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I remember these circulated a long while back when the pro-ship community was small but I think it's time to bring back The Anti-Kitten Burning Coalition.
1. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/02/27/rick-santorum-and-the-anti-kitten-burning-coalition/
2. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2014/12/21/the-anti-kitten-burning-coalition-again/
1. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/02/27/rick-santorum-and-the-anti-kitten-burning-coalition/
2. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2014/12/21/the-anti-kitten-burning-coalition-again/
"They were angry, and that anger didn’t seem to be directed only at the kitten-burners, but also at some larger group of others whom they imagined must condone this sort of thing."
"The Anti Kitten-Burning Coalition is not a defense of kittens, but an accusation against most other people. They are not driven by their opposition to kitten-burning, but by their opposition to a make-believe faction of other people whom they imagine favor kitten-burning. "
"This comparing-down is ultimately corrosive because it bases our sense of morality in pride rather than in love - in the cardinal vice instead of the cardinal virtue. And to fuel that pride we end up looking for ever-more extreme and exotically awful people to compare ourselves-
favorably against, people whose freakish cruelty makes our own mediocrity show more goodly and attract more eyes than that which hath no foil to set it off. …"
