Racism as Reflex: Reflections on Conservative Scapegoating
If hypocrisy were currency, conservatives would be able to single-handedly bail out the nation’s free-falling financial system in less than a week, without the rest of us having to front so much as a...
View ArticleThe Election, Rural Folk and Fascism: A Reply to Shannon Prince
Being criticized for the things you say, when you’re a writer, is to be expected. It’s part of the gig, so to speak, and so most of the time, when such critiques are offered, I let them pass without...
View ArticleWhen Exceptions Prove the Rule: Poverty, Whiteness and Privilege
As someone who writes regularly on the subject of white privilege, I am often electronically attacked by those who insist that the very notion of such a thing is a mere figment of my imagination: well,...
View ArticleThe Avatar of Amnesia: Glenn Beck, Historical Memory and the Evil of...
There is none so dangerous as the white American who waxes nostalgic about what he or she likes to call “the good old days.” Or, alternately, those “simpler” times, or the era of so-called “innocence”...
View ArticleWith Friends Like These, Who Needs Glenn Beck? Racism and White Privilege on...
This is the second part of a two-part series on racism on the right and left of the United States’ political/ideological spectrum. Part one, which can be found here, provided the reader with a working...
View Article“Dr.” Laura’s Reign of Error (and General Absurdity)…
Lizz Winstead (co-creator of The Daily Show) does the ultimate takedown of Dr. Laura through the years…
View ArticleWhat to Do When Fred Phelps and His Cult Are Picketing…
OK, so again, this was a had-to post. The evil little trolls at the Westboro Baptist Church (Topeka, KS) were recently protesting a Jewish Federation (not sure where), because they’ve apparently...
View ArticleRainbow Bear Confronts Homophobic Bear – My First Xtranormal Video
Here is my first animated short, created at xtranormal.com. This one addresses homophobia and heterosexism. Future installments will examine racism, privilege and white denial, among other things. You...
View ArticleChild Abuse by Any Other Name: When Ignorance and Bigotry Become Parental...
Some things stick with you. I can still recall, vividly in fact, an exchange I had with a woman in one of my audiences seventeen years ago, who had come to my talk at Kansas City Community College: an...
View ArticleFeeling No Pain – America’s Deepening Culture of Indifference
A segment of a longer speech, delivered on September 22, 2011 at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. In this clip, I discuss the ways in which the U.S. political culture is becoming increasingly...
View ArticleHate Swallows: Reflections on the Passing of Fred Phelps
By the time you read this, Fred Phelps will be dead. Fred Phelps, who more than anyone in the last two decades has come to symbolize the most viscerally evil edge of Christian heterosexism — and who...
View ArticleHistorical Memory and the Implicit White Supremacy of American Conservatism
Sometimes racism isn’t about vicious bigotry and hatred towards those with different skin color than your own, let alone a willingness to walk into a church and massacre nine of those others because...
View ArticleRacism, Straight Supremacy and the Futility of “Oppression Olympics”
Here’s a fascinating story, indicating the inherently fucked up nature of the company known as Facebook… So, a few days ago I posted the below commentary on my Facebook friends page and Facebook fan...
View ArticleKim Davis is No Rosa Parks (and Christian Hegemony is Not a Civil Right)
It is an axiom of modern American politics: whenever someone does something that you really don’t like, they are to be immediately analogized to Hitler. Conversely, when someone does something you...
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