Recommended Reading: Trump Administration's Modern-Day Blacklist of the Political Left
This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: Ken Klippenstein, Mark Jacob, Jemar Tisby, Scot Nakagawa, Kate Manne, John Pavlovitz, and Derek Beres
This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack:
Ken Klippenstein writes that “the implication is clear: Secretary of State Marco Rubio thinks there should be a modern-day blacklist of the political left in America. In fact, the report explicitly mentions the ‘blacklists, McCarthy-era investigations and prosecutions’ of the 1950s and their effectiveness at dismembering the Communist Party USA.”
Mark Jacob writes that “if you see a journalist or influencer posting positively about a prediction market on social media, ask them in the comments whether they have any financial ties… Prediction markets, as currently operated, stink to high heaven.”
Jemar Tisby, PhD writes that “when you look across the eras, you detect a pattern. The injustice that mobilizes people is almost always the one that is violent, visible, and visceral.”
Scot Nakagawa writes that “what’s happening to immigrant communities right now isn’t immigration enforcement. It is a campaign of systemic terror, operating on multiple simultaneous fronts, designed to make 13.7 million people - and the families, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and communities attached to them - feel that no corner of their life is safe.”
Kate Manne writes that “tThe truth is that they want men like David Brouillette on the streets, committing acts of state-led terrorism and even, upon occasion, execution. The price of precious human lives like that of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero is no price to pay for them: indeed, it’s likely a benefit. All the better to intimidate and cow the rest of us into obedience and silence.”
John Pavlovitz writes that “with every persecution of the LGBTQ community, with every unprovoked attack on immigrants, with every planet-wrecking decision, with every defense of a serial predator, with every regressive civil rights assault, with every attempt at theocracy by these professed believers, the flight from Christianity rightly continues.”
Derek Beres writes that “a manosophere I can get down with: remove the unrealistic demands and you find something much more realistic, without the puffed up pretensions disguising a neurosis about living up to impossible standards.”
