Not what it sounds like. Slacktivist, some years ago, explained that in Calvinist thought, total depravity means everything is corrupted by original sin. This is different from utter depravity, the belief that we are rotten all the way through. We’re not; there’s good in us everywhere along with our dark side. But the dark side is there, much as some people want to deny it.
For example, Traverse City in Michigan. The Washington Post reports kids in school toss around the n-word as an insult and recently held a mock online slave auction. Nevertheless, many of the white adults are adamant there’s no racism in their town.
Since 2015, nooses have shown up at multiple construction projects throughout the U.S.
There’s now a shadow industry devoted to spreading disinformation online.
“We are not the only democracy to have had a corrupt, would-be authoritarian in high office. But we have had a hard time holding that person minimally accountable, much less keeping him out of contention for future office”
QAnon convinced the father of a Parkland shooting survivor that Parkland was a false flag.
“I promised myself to never love a job again. Not in the way I loved Google.” — a software engineer who filed a harassment complaint and discovered Google didn’t return her love like she thought.
Nashville pastor Greg Locke claims the Trump Virus is a hoax and bears false witness against his neighbor.
“I believe had they done so or had they accomplished that, they would have trampled us to death,” — one officer’s testimony about the Jan. 6 anti-American mob. But the new talking point on the right is, the terrorists couldn’t have succeeded in overturning the election, so no big, right?
Toyota has a vested interest in supporting supporters of the Jan. 6 attempted coup — their bottom line.
Even back in the 1950, there were some Republicans who thought the Democratic plan to provide polio vaccine for free was socialism.
Colleges’ core revenue increased from $280 billion to $511 billion between 2009 and 2019, according to LGM. By a strange coincidence, college presidents and administrators have seen a big increase in pay while faculty get next to nothing.
Taking wolves of the endangered species list wasn’t the worst thing Donald Trump did. But given the irrational hatred many rural folk harbor for wolves (check out the book Wolf Wars for details), the opportunity to butcher them is proving irresistible.
During the Clinton impeachment trial, I read and believed articles that said Ken Starr’s pursuit of Clinton was partly because he was an old-fashioned moralist, shocked at Clinton’s adultery. His record says otherwise.
Right-wing pundit Michael Medved wants us to know that even though many of the Founding Fathers owned slaves, they were totally opposed to slavery.
Mario Batali, super-star chef and restaurateur, built a company rife with sexual harassment.
If the FBI did in fact entrap the defendants in the Governor Whitmer kidnapping case, that would be extremely unjust. At this point I have no opinion on who’s in the right.
Journalist David Neiwert has argued that Rush Limbaugh pumped far-right rhetoric into the mainstream by toning down the worst parts (e.g., far-right attacks on the government rather than the “Zionist-occupied” government). It’s still a popular right-wing tactic online.
The United States treats rebels and revolutionaries differently depending whether they challenge or support the existing social hierarchies.
I am not at all shocked that the Arizona “audit” of the votes was not only full of shit, it was full of sexual harassment.
I am not at all shocked that right-wingers are declaring Simone Biles is weak, but I am disgusted.
Even when the government makes aid available it’s damn hard to get it, except for rich people.
The prison system has allowed Larry Nassar to spend thousands of dollars on himself while he sends a pittance to his victims.
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