{"id":4650,"date":"2017-08-18T23:40:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T07:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4646"},"modified":"2017-08-18T23:40:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T07:40:59","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/08\/18\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-114","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 114"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n

First, let me say this has been a heart\u00adbreak\u00ading week. The racism on dis\u00adplay in Char\u00adlottesville was wicked, and if unre\u00adpent\u00aded of will lead its prac\u00adti\u00adtion\u00aders to hell. Most of this week\u2019s links are relat\u00aded:<\/p>\n

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  1. Char\u00adlottesville: Race and Ter\u00adror<\/a> (VICE News, Youtube link). This video is worth watch\u00ading, but be warned that this is dis\u00adturb\u00ading footage. The first two min\u00adutes are com\u00adpelling.<\/li>\n
  2. White suprema\u00adcy angers Jesus, but does it anger his church?<\/a> (Rus\u00adsell Moore, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cOne of the many remark\u00adable things about the pic\u00adture we get of Jesus in the Gospels is how rel\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly calm he is. When his dis\u00adci\u00adples are pan\u00adick\u00ading in a life-threat\u00aden\u00ading storm, Jesus is asleep. When vil\u00adlages reject the mes\u00adsage, the apos\u00adtles are angered but Jesus is not. Threat\u00adened with arrest and even exe\u00adcu\u00adtion, Jesus meets his accusers with tran\u00adquil\u00adi\u00adty. The Scrip\u00adtures show us two things that make Jesus vis\u00adi\u00adbly angry: reli\u00adgious hypocrisy and racial suprema\u00adcist ide\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy.\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. After Char\u00adlottesville, black pas\u00adtors are con\u00adfronting how polit\u00adi\u00adcal to get<\/a> (Jeff Stein, Vox): \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The blood\u00adshed has rein\u00advig\u00ado\u00adrat\u00aded those pas\u00adtors\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 calls for their fel\u00adlow cler\u00adgy to preach about polit\u00adi\u00adcal issues, rather than just salvation.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n
  4. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcJews will not replace us\u00e2\u20ac\u2122: Why white suprema\u00adcists go after Jews<\/a> (Yair Rosen\u00adberg, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When white suprema\u00adcists are vicious\u00adly attack\u00ading Jews as non\u00adwhite impos\u00adtors, then any anti-racists wor\u00adthy of the name must be there to defend them. They can\u00adnot impose their own def\u00adi\u00adn\u00adi\u00adtions of white\u00adness on Jews and side\u00adstep their plight.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n
  5. Is Amer\u00adi\u00adca Head\u00aded for a New Kind of Civ\u00adil War?<\/a> (Robin Wright, New York\u00ader): \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mines con\u00adclud\u00aded that the Unit\u00aded States faces a six\u00adty-per cent chance of civ\u00adil war over the next ten to fif\u00adteen years. Oth\u00ader expert\u00ads\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pre\u00addic\u00adtions ranged from five per cent to nine\u00adty-five per cent. The sober\u00ading con\u00adsen\u00adsus was thir\u00adty-five per cent. And that was five months before Charlottesville.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In response, read Our House Divid\u00aded<\/a> (Ross Douthat, New York Times): \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u2026our divi\u00adsions induce a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar anx\u00adi\u00adety because each of our two main fac\u00adtions reigns supreme in one par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar are\u00adna. Con\u00adser\u00advatism is (some\u00adhow) polit\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly dom\u00adi\u00adnant, with con\u00adtrol of the leg\u00adisla\u00adtive and exec\u00adu\u00adtive branch\u00ades and a remark\u00adable pow\u00ader in the states. Mean\u00adwhile lib\u00ader\u00adal\u00adism dom\u00adi\u00adnates the cul\u00adtur\u00adal com\u00admand\u00ading heights as nev\u00ader before, with not only acad\u00ade\u00admia and the media but also late-night tele\u00advi\u00adsion and sports\u00adwrit\u00ading and even young-adult fic\u00adtion more mono\u00adlith\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly and \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtives \u00e2\u20ac\u201d oppres\u00adsive\u00adly pro\u00adgres\u00adsive. So both sides have rea\u00adsons to feel threat\u00adened, dis\u00adem\u00adpow\u00adered and sur\u00adround\u00aded; both can feel as though they exist under a kind of ene\u00admy rule.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n
  6. Polit\u00adi\u00adcal Par\u00ada\u00adsites<\/a> (Pete Spili\u00adakos, First Things): \u00e2\u20ac\u0153[Trump] is obdu\u00adrate. He saw that his polit\u00adi\u00adcal ene\u00admies were call\u00ading for a con\u00addem\u00adna\u00adtion and, in his defi\u00adance and arro\u00adgance, had to show them that they weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to write his scripts.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n
  7. The Rise of the Vio\u00adlent Left<\/a> (Peter Beinart, The Atlantic): \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you believe the pres\u00adi\u00addent of the Unit\u00aded States is lead\u00ading a racist, fas\u00adcist move\u00adment that threat\u00adens the rights, if not the lives, of vul\u00adner\u00ada\u00adble minori\u00adties, how far are you will\u00ading to go to stop it?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n
  8. Unmask\u00ading the left\u00adist Antifa move\u00adment: Activists seek peace through vio\u00adlence<\/a> (Sara Gan\u00adim and Chris Welch, CNN): \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Antifa mem\u00adbers also some\u00adtimes launch attacks against peo\u00adple who aren\u2019t phys\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly attack\u00ading them. The move\u00adment, Crow said, sees alt-right hate speech as vio\u00adlent, and for that, its activists have opt\u00aded to meet vio\u00adlence with violence.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n
  9. Extreme Protest Tac\u00adtics Reduce Pop\u00adu\u00adlar Sup\u00adport for Social Move\u00adments<\/a> (Fein\u00adberg, Willer, and Kovach\u00adeff, SSRN work\u00ading paper): One of the authors, Robb Willer, is a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor of soci\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy at Stan\u00adford. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The activist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dilem\u00adma \u00e2\u20ac\u201c where\u00adin tac\u00adtics that raise aware\u00adness also tend to reduce pop\u00adu\u00adlar sup\u00adport \u00e2\u20ac\u201c high\u00adlights a key chal\u00adlenge faced by social move\u00adments strug\u00adgling to affect pro\u00adgres\u00adsive change.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n
  10. Trump Is More In Touch Than You Think<\/a> (Rod Dreher, The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive): \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The news media have been seri\u00adous\u00adly dis\u00adtort\u00ading pub\u00adlic reac\u00adtion to Trump\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s han\u00addling of Char\u00adlottesville. Whether this is a mat\u00adter of only see\u00ading what they want to see, or a mat\u00adter of the talk\u00ading heads being con\u00adcen\u00adtrat\u00aded among coastal elites of both par\u00adties, is a mat\u00adter of conjecture.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n
  11. Fac\u00ading Our Lega\u00adcy of Lynch\u00ading<\/a> (D. L. May\u00adfield, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u00e2\u20ac\u0153More than 4,000 African Amer\u00adi\u00adcans were lynched between 1877 and the rise of the civ\u00adil rights move\u00adment in the ear\u00adly 1950s. Lynch\u00ading was a bru\u00adtal pub\u00adlic tac\u00adtic for main\u00adtain\u00ading white suprema\u00adcy, fre\u00adquent\u00adly used with the tac\u00adit bless\u00ading of gov\u00adern\u00adment author\u00adi\u00adties. It was a part of my her\u00aditage I had nev\u00ader been taught\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Note that this piece is inde\u00adpen\u00addent of the events in Char\u00adlottesville.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Things Glen Found Entertaining<\/h3>\n