the attitude with arnie arnesen the wed edition Dec 24

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The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen

opening thoughts: Rabbi Goldsmith sends a letter to JD Vance

opening thoughts 2: Paul Waldman writes about JD Vance and white supremacy

producers: Dave Scott and Stephanie Collins

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opening thought:  

Dear Vice President Vance,

I hope you are enjoying a meaningful Christmas season with your family. I know that your Catholic faith is important to you. My family and congregation have just concluded Chanukah, a holiday that celebrates freedom and faith - values you often speak about with conviction.

It was recently reported that, while speaking at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference, you said, “The only thing that has truly served as an anchor of the United States of America is that we have been, and by the grace of God we always will be, a Christian nation.”

As a rabbi and as a citizen, I was disappointed by this statement. One of the ideas that has allowed Jews and other religious minorities to flourish in America is the understanding that our national identity is civic rather than religious, and that full belonging does not depend on adherence to any one faith. Describing the United States as a Christian nation explicitly excludes Jews and all others who are not Christian.

There is so much that unites us as Americans, that we can elevate as the bonds of our national identity. Why rely on rhetoric that is exclusionary or historically inaccurate? The statement you made places Jews outside a nation that we love, serve, and proudly call home.

I remain committed to working with all of my fellow citizens, including those with whom I disagree, in pursuit of a more perfect union. But at a moment when Jews feel increasingly isolated, it matters deeply to know that our Vice President sees us as fully part of this great nation and is willing to stand with us as such.

Respectfully,

Rabbi Howard J. Goldsmith

part one: 

Beyond the Politics of Contempt
Practical Steps to Build Positive Relationships in Divided Times
by Doug Teschner, Beth Malow and Becky Robinson

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Dr. Douglass Teschner is a proven, results-oriented leader, mentor, trainer, and coach who embraces challenge, integrates vision with a passion for excellence, and inspires a higher level of professional performance.  He has a depth of US and international experience in nonprofits, business, and state and federal governments, with a passion for developing leaders and building effective teams and organizations. Dr. Teschner also authors the Growing Leadership column in the New Hampshire Business Review.

Beyond the Politics of Contempt offer practical steps for addressing the nation’s challenges, including:
1. Creating greater self-awareness about how reactions to political events may impact your health and well-being, and realizing how you can act in ways that can help you feel better and more in control.
2. Finding ways to mend relationships torn apart by politics -- to empower yourself and others when difficult conversations arise.
3. Understanding how to stand up for what you believe while also building bridges across the political divide.
4. Identifying actions you can apply to help build a national culture of kindness, dignity, and respect.

part two race class:

opening thoughts part two:

Paul Waldman is a liberal American op-ed columnist and senior writer for The American Prospect, as well as a contributor to The Week and a blogger for The Washington Post's Plum Line blog

https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/why-jd-vance-cant-ride-whiteness:

Why JD Vance Can't Ride Whiteness to the White House

The battle for the future of the Republican Party is underway — or at least the battle to determine who will lead it in 2028. As vice president, JD Vance has the inside track, but he knows the field will not clear for him. So he is working hard to articulate a vision, to define himself and the country he wishes to lead. That vision, articulated in a series of speeches and interviews over the last year and a half, is one of naked white supremacy and ethnonationalism.

The good news is that Vance is a terrible messenger for this hateful ideology, and his chances of taking it to the Oval Office are extremely slim. The bad news is that there is clearly a sizable market for it within the Republican Party. Speaking Sunday at the annual Turning Point USA conference known as “AmericaFest,” Vance had a message for the assembled herrenvolk: White pride is back, baby!

“I refuse to apologize for being white” has long been a mantra of segregationists and Klansmen, an outgrowth of the fear that any sort of equality for racial minorities — legal, economic, educational — by definition meant putting whites in a subservient position, forced to hang their heads and apologize. Equality is perceived to be a reversal of the racial hierarchy: If we’re not in a state of privilege, free to abuse our lessers, then it can only mean we are being abused.

So who exactly has been demanding that JD Vance apologize for being white? Has that ever happened to him, a single time? Of course not. But this is a key element of Trumpism, of which Vance would like to be the heir: You have been humiliated, it says, but I will let you stand tall again. You, white people — and especially white men — have been hounded and oppressed, but those days are finally over. He thinks naked white supremacy will make him president. He's almost certainly wrong.

our monthly class with jonathan feingold race class

--Legislation restricting the teaching of race and racism in public schools and government entities has spread across the country. In an effort to respond, Boston University Law Professor Jonathan Feingold and The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen (a radio show are offering "Race Class" - a once a month course/conversation where listeners can hear what it is like to approach race and racism from a place of curiosity and history rather than fear and anxiety. 

#RaceClass Ep. 51 | Trump Makes Whiteness Great Again

 

Arnie and Jon discuss JD Vance’s openly white supremacist screed at last week’s Turning Point USA conference “AmericaFest.” Alongside remarks defending racist speech, Vance proclaimed that “In the United States of America you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.” As others have observed, this language invokes white supremacists from the past century – including leading southern Klansmen. Vance’s comments followed the Department of Justice eliminating disparate impact liability from its civil rights enforcement and the EEOC asking white men to file discrimination complaints when they feel victimized by DEI. It’s increasingly hard to deny that segregation is the goal. Beyond putting everyone in their “place,” the Trump regime wants to normalize all of the hate-filled and empirical fraught racial and gender tropes that rationalized pre-civil rights America.

https://bsky.app/profile/nancylevinestearns.bsky.social/post/3maj7gxqqss2l

 

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