Monday, December 17, 2018

Age of Rage: Five Possible Reasons for Our Current Madness | Intellectual Takeout

Age of Rage: Five Possible Reasons for Our Current Madness | Intellectual Takeout
Age of Rage: Five Possible Reasons for Our Current Madness"How did we arrive at a point in our history where gangs of hecklers chase politicians from restaurants, where senate hearings have lost all decorum, where family members and friends part ways over politics?
Every day brings new examples of incivility and violence. 
In the last twenty-four hours, I have casually browsed several sites online. 

  • Here was a professor advocating castration for white Republicans; 
  • celebrities mocking a black singer for praising the President; 
  • strangers leaving death threats on the phones of politicians, judges, and their families; anonymous callers phoning in false accusations of rape; 
  • some wicked soul mailing the poison ricin to a Republican senator and to officials at the Pentagon..."
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