bigotry

Israel’s Apartheid versus South Africa’s Apartheid: The U.S. Congress is more unanimously supportive of Israel’s apartheid than it was of South Africa’s.

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) On Wednesday, July 19th, the Asian-American Sharon Zhang headlined “Only 9 House Reps Vote Against Resolution Denying Israeli Apartheid” and reported that on the prior day, the U.S. House passed 412 to 9 “a resolution vowing perpetual allyship with Israel and denying the country’s apartheid against Palestinians.” Zhang wrote: In […]

The APA’s Apology for Racism Omits Psychiatry’s Essential Bigotry

In 2021, the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the guild of U.S. psychiatrists, acknowledged its history of racism. However, it is difficult to imagine how psychiatry will ever acknowledge that its entire edifice is built on a fundamental bigotry. Bigotry is defined by Merriam-Webster as: “obstinate or intolerant devotion to one’s own opinions and prejudices.” Racism […]

Only nazis support Israel now.

Eric Zuesse A nazi is any racist-fascist, in any country, not MERELY a supporter of Germany’s (long-illegal) Nazi Party; it’s instead an ideology, just as is fascism itself. Italy’s fascist Party was the Fascists (with a capital-F), and Germany’s racist-fascist Party was the Nazis (also with a capital-N; but the ideology isn’t restricted to only […]

How Bigotry Weakens a Country

Eric Zuesse One of the most profoundly revealing Web-pages is https://news.gallup.com/poll/1642/russia.aspx, which shows how remarkably fast the public’s opinion of a foreign country — in that case, of Americans’ opinions of both Russia (at here) and also China (at here) — change when a Government’s and its ‘news’ (or propaganda) media change their terminologies and […]

The Stupidity of Russia’s Legislated Hetosexuality

Eric Zuesse Legislating heterosexuality is laws that impose penalties for being or publicly expressing non-coercive or “mutually consensual” sexuality of other than the heterosexual type. Such laws can affect lots of people — especially young people, and here is why we know that they hit especially the young: On 16 August 2015, Britain’s YouGov polling […]