Whipping up fervor in a constituency by rallying bigotry
professor cole is spot on...
we haven't been hearing as much about the fascist bent of the united states in recent months, but, be assured, it's still very much alive and well... the mid-term elections may have dampened some of it, but with hate-mongers like goode and tancredo and their ilk still at large, we can count on there being more bigoted screed pumped up from their bottomless cesspools of vitriol at regular intervals... Submit To Propeller
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The purpose of statements like that of [Republican Representative Virgil Goode of Virginia] is to mark Muslim Americans as permanent outsiders and to rally bigoted Christians. (Just as the purpose of [Colorado Republican Congressman congressman Tom Tancredo's] remarks is to do the same thing to Latinos). The technique is a fascist technique, of spreading hatred and demanding the 'purification' of the body public as a way of whipping up fervor in a constituency. It is shameful, but more, it is very, very dangerous. The United States of America depends for its survival on tolerance of diversity. Bigotry can easily tear it apart.
Islamophobia or Anti-Muslimism is now among the more pressing social pathologies infecting the US. If it becomes established and acceptable, then lots of other forms of bigotry will also grow in virulence. There could end up being blood in the streets.
we haven't been hearing as much about the fascist bent of the united states in recent months, but, be assured, it's still very much alive and well... the mid-term elections may have dampened some of it, but with hate-mongers like goode and tancredo and their ilk still at large, we can count on there being more bigoted screed pumped up from their bottomless cesspools of vitriol at regular intervals... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
12/22/2006
