From Dave Griffey at Daffey Thoughts:
A rare picture of censor-culture Catholics being censored
Here:
Yep, that accurately portrays the sudden outrage of having applied to them the very practices they want applied to others;
Hilarious. Mark, who has rejoiced time and again when Tech Companies censor conservatives, now gets his underwear in a knot because it happened to one in his circle. Note the appeal to race identity where there is no reason to think race has anything to do with it. There is no human race, there is only the skin color. Thus says the Left. Apparently some New Prolife Catholics approve this message.
Meanwhile Sam, who has been leading a minor crusade against Bishop Baron since the good Bishop called out “wokeness”, is equally miffed. .Note Sam’s perfect acceptance of ‘wokeness’, which is essentially liberals punishing and censoring wrong think and silencing dissent … until it happens to him. Then he’s – wait for it – pissed now!
Bwa ha ha ha! You don’t get better examples of hypocrisy than that, courtesy of two professional representatives of Catholic teaching in modern apologetics. Of course on a technical level, there’s nothing wrong with societies having standards and expecting people to abide by those standards, and even stepping in when people get out of line. Freedom, after all, does have it’s limits.
The problem is, those who embrace the Left are confronted with being the ones who for decades insisted that anyone banning anything, or punishing any artistic expression, or mandating conformity to any speech, were the fascist Nazis. Trying to square liberalism’s great post-war mantra of ‘always tolerate freedom of expression’ with the current Left invoking a self-righteous intolerance that would shame McCarthy, is one of the big challenges for progressives today.
This is why I insist we shouldn’t say woke. Call it what it is, little leftwing advocates being the intolerant fundamentalists they so often condemn. Just without the self-awareness.
Go here to read the rest. Scratch most Leftists and a Grand Inquisitor, itching to use the wrack and the stake, usually comes leaping out. That is true for Shea who, in his ever leftward voyage said farewell to tolerance as well as to conservatism, not to mention sanity. I confess to having a soft spot in my heart, or perhaps my head, for Rocha who once upon a time seemed open to rational debate, although his post modern cool act got tiresome. However, he is now thoroughly a man of the Left and should accept that cancel culture is a key part of the contemporary Left, and to deny that fact is to deny simple reality.
I still can’t believe Shea gets 93 people to give him $1,465 a month. Just reading some of his latest posts makes the NYT seem alt-right. At this point I think Jesus Himself could show up to try and tell the guy to chill and Shea would call him a “magatard qristian who needs to stop delighting in cruelty.”
If it makes you feel any better, Dan Vasc gets more than that per music video.
https://www.patreon.com/danvasc/posts
Dan Vasc looks just like the bard from “One For All.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTfmtudX5b4
I’d say cuter– there’s videos on youtube of when he first started, at twenty, he grew into the voice– but very similar. 😀
Rocha got slapped by Twitter? Couldn’t be more fitting.
He’s a sanctimonious snake whose viciousness is bearable only because of his impotence. God grant in His mercy that Rocha always be insignificant.
lol @Foxfier I’ll defer to you on the cuteness of boys.
But along similar lines, Rachel Hardy is a young woman I’ve seen singing on youtube as well. She has grown into quite a stunning lady herself with an amazing voice.
@Dale – Do tell us how you really feel. 😉 lol
Familiar with “sealioning”? It fits him to a “T.”
Don, I agree about Sam. I also notice that about a great many who have swung to the left. There is something about going left that makes them more and more like, well, Sam above. He’s not to Mark level yet. Most aren’t. But I think of different Catholics who I once could discourse with who have, since they swung Left or became defenders of Pope Francis (even though I seldom speak to the issues of Pope Francis one way or another) banned me, or banned me after accusing me of something like racism. Things 16 years ago they would have been the first to condemn.
Ah, quite familiar with it, Dale. Both as it actually is, and the “fake” sealioning people have been accused of whenever they do not permit lies and slander to go unchallenged.
Shea especially loved to call other sealions whenever they keep pointing out how wrong his points were.
Familiar with “sealioning”? It fits him to a “T.”
My day is not wasted! I learned something new, never having heard that term before.
There is something about going left that makes them more and more like, well, Sam above.
The contemporary Left is a cult, and the first rule of all cults is that the cult may never be questioned, which is why most Leftists battle strawmen of their own creation rather than actual flesh and blood critics.
The contemporary Left is a cult, and the first rule of all cults is that the cult may never be questioned,
https://www.stanforddaily.com/2021/02/25/scr-does-not-deserve-its-place-on-campus/
Yep
And Yep.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/04/29/stanford-student-government-candidate-says-white-people-need-to-be-eradicated/
The beauty of the contemporary left is that they are no longer hiding their fouled naked souls and assume such a high overt level of self-righteousness, that one need not either believe them, or exercise the normal duty to correct them, since they are beyond all help.
Smirking is the proper response, and for those sealioning folks, just toss them a fresh mackerel .
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/05/glad-they-cleared-that-up.php
Did you catch this?
The Rochester, Minnesota School board.
Karen McLaughlin: lawyer. Has spent about 80% of her career as a prosecutor and about 1/2 the remainder as a legal aid lawyer.
Jessica Garcia: clinical psychologist. Marginally employed during her time in Minnesota; in essence a social worker when employed in Massachusetts.
Don Barlow: retired firefighter, sometime pastor. Black male.
Julie Workman: retired music teacher (school orchestra). The oldest member of the board at age 70.
Melissa Amundsen: housewife, sometime childcare worker. Inveterate joiner of boards.
Cathy Nathan: “health care and public policy consultant” (She was a member of the team of lawyers and data consultants that obtained over $200 billion in the settlement between tobacco companies and state Attorneys General for medical costs due to smoking.)
Jean Marvin: retired teacher (and, one might guess, administrator, as she went to the trouble to get an EdD degree).
Interesting Art. The concept of government speech was mangled by them. You may not merely pick out random phrases and call them government speech. If they received advice from an attorney on this, he/she should hang their head in shame.
If they received advice from an attorney on this, he/she should hang their head in shame.
One of the board members is one Karen McLaughlin, who is not only a member of the bar, but an actual working lawyer.
What struck me was that 6 of the 7 board members have been career public employees. The 7th doesn’t appear to have much of a work history. Five of the six have been enmeshed in the education and social services apparat. (NB, the prosecutor in question was a juvenile case specialist). It’s a board of hall monitors. It’s the Democratic Party exemplified.
Note, at any one time, private sector employees outnumber public sector employees by 6 to 1. The only history this crew has in the private sector would be the black guy’s ministerial appointment, any part time and seasonal work they had when they were students, and the intermittent day care employment one of them has had. AFAICT, the ‘consultant’ is either on staff or on contract with public agencies.
There’s nothing a priori wrong with being a public employee, but nearly all of them? And all but one of these the same type of public employee?
Always open to debate, folks. Feel free to try addressing me directly and see how it goes for you. I like you, too, Donald!
Feel free to stop by anytime Sam! I firmly believe that honest debate is a good thing, and the best way to arrive at truth short of revelation.
Sam,
What specific works are you claiming that people are ignorant of in this tweet:
https://twitter.com/SamRochadotcom/status/1389289981965791237
Where and how? I checked the link via your username, it takes me to your website which has no recent articles nor comment sections to them. Looked on Patheos and your last article there was 2017.
For someone screaming “say that to my face!” you seem to be doing a good job of avoiding and hiding from the public so that nobody can, in fact, address you directly. You want to talk tough, stay around for the roughhousing instead of scampering away home to mama.
Oh and Sam, if you meant come to twitter? No. It’s the worst game ever made and no aid to Christian fruits.
I am willing to wager that well over 50% of the folks worried about cancel culture have already de facto canceled that culture they supposedly treasure by simply not reading or studying. You are the cancel culture, you phillistine anti-intellectual know-nothings!
The statement establishes a standard for clueless pomposity that the rest of us can only shoot for in vain.
Sam,
Popping in to challenge people to engage with you and then not responding over a day later is a pretty cowardly thing to do. If it’s simply that you don’t care about what people here think, you could have easily not commented at all (same thing if you did not have time to respond). If you intended people to reach you elsewhere, you should have specified where.
Sam Rocha? Never heard of him before. If he is an ally of the execrable Mark Shea then he cannot be a good person.
“I am willing to wager that well over 50% of the folks worried about cancel culture have already de facto canceled that culture they supposedly treasure by simply not reading or studying. You are the cancel culture, you phillistine anti-intellectual know-nothings!”
I gather that the above quote is from this Rocha? Somehow I doubt that posting a photo of myself with my library of serious history books would disabuse him of the notion that Trump voters are anti-intellectual.