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Chapter 6 of "How We Learn to Be Brave" discusses (among other things) how to move on after making a big mistake. An example is that the National Cathedral invited Max Lucado to speak as part of the Cathedral's virtual Sunday worship. Although his speech didn't contain offensive content, people were upset because Lucado had a history of saying awful things about LGBTQ+ people. Budde recognized the harm done by platforming Lucado, and apologized.
I would have liked to see her explain why she doesn't feel the same about some of the platforming that she did in the pages of "How We Learn to Be Brave". The book contains numerous positive references to clergy that she seems to regard as friends or mentors, even though they belong to religious groups that reject both the equality of LGBTQ+ people and the ordination of women. I have immense respect for Budde, but my respect for her became less with each positive reference to individuals who belong to bigoted religious groups. I am 100% certain that she disagrees strenuously with their institutions about both LGBTQ+ rights and women's rights. Why, then, did she platform them?
Here's a thread of commentators noting and pushing back against the attempt of journalists and others to whitewash Charlie Kirk's legacy:
"I also find it bizarre and frankly insulting that much of the coverage of this—again, bad—event is asking us to pretend that Kirk stood for civil disagreement and engagement and that we as a nation must come together to mourn him."
~ Emily Tamkin
"To pretend that Kirk was this other, more civil person is to do two things. First, it is to lie, and to pretend that homophobia and racism and antisemitism and sexism are tolerance. They are not. But second, it is to put conditions on our denouncements of violence. I don’t need Kirk to have been good to think that it was bad he was shot."
#CharlieKirk #guns #violence #homophobia #racism #sexism #fascism
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@bkuhn people will find any excuse to blame mothers
Big news from the #spycops public inquiry: the Chair, Sir John Mitting, today announced his intention to retire from the role long before the Inquiry is finished. 🧵
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"One bad apple? It was a whole rotten barrel" - large feature in today's Times speaking to several of the women who exposed their partners as #spycops & lifted the lid on 50 years of the unlawful police unit & its institutional sexism. Here's a link without a paywall: https://archive.ph/fRIw2
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