Trumpland, MA: A little cyberbullying at East Boston High School

Don't use abbreviations. Even in the day of Twitter abbreviations are best left in the dictionary when writing. While there are common abbreviations such as A.M. and P.M., BCE and CE, an abbreviation such as FFS is not common enough. If you're too lazy to write out the words then perhaps just don't write anything.

When I was a teenager listening to my anti-Black and anti-Jewish relatives I mistakenly mentioned that when they paint an entire group of people with a negative broad stroke they are speaking evil. I wasn't smart enough to understand that the words were evil but the point was painting a entire group of people with a single brush relegates human beings to objects. Objects which can be disposed of as though they were trash.

So painting a broad stroke with a word that sadly has taken on a negative meaning - liberal - relegates a large group of people to objects which can be disposed of as though they were trash.

That is one of the first albeit innocuous seeming steps toward a monolithic homogenous culture that attempts to wipe out anyone who varies from a singular form of acceptable thinking or belief. Which ironically is something that many (not all certainly) politicians and commentators who describe themselves as conservative (their word but the accuracy of which I would debate) often say about those damn "liberals."

So instead of trying to objectify and dehumanize "liberals" try to use a few more words and focus what you're saying. Because calling one group "liberals" or another group "those Jews" just makes you, an individual writer, sound like a mean nasty cus.

Anyway the truest conservatives are usually of a political and social liberal perspective. They are the ones who want to conserve instead of destroy the environment. They are the ones who want to conserve the fundamental values inherent to the concepts of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people. They are concerned with understanding the truth of human nature and the world we live in. They are the people who are most concerned with conserving intelligent, thoughtful, reflective thought, consideration and speech.

As for witch hunts the literal and metaphorical witch hunts in this culture have always come from the people who would call themselves conservative. Joe McCarthy in the Senate and the House Committee on Un-American Activities together being example one. Writing of witch hunts reminds me that I read that Newt "adulterer while wife is dying" Gingrich wanted to use the Orlando mass shooting as an excuse to start another HUAC. But Newt is smart enough to understand that when you let that kind of genie out of the bottle all hell will break loose.

My guess is that Newt smells fear and strife in the air and figures his way back to power is by taking down political opponents. Start a witch hunt, twist it to some definition of "un-American" that attacks his political enemies and with that start slinging mud and creating enough havoc that he and his cohorts come out with little political competition and wind up being the pipers who tell everyone else how to walk lockstep.

The lefties were all set to channel their rage into the government agencies they thought for sure they were going to win control of. They didn't, so they've found a new target: "Trumpland." It's annoying, but it's a known quantity.

You take that away from them, what sort of troublemaking will they get up to next?

If you don't think that bullying women wearing scarves and spraying swastikas on temples and houses of jews is a crime, I guess you would think that.

Two recent hoaxes in MA.
http://redmassgroup.com/2016/11/hoaxland-ma/

No one has said there is a crime wave. What is reported is the increase in the number of incidents which are based upon animus against specific groups, especially anyone considered an immigrant (legal or not). An interesting example of these incidents being against immigrants was the verbal abuse of a Puerto Rican person who was told to go back their country. The person is told to go back to their country because they appeared to be an immigrant. It didn't matter that the person was born in the United States, specifically Puerto Rico. What mattered is that they appeared to be an immigrant.

The attacks based on place of origin are an honored tradition for diverting attention away from the economic structural problems and social problems of the nation. Attacks against immigrants as the nation endured the upheavals of the Industrial Revolution, or was absorbing the millions of European immigrants during the early 20th century, were accepted methods of avoiding understanding and dealing with major issues. Examples were the problems created by overburdened cities, recessions and depressions (e.g., the Depression of the 1870s), the wave of family violence caused by cheap alcohol (leading to the 18th Amendment), the assumption that Americans of German ancestry were automatically untrustworthy during WWI and worst, violating Japanese-Americans of their rights by imprisoning them for no reason other than being Japanese during WWII. This list of course does not include the greatest sins of the United States, slavery, and the near genocide of first and native Americans, and how those sins fit into the of the pattern of a nation ruled by people who want a society that is only white, Protestant, heterosexual, capitalist (e.g., puts greed above the common good), where men are in charge and women are subservient, etc.

To apply the term crime wave follows a similar tradition of diverting a discussion by using a term that is tangentially and indirectly related to the discussion but in reality diverts the discussion to a non-existent problem. These incidents of bigotry are not characterized as a crime wave of the sort that Mafia of old or gangs of the present would engage in, what otherwise would known as a war among criminals. Rather they are identified as the behaviors of individuals, not organized as in organized crime, who feel emboldened to express in irrational, purposely offensive, sometimes threatening and even illegal actions. Individuals acting on their own, not organized criminals causing a crime wave.

Good try at railroading the discussion but the attempt failed.

Racially-targeted sentiments which tell students to kill themselves isn't bullying? Well then, carry on..