Conservapedia

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File this under the “poor poor pitiful Conservative Christians.” We live in a country that is overwhelmingly Christian by almost any measure, and yet these bozos are constantly complaining about the so-called anti-Christian bias they see behind every tree.

(Granted, by one measure we have gone from 86% to 77% self-identified Christian in the last decade or so. Something must be leaving a bad taste in folks’ mouths.)

Still, that is a pretty high concentration of Christians and it seems unlikely that the the 23% who do not identify as Christians just happen to be the most influential and powerful voices. It seems obvious that a small proportion of well organized and well funded right-wing Christian groups have created effective media campaigns to serve their needs.

One need, apparently, is to propagate this wacky sense of persecution. Our media is freakishly concentrated in just a few corporate conglomerates and yet these same groups also see liberal bias all over the media. Katie Couric is, apparently, some sort of communist. Now, apparently, they have found these same problems in Wikipedia, of all places, and in response created their own wiki-encyclopedia, which they call Conservapedia.

Just what we need: a ‘public encyclopedia’ in which racism is over, immigrants are swamping our public health and educational resources, and global warming is just Al Gore’s public relations stunt. Of course, they are too chicken to allow full open editing: you have to create an account, and I imagine they will vet participants carefully.

They certainly don’t want to encourage that (sometimes) contentious debate nonsense. That’s a little too democratic, too Wikipedia. I wonder if they do some sort of political litmus test on you, like Gonzales with his Prosecutors.

Posted in: Language, Online Places, Writing

Card Check

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Because it is very difficult for workers to form a union by going through the NRLB election process, the UAW and other unions now use an alternative technique known as “card-check recognition.” Under card check, the employer voluntarily agrees to recognize the union if the union presents signed union authorization cards from a majority of workers. In most instances, the authorization cards are validated by an outside person, such as an arbitrator or religious leader.

from the UAW’s Labor Law

Here’s another reform that seems minor to most– except those who don’t want workers to have any power– but that might make a huge difference in shifting the balance of power away from corporations. It’s also an example of how large-scale changes in the world– the decline in unionization in the United States– can be dependent on very small factors.

Actually, it’s not one small factor that led to the decline of unions, but many small factors. Among the most important, though, you would have to include the myriad of ways that it became increasingly difficult and complex to vote for a union at your workplace. As usual with the right wing, this ongoing attack on the things ordinary people need and want– good wages, health care, freedom of speech– is couched in the usual Orwellian patriotism.

The idea, generally, is that the less organized we are the more powerful we become. War is peace, too. Card check laws try to turn that around in a small way. Keep an eye on the (unfortunately named) Employee Free Choice Act, which, if it passes, might be a sign that things are turning a bit away from the bosses.

Posted in: Economics, Union, Writing