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UPDATED: The Coup That Never Ends: ‘Whitemanism’ and the Perils of a Flimsy Liberalism

By Peter Laarman

…e American story by ignoring the animating racialism at its very heart. If today some white men run for the exits when race enters the conversation, that won’t spell the end of coalition building. The far greater danger is taking the BIPOC folks for granted or—worse—squelching their voices in a continuing quest to recapture the white male unicorn. 5. If Whitemanism is an irrelevant abstraction, then why is it fueling nationwide GOP efforts to rest…

The People’s Temple, the Black Church, and the Tragic Legacy of Jonestown

By Anita Little

…the People’s Temple, to think of it as more or less a white movement? The truth of Jonestown has been lost because it’s been demonized to a certain extent. The impression was that you had these “zombie-esque acolytes running over there and bowing down to this white man.” It just creates a very sordid and unsavory picture. Also, it took place in San Francisco, a city that has always been mythicized as a white space. You had a white pastor, so many…

Rep. Smith Suggests a New Protected Class: “Immaturity”

By Sarah Posner

…ast year, the anti-choice activist Lila Rose, notorious for her undercover videos at Planned Parenthood clinics, made the horrifically inappropriate comparison of murdered civil rights activist Emmett Till and a fetus. Just as Till’s mother’s decision to show photographs of her dead son’s battered body ignited the civil rights movement, Rose argued, graphic exposure of abortion would spark a civil rights movement for fetuses. Smith today added som…

Sex and the Ummah

By Amina Wadud

…n’t seem to realize that the kinds of same-sex relations that are going on today are not like same-sex relations at other times in human history. There were always people of the same sex having sexual relations, but today there are new claims. It’s like our proposals for more equality in marriage over and against the patriarchal marriage of the past. Same-sex couples are making claims as families and asking for thing like marriage. Same-sex Muslim…

American Jewish Leaders Get Gaza Wrong

By Sarah Posner

…of Israel’s military might? Three Israeli civilians were reportedly killed today in the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Malachi. A rocket from Gaza has reportedly fallen (inflicting no injuries) near Tel Aviv. I’ll state the obvious: this is unacceptable, and must stop, as the Israeli human rights group and occupation opponent B’Tselem stated today. And so must the Israeli shelling of civilians in Gaza (the death toll there is now at 13). It’s not…

How Thanksgiving Became All Dinner, No Worship

By Bruce David Forbes

…Cowboy game in 1970 and now a third game in the evenings. Rowdy crowds of drunken Thanksgiving revelers in earlier years eventually gave way to Thanksgiving parades sponsored by department stores, especially Macy’s. The appearance of Santa Claus at the end of all the parades indicated that they were not really about Thanksgiving at all but instead a kickoff for the Christmas shopping season. In the midst of it all, the Thanksgiving dinner and the…

Fed. Court Rules Prop. 8 Unconstitutional

By Peter Montgomery

…Vaughn Walker, will almost certainly be appealed to the US Supreme Court. Today’s ruling states: All that Proposition 8 accomplished was to take away from same-sex couples the right to be granted marriage licenses and thus legally to use the designation of ‘marriage,’ which symbolized state legitimization and societal recognition of their committed relationships. Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status…

Why Do Evangelicals And Dems Want Immigration Reform?

By Daniel Schultz

…percent). That’s a whole lot of reasons to want to get immigration reform today. If Democrats can push the platform through, they might be able to lock in the key demographic for the next forty or fifty years. For a politician, that’s almost as good as dropping an anvil on your opponent’s head. But why would the evangelicals be so interested in immigration reform? Partly, it’s the demographics again. Hispanics are a vibrant and growing part of th…

Norway Massacre Suspect Anders Behring Breivik, Hitler, & the Jerusalem Post Editorial

By Sarah Posner

…Norway, are Nordic, Christian category A and B traitors. Chillingly, the Jerusalem Post today editorialized that despite the horrific violence perpetrated by Breivik, the cultural conservative campaign against “multiculturalism” actually has legitimacy: It would be wrongheaded, however, to allow the fact that this terrible tragedy was perpetrated by a right-wing extremist to detract attention from the underlying problems faced not only by Norway,…

Museum of (In)tolerance for Divided City

By Shalom Goldman

…This was not true in 1972 when the article was written; it surely is not true today. The daily experiences of those who lived in Jerusalem in those years, myself among them, contradicts these assertions. While Israeli Jews continued to visit the Old City and referred constantly to Jerusalem as “united,” one third of the population, the Arabs who lived in the formerly Jordanian-held parts of the city, considered themselves to be under harsh milita…