Arlene Stein
@ajoystein
Sociologist thinking and writing about authoritarianism, democracy, LGBTQ issues, feminism. Author of The Stranger Next Door, Unbound, other books. Child of immigrants. Never Again for Anyone. #KnittyGrittyJC
If you find yourself in Coimbra, Portugal on May 11, I’ll be speaking about why Americans know so little about the history of our own fascist movements.
Hannah Arendt's account of the rise of totalitarianism describes the usurpation of government by private interests (from Samantha Rose Hill, Hannah Arendt, Reaktion, 2021).
@theguardian.com thank you for getting the crowd numbers right. Our newspaper of record @nytimes.com reported "thousands" marched. Stop marginalizing the resistance!
Speaking our minds at the Labor Day picnic in @JerseyCity Heights. Organized by #KnittyGrittyJC #Indivisible
Pictured: a bunch of wealthy old white men celebrating about taking rights and healthcare away from everyone else.
@nytimes.com buries the mass protests, understating their numbers and significance. Thank you @theguardian.com for better understanding the scale of the resistance in the US and beyond.
I’m among 2,000+ Jewish faculty members signing on to this letter in support of free speech and the right to dissent.
Notice how the NYT buries the facts under mealy-mouth headlines? They speak of Trump's "contradictions" but then in the subhead: his "shifting positions and outright lies." The lies should be in the headline.
We visited Sen. Andy Kim’s office today and encouraged him to block future Trump nominees until Musk forced to exit government. #KnittyGrittyJC
But the liberal response, which tried to convince people to "live and let live," was inadequate. Folks were searching for security.
I described the impacts of economic uncertainty on a logging community and how sexual "others" became an unlikely target for people's anger.