Sister Sage's Musings » authoritarianism http://sistersagesmusings.ca Center-left blog from Canadians across the country and beyond Wed, 26 Jun 2013 03:36:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 Red state authoritarianism gone wild: Texas teen jailed for missing school http://sistersagesmusings.ca/2012/05/26/red-state-authoritarianism-gone-wild-texas-teen-jailed-for-missing-school/ http://sistersagesmusings.ca/2012/05/26/red-state-authoritarianism-gone-wild-texas-teen-jailed-for-missing-school/#comments Sat, 26 May 2012 23:47:04 +0000 Jymn http://sistersagesmusings.ca/?p=12456

This is what the US would be like with the new far-right Tea Party Republican party in charge. Canada under Harper is not that far off, either.

Red state authoritarianism, when combined with barely-veiled racism, is the new black (emphasis mine).

A Houston-area teenager has been jailed and fined for missing school by a judge who hopes . . . → Read More: Red state authoritarianism gone wild: Texas teen jailed for missing school]]> http://sistersagesmusings.ca/2012/05/26/red-state-authoritarianism-gone-wild-texas-teen-jailed-for-missing-school/feed/ 1 Some of My Worst Fears Are Starting to Materialize http://sistersagesmusings.ca/2011/05/06/some-of-my-worst-fears-are-starting-to-materialize/ http://sistersagesmusings.ca/2011/05/06/some-of-my-worst-fears-are-starting-to-materialize/#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 19:53:10 +0000 ck http://sistersagesmusings.ca/?p=7864 I always knew something like this would happen sooner or later. 

Looks like we’re on our way to criminalized dissent.

Thanks, Fern Hill,  one of the good people at Dammit Janet who gets that Stevie Spiteful is anything but mainstream, for your good work and research, as usual.

]]> http://sistersagesmusings.ca/2011/05/06/some-of-my-worst-fears-are-starting-to-materialize/feed/ 2 New shiny object: the word “barbaric” http://sistersagesmusings.ca/2011/03/16/new-shiny-object-the-word-barbaric/ http://sistersagesmusings.ca/2011/03/16/new-shiny-object-the-word-barbaric/#comments Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:20:42 +0000 Orwell's Bastard http://sistersagesmusings.ca/?p=6975 Oh dear. Justin Trudeau seems to have made a boo-boo – er, gotten tangled up in the semantic weeds (Cue the Jesus Facepalm).

Watch as the Conservative Attack ParrotsTM crank up the squawking and the national conversation gets sidetracked into a giant foofaraw about honour killings.

How convenient. Another chance to spout off about cultural relativism, blow the . . . → Read More: New shiny object: the word “barbaric”]]> http://sistersagesmusings.ca/2011/03/16/new-shiny-object-the-word-barbaric/feed/ 0