Read on Twitter
Yikes. Yeah, religious institutions/culture is a real blind spot for liberal centrist types. Not all, obviously (Friedersdorf is good), but most. Hence this, or Cathy Young’s assertion last month that the Right has no cancel culture. https://twitter.com/jttiehen/status/1248328624446423040">https://twitter.com/jttiehen/...
To be brutally honest, I think it comes down to two things: lack of familiarity (they& #39;re more comfortable talking about Hollywood, the Ivy League, etc.), and a sort of contempt for religious spaces ("Who cares what happens at Liberty? Those kids aren& #39;t going anywhere.")
The easiest way to prove my point is to ask that you simply swap the religious terms/figures/events for secular ones. Then ask yourself why we so rarely see these stories framed as PC/Cancel Culture run amok. https://rachelheldevans.com/blog/christian-bookstores-chokehold">https://rachelheldevans.com/blog/chri...
Yanking books from shelves. https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/february-web-only/keep-studying-fired-pastors-james-macdonald-lifeway.html">https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/f...
Yanking books from shelves. https://pulpitandpen.org/2019/01/18/lifeway-quietly-drops-td-jakes/">https://pulpitandpen.org/2019/01/1...
And more. I started collecting these during the American Dirt controversy. You get the idea. https://www.baptiststandard.com/news/baptists/lifeway-may-pull-peterson-books-from-shelves-over-lgbt-views/">https://www.baptiststandard.com/news/bapt...
https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2016/october/lifeway-stops-selling-jen-hatmaker-books-lgbt-beliefs-chris.html">https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2016...
https://www.cnn.com/2011/12/15/us/christian-bookstore-pulls-bible/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2011/12/1...
This one is just a few months old. A major controversy that largely escaped public notice, at least in the outlets and accounts I follow. https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ent-kirk-franklin-boycot-dove-awards-police-shooting-20191028-maobcrp4azdlvautd7aqxev7ei-story.html">https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertain...
Etcetera etcetera etcetera. https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/politics/state/russell-moore-donald-trump-southern-baptists/">https://www.cnn.com/interacti...
You get the idea. One person who has been admirably sharp on this is David French. I& #39;m sure he& #39;s not the only one, but he& #39;s the one that I know of. But he& #39;s a lone voice among mainstream Politics Twitter commentators. https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/the-churchs-real-political-correctness">https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/the-chu...
It& #39;s not healthy. It distorts the public& #39;s understanding of major cultural issues. Things like free speech, political correctness, and so forth. The exact nature of the problem is difficult to describe, but I& #39;ll try:
Centrist liberals, as well as most libertarians, share most of the Left& #39;s political, cultural, and even metaphysical assumptions. This includes a general lack of familiarity or comfort with religious spaces. The worst are positively blind to them.
This same sort of problem pops up in multiple critiques of the Left, albeit in different forms. Here& #39;s another example. https://twitter.com/JeffreyASachs/status/1138504055549038592?s=20">https://twitter.com/JeffreyAS...
Or with political correctness. https://www.vox.com/2018/10/12/17968336/pc-culture-no">https://www.vox.com/2018/10/1...
There& #39;s actually a recent dissertation on political correctness that exemplifies precisely this problem, but I can& #39;t dig it up right now. Believe me when I say the problem is widespread.
Anyway, this is the absolute best survey on political correctness I& #39;ve come across. https://morningconsult.com/2019/04/24/pc-and-prejudice-gauging-divides-in-americas-culture-war/">https://morningconsult.com/2019/04/2...
