The thing that attracted men to Braveheart’s William Wallace was the same thing that attracted them to a quiet, frail psychology professor from Canada. It was never about the blood and gore and machismo. It was the appeal to responsibility and transcendent meaning.
I’ve been hearing from the “he/him” Exvangelicals that it was mainly weak, inadequate men who were so captured by Braveheart. That may very well be true. I might consider myself one of them-and that’s the point. Inadequate men feel their need for growth more deeply.
We need an ideal to shoot for. For the Christian, that’s Christ. But we also know that mythic themes and archetypes in stories can help to drive that truth home in new ways something. God uses all kinds of stuff.
And with that, I suppose I’m off this Braveheart stuff on Twitter. Back to BidenCOVIDglobalwarmingtransbathroomsblablabla
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I understand conservatives feeling defensive about Juneteenth, since Democrats are cynical racists who never miss an opportunity to divide Americans.
But I think Juneteenth will prove to be healing. American goodness and American ideals freed the slaves. Let’s celebrate it.
Fun fact-the first state to ban slavery was Vermont- just one year after the declaration was signed in 1776. That’s 30 YEARS before Great Britain banned it!
America led the world in ending an institution that’s been around since the beginning of civilization. That’s my country.
The danger I think a lot of Conservatives sense with Juneteenth is that the Left will do everything they can to make this a divisive holiday. White people will be told they’re not allowed to celebrate it. Antifa communists will try to turn it into a day of rioting.
Black students going to progressive colleges and committing white supremacist hate hoaxes against their own community is a bizarre phenomenon. It happens several times a year now. I really want to know what is going on psychologically with a person who does that.
I have a theory—and this is just a theory. I wonder if black students come to college expecting to encounter the overt racism you often see in poor communities and instead encounter something worse-more insidious: white liberal coddling & condescending racism...
They enter the University, full of white progressives, who I think are the most racist people in our country right now. They deal with this babying, patronizing leftist racism that is just as dehumanizing as any other kind of racism, but they are in an environment where the...
How many bad pilots will be crammed through the flight program to meet diversity requirements? How many good pilots will lose their dream for not having the right skin color? How long until this causes an accident? How many women and people of color will die in that accident?
I went to college to be a pilot. Everyone in my program was a white guy, even though over 50% of the students in my college were women and people of color were over represented as a percentage of the local population. If United is gonna meet these diversity quotas...
They’ll have to address why some people FREELY CHOOSE to not become pilots, because no one is stopping anybody. The truth is, most women just aren’t interested in being pilots.
There has been an ongoing effort to classify The Babylon Bee as “disinformation” rather than satire. It has been a fight since Snopes started fact-checking us in 2019. They don’t do this to The Onion. This conversation between Wiki editors is illuminating.
They desperately want The Babylon Bee to be censored. I wonder why...
I should add that these “fact-checks” from Snopes, USA Today, and now Newsweek, are done with partnership/funding from Facebook. FB has wanted us gone ever since we started going viral on their platform. They’re paying journos to give their censorship the look of legitimacy.
Incredible. Two Facebook-funded researchers sent out @TheBabylonBee satire to trick people, but they hid the source, removed the headline and picture, and re-phrased the claim to make it sound more real. Then they used the data to prove that Babylon Bee is deceiving people??
@TheBabylonBee Here are the original authors of the study. Two of them funded by Facebook. Is Facebook using their crap research, laundering it through @snopes , then using that as an impetus for removing @TheBabylonBee content with invisible algorithms? Check this out...
@TheBabylonBee@snopes Here is another article written by this guy talking about fighting fake news algorithmically by recognizing "common word patterns" in "fake news" and assigning a credibility score based on data from...wait for it... @snopes. They are trying to censor @TheBabylonBee invisibly.