Authoritarian/nationalist policy in education, race, labor, immigration
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Updated: 1 Oct 2023
Tracking authoritarian, nationalist policy, theories, ideas, suppression, and actual violence across the topics of race, immigration, elections, labor rights, education and information.
Historical context, international comparisons, and business/financial/conflict-of-interest implications.
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Created byRobert W
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The Daily Beast: Religious Fundamentalism: A Side Effect of Lazy Brains?msn: Neuroscientist explains denial of Trump's 91 indictmentsThe Neural Correlates of Religious and Nonreligious BeliefNYT Review of Books: Six rules for surviving autocracyNY Review of Books: Gessen: The New Politics of ConspiracyWNYC: On The Media: Gessen: The impulse to normalize.
Gessen warns that in the Trump era there will be
an impulse to normalize, causing coverage
and thinking to drift in a Trumpian direction.New Republic: FEAR AND BLOOD
The Right-Wing Conspiracy-Fest Is More
Openly Bloodthirsty Than BeforeGrouping
[5] Propaganda and the role of ideas
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2015: Donald Trump, candidate.
Bigotry openly re-enters mainstream politics.
A chronology of Donald Trump's
racial rhetoric1925: Hitler's plan to segregate Jews and revoke their rights1924: Hitler on propaganda:
not truth insofar as it favors
the enemy, but to serve the party's ends1968: McGovern vs Goldwater foreshadows polarized politics and ideological conservatism1930s-1940s: Goebbels' science of propagandaThe role of ideas: Vocabulary of Right Wing PopulismThe role of ideas: Anti-pluralismThe role of ideas: David Brooks on anti-pluralism in radical right-wing movementsThe role of ideas: Anti-immigrant political messages are reinforced by the rhetoric of dehumanization.Propaganda and Persuasion, by Garth S. JowettPeriods
1950s: Exploiting insecurity, creating crisis:
McCarthyism and The "Red Scare"Authoritarian tactics of control via crisis, fear, uncertainty and misinformationThe role of ideas: Honor cultures vs Dignity cultures[2] Racial superiority and eugenics, in theory and practice
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1939: Aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh becomes a supporter
of eugenics, Nazi ideology and German military expansion1920s: Eugenics and scientific racism
movement emerges1930s: The German-American Bund,
a nativist group, forms in the US1820s to present: Defenses of slavery1853: Thomas Jefferson's notes on slavery
and the capacities of black people1705: VA Assembly declares all imported non-Christian servants to be slaves2022: Pathologizing politics with eugenics language1970s: Eugenics and scientific racism merge with conservative policyPeriods
Overview of slavery in the American colonies from around 16401700s: Growth of slavery,
the power to punish, and white fearsGrouping
[3] Immigration
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2018 NIH study on violence against immigrants2009 NIH study: Assumptions about
immigration and crime in early 20th century1924: Biased immigration quotas become law with KKK support2011: The impact of 9/11/2001: from national unity and mourning, to partisan-qualified xenophobia1880s-present: the emergence of xenophobia1700s-present: Xenophobic ideas about immigration"Asylum is a right":Cato Institute: Immigration fallaciesOpen Secrets: current articles on immigration issues2018: Brookings report: Violence in Central America drives migration to the north2012: CAP reports that harsh immigration laws, increased enforcement actions, and a negative stigmatization of immigrants, in combination, harm immigrants and citizens[1] INTRO Economic, political and world events
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1929: Stock market crash1993: Grassroots, or "astroturf"?
Koch, oil and tobacco money found The Tea Party1791: Slave rebellion in French-ruled St. Domingue.
Rebellion fuels white fears.1912: Afro-Cuban uprising. Repercussions and fears2011: The impact of 9/11/2001: from national unity and mourning, to partisan-qualified xenophobiaPeriods
1972: Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal1929-1945: Economic crisis and insecurity: The Great Depression1939-1945: Global crisis, allied response: World War II1981 - : Reagan Revolution gives voice
to white majority unease with civil rights and progressive reform1971 - : Nixon policy led to recurring crises of inflation, oil price and currency shocks1954-1975: The Vietnam War and anti-war activismAnti-war protest and counter-protest
widen the "generation gap"Trends and distinct phases in immigration
to the United States from the nation's founding
to the present[6] Banning, censoring, destroying publications; control and suppression of journalism, labor, education. US and international
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1835: Abolitionist Literature Removed from Post Office and Burned1933: Book burning in Nazi Germany1959: White Citizens’ Council protests and restricts a childrens' picture book thought to promote integration.1998: Clinton/Lewinsky prosecutor Kenneth Starr obtains Monica Lewinsky's book purchase records2019: Protesters demand removal of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale from public libraries2022 UN report: Suppression of journalism1995: FL Gov Jeb Bush attempts to privatize schools, using anti-labor language.Aug 2023: PRI: Nicaragua: Ortega seizes Jesuit universityWaPo: The Christian home-schooler who made ‘parental rights’ a GOP rallying cry (copy)Periods
Freedom to Read: A chronology of book bans from 259 BC to the present.1954 through 1960s: violent opposition to desegregation (copy)[7] Financial conflicts of interest in right-wing ideologically driven policies
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UNESCO study on edu privatization questions claims of effectiveness2013: Jeb Bush's FL edu privatization: back door for private contracts for public money2019 Esquire article: Housing Migrants Is a For-Profit Business. Members of Congress Are Doing Their Part.Center for American Progress: Private sector companies are driving immigrant detention2013 MIC article: For-profit conflict of interest in privatizing schools2017: NEPC interviews Dr. Preston Green on conflict of interest behaviors and business structures in privatized edu2017 NEA study shows school privatization on the rise despite dubious results2016: FL county schools taken over by private charter schoolsDoes Privatization Serve the Public Interest?
by John B. Goodman and Gary W. Loveman2015: NYT story on Jeb Bush's post-governor revolving-door business careerThe educational lobbying industry in FloridaOpen Secrets: Private prison industry pivots to immigrant detentionOpen Secrets: articles on for-profit educationWaPo: The Christian home-schooler who made ‘parental rights’ a GOP rallying cry[8]Organized opposition to civil rights
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1973: Trump firm charged in race-based housing discrimination1915: Revival of Ku Klux Klan1921: The Burning of Black Wall Street1950s culture wars: right-wing group
The John Birch Society promoted "alt facts"
and conspiraciesPeriods
1960s: Civil Rights movement, voting rights, desegregation1962-1976: Career of AL gov and Pres candidate George Wallace:
opponent of civil rights1950s-present: Organized resistance to racial justice reform1954 through 1960s: violent opposition to desegregation1940s-present: Suppression of labor[4] Elections: US, Latin America, present and historical context
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2022 article: A Constellation of Anti-Voting Groups Threaten DemocracyBrennan Center debunks claims of widespread voter fraud2023: The Guardian: Dark money pushes election denialismThe conservative Heritage Foundation publishes a misleading "database" of voter fraud2023: AP: An Iowa GOP official's wife is charged with 52 counts of voter fraud in congressional race2022: AP: State GOP-backed ‘election integrity’ units find few voter fraud cases after midterms2023: Ecuador: Four Keys to Understanding What is Happening in Ecuador, By María Paula RomoComparing the election process in Mexico and the US2023: Mexico: HRW report says that AMLO's constitutional proposal undermines elections2023: NYT: Mexico Hobbles Election Agency That Helped End One-Party Rule[10] Violence attributable to racial, ethnic, religious, nationalist sentiment
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1987: David Koresh leads Waco cult1993: Waco siege. Koresh dies1995: Oklahoma City Federal building bombed in support of the Waco cult1927: Fred Trump arrested in KKK riot1963-present: Attacks and bombings vs minority communities9/11/2001: from national unity to xenophobia2021: NPR: A timeline of how the Jan. 6 attack unfolded — including who said what and when2023: The Guardian: Racially motivated shooting in Jacksonville, FLPeriods
2023: US DOJ statistics on hate crime, classified by motivation and other parameters2022: UMD study shows that right wing org violence is the more deadly in the USGrouping
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