Considering how sharp elbowed a site Rorate Caeli tends to be, I was surprised to see that they are the first site on Twitter to block me. I assume it was in response to this tweet:
That was in reference to a tweet blaming the US for the diminution of Christians in Iraq, which is rather like blaming the Allies for Hitler mass murdering Jews during the War. I find it amusing considering the Leftists I roast regularly here and on Twitter that it is a group who I commonly agree with who blocked me. As always, the Internet is not to be confused with real life.
Such a minor point of disagreement. There is a case to support the idea that the divided regimes of the Baathists in Iraq and Syria being slightly more tolerant of Christians than the Islamists but an account like Rorate Caeli should be more magnanimous and thicker skinned. It is worth mentioning that the Christians many who worked for Saddam were corrupt and amoral Janissaries.
Andrew, I believe Baghdad Bob was Christian.
The eugenicist-Joobasher-conspirazoid element who’ve attached themselves to Steven Sailer talk this way as a matter of course. Palaeo types aren’t much different. IMO, the vectors influencing the left and the alt-right are similar. The main difference is that the alt-right tend to be antagonistic to leftoid mascot groups and have a particular hostility to Jews.
Maybe the intern was in charge of screening comments that day and they were triggered (it doesn’t take much for Gen Z to be triggered)? Or maybe Saddam was in the system algorithm of forbidden words? Pretty bizarre tbh.
Thanks Ezabelle. My words exactly.
“New Catholic” is unusually touchy and quick with the block button.
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I think the U.S. did, with its usual ham-handed foreign policy, unwittingly contribute to the staggering migration of Chaldean Catholics out of Iraq. But all that aside, Rorate Caeli‘s Twitter/X is entirely the work of “New Catholic”–so we’re told, anyway. He’s fairly notorious for sometimes holding fast to dubious opinions, even those that are clearly improbable. (For example, he has maintained over the years an indifference bordering on hostility toward the traditional rites of Holy Week as compared to Bugnini’s changes in the 1950’s. In fairness, though, he did allow a lengthy article to be published on his site explaining why all those changes were just awful.)
The atheist/secularist socialist regimes of Nasser, Assad and Saddam are/were relatively tolerant of Christians merely because they wanted to use them as a wedge to dilute the power of Islam and increase their own power. Not from any sympathy for Christians, much less attraction to Christianity.
Similar to how the atheist cultural Marxists who are in charge in most western countries ironically support radical Islamism in order to dilute and break what remains of the Christian social order in western countries and stamp out Christianity except as a meaningless cultural relic.
Bagdad Bob’s real name was Muhammad Saeed al-SahhafI wonder if it was God’s will that the Christians be driven out of Iraq before the Iranians turn the place into pools of molten glass.