boost: Post-Insurrection Thoughts & Journalism

[jesse_the_k]

Violence at home and at scale

sara links to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s speech, and explores how terrorists learn their methods from domestic violence.

https://sara.dreamwidth.org/618249.html

NYTimes Opinion: Stop Pretending ‘This Is Not Who We Are’ — Electoral violence is in our DNA.

Video plus transcript: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/opinion/capitol-riot-america.html

archived outside paywall

On The Media’s 8 January 2021 edition, "Breaking the Myth"

Historians speak to the "Lost Cause" pro-Confederate rhetoric, how it’s embedded in white U.S. culture, and how not to dismiss current events.

The compromise of 1877 meant Hayes got his presidency and the old South regained the freedom to oppress black Americans without federal interference. White Southerners called it "redemption." To Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, executive director of the African American Policy Forum, it was a catastrophe of appeasement end an object lesson in the politics of reconciliation.

To some extent, there might be vague awareness that the disputed election ended reconstruction, but I think people don't have a sense of what that means. It meant that without federal troops supporting the legitimately elected governments of these southern states, that white terrorism — counter-democratic impulses were going to rule the day. What that meant was countless people being killed in political violence. There were coups across the south. This is part of our history. When people say we're better than this I'm often wondering: so what history have you not read?

Streaming/download audio plus transcript:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-breaking-the-myth

Iconic images: photos and descriptions

https://www.vox.com/2021/1/6/22217445/protesters-storm-us-capitol-trump-congress

The "breaking news" edition of TalkDescription that describes those photos — streaming/downloadable audio and transcripts

https://talkdescriptiontome.buzzsprout.com/1136756/7186318-episode-31-chaos-in-the-capitol-building

Comments

[sasha_feather]

Thanks for this! I've been wondering where to go to get some news. I'm out of the habit of seeking news out!

[jesse_the_k]

I'm glad you have a place that's as newsless as you wanna be.

In my place, news seems to be crawling in under the front door sweep and over the walls and such.

[sovay]

Historians speak to the "Lost Cause" pro-Confederate rhetoric, how it’s embedded in white U.S. culture, and how not to dismiss current events.

Good!

(I had seen much of the other news, but not this link, so thank you.)