[Xmca-l] Re: FW: Unbelievable: number 19th strain according to Fox News?

[Greg Thompson]

Perhaps I should have posted this to a new thread?
(Also, I didn’t see Bonnies post that Ed replied to. Maybe things are still
getting worked out with the server?).

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 3:46 PM Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> One local cultural-historical question, perhaps relevant to this list
> serve, is Raised by the fact that in the US there are large numbers of
> people who are complicit with Trump's tyranny. And it seems that there is
> no reasoning with them; anything other than what Trump says is presumed to
> be #fakenews (and, of course, there are enough examples of bad reporting
> and biased coverage (#bernie) that make these claims at least partly
> credible). Add to that the fact that we live in media cocoons where we
> consume only that which is pleasing to us and I think we have the basis for
> something like a Civil War here in the U.S. (too dramatic?).
>
> I'd love to hear advice/counsel from folks who have lived through this
> kind of thing in the past. How do these things get resolved? what kinds of
> actions are needed/essential? (I heard one historian say that, historically
> speaking, it takes about 5-6 years before the magic of political charlatans
> begins to wear off - he predicted that with Trump, the reaction will be
> violent - although this would of course put that violent revival a year or
> so into Trump's second term).
>
> It seems like this list serve could be a great resource for thinking big
> about this historical moment in ways that get beyond just calling people
> names (And not to downplay the value of name-calling, it is a very common
> way of establishing in-group solidarity, but I get plenty of that on
> Facebook - in fact that's about all I get on Facebook and it seems to have
> had little, perhaps even a negative impact since it has emboldened
> Trumpistas even more to point out how intolerant and ignorant liberals are!
> (and to be sure, Trumpistas are a whiny lot!)).
>
> Anyway, I love CHAT’s long view of thinking about social historical
> processes across the long Duree and how our present moment fits into this
> so that we can try to answer the question: What is to be done? (Isn’t that
> about what Marx was up to?).
>
> But maybe that is too big a project for a listserve? perhaps the best we
> could do is to take a look back at Marx?
>
> -greg
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 11:36 AM mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
>> There is absolutely nothing funny about the crypto fascists running this
>> government, Julian.
>> Trump is pushing towar monarchy in a fashion that might be funny if it
>> were a Gilbert and Sullivan
>> musical.
>> mike
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 2:27 PM Julian Williams <
>> julian.williams@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kellyanne *Conwa*y … I think I heard her name a while back – what a
>>> Con, Ha ha?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> But perhaps not so very funny, right?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> God help us – it all fits – and now international pandemic and the next
>>> step is to defenestrate our only World Health Organisation…
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I can’t see anything short of a massive rebellion being an appropriate
>>> response… get those idiots out of the white house?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Julian
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Subject: *Fwd: Unbelievable
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> White House counselor Kellyanne Conway falsely suggested Wednesday that
>>> there had been 18 previous strains of the novel coronavirus as she defended
>>> President Trump’s decision to suspend funding to the World Health
>>> Organization.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "This is covid-19, not covid-1, folks, and so you would think the people
>>> charged with the World Health Organization facts and figures would be on
>>> top of that,” Conway said during an interview on Fox News.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In fact, the “19” at the end of the virus’s name denotes that it was
>>> discovered in 2019, not that it is the 19th strain of the virus. At its
>>> outset, it was referred to by health officials as the “2019 novel
>>> coronavirus.”
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
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>> and distinctive method of sociology.  H.G.Wells
>>
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>>
>>
>
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