Inside the new hate
Right-wing rhetoric seems to have reached new heights of xenophobia. But is that true? An expert explains
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/04/inside_the_new_hate/singleton/
Not much is grabbing me today in the news articles I have been reading (and I have slipped in a bit of work as well, so perhaps haven’t been as comprehensive in my reading efforts), but this one I thought might be of interest. It is a phone interview with a guy who has studied hate speech and how it has evolved. It was interesting to hear what he had to say and he doesn’t appear to have any specific agenda.
Without regard to the thrust of the article, itself, I find it amusing that the author, in saying that Newt calling Obama the “food stamp president” is a racially-charged statement, is, himself, making a racially-charged statement.
Sort of an inheritance thangy, in programming parlance.