The only way I can square this truly bizarre take from her is that she appears to be looking at Marxism as purely descriptive of certain realities yet she’s arguing with people who oppose some of the clearly PREscriptive elements of Marxism for how to organize society.
What blows me away is that a highly educated person like KSP would actually not recognize the disconnect here. It’s what leads people to believe these people are calculating, disingenuous liars. But I think the more likely scenario is...
...academics who spend decades in an academic bubble start to really think differently. I don’t think they grapple with the real-world implications of their theories. To them it’s just a playground of lenses and analytical tools for describing reality...
...and what they miss are the prescriptions for society that people then infer from their theories. And they never have to interact with, or deal with the implications. They are sheltered from the real world, and sheltered from many of the logical conclusions of their theories
All that said, as a Christian I refuse to assign nefarious motives to these folks, as infuriating as they can be to me sometimes. I trust God will sort all this out in the end. I’m sure the last question on our minds when we see Jesus face to face will be “who was right?”
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Thoughts on the Canadian indigenous schools with “mass graves”
There used to be an orphanage close to where I live. It was built in the 1800s to provide housing and education to homeless or abused kids. When they excavated the site recently they found a “mass grave” (1/x)
...not filled with indigenous kids, but white orphan kids. During times of war or depression, the home would take on 4x more kids than it was able to hold. Before modern medicine, disease spread so quickly. Child mortality was off the charts, no matter how wealthy you were.
In the 1800s, the average child mortality rate was almost 50%.
46% of kids didn’t make it past 5 years old. People today have zero concept of how common death was in those times.
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.
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.