Culture Warriors category archive
The Void 0
At NJ.com, a woman describes witnessing first-hand an outburst of hatred against an aged man of Asian descent. It is quite appalling. But, in her article, I think she may have gotten to a nugget of truth:
Follow the link and read the rest.
Deformation 0
I was raised Southern Baptist, back when the Southern Baptist Convention was a Protestant denomination, before it became a political cult.
Aside:
I will say that the little Southern Baptist church in which I grew up did very much its own thing (a central Baptist tenet is priesthood of the believer–the other is baptism of the believer–and in accordance thereunto believers sometimes choose to ignore the hierarchy). They were quite willing to ignore the SBC if they thought it was, as my old boss used to say, in error.
I remember that, after I was well into adulthood (at least, chronologically) and had long since moved away in search of gainful employment, a black couple from up North (as we used to say) moved into the area, sampled many churches, black and white, and eventually joined the little all-white church that I grew up in as being the one where they felt most comfortable.
And the congregation was proud that they did.
When I last had contact with that church, they were still going their own way.
Campus Cancel Culture, Republican Style 0
Will Bunch reports who’s actually doing the cancelling on campuses.
They Can’t Handle the Truth . . . 0
. . . so they want to make it go away.
Vaccine Nation 0
Vaccination rates vary widely across the country, threatening the chance to control COVID-19, as misinformation continues to spread like, well, a pandemic.
Why an I not surprised?
Suffer the Children 0
There is a crisis at the southwestern border of the United States, but it’s not the one that right-wingers and Fox News portray.
Mean for the Sake of Mean Money
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LZ Granderson takes a look at what’s behind the recent spate of legislation to ban transgender children (which, I would point out, is a miniscule minority of the populace) from participating in school sports and concludes it’s all about the Benjamins. An excerpt (emphasis added):
The real sick thing about all of this is that we have state legislatures willing to hurt democracy, dismiss mental health, even target elementary school children all in an effort to mobilize and monetize the country’s prejudices and worst fears.
The Tattletale 0
Words fail me.
Allaying America’s Amnesia 0
At The Roanoke Times, John Freivalds looks back on some oft overlooked dates in American history.
American Taliban 0
Thom’s guest discusses the cultural similarities between American white supremacists and Muslim extremists.
Selective Breeding 0
Elizabeth Catte discusses the history and legacy of eugenics in the United States with Sam and his crew.
This is a longer video than I usually post, but it is well worth a listen. As the discussion points out, we have a way of covering up forgetting covering up the uncomfortable parts of our history.
You can see the dynamic today in the attempts by right-wingers to ban critical race theory.
History Matters 0
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Tony Norman marvels at (yet more) Republicans who believe in a fairy-tale American past.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
George Santayana’s famous saying has never seemed more apt: Those who do not remember the past (or, in this case, those who would pretend the past never happened) are condemned to repeat it.
Vaccine Nation 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Paul Thagard argues forcefully that there is such a thing as the common good and that it extends to actions to protect public health. Here’s a bit of his piece: