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Annie Wanless

Protest Spurs Online Dialogue on Inequity - 2 views

All the movements over the past year really demonstrate the place social media now holds in our world. It has become an important organizational role that, contrary to what some originally predicte...

Occupy Wall Street Social Networking Internet Inequity

started by alevi123 on 09 Oct 11 2 follow-ups, last by Annie Wanless on 10 Oct 11
Njeri Kamau-Devers

Arab Spring Movements - Describes importance of social media - 15 views

I am glad that the Arab Spring movement is largely being led by the resident youth in the Arab nations.The US has been notorious for imposing their ideas of democracy onto the Middle East such as w...

started by Annie Wanless on 07 Sep 11 4 follow-ups, last by Njeri Kamau-Devers on 08 Sep 11
quinnlewis

Charlie Hebdo Mocks Europe's Response to Migrant Crisis With Cartoons of Dead Syrian Boy - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...rtoons-of-dead-syrian-boy.html

shared by quinnlewis on 17 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • quinnlewis on 17 Sep 15
     
    French illustrators have been denounced on social networks in recent days for publishing editorial cartoons inspired by photographs of Aylan Kurdi, a 3-year-old Syrian boy whose drowning in the waters off Greece this month prompted an outpouring of sympathy for refugees. France has had a history of xenophobia and this cultural undercurrent is clearly expressed in the cartoons. Interesting to analyze whether the cartoons are xenophobic themselves or pointing to the xenophobia of the government.
  • Kay Bradley on 17 Sep 15
     
    Oy. I wish Charlie Hebdo exercised a little sensitivity sometimes.
Kay Bradley

[Article] The Paranoid Style in American Politics, By Richard Hofstadter | Harper's Mag... - 0 views

harpers.org/...oid-style-in-american-politics

shared by Kay Bradley on 27 Nov 20 - No Cached
  • By Richard Hofstadter
  • merican politics has often been an arena for angry minds. In recent years we have seen angry minds at work mainly among extreme right-wingers, who have now demonstrated in the Goldwater movement how much political leverage can be got out of the animosities and passions of a small minority. But behind this I believe there is a style of mind that is far from new and that is not necessarily right-wing. I call it the paranoid style simply because no other word adequately evokes the sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy that I have in mind.
  • It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people that makes the phenomenon significant
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  • Of course this term is pejorative, and it is meant to be; the paranoid style has a greater affinity for bad causes than good. But nothing really prevents a sound program or demand from being advocated in the paranoid style.
  • But the modern right wing, as Daniel Bell has put it, feels dispossessed: America has been largely taken away from them and their kind, though they are determined to try to repossess it and to prevent the final destructive act of subversion
  • The old American virtues have already been eaten away by cosmopolitans and intellectuals; the old competitive capitalism has been gradually undermined by socialistic and communistic schemers; the old national security and independence have been destroyed by treasonous plots, having as their most powerful agents not merely outsiders and foreigners as of old but major statesmen who are at the very centers of American power. Their predecessors had discovered conspiracies; the modern radical right finds conspiracy to be betrayal from on high.
  • we may now substitute eminent public figures like Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower, secretaries of State like Marshall, Acheson, and Dulles, Justices of the Supreme Court like Frankfurter and Warren, and the whole battery of lesser but still famous and vivid alleged conspirators headed by Alger Hiss.
  • Any historian of warfare knows it is in good part a comedy of errors and a museum of incompetence; but if for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.
  • First, there has been the now-familiar sustained conspiracy, running over more than a generation, and reaching its climax in Roosevelt’s New Deal, to undermine free capitalism, to bring the economy under the direction of the federal government, and to pave the way for socialism or communism.
  • The second contention is that top government officialdom has been so infiltrated by Communists that American policy, at least since the days leading up to Pearl Harbor, has been dominated by men who were shrewdly and consistently selling out American national interests.
  • Finally, the country is infused with a network of Communist agents, just as in the old days it was infiltrated by Jesuit agents, so that the whole apparatus of education, religion, the press, and the mass media is engaged in a common effort to paralyze the resistance of loyal Americans.
  • He has offered a full scale interpretation of our recent history in which Communists figure at every turn:
  • They started a run on American banks in 1933 that forced their closure;
  • they contrived the recognition of the Soviet Union by the United States in the same year, just in time to save the Soviets from economic collapse;
  • they have stirred up the fuss over segregation in the South;
  • hey have taken over the Supreme Court and made it “one of the most important agencies of Communism.”
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