Culture Warriors category archive
Do You Believe in Magic? 0
Jessica Valenti suggests that Republicans think that women are magickal beings with mystical powers beyond masculine understanding.
Methinks she is onto something.
Then, again, mayhaps they are simply sexist nutcases.
Inquiring minds want to know.
None Dare Call It Terrorism 0
In the Charlotte Observer, Glenda Gilmore, an ex-pat North Carolinian now living in Connecticut, comments on the case of Craig Hicks, who killed three Muslim students for reasons that remain unclear.* A snippet:
Plus Ca Change 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., places Alabama Supreme Court Judge Roy Moore’s recent invocation of nullification in the face of gay marriage into context. A nugget (please read the rest):
That’s what necessitated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Freedom Rides of 1961. It’s why federal troops had to march into Little Rock in 1957. For that matter, it’s why they had to march into Richmond in 1865. The demagogues always use the same justification, always say that in denying it the right to discriminate as it sees fit, the federal government steps on the South’s “traditions.”
(snip)
Of course, “tradition” is just a smokescreen word, like “values,” “heritage,” “faith” and all the other pretty terminology opponents of marriage equality use to justify their increasingly untenable position. . . . It is, and ever has been, only about a single ugly word: bigotry. . . .
One more time, when you hear someone invoke “states’ rights,” ask, “States’ rights to do just what, precisely.”
Dollars to doughnuts you don’t get a precise answer.
Anti-Vax Facts 0
The Deseret News skewers the notion of “religious objections” to vaccinations.
But the world’s major faiths — Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism and Islam — have no explicit prohibitions against oral or injected vaccines. At times, some followers or preachers within a given religion or sect may have spoken against vaccination, but researcher John D. Grabenstein of Merck Vaccines, writing in the scientific journal Vaccine in April 2013, could find no sustained teaching against the practice in any major faith community.
According to the story, even Mary Baker Eddy said that vaccinations were okay.
“Love Thy Neighbor” 0
Yeah. Right.
The Dallas Voice reported that Stone’s husband, Jay Hoskins, has been trying to find a place to memorialize his partner since Stone’s death on January 19.
These folks must worship some Jesus I never heard of.
On the Stupidity of Anti-Vaxxers 0
When the Salk vaccine against poleo became available, my parents hied me to the doctor immediately because we had seen too many pictures like this on our telly vision.
We are a society awash in stupid.
There’s an App for That 0
If you have ever wondered whether they are only in it for the money, well, yes, at least some of them are.
“It’s My Party and I’ll Cry If I Want To” 0
Chauncey Devega cuts to the Chait about those who moan that there is too much “political correctness.”
Do read the rest.
Afterthought:
The dirty little secret of the “anti-PC” crowd is this:
They want to be rude and crude, by Heavens, your feelings be damned. If they hurt your feelings, it must be your own damned fault for having feelings.