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Denigrating the needy
In this entry here Respectful of Otters muses about the trouble that those who operate from just world hypothesis have with images of undeserved suffering, such as we saw with Katrina. In order to remedy the cognitive dissonance, some resort to tarring the victims of Katrina as deserving the suffering.
Read the entry. Respectful of Otters closes by pointing to a particularly nasty piece on Snopes here. Read it and reflect upon those who insist that racism had absolutely nothing to do with the abysmal response to Katrina. Ugh.
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cheshyre has pointed to some excellent posts by Digby on the role of race as related to Katrina, giving examples of Republican retoric, 1, 2, 3 and 4. (You can read the syndicated feed for this blog at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
digby2). Thanks, cheshyre.
Read the entry. Respectful of Otters closes by pointing to a particularly nasty piece on Snopes here. Read it and reflect upon those who insist that racism had absolutely nothing to do with the abysmal response to Katrina. Ugh.
Edited to add:
cheshyre has pointed to some excellent posts by Digby on the role of race as related to Katrina, giving examples of Republican retoric, 1, 2, 3 and 4. (You can read the syndicated feed for this blog at digby2). Thanks, cheshyre.