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'Intolerant Liberals'
Tucker FitzGerald | medium.com
Feb 2, 2017I have some difficult news for everyone: Progressives aren’t interested in diversity. We aren’t interested in inclusion. We aren’t interested in tolerance. The progressives I know give exactly zero shits about those things.
We have no interest in everyone getting treated the same. We have no interest in giving all ideas equal airtime. We have no interest in “tolerating” all beliefs. I don’t know where this fairy tale comes from, but it’s completely disconnected from every experience I’ve had with progressive liberal folks in my lifetime.
When conservatives cross their arms and glare and shout “It’s not fair! You’re supposed to welcome everyone but you aren’t being nice to me!” it stings about as much as if they shouted, “It’s not fair, you’re supposed to be wearing tutus and juggling flaming donuts!”
The progressive liberal agenda isn’t about being nice. It’s about confronting evil, violence, trauma, and death. It’s about acknowledging the ways systemic power, systemic oppression, systemic evil, work in our world around us. I’m not fighting for diversity. I’m not fighting for tolerance. I’m fighting to overturn horrific systems of dehumanizing oppression.
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The moral bankruptcy of the evangelical movement
Frank Schaeffer | March 13, 2018
According to Jerry Falwell Jr., evangelicals have “found their dream president,” in Trump. That says something about the current quality of evangelical “dreams” not to mention character and beliefs. Whatever evangelicals are these days, they aren’t Christians.
In covering for and enabling Trump, evangelical leaders including Dobson, Falwell, Graham, Jeffress, Metaxas, Perkins and Ralph Reed are doing to decency what Hugh Hefner did to modesty 50 years ago. Dobson, Falwell, Graham, Jeffress, Metaxas, Perkins, Reed are the new pornographers.
Evangelical “morals” look more like Hugh Hefner’s late great Hefner Mansion parties than church these days. Trump’s white evangelicals have made a national joke of moral standards that were once, theoretically, deeply held. White evangelical Trump-enablers are just another tribal group among many fighting for power at the expense of others. This is not a religious movement any longer but a coup against even the idea of transcendent meaning.
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According to Jerry Falwell Jr., evangelicals have “found their dream president,” in Trump. That says something about the current quality of evangelical “dreams” not to mention character and beliefs. Whatever evangelicals are these days, they aren’t Christians.
In covering for and enabling Trump, evangelical leaders including Dobson, Falwell, Graham, Jeffress, Metaxas, Perkins and Ralph Reed are doing to decency what Hugh Hefner did to modesty 50 years ago. Dobson, Falwell, Graham, Jeffress, Metaxas, Perkins, Reed are the new pornographers.
Evangelical “morals” look more like Hugh Hefner’s late great Hefner Mansion parties than church these days. Trump’s white evangelicals have made a national joke of moral standards that were once, theoretically, deeply held. White evangelical Trump-enablers are just another tribal group among many fighting for power at the expense of others. This is not a religious movement any longer but a coup against even the idea of transcendent meaning.
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