It’s Race, Class, and Gender Together: Why The Atlanta Murders Are Not Just One Thing
Here’s what Christine Liwag Dixon, a Filipino American writer and musician, Thought about it after hearing that clip. She pondered how she was once offered money for a “happy ending massage” when she is not a massage therapist and never has been. She thought of all the men who told her they liked “Asian women” and expected her to take that as a compliment. She thought of the time she went outside to call an Uber while her husband was paying a restaurant bill and a group of men cornered her. One of them sang “I love you for a long time” while standing so close that she could feel his breath on her neck.
She thought about how most Asian American women likely have a similar library of terrifying experiences. “To be hypersexualized,” she said in an interview. “To be treated as an object of sexual desire.”
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When the Schlapps don’t try to overthrow free and fair elections, they are trying to get public health officials fired during a pandemic. https://t.co/hOfFKBfpQB
– Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) March 19, 2021
Jeff Zeleny / CNN:
Biden and Harris visit Georgia, a battlefield that paved the way for the agenda
But the White House’s plan to promote Covid’s aid package took a dire turn after eight people, including six women of Asian descent, were killed in a rampage this week. White House officials eventually canceled a scheduled evening rally to explain the benefits of the law.
The President and Vice President will instead meet with Asian American leaders. Despite being asked to do so, the White House has stopped calling the shootings a hate crime.
While in Atlanta, Biden and Harris are also scheduled to visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and meet with experts on the same day that the government achieved its goal of giving 100 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine.
“We’re going to beat that,” said Biden on Thursday. “We’re way ahead of schedule, but we still have a long way to go.”
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Although FL has much smaller state pop and less populated cities, FL and CA are about the same in most metrics, and FL is even worse in others. Contrary to recent arguments that Florida escaped the pandemic unscathed and better than CA and NY. pic.twitter.com/OOO041OfYH
– Tyler King (@TylerAKing) March 19, 2021
Amanda Carpenter / Bulwark:
Kevin McCarthy, Fetch
He now says he didn’t try to overthrow the 2020 elections. He is a good boy! He will submit and play nice to rub his stomach.
Maybe he’s sorting bags of starbursts to pick just the colors Trump likes – pink and red – to put in a special jar and drive to Trump. Gone is any memory of them An explosive scream match he had with Trump on the day of the uprising. Old buddy, old buddy Kevin didn’t really mean it when he said Trump was responsible for the attacks that day. Because he’s fast decided to do “all of us” and flew to Florida to be nice to Trump. He had to apologize to his hooman. Why? Because McCarthy needs Trump’s help in 2022.
Look, McCarthy is a good boy. He’s going to play fetch. For anyone who can do something good for them at a certain point in time. Trump, donor – whoever. Just throw him a bone.
Shot.
WaPo:
According to a survey by KFF, more than 4 in 10 healthcare workers have not been vaccinated
Vaccination rates are particularly low among black healthcare workers, low-paying jobs such as domestic help, and those with less education. Partisan politics also play a role. More and more Democrats say they have been vaccinated, and Republicans are more likely to express uncertainty or concern about the vaccines.
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Colbert’s interview here may not be funny, but it’s also an interview that couldn’t appear in any other context on his network
– Will Stancil (@whstancil) March 19, 2021
Alexander Vindman / Lawfare:
Can litigation help de-radicalize right-wing media?
The right-wing media and their extremist media personalities have gained a foothold and attracted the attention of millions. These millions have now got used to sensational content that is not tied to the truth – often at the expense of the individual. The only way to break the cycle is through accountability. Civil law ramifications, rather than government restrictions on first adjustment rights, could be a useful way of basically making money and demanding the truth from them, tightening their reporting, and maintaining accountability. Like a tabloid being sued and paying heavy fines, media outlets and right-wing media personalities will claim that freedom of speech is at stake. However, the defamation is not covered by the first amendment so by definition it is not. And the generous standards in the Defamation Act to protect the press provide a really safe haven for bona fide actors, even if they are wrong. Businesses that fear the real cost of civil harm for libel, defamation, and false allegations that can cumulatively lead to violence and harm the real people individually should limit their behavior.
Chrissy Stroop / Religion Shipping:
I’m not here to RESOLVE GOSPEL BUT TO SHOW YOU WHO YOU ARE: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR OF ‘WHITE EVANGELIC RACISM’
or reader of RD, Anthea Butler hardly needs an introduction. Since 2009, shortly after the start of RD, Anthea has written well over 100 articles on topics as wide-ranging as the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church and the African American Hair Policyto Ronnie Gave and Dominionism. A professor of Religious Studies and African Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Butler, whose is popular Twitter feed is a must, is a public intellectual in the best sense of the word. She is also part of an emerging cohort of scholars, many of whom have extensive personal experience in evangelical subculture and have refused to whitewash the authoritarian nature of evangelicalism, a practice that permeates most scholarly and popular writings on the subject.
If asked to recommend only two recent books on conservative, mostly white evangelicals, I would recommend Kristin Kobes du Mez‘s Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Broken a Nationfor his steadfast gaze on the evangelicals’ specific inflections of toxic masculinity over the past few decades and on Butler’s White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in Americafor his equally unwavering exposure of the systemic and sometimes overt racism that pervades evangelical communities and institutions. Both books are thoroughly based on historical expertise, but both occasionally venture into normative, even theological, discourse that makes sense– –Both authors address people they know well and who let them down.
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
Trump supporters turn him on because of COVID-19 vaccine in the inconvenient CNN segment
A Trump voter beat him as a “liberal New Yorker” when asked about the coronavirus shot.
In Boise City, Tuchman walked into a restaurant and asked if anyone in the room was ready for the shot. In a county where 92 percent voted for former President Donald Trump in November, Tuchman’s request was met with silence. Not even Trump’s approval of the vaccine made a difference.
“Trump is a liberal New Yorker,” said one Trump voter. “Why should we listen to him too?”
Another diner said “no” when asked if Trump’s approval would lead him to take the vaccine.
Other guests turned down both academia and the government. Tuchman found almost the same attitude elsewhere in the ward.
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That’s one of the greatest things about the United States of America. No matter how old you are or how long you’ve lived in the United States, there is always an unholy massacre that you’ve never heard of. https://t.co/HSHbQyPH3m
– William K. Wolfrum (@Wolfrum) March 19, 2021
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