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HuffPo Columnist Tries to Link Darwin to Hitler

…ed from around the internet. But in addition to its main news page, it has also built its success on the idea that it will let just about anyone write for them as long as they’re willing to do it for free. In exchange for all this unpaid content, columnists are largely free to write about whatever it is they like. Consequently, Huffington Post’s living pages have long been filled with various anti-science sentiments and new age woo, from vitamin c…

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Supreme Court Erodes Peace Advocacy

…t citizens had a right to associate with a group engaged in both legal and illegal activities, as long as they intended to further only the group’s lawful activities. Today, by contrast, the court rules that speech advocating only lawful, nonviolent activity can be made a crime, and that any coordination with a blacklisted group can land a citizen in prison for 15 years. The criminalization of peace advocacy has real world implications that weaken…

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A Pandemic isn’t a War, But Recognizing What They Share May Help us Heal

…because this is what trauma is like. Most of us think of trauma on a personal scale, as in something terrible that happens in a matter of moments like a car accident or a sexual assault; an acute event that changes the course of our life and how we live it. But trauma can also come in the form of systemic subjugation, whether class-, caste-, or race-based, in which whole groups are collectively and persistently targeted, in some cases for generati…

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Sure, There’s No ‘Religious Left’… If You Ignore Non-White Christians and Non-Christians

…d on women’s issues. This is true! As Filipovic says, https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/1258781001494470661 But the fun really begins with the next tweet, where she continues, For more than a year now I’ve been mulling a piece about the rise of the religious left, and particularly how socialist-friendly Catholicism has been embraced on the left to the detriment of feminism. Not a new tension in parts of Latin America, but new in this era in…

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The Three Qualities Marking the Capitol Assault as Terrorism

…ng on the most fateful moment of the ascension of a new President, the ritual tallying of electoral votes that would proclaim Joseph Biden and Kamala Harris as leaders of the new administration. If terrorism is theater, then timing and staging are significant. And in this case the timing of the electoral vote tally was perfect and the Capitol stage set could not have been better. As soon as the reserve forces of police and the National Guard came…

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‘Jesus is my Vaccine’ Has a Millennium-Long History Rooted in Antisemitism

…ard innocent Christians and “softies” who failed to uphold gendered and familial hierarchies. Most of the Homilies Against the Jews were written and delivered in church by Chrysostom in order to discourage his congregants from attending Jewish festivals like Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot. Even well into the fourth century, there was no clear divide between “Jew” and “Christian” in Antioch. Congregants of Chrysostom’s church continued to po…

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Can White Jews Still Be White if They’re Reviled By White Supremacists?

…of the column, Kwame Anthony Appiah, responds by pointing out that the social reality of race cannot be changed through disavowal and encourages white folks who want to break with the horrors of white supremacy to work in solidarity with others, and to use their white privilege to take it on. I agree with Appiah, although his conclusion that it can be useful to fight racism without skin in the game gives me pause. Not because it’s untrue, but beca…

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Guns, God and Government — The Coming of White Minority Rule?

…eption as the nation continues to get darker, queerer, and more secular. While all participants in white minority rule need not even be “white” for it to be effective, the homogenizing effect of right-wing politics is to minimize difference in the name of Americanness. Black conservatives and right-leaning Hispanics can be included in the lot of “real Americans” or “independent thinkers” as they reject the identity politics of the Left for the ide…

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Atheists are Americans Too, Vuvuzelas, Etc.

…burqa.  Supporters of the bill see it as a necessary step to curb fundamentalism, while opponents argue that the answer should be education not legislation.  In Mexico, Time reports, La Familia Michoacana mixes fundamentalism with drugs, violence, and political corruption.  The cartel’s leader, Nazaria Moreno—AKA El Mas Loco—has written his own Bible and leads prayer meetings.  A conservative pastor in Minnesota, who was outed by Lavender Magazine…

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Stop Trying to Save Jesus: ‘Fandamentalism’ Reinforces the Problem of Christian Supremacism

…aching Jesus, at least if we’re interested in Christianity as the influential social, cultural, and political force that it is in today’s world. Many readers will know the ex-evangelical Onishi as co-host (with Daniel Miller) of the engaging and informative podcast Straight White American Jesus (full disclosure: I have been a guest multiple times). When I approached him for comment and asked why that name, Onishi explained, “We chose the name of o…

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