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15 Apr, 5 tweets, 1 min read
A full quarter of American adults are Evangelical Protestants. It's the largest denomination of Christianity in the US. There is no way to frame pushing back against a massive, wealthy, politically powerful group like that as "punching down". That's not what "punching down" means
The pushback is not about "idiot rubes". The problem isn't that they hold "stupid, archaic beliefs". The pushback is against people actively seeking to institute a theocracy in order to cause harm to other people.
Some of the beliefs *are* stupid, but it's not their stupidity that gets attacked, it's that those beliefs are used to oppress and persecute minority populations - especially populations that have been *historically* persecuted, and are already disprivileged.
Attempting to weaponize the language used to fight back against persecution and oppression to try to protect the group that is responsible for perpetrating the majority of that persecution and oppression is weaselly and disingenuous.
This "I'm just trying to be polite" nice-guy schtick is unconvincing. The attempt to shield the majority from their victims is transparent.

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I dunno Matt, maybe this is why. ImageImageImage
Also Matt, have you considered that
Cops killing people is a problem
Cops being racist is a problem
The intersection of cops being racist and cops killing people is an exponential problem
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Let's do this better:
Self-motivated study can be HARD. Just because you fall of your streak on Duolingo, or miss a chunk of a tractate doesn't mean you've failed. It doesn't mean you aren't committed enough. It doesn't mean you aren't good at learning. It means you're human.
Fortunately for us, Judaism EXPECTS us to be human! Our library of scripture, exegetical interpretation, and parables are chock full of examples of our most revered sages talking about how they are still struggling to learn and understand.
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Were you a pleasure to have in class who could get much higher grades with a little effort, who often failed to turn in assignments but did excellent work on the ones you did, who was excited about school but needed to work on paying closer attention, or are you neurotypical?
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I guess I'm recirculating this from (checks watch) less than a month ago. The WaPo story is the same facility. There is nothing new.

I'm not sure where the pull image on this tweet comes from. It's not in the article. The article does mention trailers for services - not housing.

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