken xenophobia gains ground at the ballot box.
The populist SVP party strengthened its political dominance in the 22 October federal elections, emphasizing hardline immigration. Controversial campaign rhetoric raised concerns over potential racial incitement, pushing the limits of Swiss law.
It is a Handmaiden’s Tale level nightmare now in Texas, where Lubbock has become the largest county where it is illegal to travel through the county to receive abortion services in another state. This is what predictably happens when you throw a fundamental question of human rights “back to the states” to decide. We need Roe v. Wade and its legal protections codified.
your obscene health system dysfunction & gross inequality
your education system [again wrt #1 & #2]
your idiotic justice system whereby judges are beholden to politics, rather than independent of it like elsewhere
Just let us know when you're ready for the world to launch a military intervention to liberate your poor oppressed citizenry, & establish #democracy 😜 [also, introduce so many states to books & libraries 🤦♀️]
Today in Labor History October 11, 1906: San Francisco ordered the segregation of all Asian children in schools until Teddy Roosevelt forced the city to rescind the order. It sparked a diplomatic crisis between the U.S. and Japan.
In my department (and associated), we currently have colleagues from Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, India, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, Pakistan, Romania, Serbia, South Africa, Switzerland, Ukraine, USA.
We could not do our work properly without attracting the best brains, wherever they come from. Some great colleagues already left due to #xenophobia and #racism
For innovation and progress, we need an open and welcoming society. #research#science
Using word 'Bangladeshi' for every migrant worker is dangerous: Justice S Muralidhar
He said that sweeping generalizations often lead to unwarranted national security concerns and unjust treatment of immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
"We provide causal evidence that citizens strategically liberalize their levels of support for LGBT+ rights when opponents of these measures are from the ethnic out-group."
"Ever since Fred Koch started funding the John Birch Society’s 'Impeach Earl Warren' billboards in the 1950s and 1960s Republicans have used the issue of race (and its subset: immigration) as a wedge to tear Americans apart."
"Elon Musk Wades Deeper into Antisemitic Propaganda - The CEO is helping to amplify a hashtag campaign against the Anti-Defamation League, a civil rights group that combats hate speech"
While you were so worried that #Socialism would take your freedoms, #Capitalism stole your pension, took your savings, destroyed the #climate, shipped your job oversees, robbed you of #healthcare, dismantled the educational system, and shackled you with debt, leaving you only your #racism, #xenophobia, #patriarchy and #guns. :blobpeek:
Tell me you’re not an #Ohioan without telling me you’re not an Ohioan. I hail (and escaped) from rural southern #Alabama, where a hundred-mile step in any direction was like simply turning one’s head. Wall-to-wall #ignorance, #xenophobia, #racism, #illiteracy, and love for #WrongJesus were the scape to all our horizons. My first visit to #Ohio lifted a great weight from my shoulders - maybe I hadn’t been fatally born in the worst state after all.
"‘We fight on’: fears for France’s Sunday paper over editor with far-right ties - Bitter strike at Journal du Dimanche ends with staff exodus – and arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune, a supporter of leading xenophobe Eric Zemmour"
"More than half the journalists at France’s only standalone Sunday newspaper have resigned after failing to prevent the arrival of an editor with far-right ties in a bitter dispute that has fanned fears of a further US-style polarisation of the country’s media.
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"In particular the company refused to contemplate committing not to publish “racist, sexist and homophobic statements and, more generally, any discriminatory or hateful content”, a guarantee the association had demanded given Lejeune’s past record."
“We didn’t win,” said Antoine Malo, a roving foreign correspondent at the Journal du Dimanche (JDD) and member of its editorial association. “We didn’t stop him, and now there’s a mass exodus. But the bigger fight will go on – from outside.”
The mainstream paper’s 100-odd journalists ended a 40-day strike – the longest media strike in France since the 1970s – on Tuesday after Geoffroy Lejeune, previously editor of the far-right weekly Valeurs Actuelles, took up his post as editor-in-chief.
The 34-year-old is a leading supporter of the xenophobic polemicist Eric Zemmour, who ran for the French presidency in 2022, promotes the racist “great replacement” theory, and has been investigated 16 times – and convicted on three occasions – for hate speech."
Zack Beauchamp notes that though the canard of "economic anxiety makes them do it" — support Trump, that is — has been thoroughly debunked, no less than David Brooks at his New York Times bully pulpit keeps pushing it. Because it makes us feel comfortable. it exonerates Trump supporters, while facing the reality of what is really motivating them does not comfort us.
"the late 20th-century revolution in social values: the end of segregation, mass nonwhite immigration, feminist challenges to patriarchy, a decline in traditional Christianity, and the rise of the LGBTQ movement."
They refuse to accept this and the way in which it dethrones them, as white Christian Americans, from their power perch.
the circus that currently performs in finnish government is getting so out of hands that im just waiting for the day it just implodes in on it self like couple billionaires in a submarine.
Is this classism?
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