Black vs. Blue: Where is the justice?
A white cop on an white police force severely injures a surrendering black suspect, and a white jury lets him off to the cheers of white president of his police union. And you're telling me race isn't important?
A white cop on an white police force severely injures a surrendering black suspect, and a white jury lets him off to the cheers of white president of his police union. And you're telling me race isn't important?
Donald Trump is a Gift from God.
There are those, like Jeb Bush, who say that Donald Trump is a Democratic plant, an operative sent from the Clinton Machine to disrupt the Republican Primary. If that is the case, it is the most ingenious idea and plan to ever be considered and implemented in the history of politics, in this country and in all countries, for all time.
The theory that Trump is a plant prevails among some because he is making the Republican look and sound bad. And if all he were doing was running and saying the bigoted and fascist things he says without any support, and with all the "true" Republicans candidates and officials disagreeing with him and denouncing him, I would agree.
But that is not what is happening, is it? Trump averages around 25%-35% support in the Republican Primary. Why?
The Bible is just as bad as the Quran
People make a lot of assumptions about Islam compared with Christianity and Judaism — particularly that it's more inherently violent, indeed, that the holy scripture of the Quran is more violent, or calls for more violence, than the Bible.
The team at Dit Is Normaal decided to put this to the test in the Netherlands, where they're based (hence the speaking of the Dutch or German (I can't tell which) in the video above, so make sure your English subtitles are turned on). They disguised a Bible as a Quran, read verses from the Bible (such as "You will have to cut off her hand"), and asked people for their thoughts.
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Ed Kilgore on Mein Fuhrer Trump's next policy step:
On the outside chance that Trump is elected president, we should all pray this is his last stop on the road to a very different America where religious tests are suddenly constitutional and huge categories of people are treated as presumptive terrorists. He's already called for a database of all Muslims and for monitoring and perhaps shutting down mosques. More generally, he's already promising to do everything within his power to alienate allied countries with significant Muslim populations, while ignoring the suffering of the Muslims who are the primary victims of ISIS and their ilk. But one can theoretically imagine the next Trump step: maybe expulsions of Muslims already here; maybe the compulsory wearing of yellow crescents; and maybe something worse we have yet to imagine.I have heard some objections to the comparison of Trump to Hitler. The objection holds that Trump has not killed 8 million Muslims and thus he has committed no Holocaust, and therefore to to compare him to Hitler cheapens the Holocaust. My rejoinder to that is "yet." He is most definitely following down the path of Hitler. So we must stop him now lest he commit a second Holocaust.
