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What Bernie might have said: After posting our last award-winning post, we turned straight to this new post by Kevin Drum. It's called, A Note on the Perils of Caricature.
On the one hand, we agree with every word Drum said. On the other hand, his graphic verges on what we were talking about in our own last award-winning post.
Drum starts with an exchange from tonight's All In program. Chris Hayes and Bernie Sanders have taped a program in McDowell County, West Virginia. At one point, this exchange occurs:
LOCAL WOMAN: I think a lot of people think we're just a bunch of hillbilly rednecks.
SANDERS: I don't think that.
Below, we'll suggest a better response. First, though, we'll suggest that you go to Drum's post and see what he said.
We agree with every word he said. We think his analysis is very sensible, very much on point.
That said, take a look at the graphic he constructed. It characterizes the most "extreme" red and blue voters in terms of one variable. But uh-oh:
It characterizes their most "extreme" voters in an extremely critical way. It characterizes our most "extreme" voters in a morally neutral way.
Liberals, we're just saying! We liberals sometimes tend to be like that!
As for the exchange we posted above, we'll now suggest a better answer by Sanders. For ourselves, we would have stood and cheered had he offered this:
SANDERS: I agree with you. I think a lot of people who may be right about other things do have an attitude like that.
I think their attitude is wrong. I don't think like that.
Trust us. Our suggested answer would be remembered much, much longer.
It's a basic part of comedy training: Tell the truth about whatever it is that just occurred in the room.
Go ahead—cop to the truth. Everybody else in the room already knows it's true!
Posted by bob somerby on Monday, March 13, 2017
Somerby wants Sanders to cop to one truth but not another.
Yes, some people do consider hill people "hillbilly rednecks".
But some hill people ARE hillbilly rednecks in every sense of that word. That's the truth Sanders doesn't say (explicitly denies) and the truth Somerby ignores too. It is the elephant in the room.
Tell the whole truth.
"Stone racist" is not the right term for someone who is rigid about change. Xenophobe is a neutral term. You might need to differentiate between benign xenophobia (refusal to visit Europe) and hostile xenophobia (burning a cross on a new neighbor's lawn). The latter is more extreme and perhaps less rare but it is the former that results in Trump support, which in turn enables the latter form of xenophobia and its institutionalization in our culture.
At the end of his essay Drum says: "That doesn't make them bad people, it just means they're a few notches away from us on the bell curve."
I suppose Drum is referring to the fact that most human characteristics are distributed in a bell curve across the population, but the only Bell Curve most people know about is the one related to IQ scores. So it sounds like Drum is calling those who dislike change stupid people. He should be more careful about that in an essay on tolerance.
Particularly since it is an inconvenient fact that the populations at the lowest end of that Bell Curve are overwhelmingly Democrat.
Not true. See: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/unique-everybody-else/201305/intelligence-and-politics-have-complex-relationship
"Are you with Obama or are you a racist?" was the false choice they crammed down the throat of America for 8 years. "Are you with her or are you a racist and sexist?" finally did force a different choice, upended the electoral map, and caused the biggest political backfire in history. President Donald Trump.
Tom Zeug March 13, 2017 at 4:25 PM
So I guessing you are on the racist side then?
No, I'm a Republican.
Robert March 13, 2017 at 4:47 PM
I wasn't with Obama (due to his repeating of Conservative economic nonsense), and no one called me a racist. Are you sure you weren't called a racist for some other reason?
Lewis C March 13, 2017 at 6:09 PM
"due to his repeating of Conservative economic nonsense.."
Like what? Never mind, Mr. Bunker.
"(due to his repeating of Conservative economic nonsense),"
The racists always find some excuse. This one is especially clever.
mm March 13, 2017 at 7:11 PM
Obama put SS on the table is his desperation to strike a grand bargain. Only thing that saved us was the fact that the GOP was too fucking stupid and determined to be total fucking obstructionists.
Robert March 14, 2017 at 11:28 AM
Obama talking about the defect, during a time of high unemployment/ under-employment is the kind of thing an economic know-nothing would do.
Also, making believe the federal government pays their bills "just like you do at your kitchen table" is beyond stupid. The federal government can print money. You can't.
Pro tip to Dems/ Liberals: Stop repeating conservative economic nonsense. It makes you sound as stupid as the mouth-breathers who voted for Trump.
The black president couldn't even understand basic economics, says the racist.
Sport a Confederate Flag and you are a hillbilly redneck. I fail to see the woman's issue here.
Republicans have hillbilly rednecks and their apologists. Democrats have urban thugs and their apologists. Both groups are antisocial in their attitudes and behaviors including violent crime.
There are enough ignorant and dangerous poor to spread around politically. Forget about being nice to them. We can make excuses for our own rednecks and thugs and attack our opponents for theirs.
David in Cal March 13, 2017 at 5:57 PM
Tom Zeug -- IMHO one key issue is that symbols mean different things to different people. To YOU a Confederate flag represents racism, but it may NOT represent racism to some other person.
Flying the flag of a failed confederacy that tried to dissolve the American union in defense of slavery cannot represent anything good. Even the historical events associated with the flag are shameful, racism aside. So, when people defend it in the name of history, we do suspect they are actually defending something else, something with more racial overtones. Because their other claims about it make no sense.
That's your POV, and it's valid for you, Anon 6:24. But, for some people the Confederate flag just represents local pride. E.g, consider this article: "I am a black South Carolinian. Here's why I support the Confederate flag....For me and many Southerners, the flag celebrates my heritage and regional pride. One of my ancestors, Benjamin Thomas, was a black Confederate cook, and I do not want to turn my back on his service to the South. So I hang the flag in honor of his hard work and dedication to South Carolina during the Civil War."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/24/i-am-a-black-south-carolinian-heres-why-i-support-the-confederate-flag/?utm_term=.51909e17c728
Not surprising that Comrade DinC is charmed by a symbol of bloody treason and racism.
impCaesarAvg March 13, 2017 at 8:20 PM
The Confederate battle flag represents treason in support of slavery.
Gavin Magnum March 13, 2017 at 11:10 PM
Ever heard of the term "outlier" David?
gravymeister March 14, 2017 at 10:31 AM
I don't want to appear like I am piling on, but your post is a steaming pile of manure. This is the same crap southern schools were shoveling into kids in the 1950's. Enough already!
They fly the flag of treason, then whine that liberals hate this country.
How do we deal with them? We don't. We need to work around (not with) these morons.
David in Cal March 14, 2017 at 11:22 AM
Thank you Gavin, for getting my point. To most people, the Confederate flag may have represented racism, but there were others, even some African Americans, for whom it represented regional pride or had some other non-racist meaning. Each of us assigned our own meaning to it.
The treasonous Confederate flag disappeared from the 1870s until the late 1950s, when Brown vs Board of Education was decided.
Southern pride my ass. I have to say, I'm zero percent shocked you'd carry water for racists.
Davis in Cal,
Southern local pride in what? In slavery, treason and cowardice? Did your black confederate cook ancestor, have a choice to support such treason or did his master force him?
"Thank you gavin, for getting my point."
You ARE realty stupid.
@3:50 PM - realty? Look who's talking.
urban legend March 13, 2017 at 5:36 PM
Many in the coastal elites, including the ones that lean liberal, have looked at West Virginians as hillbilly rednecks for many decades. Yet well into the 1990s, they voted for the party most associated with civil rights legislation and supported by nearly 100% of the black community. So how come now that sense of victimization became a decisive political issue now and it wasn't then when the sensibilities of the Democratic Party were just a opposed to racial prejudice as it is now?
Trump said he would bring back coal jobs. Clinton didn't.
"I think a lot of people think we're just a bunch of hillbilly rednecks."
When you vote for a guy who plans to ruin your health what else am I to think?
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Britain reignites Mugabe hysteria
by Mai Jukwa
THE British media routinely subjects its unquestioning audience with a villainous portrayal of a tyrannical Robert Mugabe menacing the streets of Harare with a Kalashnikov in one hand and a machete in the other. This mischievous narrative is not the child of ignorance. There is quite some method to this seeming madness on the part of the British.
Consider a leading article in the UK Daily Mail on August 11, 2010, which carried allegations that child slaves were being forced to dig for Marange diamonds with their bare hands. The culprits, we were told, were Mugabe's bloodthirsty militiamen who also roamed the surrounding mountains with "vicious killer dogs," harassing vulnerable locals.
Not to be outdone, the Guardian followed with a screaming headline alleging that Robert Mugabe had a secret diamond fund and was preparing to launch a "terror campaign" across the entire country.
The British are not alone in this dishonesty but have co-opted their kith and kin. The American Huffington Post recently published 'damning' revelations of the tortures suffered by a lesbian Zimbabwean who now lives in America. The article told of how the said woman was held in a cell strewn with faeces as the police station had no toilet facilities.
For six days, the report claims, this woman was tortured with batons, kicked in the stomach and made to endure various forms of violent interrogation. On day six, the police demanded she write down the name of every lesbian and homosexual in Zimbabwe because Mugabe had instructed that all of them should be arrested and imprisoned!
The reader in Zimbabwe will immediately identify these sensationalist allegations for the fictitious nonsense that they are. However, the crucial political question is why otherwise competent journalists are engaged in what are patently ridiculous fabrications and an unquestioning acceptance of testimonies by individuals who are likely nothing more than economic migrants that simply want political asylum to allow them permanent residency in these countries.
The reader must not be so naive as to assume that these publications lack the editorial rigour to correctly evaluate these allegations. The decision to allow publication of these decidedly ungenerous articles on Robert Mugabe is part of a wider campaign by Western foreign policy hawks that work in cahoots with media proprietors and politicians.
The core objective is to dehumanise Robert Mugabe. Once the generality has accepted this notion of Mugabe being a black Hitler of sorts, Western governments are then empowered to act against this perceived evil man. Recall how George Bush called Zimbabwe an outpost of tyranny.
To highlight the propaganda of for instance "Mugabe And The White African", that 'Mugabe compared himself to Adolf Hitler, which after two seconds of contemplation should strike anyone as absurd. This is the original quote, according to Rense.com:
Mugabe noted in the speech that he had been compared to the former Nazi leader in the British press, and said he was ready to embrace such a role.
"This Hitler has only one objective: justice for his people, sovereignty for his people, recognitition of the independence of his people and their rights over their resources," he said.
"If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold."
I draw the reader's memory to those now infamous headlines in the Western media alleging that Saddam Hussein was in possession of dangerous weapons of mass destruction and how the world could waste not a minute longer without intervening. History tells us that there were no WMD's in Iraq.
This is quite similar to how Ian Smith, together with the Western media, portrayed ZANLA and ZIPRA liberation fighters as terrorists. Dehumanise! That is the objective. As such, when Ian Smith committed atrocities, killing thousands of women and children at Chimoio and Nyadzonya, this was painted as a noble 'termination' of terrorists. It is an effective technique that has worked through the years and is still ever as effective today.
When Julius Malema began making unwelcome noises about nationalising the country's mines, he was quickly labelled an extremist radical. The concerted efforts of the Boer-controlled media in South Africa successfully portrayed a noble concept as the dangerous agitations of a madman. He was defeated, for now at least.
This seemingly innocuous reportage has had a devastating effect on Zimbabwe's tourism. The continued vilification of the government as a rogue regime drunk on blood has had the effect of giving the impression that Zimbabwe is unsafe. The truth of it is that Zimbabwe is perhaps one of the safest tourist destinations in Africa, but this narrative runs contrary to Western foreign policy objectives that dictate that Zimbabwe be reduced to a failed state to 'teach' other Africans a lesson never to attempt the 'foolishness' of taking back their resources from their former colonial masters.
Once the first stage of demonisation has been completed and Western populations are convinced that a demon is on the loose, the next level of operation is the expression of demands that something be done in the interests of fighting for good to prevail. Western governments then dress themselves in the regal apparel of angels and vow that they will do everything necessary to help the poor people that are supposedly being held ransom by this rampaging demon.
So we are told that the West's actions in Libya had nothing to do with oil. It was because they so loved Libyans and wanted to see them set free from an evil Muammar Gaddafi. The war in Iraq was not because of oil but because the West so loved Iraqis and wanted to see them set free from that cruel serpent called Saddam Hussein. But one wonders why these Western angels did not offer ZANLA and ZIPRA a single bullet to help them overthrow the racist oppression of Ian Smith. In fact, it is not only that they did not assist – they actively worked against the liberation struggle describing the guerillas as savage terrorists, a narrative which still finds expression in the House of Commons today.
The negative reportage on Zimbabwe has recently been reignited. Last week the Western media was awash with synthetic expressions of concern over human rights in Zimbabwe. This was in response to the dispersal of WOZA protestors by the police. One WOZA protestor was so eager to provoke the police to react that she stepped into the police station and stripped naked. She was arrested and immediately became the poster child for Western calls for closer Western involvement in the coming elections to make sure 'peaceful protest' is allowed.
Jenni Williams, the woman who leads WOZA, knew full well they would be arrested and released without charge but upped the ante with the deliberate provocation of police officers in an effort to generate headlines in step with the narrative that is currently being developed by her donors in view of the coming elections.
This is important in view of the reputable opinion polls by MPOI and Freedom House showing that Zanu PF will likely win the coming election. Western governments are at a loss as to how to they can continue to legitimise their portrayal of Mugabe as a murderous despot if he is shown to have won the election.
What we are witnessing are the birth pains of what is going to be a vicious information war in the coming months. If Zanu PF wins the elections, as it likely will, the West will immediately move to discredit the vote as not having been free and fair.
And that shows they do not respect the will of the Zimbabwean people. Any more than they respected the will of the Vietnamese people from 1965 to 1975, for instance. The foreign funding of NGOs is anti-democratic, and is intented to subvert will of the local people, who should be the only ones with a say in the Zimbabwean elections. - MrK]
It is important that Zanu PF responds in kind with equal sophistication. Over the years the party has allowed the West to control the narrative and assumed a defensive position.
A fresh approach is necessary; it is time to take the fight to the enemy. Zanu PF has at its disposal an arsenal of fact and history that exposes the West for what it is. The party must use this to devastating effect and take charge of the conversation.
Someone should do a documentary on the New Farmers. There are tens of thousands of success stories there. Also, it should be pointed out who the MDC is, the implications of their neoliberal policies, and their Anglo-American De Beers connections. Morgan Tsvangirai used to work as a miner for them. To quote his biographer, Sarah Huddleston:
"Morgan loves the mining industry because he was a miner and was given his start in life by Anglo American. He is a miner at heart but he sees both sides of the picture and this policy is not good for the workers or investors," said Tsvangirai biographer Sarah Hudleston. "
The British often want to paint themselves as the salt of this earth and position themselves through empty charitable gestures as a caring nation that has the interests of our people at heart. Some weaker minds – especially amongst our youth – have been taken in by this sleight of hand. It is a dishonest prestige and there is no good reason why it should carry on unmolested.
Zanu PF has been negligent in allowing the British to carry on this hypocrisy for so long. This coming election let the facts be articulated so clearly that it becomes clear in the mind of every Zimbabwean that Britain does not have our concerns at heart. It is for the white farmer that their heart bleeds.
Amai Jukwa is a loving mother of three. She respects Robert Mugabe, is amused by Tsvangirai and feels sorry for Mutambara. She loves being followed on Twitter @AmaiJukwa
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this AGAIN IS MASTER PIECE!!! this woman wrote stuff i have been dwelling on lately.. back in 2000 all the way upto 2008, BBC and CNN were powerful and couldnt be challenged as the west's war machinery BUT that is not so anymore!!!!! you dont have to watch BBC or CNN on television set, you can do that on a laptop/online...and the point is THERE IS NO EXCUSE ANYMORE FOR ZANU TO not match and surpass BBC and CNN on the conversation on ZImbabwe. a silly dance move gains a millions of hits in day on You tube....SURELY ZANU can you 'You Tube' the history and contemporary challenges of zimbabwe, the genocide of about 3000 people engineered by MDC and implemented by the white house by use of devastating sanctions!!!
after libya and iraqi, zimbabwe is not in a bad position at all, in been listened to by the world.
yes the west and their Puppets by the name of MDC are going for broke this time, in discrediting a zanu victory and it appears zanu is in sleep mode like stompie idiots...
zanu pf would be total idiots to think that the campaing ground for this election is just zimbabwe. zanu has to make online vedio for africa first and then world. This morons of MDC LIKE to be seen as 'VICTIMS' yet its MDC that was instrumental in the cholera genocide, its time THE RECORD IS SET STRAIGHT to the world, so the world knows the truth of the matter!!! if i were zanu, i would hold memorial services every friday for the 40 000 killed by the racist regime of smith, supported by UK and USA an SA, and the following friday, it would be a memorial day for the those mdc murdered by use of sanctions ie the 3000..this is what zanu has to go over the election period..
The question that zanu has to take to african states is, if we are saying no to military coups, why are we embracing those who come in power on the strengh of sanctions implemented by those that are economically might, when we know a military coup is cleaner and be bloodless whereas sanctions cause serious pain as is shown by the 3000 who died deaths engineered by sanctions, sanctions brought by MDC???
Labels: 2013 ELECTIONS (ZW), HUMAN RIGHTS, MAI JUKWA, MDC PROPAGANDA, NGOs, POLITICAL VIOLENCE
posted by MrK @ 7:07 AM
We have been there before with the Givemore 'Gift' Nhidza yarn. First he is horribly tortured and murdered, then he shows up alive and well in South Africa.
Read all the links here:
SW Radio Africa news - The Independent Voice of Zimbabwe
Tortured MDC activist dies from injuries
By Lance Guma
A former MDC security officer who was tortured by state security agents in March 2007 died two weeks ago,
[in 2009, two years later - MRK]
from the injuries he sustained.
Reports of his death have only just been received.
Gift Nhidza was one of several activists arrested when police brutally crushed an opposition protest in Harare's Highfields suburb. Gift Tandare, a National Constitutional Assembly activist, was shot dead while MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai was brutally assaulted by police. Nhidza was initially tortured using electrical shocks and beaten underneath his feet.
[Now that is a recurring accusation that should put up red flags. - MrK]
The Chairman of the MDC Veteran Activists Association based in South Africa, Solomon Chikohwero, told Newsreel that although Nhidza fled to South Africa, the regime pursued him there. Four months after fleeing Nhidza sought employment in the farms around the Musina area close to the border. It was there that members of the Central Intelligence Organization abducted him and took him back to Zimbabwe.
[The elaborations of a liar. - MrK]
Nhidza was taken to a torture base in Odzi, his home area. The then Transport Minister and now Manicaland Governor Christopher Mushowe, is said to have instigated his abduction and torture. Nhidza was beaten with iron bars on his arms and legs, sustaining 3 fractures on the leg
[3, not 2 or 4, but 3 - MrK]
and several others on his arm. Additionally his spinal cord was broken in 3 different places because of the beatings. His abductors had dumped him on a road inside Spiro Farm, hoping he would be run over by trucks in the area to make it look like an accident.
[Hoping? That doesn't sound like a solid plan. - MrK]
Chikohwero told us they later saw Nhidza when he again fled back to South Africa,
[Wait a minute - his spine was broken in 3 places - so how did the flee back to South Africa? Was he carried? Was there a special ambulance to make the border crossing? - MrK]
but this time his condition was much more serious and he was walking with the aid of crutches.
[If your spine is broken in 3 places, you can't walk with the aid of crutches or any other way. - MrK]
He described him as 'emotionally and psychologically traumatized'.
[I'll bet. - MrK]
Nhidza like many Zimbabwean refugees found shelter at the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg.
After several months, as his condition worsened, he told his colleagues he wanted to go back home and die in his home area. Several organizations such as the Solidarity Peace Trust chipped in to help him with bus fare to go home. Chikohwero said they had to negotiate with the bus company that took him home because they have had many cases of passengers dying during the journeys. Fortunately the bus conductor was from the same area as Nhidza and agreed to have him as a passenger.
Nhidza died, and has been buried, at home.
[Big f'in lie. - MrK]
He gave his life to try and bring peace and freedom to Zimbabwe.
[No. Gee Lance, any chance of a retracion? - MrK]
HE'S ALIVE, HE'S ALIVE... Givemore, the Gift who keeps on giving.
(SLATE) Back From the Dead
How South Africa became the world's No. 1 asylum destination.
By Maura R. O'Connor|Posted Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, at 12:55 PM
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa— Givemore Gift Nhidza is not dead.
Over the last year, several newspapers have reported that Nhidza, a political activist in Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change opposition party, is dead. But he is alive, and like 3 million other Zimbabweans, he is living in South Africa until the day he can return home without fear of being killed or going hungry.
And of course, there are no 3 million Zimbabweans in South Africa, because if you read the actual South African 2011 Population Census Table 3.5, there are only 1.6 million foreigners in South Africa in total.
And of course, with SW Radio being a VOA/CIA propaganda outfit, they never printed a retraction. Any news about Zimbabwe that is bad is good enough to print, and no good news will be printed without being spun in a negative way.
Also notice how the revelation of Gift Nhadza's resurrecion came in 2010, 2 whole years after the 2008 election.
In other words, it was very politically expedient to make a charge against the Zimbabwean government, because the truth only came out years after the lie served it's relevance, which was in 2008.
Beware of propaganda.
Although the Lance Guma article has mysteriously disappeared from the SWRadio Africa website itself, it is still on AllAfrica.com here.
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Pilots at Richmond Heights-based Flexjet LLC voted to end representation by the Teamsters union, a significant blow to organized labor in one of its few remaining strongholds and a coup for the jet-leasing company, which steered a heated campaign to sway workers.
Pilots voted by a margin of 318 to 220 to decertify the Teamsters in electronic voting over the past month, according to results verified by a representative of the National Mediation Board on Wednesday, May 30. The pilots had voted narrowly to join the union in 2016, but since then the group has been unable to secure a contract deal with the company. The union blamed a cynical campaign and delay strategy by deeply anti-union Flexjet officials for the reversal in employee sentiment.
Management hailed the vote, which it said "will provide Flexjet with a huge competitive advantage in the fractional jet ownership market." In recent months the company has sent workers anti-union messages, including one referencing a "long list of Teamsters companies that are no longer in business," and launched a "Vote for Flexjet" website telling employees that if they dumped the Teamsters, "the company will be able to work directly with the pilots and make our airline great again."
The National Mediation Board ordered the election after receiving a petition to oust the Teamsters signed by the majority of pilots at Flexjet and sister company Flight Options. Anti-union advocates were watching how the battle played out, while at least one advocacy group actively sought to help defeat the Teamsters.
"Due to an aggressive campaign by management, the majority of Flexjet pilots were not convinced of the benefits of collective bargaining."
In a statement on Thursday, May 31, the local Teamsters union said that "due to an aggressive campaign by management, the majority of Flexjet pilots were not convinced of the benefits of collective bargaining."
The union said that, despite its concerns with management's alleged conduct, it would not ask the government to rerun the election. "Flexjet pilots, like their peers across the industry, will come to realize through their own experience that union representation is essential for maintaining professional independence, high safety standards, protection from the negative effects of mergers and acquisitions, and good pay, benefits and working conditions."
The union had accused Flexjet of mounting a years-long strategy to stoke pilot frustration by blocking progress at the bargaining table and allegedly coercing employees to renounce the union. The union said prior to the voting that it was investigating "evidence of election interference" by management. Flexjet has denied any wrongdoing.
While the overall unionization rate in the U.S. has fallen to a record low 6.5 percent of the private-sector workforce, air travel remains heavily organized, with unionization widespread among flight attendants, mechanics and, increasingly, airport service staff. The 11 largest national passenger airlines across the U.S. and Canada all have unionized pilots, as do shipping carriers such as United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp. Nevertheless, union leaders worried that a defeat at Flexjet would have broader implications. Flexjet agrees.
"This is a historic moment not only for our company but also for the industry as a whole, since no other pilot group has elected to remove representation by organized labor," Flexjet chairman Kenn Ricci said in a statement.
In a letter to employees following the vote, Ricci announced Flexjet would give every pilot a $1,000 bonus check to "enhance your celebration" of the outcome.
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