Showing posts with label centrism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label centrism. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Kristin Du Mez's Response to Jay Green on her "Illiberal" Positions: More Nonsense from the "High Priests of White Dude (Increasingly Reactionary) Centrism"

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I am glad that Kristin Du Mez has responded con gusto to the charge of Jay Green of Covenant College that she, Jemar Tisby, Shane Claiborne...
Friday, November 25, 2022

Thomas Zimmer on the Scourge of "Both Sides" Commentary and the "High Priests of White Dude (Increasingly Reactionary) Centrism"

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A pictorial commentary on bothsidesism at Merriam-Webster's " Looking at ‘Bothsidesing’ " In a posting today entitled " T...
Monday, October 2, 2017

Back from Trip, Thinking About American Catholicism, the "Both-Sides" False Equivalency Argument, and Ethics of Survival

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I'm sorry to have been silent for a week. Steve and I spent last week in New Orleans visiting friends and family, and as we did so,...
Monday, May 2, 2016

Andrew Sullivan Breaks Silence: Democracy Is the Problem! Political Correctness Is the Problem! Liberal Smugness Is the Problem! — An Apologia for White Working-Class Support for Trump

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Andrew Sullivan has broken his long silence (after he discontinued his blog) with an essay published yesterday in New York Magazine ...
Friday, April 1, 2016

Commonweal Editorial Slams "Illiberalism" That Would Shut Down Free Speech of Trump Fans: Implications for Commonweal's Discussions of LGBTQ Lives?

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As I noted yesterday , the leading "liberal" Catholic journal in the U.S., Commonweal , has just published an editorial state...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

As Trump Unmasks Catholic Republican Voters' Complicity in Racism, Catholic Centrists Continue to Declare Discussion of Complicity in Racism Off-Limits

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A week ago, I drew readers' attention to a bold, clear statement by Anthony Annett at Commonweal  which notes the many respects...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

Krzysztof Charamsa's Letter to the Pope in English Translation: "I’ve Made the Decision to Publicly Refuse the Violence of the Church with Regard to [LBTI] People"

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Because Giova Gallagher has kindly pointed us in a comment here to an English translation of the full text of Monsignor  Krzysztof Ch...
Monday, September 28, 2015

Ezra Klein on How New Online Media Technologies Shift U.S. Political Conversation: Implications for "Pope Messiahs" and Centrist Catholic Media Gatekeepers

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This is what I mean when I keep saying repeatedly that new media made possible by online technology, as well as the tools of social n...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

As Pope Francis Arrives in U.S., Centrist Catholic Media Continue to Harp on "Balance" and Holding the Center

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As Pope Francis arrives in the U.S. to a church very bitterly divided on ideological and political grounds , the centrist Catholic...
Monday, August 10, 2015

Those Gotcha Planned Parenthood Videos Again: Where There's No Novum, There's No Spirit — On the Dead Thinking, Rhetoric, and Tactics of the Anti-Abortion Movement

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Three days ago, Colleen left a powerful comment here. She writes, 
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

The Doctored Gotcha Planned Parenthood Video and Catholic Responses to It: Some Critical Questions

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I haven't talked about that doctored gotcha video made by David Daleiden, who is in cahoots with the odious right-wing gotcha...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

A Reminder from Think Progress of What Women and Others Put Up with Online, and Ta-Nehisi Coates on How the Internet Has Opened up Cultural Conversations

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Friday, July 17, 2015

Douglas Laycock on U.S. Catholic Bishops and Marriage Equality: "Being on the Losing Side of a Revolution Can Be Very Dangerous for Churches" (the Continuing Ruse of U.S. Catholic Centrism)

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Father Thomas Reese reports today at National Catholic Reporter  that University of Virginia professor Douglas Laycock thinks ...
Tuesday, June 30, 2015

"Just Who Do We Think We Are?": Real People with Real Lives Affected (Really!) by Marriage Equality

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Every time something like this happens, somebody says we have to have a conversation about race. We talk a lot about race. There’s no sh...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Patricia Miller on Who Was Not at Georgetown Confab on Poverty, and William Greider on Recent IMF Banking Conference: Difference Women's Voices Make

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Everywhere I turn online today the news at religion and religion-and-politics websites is the recent panel discussion at Georgetown o...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Quote for Day: Odd That No One Ever Asks Rubio and Others Employing a States'-Rights Argument about Marriage Equality, Was Loving v. Virginia Wrongly Decided?

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In several postings in the past several days, I've zeroed in on the, well, odd  tendency of many centrist religious commentators ...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Ten Questions I Might Ask Centrist Religion Journalists Defending Anti-Gay "Religious Freedom" Bills

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With a nod to Mary Oliver and her poem "Some Questions You Might Ask," some questions I'd like to ask the centrist rel...
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Disreputable Racist Genealogy of Anti-Gay "Religious Liberty" Arguments and Abdication of Pastoral Responsibility by U.S. Catholic Leaders: So Much for Healing the World

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Ed Kilgore, who grew up in Georgia and knows whereof he speaks, points out that the current battle over "religious freedom" ...
Sunday, March 8, 2015

Quote for Day: Naomi Klein on Why We're Stuck with Climate Change — It's about the Economic Elite, Stranglehold, and the Fetish of Centrism

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Naomi Klein is incisive — and powerful — as she explains why the human community is unable to address climate crisis that is now thr...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

Maureen Mullarkey Strikes Again (and a Reminder About Commonweal Catholic Centrism)

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Remember Maureen Mullarkey? Sure you do! Back in 2009, when it became public that she had contributed to the prop 8 campaign to strip...