Showing posts with label hate speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hate speech. Show all posts
Saturday, October 29, 2022

Reports About Twitter after Musk Acquisition

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Microphone photo by Taoheedah, Wikimedia Commons   1.  Heather Cox Richardson reports  about what's happening at Twitter after Musk acqu...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

I Refuse to Hate: People of Faith Challenge GOP Racism, or What's Wrong with the U.S. Catholic Bishops?!

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Chris Morley comments on Bilgrimage,
Monday, September 18, 2017

Father James Martin, SJ, on What LGBTQ Folks Experience at Hands of Many Catholics: "The Level of Hate, Personal Attacks and Homophobia Is Breathtaking"

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Brian Roewe , "Fr. James Martin in social media fray over LGBT conversation": 
Friday, July 7, 2017

As I'm Interviewed by National Project Collecting Stories of LGBTQ Pioneers, Thinking About "Humorless Puzzle" of Hate

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I'm to be interviewed tomorrow by folks from a national project collecting stories of what the project calls "LGBTQ pioneers...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Tipping Over into Something "So Dark, So Real, So Evil That There Was Really No Precedent for It in Terms of Its All-Encompassing Possibilities for Death"

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From the news and news commentary in the past day or so: read these snippets as a unified narrative, and the question arises, If I had ...
Friday, November 25, 2016

Readers Ask: How Do We Live in a World or Church with No Connection to Evil? My Response: I'm Saying, "No More. Not in My Name Any Longer"

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Neil Gabler, " And So It Begins: Normalizing the Election "* Thank you all for your responses to my last posting. Since t...
Monday, November 21, 2016

What "Pro-Life" White Christian Voters Have Brought Us: Shouts of "Heil the People!" As National Registry of Muslims Is Mulled Over

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Seig heil! ✋ pic.twitter.com/FhuFuZq6Sc — Tila Tequila (@AngelTilaLove) November 19, 2016 This is my own running chronicle of what...

As Trump Presidency Is Normalized in Mainstream and Religious Media, Attempts Underway to Sanitize White Evangelical, White Catholic, Mormon Vote for Trump

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The attempt to normalize Donald Trump and his presidency is well underway, and anyone following the trajectory of the mainstream (and...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

As White U.S. Christians Go to Church Today . . . .

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Lauren Markoe at Religion News Service   Another scrapbook item (above) to show the next generation when they ask (and they will  ask...
Saturday, November 12, 2016

Quote for Day: "Deny Them That 'We' — That Vast and Inclusive Plural"

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How do we fight back now? Fred Clark's suggestion , as a white evangelical Christian who moves against the pro-Trump tide of his whit...

Media Now Begin Noticing Outpouring of Acts of Hate and Violence Against Minorities After Trump Election: "People from All Types of Communities" Targeted

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Sadly, the documenting continues, and becomes ever more difficult, because the acts of hatred unleashed by this election are proliferati...
Friday, November 11, 2016

"All This and More, in Just 36 hours, at the Time of Writing, in Trumpland": Our Moral Obligation to Document Outpouring of Hate Speech and Hateful Acts in Trump's New America

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Middle school students in Royal Oak, Michigan chanting "Build The Wall!" pic.twitter.com/38vcnN9mnk — Philip Lewis (@Phil_Lew...

Reports from Every Corner of the Nation of Verbal or Physical Attacks on Members of Vulnerable Minority Communities: What the White Christian Vote Has Wrought

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John Pavlovitz, " White Christians Who Voted for Donald Trump: Fix This. Now ." Look, I don't know if I'm doing muc...
Friday, September 2, 2016

Note to Readers: Hoping to Catch Up Soon, Enjoying Your Lively Conversation About Online Trolling — And About Our Obligation to Push Back Against Hate Speech

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I'm away on a short jaunt, dear readers, and may not catch up with my task of acknowledging your welcome comments (or with my blo...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

National Catholic Reporter Announces It Will Restrict Its Commenting Services, Due to "Dramatic Increase in Trolls and Disruptive Comments"

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Last week, I pointed you to some valuable (and worrisome) commentary about how trolls are trashing open discussion spaces online and...
Friday, August 26, 2016

The Alt-Right and Donald Trump's Campaign: A Brief Primer

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As Charles Pierce wrote yesterday, this is "the week everyone in America started saying 'alt-right.' " As a service to...
Monday, June 27, 2016

Pope Francis: Gay People Should Be Respected, Accompanied Pastorally, and Apologized to by the Church

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If you can't understand how the church has marginalized the LGBT community, then you've not been listening to the LGBT community. ...
Sunday, June 12, 2016

Twitter Comments on Mass Shooting at Gay Nightclub in Orlando: "2nd Most Fatal Shooting by Single Shooter in World History"

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This is the 2nd most fatal shooting by single shooter in world history, 2nd to Norway 2011: https://t.co/cYcYyqMyx8 https://t.co/69rHGopC...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Footnote to a Footnote: Fixation on Homosexuality in Discussions of Catholic Abuse Crisis, and Questions About Hate Speech

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I'll admit to you all a frustration bordering on peevishness at the way many people in religious circles seem inclined to turn pl...
Friday, January 22, 2016

Footnote to Discussion of St. John's Abbey Story: NCR Thread Filling Up with Homophobic Charges That Catholic Abuse Crisis Is Rooted in Homosexuality

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A footnote about what I posted earlier today regarding the documents just made public by St. John's Benedictine Abbey in Minnes...