Thanks for posting that, father, our family had a good laugh out of it. But...
I think it is easy to forget how serious the situation is in western nations right now. It is getting worse daily. For example, what is going on in France now and there are Islamic nations, politicians, scholars and people condemning offensive cartoons but often not the murder, even the beheading, of innocent people. The ideology embraced by most left of centre politicians will not lead to flourishing nations and will probably not even result in their survival. People in the West have a choice. A return to what is best from their Christian and patriarchal heritage or eventually being overcome by Islam or China. Nations led by the likes of “progressive” modern Democrats or leftist politicians in Western Europe and the UK and the flawed ideologies they embrace and promote can NOT last! They will not survive. As the conservative writer, Douglas Murray, claims, he occasionally has this vision of further endless discussions on the BBC etc and western universities how our language and discourse still upholds racism, sexism and homophobia etc and further discussion on the right use of a range of different gender pronouns and so on will be taking place right up to the last moment when Islam or China steps in and fully and finally takes over in the West.
I just spent 3 days attempting to have a dialogue with some others on a blog about Amy Coney Barrett and the upcoming election. The owner of the blog insists he is a Catholic and while "personally opposed" to abortion, he absolutely could not support the GOP ever, because it is "the most evil organization in history" (his words, not mine). I really wanted to understand how this man and his friends thought and I persisted in asking questions about what was so evil about the GOP and Barrett and how they could support a party that insists on Abortion on Demand. The result was being labeled with several unsavory names, being told that, as a male, I had not right to make decisions about a woman's body and that the worst evil, way worse than legal abortion, is purportedly the concept of "corporate personhood" that the GOP allegedly supports. Many of their replies were condescending and snotty. I did my level best to maintain a polite tone, but the end result was being publicly labeled as a "troll" and being blocked from the page as well as having my comments erased.
As I persisted in contemplating the "conversation" I could not not help noticing that the most vehement defenders of abortion consistently invoke their sovereignty over their own bodies. I cannot help but contrast that with a different idea: My body does NOT belong to me. My body belongs to GOD. The saints understood that. Do we trust God enough to really accept that? If, the unfortunate act of a rape takes place, would I as a woman trust God enough to still know that He permitted that terrible crime for a reason and allow my unborn child to live? If I am a young man who has been molested by another man, can I trust God enough to believe that I can survive this horror? I'm not sure what my answer would be in either case, but I still believe that my body is not mine. It is God's. That is why even apparently "harmless" acts like masturbation are sinful.
I hope I am never raped or molested, but if any one thing seems to be common among many victims of these crimes, it is a perpetual bitterness. I cannot blame them for that and I can't say how I would feel in their shoes, but I believe in mercy, ultimately, and only forgiveness can heal and only Jesus Christ can give us forgiveness and mercy when it makes no sense to forgive.
Men are four to five times more likely to die from suicide than women. More than 90% of plumbers are men. For the sake of equality and equity (and to help save Western civilisation) perhaps many Leftist female politicians could become plumbers and large numbers of feminist and gender studies scholars could commit suicide?
It is almost inevitable the West will eventually decline and fall but the decline can be slowed down with the election of leaders like Trump and like the decline and fall of the Roman Empire it may then take centuries for the West to finally fall BUT if the West continues to elect Biden-like politicians the decline and fall of the West will be greatly accelerated; the Western nations as they are now could collapse almost as quickly and suddenly as the Soviet Empire collapsed.
I think over the next decade we could be in for even more “interesting times”.
Malaysia’s former prime minister and a respected leader in the Muslim world, Mahathir Mohamad said 2 days ago: Muslims had a right to be angry and kill millions of French people for massacres of the past. Mahathir also said: Muslims had never sought revenge for the injustices against them in the past.......and that French President Macron was primitive and uncivilised and, also, the French people need to be taught to respect other people’s feelings.
And some more gems from this moderate, world respected Muslim leader - (and perhaps a Muslim leader Francis could seek dialogue with?): Jews are hooked-nosed and rule the world by proxy and are very like Nazis......and I am proud to be labelled anti-Semitic!
I wonder what millions of young Muslim men may be hearing from other Muslim leaders about France and French people and Jews (and Americans too) etc, ie from Muslim leaders who are not as moderate as the former prime minister of Malaysia.
Here is another example of Democratic hypocrisy and stupidity, from their "It Girl:
But Ocasio-Cortez has little room to criticize Republicans for how they’ve handled the pandemic and its effects, especially considering that New York’s 14th Congressional District, which she represents, has seen the highest per capita coronavirus confirmed death rate in the country.
I guess Cuomo and DeBlasio did a great job there!!
What you wrote above is great but I think it is important to remember with pro-choice feminists it is not only about sovereignty over their own bodies but also about nothing, absolutely nothing, getting in the way of a modern women’s full participation in the workforce. 20 years ago I was studying history and philosophy at a secular university; I was friends then with a woman studying to be a social worker. She claimed that any woman who questioned abortion on demand, raised any questions about side effects from various forms of contraception or expressed doubts about professional women almost immediately putting their babies into day care etc would be condemned and ostracised. Nothing must get in the way of women’s careers! That was like a sacred truth in the faculties at that university where future social workers studied.
On another point, it is good to remember when trying to debate or have a conversation with any person indoctrinated by intersectional feminism that many such people hold logic, reason and evidence based arguments themselves to be white, western, male cultural and social constructs and often merely tools of oppression of the western patriarchy. As well, when you attempt conversations with such people as intersectional feminists and critical race theorists etc it does not matter how good your arguments are; if you do not agree with their ideology and theories then you must be either stupid, or bad - preserving your privilege - or (if a woman or gay or black person who disagrees with them) it is a bad case of “false consciousness” and/or that person is pathetically seeking the approval of straight, white males, or is a house-black, a house-Muslim etc...
One final point, 20 to 25 years ago many people at this and other universities used to laugh at the job prospects of a person who wrote their honours thesis on lesbian, dance therapy or the experiences of young, gay Canadian soldiers in certain bars and nightclubs in Paris 1914 to 1918 and so on.......the joke is now on all of us. Tens of thousands of such young graduates in the West who wrote a similar honours thesis went on to by 2020 hold important positions in the media, in education, the civil service and especially in HR departments in many big corporations throughout the Western world.
PS My wife said this morning: I wonder how much time is wasted in Muslim institutions with feminism and LGBT rights etc or how much time the Chinese military waste on such matters as politically correct speech and using the right gender pronouns?
Anon at 7.50am, I think the fall of Western civilisation will occur sooner rather than later.
I recently listened to Bishop Robert Barron talk on: Ideas have Consequences! 4 philosophers/thinkers whose work has most influenced where we are now in 2020. Number 1 had or has to be Michel Foucault - 1926-1984. He died of AIDS aged 57. So what can briefly be said about the man whose works are among the most cited of all time in the social sciences and the most cited in the humanities in our era? If the west survives his status could reach that of Augustine, Descartes or Kant in terms of influence, many believe.
He was a promiscuous homosexual, at times heavily into illegal drugs and “hard core gay S and M activity”, and in the 1970s he fought in France for the decriminalisation of “consensual” sexual relations between adults and minors aged under 15. Noam Chomsky described and summed up Foucault as “the most totally amoral person I ever met”. And yet many regard Foucault as the Thomas Aquinas or Hegel for our times and our future!
Apparently around 1970 he had a great epiphany! Ordinary people did not need to be freed from economic exploitation any where near as much as they had to be freed from all the oppressions and restrictions which stopped them exploring and celebrating and acting on their various sexual inclinations........as the mayor of Berlin happily announced 40 years later: We are poor but we are sexy!!
A million words could be written here but basically his alleged brilliant insights into the relationships between power, knowledge and language taught millions of western students to be extreme in proclaiming “knowledge is a social and/or cultural, linguistic construct” - thus it is wonderful to be radically sceptical of obtaining objective truths (the dictatorship of relativism that Benedict condemned) and it is wonderful too to blur and blend any distinctions between fact and fiction, reason and emotion and male and female........and so on......and his contributions were massive, with his radical critique of authority, in the fact that for the last 3 decades many students in Western Europe and the USA have often been indoctrinated to believe their nation’s institutions are systematically racist, homophobic, corrupt and oppressive........we have Foucault to thank for so much more - from such university courses as queer theory” to PC language with millions terrified their words could lead them to be labelled racist or misogynistic or homophobic bigots - to alleged “hate speech” on social media leading to people being sacked from their jobs. The notion that words can be violent.
The online study I have done for the past 4 years has convinced me it is never more true in our time for a Catholic, or any Christian, to be in this world but definitely NOT of this world. AND parents and grandparents are right to be terrified of what ideologies are forming their children in most universities and many schools.
How dare you! Foucault and Derrida are the 2 greatest thinkers of the past century! Thanks to them by the 1990s it was possible, for example, for a high government employee to be sacked for offending one underling by his use of the word niggardly. The fact this fairly high level government employee did not intend to offend, claimed he thought niggardly meant being ungenerous with money or time and apologised for any offence, that was not good enough and it was true justice he lost his job. As a white women often offended on the behalf of people of colour I felt very let down back then when some Uncle Tom black leader and intellectual thought what happened here was unfair, unjust and ridiculous and claimed any or all offended people in that government department should be given a dictionary.
One of the very few things that causes me to have any pride in being British is that last year in Britain 4 times more people were arrested for online hate speech than in Russia for the same period of time. Myself and my partner are proud of having a young man lose his job stacking shelves in a supermarket because of posting on Facebook the sexist and homophobic “humour’” of a 1980 Billy Connelly YouTube video clip. And our greatest scalp was having an old man, a retired modern languages teacher, charged and arrested for extreme racist hate speech for raving online about the offensive word Negro simply coming from a Latin or Spanish or something word for black and so on AND dared to go so far as to “joke” about : must he in the future write of Nigeria and his brother Nigel as N.......A and N...L ? We hope this racist old reactionary receives more than a fine and community service and good behaviour bond when he is sentenced next Tuesday.
To end here, some white supremacist fascist confused me on another blog today by claiming it is not good in Britain today with very very many people living each day now, walking on eggshells, scared that what they might say might offend, AND keeping silent about, and even verbally agreeing with, certain new ideas on race and gender they feel inside to be nonsense that they really do NOT agree with. What could this old fool have been talking about?!
I wish all the misogyny and homophobia and Islamophobia on this blog was being posted on a blog run by an Englishman. I would inform the police who would soon be knocking on his door! Certain alleged crimes against a French history teacher and a handful of pious, old French Catholics have been referred to here and elsewhere. I agree with my university’s Muslim Students Association spokesperson. It was terribly wrong in each instance for an alleged suspect in some apparent knife attack to be shot by police!
2 great quotes on Islamophobia from my hero and inspiration Titania McGrath:
You can say what you want about ISIS members and Muslim terrorists BUT at least they are not Islamophobic!
When ever I see a Muslim woman not wearing a hijab my heart breaks for her internalised Islamophobia.
On another matter, I thought it terribly offensive for a London stand up comedian to recently dispute and mock Titania’s memories of first becoming Woke through reading the Bible passage of the Cleansing of the Temple which inspired her at the age of 6 “to do a similar thing” at her local branch of HSBC ( ie a large British investment bank) and claiming that Titania and all the others like her make being Woke seem not about being sensitive to real social injustice but about being nihilistic, narcissistic and illogical and often involved in self defeating and petty-minded thought policing. How dare he!
Ashley McGuire, senior fellow with The Catholic Association -- which has endorsed President Trump's re-election -- told Fox News Biden's candidacy has been confusing to Catholic voters "who believe that being Catholic is more than just another label."
“Joe Biden has campaigned on his Catholic faith while promising policies that contradict Catholic teaching and even threatening the Little Sisters of the Poor," McGuire said. "The Bishops Conference has warned of the devastating consequences of the Equality Act for religious liberty and for girls and women but Joe Biden supports it."
and claiming that Titania and all the others like her make being Woke seem not about being sensitive to real social injustice but about being nihilistic, narcissistic and illogical and often involved in self defeating and petty-minded thought policing.
There is another Catholic universe out there which is often conveyed and represented in articles by progressive Catholics at Patheos.Com. It is another religious and moral universe. Perhaps the many Catholics who follow blogs like this one, or Fr Z’s blog etc or listen to Taylor Marshall or Michael Voris or don’t go online at all have no idea what many young Catholics are reading online as their so called faith journey leads them to the destination of disbelief. I occasionally read a Patheos.Com “Catholic” article to get a glimpse of this other strange religious and moral universe......some highlights of “When it comes to homosexuality, many Catholics are being stupid and unfair to both Pope Francis and Saint Paul”. Catholic Patheos. Com.
........I am too tired now to type out highlights from thousands of words of nonsense so I’ll attempt a synopsis. Google Patheos.Com Catholic to find articles that confirm Hegel and Marx and Foucault were 100% right in claiming all ideas and concepts (including Catholic beliefs and morality) must be looked at and regarded historically; as embedded in ways of life; as never timeless and unchanging, but embodied in societies and institutions, ie in historical realities that change.......that sums up thousands of words in some recent Patheos Catholic articles.
But basically, if you are interested in learning how every translation of the Greek and Hebrew in the Bible, that ancient library, is an interpretation and that “in the beginning was the interpretation” and even “the best translations are betrayals” .......and the Bible really says nothing about “homosexuality” and “homosexuals” because both those words are recent 19th century conceptual constructs.....true individualism is a post- industrial phenomenon......the people in the Biblical era from Moses, Jeremiah to Jesus and Paul we’re anti-introspective collectivists......people in Biblical times were not psychologically-minded!.....ultimately, the group-specific world of Jesus and Paul could never have conceived of homosexuality as a permanent psychological state involving sexual orientation to those of the same biological gender"...........to repeat the Bible is simply not psychological....
Another article can teach you how Sodomy was a Medieval word based on a misinterpretation and how to read all biblical laws in their proper context and will explain to you what “abomination” really mean !!
Who are you? And just a suggestion: resist the temptation to write too much. You make a good point but people are far more likely to absorb that point if you are more succinct. “Brevity is the soul of wit”.
I thought the person at 2:13 AM was pretty darn succinct. I learned a lot from what Patheos.com/Catholic was peddling about our Faith (or how their contributors interpret it) without having to wade through all the deconstructionist and historical-critical narrative nonsense.
“When people are forced to repeat so many lies, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in a small way to become evil oneself.”
Hilda Wolfe--just in case your cognitive abilities have lapsed a bit with all the pressures of "misogyny" and "homophobia" that you're coping with, a couple of points:
A knife may not be as deadly as a gun, but it is still a deadly weapon.
A man can easily get his throat cut in seconds with a knife.
The woman beheaded at Mass by a Muslim (you know, the Religion of Peace) was decapitated by a KNIFE.
The suspect shot holding a knife by police had ample warnings to drop it. He made his choice.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to spend the next two hours or so looking for blogs about women, gay men and Muslims so I can go vent my hatred.
Such claims of - being a white woman often offended on the behalf of people of color. And repeated over the top nonsense such as describing a murderous terrorist at the scene of his crimes as "an alleged suspect in some apparent knife attack..." are a bit of a give away.
Or the insanity of pointing out that it can be said of ISIS terrorists that they are not Islamophobic !!
But Tom Marcus don't feel too bad. Countless bright people thought at first Titania McGrath was a real person and not a parody creation - Even when Titania described herself as not just non binary but "ecosexual", committed to "armed peaceful protest" and talked often of her groundbreaking dissertation on "the corrosive nature of cis-masculine futurity" (I myself do still not know what the Woke mean with their use of "cis")
I think "Hilda" and "Titania" and other created characters try to capture the chiding, self righteous, joyless, intolerant tone of the Woke; and can be a direct hit on the awful state of the Left.
Hilary Clinton writing off about half the people in the USA as a basket of deplorables, ie as homophobic racists, comes to mind.
I honestly believe my "Christian fairy tales" are a lot more fun and a LOT less crazy. And the next time I have a free half hour I may seek out a woke women's blog to explain why.
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Thanks for posting that, father, our family had a good laugh out of it. But...
I think it is easy to forget how serious the situation is in western nations right now. It is getting worse daily. For example, what is going on in France now and there are Islamic nations, politicians, scholars and people condemning offensive cartoons but often not the murder, even the beheading, of innocent people.
The ideology embraced by most left of centre politicians will not lead to flourishing nations and will probably not even result in their survival.
People in the West have a choice. A return to what is best from their Christian and patriarchal heritage or eventually being overcome by Islam or China.
Nations led by the likes of “progressive” modern Democrats or leftist politicians in Western Europe and the UK and the flawed ideologies they embrace and promote can NOT last! They will not survive.
As the conservative writer, Douglas Murray, claims, he occasionally has this vision of further endless discussions on the BBC etc and western universities how our language and discourse still upholds racism, sexism and homophobia etc and further discussion on the right use of a range of different gender pronouns and so on will be taking place right up to the last moment when Islam or China steps in and fully and finally takes over in the West.
FXB.
I just spent 3 days attempting to have a dialogue with some others on a blog about Amy Coney Barrett and the upcoming election. The owner of the blog insists he is a Catholic and while "personally opposed" to abortion, he absolutely could not support the GOP ever, because it is "the most evil organization in history" (his words, not mine). I really wanted to understand how this man and his friends thought and I persisted in asking questions about what was so evil about the GOP and Barrett and how they could support a party that insists on Abortion on Demand. The result was being labeled with several unsavory names, being told that, as a male, I had not right to make decisions about a woman's body and that the worst evil, way worse than legal abortion, is purportedly the concept of "corporate personhood" that the GOP allegedly supports. Many of their replies were condescending and snotty. I did my level best to maintain a polite tone, but the end result was being publicly labeled as a "troll" and being blocked from the page as well as having my comments erased.
As I persisted in contemplating the "conversation" I could not not help noticing that the most vehement defenders of abortion consistently invoke their sovereignty over their own bodies. I cannot help but contrast that with a different idea: My body does NOT belong to me. My body belongs to GOD. The saints understood that. Do we trust God enough to really accept that? If, the unfortunate act of a rape takes place, would I as a woman trust God enough to still know that He permitted that terrible crime for a reason and allow my unborn child to live? If I am a young man who has been molested by another man, can I trust God enough to believe that I can survive this horror? I'm not sure what my answer would be in either case, but I still believe that my body is not mine. It is God's. That is why even apparently "harmless" acts like masturbation are sinful.
I hope I am never raped or molested, but if any one thing seems to be common among many victims of these crimes, it is a perpetual bitterness. I cannot blame them for that and I can't say how I would feel in their shoes, but I believe in mercy, ultimately, and only forgiveness can heal and only Jesus Christ can give us forgiveness and mercy when it makes no sense to forgive.
Men are four to five times more likely to die from suicide than women. More than 90% of plumbers are men. For the sake of equality and equity (and to help save Western civilisation) perhaps many Leftist female politicians could become plumbers and large numbers of feminist and gender studies scholars could commit suicide?
It is almost inevitable the West will eventually decline and fall but the decline can be slowed down with the election of leaders like Trump and like the decline and fall of the Roman Empire it may then take centuries for the West to finally fall BUT if the West continues to elect Biden-like politicians the decline and fall of the West will be greatly accelerated; the Western nations as they are now could collapse almost as quickly and suddenly as the Soviet Empire collapsed.
I think over the next decade we could be in for even more “interesting times”.
Malaysia’s former prime minister and a respected leader in the Muslim world, Mahathir Mohamad said 2 days ago:
Muslims had a right to be angry and kill millions of French people for massacres of the past.
Mahathir also said:
Muslims had never sought revenge for the injustices against them in the past.......and that French President Macron was primitive and uncivilised and, also, the French people need to be taught to respect other people’s feelings.
And some more gems from this moderate, world respected Muslim leader - (and perhaps a Muslim leader Francis could seek dialogue with?):
Jews are hooked-nosed and rule the world by proxy and are very like Nazis......and I am proud to be labelled anti-Semitic!
I wonder what millions of young Muslim men may be hearing from other Muslim leaders about France and French people and Jews (and Americans too) etc, ie from Muslim leaders who are not as moderate as the former prime minister of Malaysia.
Here is another example of Democratic hypocrisy and stupidity, from their "It Girl:
But Ocasio-Cortez has little room to criticize Republicans for how they’ve handled the pandemic and its effects, especially considering that New York’s 14th Congressional District, which she represents, has seen the highest per capita coronavirus confirmed death rate in the country.
I guess Cuomo and DeBlasio did a great job there!!
Henry Miller,
What you wrote above is great but I think it is important to remember with pro-choice feminists it is not only about sovereignty over their own bodies but also about nothing, absolutely nothing, getting in the way of a modern women’s full participation in the workforce. 20 years ago I was studying history and philosophy at a secular university; I was friends then with a woman studying to be a social worker. She claimed that any woman who questioned abortion on demand, raised any questions about side effects from various forms of contraception or expressed doubts about professional women almost immediately putting their babies into day care etc would be condemned and ostracised. Nothing must get in the way of women’s careers! That was like a sacred truth in the faculties at that university where future social workers studied.
On another point, it is good to remember when trying to debate or have a conversation with any person indoctrinated by intersectional feminism that many such people hold logic, reason and evidence based arguments themselves to be white, western, male cultural and social constructs and often merely tools of oppression of the western patriarchy.
As well, when you attempt conversations with such people as intersectional feminists and critical race theorists etc it does not matter how good your arguments are; if you do not agree with their ideology and theories then you must be either stupid, or bad - preserving your privilege - or (if a woman or gay or black person who disagrees with them) it is a bad case of “false consciousness” and/or that person is pathetically seeking the approval of straight, white males, or is a house-black, a house-Muslim etc...
One final point, 20 to 25 years ago many people at this and other universities used to laugh at the job prospects of a person who wrote their honours thesis on lesbian, dance therapy or the experiences of young, gay Canadian soldiers in certain bars and nightclubs in Paris 1914 to 1918 and so on.......the joke is now on all of us. Tens of thousands of such young graduates in the West who wrote a similar honours thesis went on to by 2020 hold important positions in the media, in education, the civil service and especially in HR departments in many big corporations throughout the Western world.
PS My wife said this morning: I wonder how much time is wasted in Muslim institutions with feminism and LGBT rights etc or how much time the Chinese military waste on such matters as politically correct speech and using the right gender pronouns?
Nope, not satire. That’s an informercial !
Anon at 7.50am,
I think the fall of Western civilisation will occur sooner rather than later.
I recently listened to Bishop Robert Barron talk on: Ideas have Consequences! 4 philosophers/thinkers whose work has most influenced where we are now in 2020.
Number 1 had or has to be Michel Foucault - 1926-1984. He died of AIDS aged 57.
So what can briefly be said about the man whose works are among the most cited of all time in the social sciences and the most cited in the humanities in our era? If the west survives his status could reach that of Augustine, Descartes or Kant in terms of influence, many believe.
He was a promiscuous homosexual, at times heavily into illegal drugs and “hard core gay S and M activity”, and in the 1970s he fought in France for the decriminalisation of “consensual” sexual relations between adults and minors aged under 15. Noam Chomsky described and summed up Foucault as “the most totally amoral person I ever met”. And yet many regard Foucault as the Thomas Aquinas or Hegel for our times and our future!
Apparently around 1970 he had a great epiphany! Ordinary people did not need to be freed from economic exploitation any where near as much as they had to be freed from all the oppressions and restrictions which stopped them exploring and celebrating and acting on their various sexual inclinations........as the mayor of Berlin happily announced 40 years later: We are poor but we are sexy!!
A million words could be written here but basically his alleged brilliant insights into the relationships between power, knowledge and language taught millions of western students to be extreme in proclaiming “knowledge is a social and/or cultural, linguistic construct” - thus it is wonderful to be radically sceptical of obtaining objective truths (the dictatorship of relativism that Benedict condemned) and it is wonderful too to blur and blend any distinctions between fact and fiction, reason and emotion and male and female........and so on......and his contributions were massive, with his radical critique of authority, in the fact that for the last 3 decades many students in Western Europe and the USA have often been indoctrinated to believe their nation’s institutions are systematically racist, homophobic, corrupt and oppressive........we have Foucault to thank for so much more - from such university courses as queer theory” to PC language with millions terrified their words could lead them to be labelled racist or misogynistic or homophobic bigots - to alleged “hate speech” on social media leading to people being sacked from their jobs. The notion that words can be violent.
The online study I have done for the past 4 years has convinced me it is never more true in our time for a Catholic, or any Christian, to be in this world but definitely NOT of this world. AND parents and grandparents are right to be terrified of what ideologies are forming their children in most universities and many schools.
Anon at 10.45am,
How dare you!
Foucault and Derrida are the 2 greatest thinkers of the past century!
Thanks to them by the 1990s it was possible, for example, for a high government employee to be sacked for offending one underling by his use of the word niggardly. The fact this fairly high level government employee did not intend to offend, claimed he thought niggardly meant being ungenerous with money or time and apologised for any offence, that was not good enough and it was true justice he lost his job. As a white women often offended on the behalf of people of colour I felt very let down back then when some Uncle Tom black leader and intellectual thought what happened here was unfair, unjust and ridiculous and claimed any or all offended people in that government department should be given a dictionary.
One of the very few things that causes me to have any pride in being British is that last year in Britain 4 times more people were arrested for online hate speech than in Russia for the same period of time.
Myself and my partner are proud of having a young man lose his job stacking shelves in a supermarket because of posting on Facebook the sexist and homophobic “humour’” of a 1980 Billy Connelly YouTube video clip.
And our greatest scalp was having an old man, a retired modern languages teacher, charged and arrested for extreme racist hate speech for raving online about the offensive word Negro simply coming from a Latin or Spanish or something word for black and so on AND dared to go so far as to “joke” about : must he in the future write of Nigeria and his brother Nigel as N.......A and N...L ?
We hope this racist old reactionary receives more than a fine and community service and good behaviour bond when he is sentenced next Tuesday.
To end here, some white supremacist fascist confused me on another blog today by claiming it is not good in Britain today with very very many people living each day now, walking on eggshells, scared that what they might say might offend, AND keeping silent about, and even verbally agreeing with, certain new ideas on race and gender they feel inside to be nonsense that they really do NOT agree with. What could this old fool have been talking about?!
Regards,
Hilda Wolfe.
I wish all the misogyny and homophobia and Islamophobia on this blog was being posted on a blog run by an Englishman. I would inform the police who would soon be knocking on his door!
Certain alleged crimes against a French history teacher and a handful of pious, old French Catholics have been referred to here and elsewhere.
I agree with my university’s Muslim Students Association spokesperson.
It was terribly wrong in each instance for an alleged suspect in some apparent knife attack to be shot by police!
Regards,
Hilda Wolfe.
2 great quotes on Islamophobia from my hero and inspiration Titania McGrath:
You can say what you want about ISIS members and Muslim terrorists BUT at least they are not Islamophobic!
When ever I see a Muslim woman not wearing a hijab my heart breaks for her internalised Islamophobia.
On another matter, I thought it terribly offensive for a London stand up comedian to recently dispute and mock Titania’s memories of first becoming Woke through reading the Bible passage of the Cleansing of the Temple which inspired her at the age of 6 “to do a similar thing” at her local branch of HSBC ( ie a large British investment bank) and claiming that Titania and all the others like her make being Woke seem not about being sensitive to real social injustice but about being nihilistic, narcissistic and illogical and often involved in self defeating and petty-minded thought policing. How dare he!
This will give Father Kavanaugh the sads:
Ashley McGuire, senior fellow with The Catholic Association -- which has endorsed President Trump's re-election -- told Fox News Biden's candidacy has been confusing to Catholic voters "who believe that being Catholic is more than just another label."
“Joe Biden has campaigned on his Catholic faith while promising policies that contradict Catholic teaching and even threatening the Little Sisters of the Poor," McGuire said. "The Bishops Conference has warned of the devastating consequences of the Equality Act for religious liberty and for girls and women but Joe Biden supports it."
and claiming that Titania and all the others like her make being Woke seem not about being sensitive to real social injustice but about being nihilistic, narcissistic and illogical and often involved in self defeating and petty-minded thought policing.
Sounds about right to me.
There is another Catholic universe out there which is often conveyed and represented in articles by progressive Catholics at Patheos.Com.
It is another religious and moral universe. Perhaps the many Catholics who follow blogs like this one, or Fr Z’s blog etc or listen to Taylor Marshall or Michael Voris or don’t go online at all have no idea what many young Catholics are reading online as their so called faith journey leads them to the destination of disbelief. I occasionally read a Patheos.Com “Catholic” article to get a glimpse of this other strange religious and moral universe......some highlights of “When it comes to homosexuality, many Catholics are being stupid and unfair to both Pope Francis and Saint Paul”. Catholic Patheos. Com.
........I am too tired now to type out highlights from thousands of words of nonsense so I’ll attempt a synopsis. Google Patheos.Com Catholic to find articles that confirm Hegel and Marx and Foucault were 100% right in claiming all ideas and concepts (including Catholic beliefs and morality) must be looked at and regarded historically; as embedded in ways of life; as never timeless and unchanging, but embodied in societies and institutions, ie in historical realities that change.......that sums up thousands of words in some recent Patheos Catholic articles.
But basically, if you are interested in learning how every translation of the Greek and Hebrew in the Bible, that ancient library, is an interpretation and that “in the beginning was the interpretation” and even “the best translations are betrayals” .......and the Bible really says nothing about “homosexuality” and “homosexuals” because both those words are recent 19th century conceptual constructs.....true individualism is a post- industrial phenomenon......the people in the Biblical era from Moses, Jeremiah to Jesus and Paul we’re anti-introspective collectivists......people in Biblical times were not psychologically-minded!.....ultimately, the group-specific world of Jesus and Paul could never have conceived of homosexuality as a permanent psychological state involving sexual orientation to those of the same biological gender"...........to repeat the Bible is simply not psychological....
Another article can teach you how Sodomy was a Medieval word based on a misinterpretation and how to read all biblical laws in their proper context and will explain to you what “abomination” really mean !!
You get the idea?
Anonymous @ 2.13am.
Who are you?
And just a suggestion: resist the temptation to write too much.
You make a good point but people are far more likely to absorb that point if you are more succinct.
“Brevity is the soul of wit”.
Anonymous@9:03AM
I thought the person at 2:13 AM was pretty darn succinct.
I learned a lot from what Patheos.com/Catholic was peddling about our Faith (or how their contributors interpret it) without having to wade through all the deconstructionist and historical-critical narrative nonsense.
“When people are forced to repeat so many lies, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in a small way to become evil oneself.”
Theodore Dalrymple.
Hilda Wolfe--just in case your cognitive abilities have lapsed a bit with all the pressures of "misogyny" and "homophobia" that you're coping with, a couple of points:
A knife may not be as deadly as a gun, but it is still a deadly weapon.
A man can easily get his throat cut in seconds with a knife.
The woman beheaded at Mass by a Muslim (you know, the Religion of Peace) was decapitated by a KNIFE.
The suspect shot holding a knife by police had ample warnings to drop it. He made his choice.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to spend the next two hours or so looking for blogs about women, gay men and Muslims so I can go vent my hatred.
I detect more than a bit of irony and satire in the comment of Hilda Wolfe.
The Woke suffer from Factophobia.
"....as their so-called faith journey leads them to the destination of disbelief."
What a great line!
Anonymous at 3.37.
I agree completely regarding Ms Wolfe.
Such claims of - being a white woman often offended on the behalf of people of color.
And repeated over the top nonsense such as describing a murderous terrorist at the scene of his crimes as "an alleged suspect in some apparent knife attack..."
are a bit of a give away.
Or the insanity of pointing out that it can be said of ISIS terrorists that they are not Islamophobic !!
But Tom Marcus don't feel too bad.
Countless bright people thought at first Titania McGrath was a real person and not a parody creation - Even when Titania described herself as not just non binary but "ecosexual", committed to "armed peaceful protest" and talked often of her groundbreaking dissertation on "the corrosive nature of cis-masculine futurity" (I myself do still not know what the Woke mean with their use of "cis")
I think "Hilda" and "Titania" and other created characters try to capture the chiding, self righteous, joyless, intolerant tone of the Woke; and can be a direct hit on the awful state of the Left.
Hilary Clinton writing off about half the people in the USA as a basket of deplorables, ie as homophobic racists, comes to mind.
Dear Hilda,
(Or to all the woke women "Hilda" represents)
I honestly believe my "Christian fairy tales" are a lot more fun and a LOT less crazy. And the next time I have a free half hour I may seek out a woke women's blog to explain why.
Regards,
Monica O'Sullivan.
Is Hilda Wolfe, Father Kavanaugh?
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