“To see classics the way Padilla sees it means breaking the mirror; it means condemning the classical legacy as one of the most harmful stories we’ve told ourselves.”
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“Classics and whiteness are the bones and sinew of the same body; they grew strong together, and they may have to die together.”
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“This past semester, he co-taught a course, with the Activist Graduate School, called ‘Rupturing Tradition,’ which pairs ancient texts with critical race theory and strategies for organizing.”
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“I think that the politics of the living are what constitute classics as a site for productive inquiry,” he told me. “When folks think of classics, I would want them to think about folks of color.”
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“But if classics fails his test, Padilla and others are ready to give it up. ‘I would get rid of classics altogether,’ Walter Scheidel, another of Padilla’s former advisers at Stanford, told me. ‘I don’t think it should exist as an academic field.’”
Madness.
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Just reading a biblical scholar arguing that God's command for Israel to destroy the Canaanites cannot be excused or justified. In other words, God was WRONG in Deut. 20:16, and the Israelites were WRONG to obey Him.
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I'm not going to explain the ethics of the conquest of the Holy Land in a twitter thread. Rest assured, however, that Christianity does account for it. Even though our understanding is often very difficult for modern readers, it is coherent. E.g., ca.thegospelcoalition.org/columns/ad-fon…
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One thing I will point out, however. Christian theology takes it as axiomatic that God is good. He never does anything wrong. If your explanation of the conquest of Canaan begins with "we cannot excuse or justify" what God has done, you are no longer doing CHRISTIAN theology.
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“For most of human history, after all, families across the Western world were defined in largely biblical terms: one man, one woman, with children conceived through sex and sanctified by marriage. Everyone else was just a bastard.”
/1 nytimes.com/2020/08/12/opi…
“I.V.G. could allow individuals like our fictional Anna and Nicole to manufacture their own eggs and sperm... enabling more than two people to create a child together. And in the process, our basic notion of families is liable to get upended as well.”
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“If the techniques of I.V.G. prove feasible, therefore... A single woman, for example, might mix her egg with sperm fashioned from the genetic material of her two best male friends; the resulting child would have three genetic parents.”
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"Debates about nationalism versus assimilation figure prominently in current discourse about race. One strand of critical race theory energetically backs the nationalist view..."
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"Derrick Bell, for example, urged his fellow African Americans to foreswear the struggle for school integration and aim for building the best possible black schools..."
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"Nationalists honor ethnic studies and history as vital disciplines and look with skepticism on members of their groups who date, marry, or form close friendships with whites or seek employment in white-dominated workplaces or industries."
This is the only "hair band" song on the list, but there is no "hair band" song more 80's than this one. Proof? Its prominence in the "Ready Player One" movie trailer.
#4 - "True" by Spandau Ballet
You get 100 points if you can tell me what classic 80's movie this track was a part of. Two-hundred points if you can name the scene. Three-Hundred if you can name the Disney movie a cover version appeared in. No Googling.
#3 - "Time after Time" by Cyndi Lauper
This song still holds up, and that's why so many bands have covered it over the years. My favorite cover version is probably the one by QuietDrive: .
This article in the Louisville Courier-Journal is really disturbing.
Protesters are demanding that Louisville business owners submit to their demands, which include undergoing "diversity training" and admitting their complicity in gentrification.
The protesters have created a "Social Justice Rating System" for downtown businesses. The ratings tell whether or not a business is conforming to the "NuLu Social Justice Health & Wellness Code." (I have looked online for this code, but can't find it.)
Businesses can be rated either A-"ally", C-"complicit", or F-"failed".
An A-rating is a business that supports "black liberation" and that "meets the requirements of the NuLu Social Justice Health and Wellness Code without critical violations."