Should we do the Gavin Ortlund one real quick? I think so. It’s pretty easy.

🧵 You might think about the Roman Empire everyday like a normal person but Gavin “thinks about [climate change] everyday.” He’s very very into this & he wants you to be too. “We can’t not talk about it.”

This is what’s going to happen, over & over again: critics of @megbasham’s book are going to sow doubt, effeminate quibbling w/characterization of events.

Brief 🧵

Example: Here’s Samuel James, who, granted, has some nice things to say about the book, but suggests inaccuracies The thing is, @megbasham didn’t deny that the SBC had (pre-Greear) been flirting w/a new name. She says that Greear pushed it hard (& he did) as part of a “racial reckoning” effort (the media’s words). Here’s the quote:

“When the Christian faith is politicized, churches become repositories not of grace but of grievances, places where tribal identities are reinforced”

1) the latter 2 clauses is what many demonized here would say they’re combating (ie woke stuff)
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… 2) idk what politicization means at this pt; in one respect Christianity is inherently political 🤷
3) was waiting for the sociologist to weigh in. Didn’t disappoint
4) Also was waiting for this boilerplate line: “Then came Donald Trump.”

Prob poor form to insist on disagreement where my interlocutor @josh_hammer finds none but for the sake of clarity, here goes:
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https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/1451672454678646793

First, tbc, we agree on the aim, the substantive ends in view. The question, as Josh rightly pts out, is one of structure/federalism vis a vis original pub meaning/intent/function

A very important point re CRT’s insulation from early critique: Yep. We see this now, no?

“Criticizing classical music as ‘white supremacist’ is a *super* fringe view. Stop freaking out! No one is talking about that!”

👇🤔

newyorker.com/magazine/2020/… nytimes.com/2021/02/14/art…

#Thread If you thought “critical social justice” (as @ConceptualJames calls it) was going to take a break during (or better yet, become a fatality of) the #coronavirus #COVIDー19 outbreak, think again: At @Independent after arguing that gender specific vaccines are needed, the author expresses skepticism that this will happen because,

“To date, our understanding of health has developed through a male lens, based on studies of men, carried out by men.”independent.co.uk/voices/coronav…

Per the thread last night on @joecarter 's article, for the sake of centralization/ease of access, this thread will compile the references to "cultural Marxism" from Marxist or Critical Theorists (or credible historians) in academic sources The goal is not to rub salt in the wounds or "win" the argument but simply consolidate the sources I've mentioned in @joecarter 's thread and @DennyBurk 's thread for the sake of clarity of discussion