All of these people squawking about civility are the ones who are still comfortable while babies and children are in tents in the border separated from parents.
Your need for civility is not about politeness, but your need to avoid conflict, your emotional comfort,and not having to weigh in on the injustices of this current administration.
I detest your fake civility. Your civility is not civic engagement but a lazy way to make sure you are comfortable while others suffer. Dinner is not the issue.
Protest is about wanting change. Right wing agents have been doing all sorts of horrible things in public for years and this president invited violence at his rallies. So don't talk to me about being civil to people who enact and enforce uncivil policies.
I tire of your sanctimonious unctiousness. #fin. And I'm looking at oprah's friend on CBS NEWS who set this tweetstorm off this morning with her calls to be civil to a woman who is uncivil at every damn WH press call #girlbye
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Ok so let's talk about when you shouldn't do an interview folks... #thread
Many of you academics want to be public, and that's great. But sometimes, our job is to tell the people who want to interview us that they have to come with the right questions.
If you call me, and haven't done a bit of homework, and you are asking me for resources, and you don't have an idea about the article you want to write, I'm not going to write it for you.. I can do that. Why tell you?
So let me go one further on the Catholic church sex abuse issue and the Papal letter.. and BTW media, I'm at a conference, can't appear live till next week...
I just want to clear up why I don't like that everybody should fast and pray in @Pontifex letter. This assumes that somehow, the parishioner is also at fault in these sexual sins of abuse perpetrated on children.
It is as though that the very act of taking your kids to church, allowing them to be altar servers, and trusting those who had physical and spiritual charge over them is why they were raped and molested.
"Today we are challenged as the People of God to take on the pain of our brothers and sisters wounded in their flesh and in their spirit. " Listen. Many of us have taken this pain on LOOONG before the clergy cared about it.
I'm going to relate briefly one of the reasons why I write about clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic church. When I lived in Los Angeles, a former priest of the parish I belonged to was arrested for child molestation...
The parish priest at the time knew it was going to be a $hitstorm, so he asked me and another member of the church (a theologian, I am being vague for privacy purposes) to hold an evening healing service and come up with a liturgy.
Someone sent me an email about my piece saying it was hurtful and that I should be providing solutions about the church abuse...and that I was gurtibg good priests and people in the pews.
You know...I bet this particular person hasn't read one word of the report. Because you'd be pissed too if you read how many children were raped and sexually abused repeatedly.
I'm happy to sit on a commission or a board any day with the @USCCB to deal with solutions to this...but writing to me about tone when children gave been raped for 70 years? Write to your Bishop. I said what I said and I will keep saying it. The church is a criminal syndicate.
301 Priests who abused. So let's talk about this for a minute, because this is something that folks haven't talked about with Catholic church abuse...
One of the things that has to be faced is that this abuse is generational. In other words, many of the abusers of children in the church were probably abused themselves. This is not to generate sympathy for their actions..
Rather, it is to address the fact that the church was a place where sexual abuse was systemic, and institutionalized through the way canon law was set up, and the actions of bishops who were the keepers of the accusations.
So lots of us in Religious Studies are talking about Public Scholarship right now... and I have lots to say about it since I've been doing it believe it or not since 2005. (thread)
I started out writing for the @the_revealer under @JeffSharlet leadership, who gave me my first byline... which at the time was pretty incendiary.. about Katrina and GW Bush and "finding" vs "looting" ...