Everything Is -Ist

@stone_toss is way to damn accurate. https://t.co/lNeFliJvHN pic.twitter.com/eoA38hSLw4

— ArcherCC (@Real_Life_Dad) August 27, 2021

Edit.

Boycotting my local farmers market today, to own the nationalists https://t.co/XuGE5lsVuY

— Pavlos Papadopoulos (@pleonidasp) August 28, 2021

Naive

We may be part of one human family, descended from Adam, but we are divided not only through sin but by differences in lineage, language, and culture, which do matter.

Benedict XV in 1917 admonished that we retire the word #race from our vocabulary, because we are all part of one #humanfamily. #CatholicHistory pic.twitter.com/EgGbAkGawT

— Ulrich L. Lehner (@ulrichlehner) May 16, 2021

Doing Their Best to Better Race Relations

Holding the Coalition of the Fringes Together

When he was no longer in office, Donald Trump caused a group that voted 90% against him to assault a different group that also voted against him. Also White people.

A mayoral candidate supports this? https://t.co/uwFDKYlsKB

— FoxworthForCongress (@FoxworthFor14) February 22, 2021

Another IDW Recommendation of Shelby Steele

Everyone should be reading Shelby Steele, seemingly especially since they're making it harder for you to watch him.https://t.co/maLjmWOIZq

— Sexy James Lindsay, knows kung fu (@ConceptualJames) October 15, 2020

This Is the American Church

Acquiescing to charges of racism.

"...[O]ne of the reasons our country has so few canonized saints is because many of our Catholic clergy, religious & laity betrayed Jesus Christ through their participation in the grave sin of racism."

An honest conversation full of uncomfortable truthshttps://t.co/qRfQZd4Esn

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) October 8, 2020

Shelby Steele

I highly recommend you read this piece and his book White Guilt.

"Steele’s work now looks prescient—it identified the underlying forces that would eventually shape our explosive cultural moment, and offers a more honest accounting of our past and present."https://t.co/WEq8Ub3cDZ

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) October 8, 2020

A ConInc Discussion of Race Relations?

Or something better?

Here I am with the young Coleman Hughes, discussing our current moment of "racial reckoning" for an Intercollegiate Studies Institute viewership:https://t.co/Vw1VZ0XTmT

— Glenn Loury (@GlennLoury) September 27, 2020

James Lindsay on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Actually, Charity is the Firewall

along with a healthy sense of the order of charity. But charity does not require massive political integration.

Appropriately Danielou-esque. The goal of Christian politics is Christian peoplehood. That concept, by the way, is a mighty firewall against race hatred. https://t.co/yvrmoCVKDP

— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) August 18, 2020

Race and Anti-Fragility

On anti-fragile anti-racism.

My anniversary appreciation of Wendell Berry’s The Hidden Wound.https://t.co/8fcW6Dbs5D

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) August 5, 2020

This is out now at @commonwealmag https://t.co/8fcW6Dbs5D

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) August 5, 2020

Reading this book years ago radicalized me . . . it's just my radicalism looks reactionary. https://t.co/hXyudTqMQp

— James Matthew Wilson (@JMWSPT) August 5, 2020

"The healing steps Berry advocates can’t be captured in a campaign or a tweet, much less in a human-resources certification module."

On re-reading Wendell Berry's book about American racism, The Hidden Wound: https://t.co/tJlmEPkeKh

— Commonweal Magazine (@commonwealmag) August 5, 2020

The Ghost Tweeter Isn't the Problem

Friends, I recently spoke about internet ministry, dialogue, and bigotry on the @jesuiticalshow.

Racism is deep within our cultural DNA. We must therefore act as leaven through social action and through bringing hope and beauty to the world: (1/2) https://t.co/yROUMGOzGQ

— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) August 3, 2020

I'm sure the bishop agrees with what is posted in his name.

The R Word

In current usage the word “racism” means two or three different things and I’m enough of a philosopher to think we could clear up at least some disagreements if could take some steps to disambiguate. https://t.co/Xn4QvVI0Pc

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) July 3, 2020

Christianity May Be the Cure for True Racism

But even if everyone in the US were to be converted, that would still not be a political solution to the divisions that exist.

Why Only Christianity, Not Identity Politics, Can Solve Racism https://t.co/ZZysI0RQsJ Since identity politics *is* racism, this is a tautology.

— Mark Krikorian (@MarkSKrikorian) June 13, 2020

America's Original Sin

Not racism, but allowing the enslavement of a foreign race and bringing those slaves to the colonies, without consideration of the consequences.

Oligarchs at work.

NCR: The church must make reparation for its role in slavery, segregation by Shannen Dee Williams

From @BlkNunHistorian: "The systematic denial and erasure of Black Catholic history denies the fundamental truth that Black history is Catholic history." https://t.co/5PCuqVRQZu

— NCR (@NCRonline) June 15, 2020

"At the time, their project...was contrary to segregation laws. However, from the outset, black and white sisters alike have lived side-by-side...sharing every chore, every moment of prayer, every sorrow, and every joy of community life." https://t.co/k8gPTMUBAh

— Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP (@FrAquinasOP) June 17, 2020

Human Dignity Is Black Dignity by Vincent Lloyd



Do Latins have something to say about healing and reconciliation beyond a religious version of civic nationalism? Could they even concede the freedom of association and separation as a political solution?

Same Old Solutions

Latins still living the civil rights movement and looking for bureaucracy, legislation, and the state to solve "racism," when the underlying issue is human nature.

For those who pushed back when I said that black men continue commonly to experience special indignities, including at the hands of bad apple police, here is testimony of Notre Dame Law Dean Marcus Cole, a conservative, Catholic, impeccably honest person:https://t.co/g6QJqTylvY

— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) June 6, 2020

What's to guarantee that Notre Dame will be producing "moderates" rather than SJWs? None.

More Unnecessary Commentary

People need to realize the limits to their competency to make comments to the public about ongoing criminal cases.

We cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form. At the same time, we have to recognize that violence is self-destructive and self-defeating. Nothing is gained by violence and so much is lost. Let us pray for reconciliation and peace.

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) June 3, 2020

At General Audience today, Pope Francis addresses the American people: "Dear brothers and sisters in the United States, I have witnessed with great concern the disturbing social arrest in your nation, following the tragic death of George Floyd." 1/ pic.twitter.com/XWaoGdIBSR

— Catholic Sat (@CatholicSat) June 3, 2020

NuAmerican Problems

The False Meritocracy by Amar Patel

Can NuAmericans ever be free from emotional negativity that they should expect from being immigrants to another country? A sense of "belonging" is not a human right but must be earned, and outsiders or foreigners must do their part to be accepted by a real community. So why should we accept a NuAmerican as one of the standard-bearers for the ASP? What has he done to actually integrate himself into an actual American people, rather than rely on his citizenship and civic nationalist identity?

Here's the other standard-bearer:

"I am forty-six years old—the same age as #GeorgeFloyd. What if George had been born into my life and I into his?"@CarrollVPOTUS discusses #racism, #individualism, & our false #meritocracy on the @AmSolidarity blog:https://t.co/129xHDoanu

— Brian Carroll 2020 (@BrianCarrollASP) June 2, 2020

"Tut Tut"

AmConMag: The Road to Soft Totalitarianism

Dreher calls Sam Francis an "anti-Christian racist" and yet he acknowledges that identity politics is anti-white/etc. He just doesn't recognize that Francis' recommendations are a legitimate response to that kind of attack.

Here is how it's going to go down. https://t.co/zXT6fvLOW8

— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) June 1, 2020

The "statement" was made for gullible conservative Christians, who may be the last people left in America who believe that there is anything truthful, good, or honorable in this shyster. He's hiding behind a book he never reads, whose teachings are inimical to the way he lives. https://t.co/QU6w8Rdelo

— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) June 2, 2020

Slouching Towards Statism

Sincere Latin do-gooders believe racism is a sin. And yes, there is a sin of hatred that can be named racism. But racism is a word to delegitimize many other attitudes or beliefs which may be erroneous but not necessarily sinful.

Still, many "respectable" Latins have the Yankee activist mindset that characterized the Civil Rights Movement and also of SJWs, though SJWs have taken that mindset further in seeking not only "justice" or "equality" but greater sanctions against those who disagree.

Perhaps these Latins are just naive pawns who do not understand that they are providing excuses for the state to have greater power to eradicate wrong-think and freedom, even if that freedom is exercised in a way with which these moralists disapprove. Don't be a dupe for mass politics or mass movements, even if they claim to be promoting principles with which you agree, whether it be "equality," or "the common good." First determine whether you actually embody these principles in your own lives and in your relations with others, and if you don't, figure out whether you are a hypocrite or whether you have a good reason for not doing so.

Is this just the beginning of more orchestrated violence for the summer? I don't know, but statements such as the USCCB's will not do anything to fix the problem, not when many of the bishops perhaps caved too quickly to the civil authorities in closing their churches. Without liturgical services and the meeting of their community, what sort of basic witness can they provide to their non-Catholic neighbors as an "institution"? How many of these peacemakers would be willing to go out to take a stand against antifa and the destruction of property?

Any attempt to forge a politics of the common good, it should go without saying, must be explicitly, publicly, uncompromisingly anti-racist.

— Brandon McGinley (@brandonmcg) May 29, 2020

CWR/CNA: ‘Racism is not a thing of the past’ – US bishops respond to George Floyd killing

Seven U.S. bishop chairmen of committees within the #USCCB have issued a statement in the wake of the death of #GeorgeFloyd and the protests which have broken out in Minneapolis and in other cities in the U.S.: https://t.co/BBfi5YPuS2. pic.twitter.com/KbsIiijmrY

— U.S. Catholic Bishops (@USCCB) May 29, 2020

Here's the press statement: Statement of U.S. Bishop Chairmen in Wake of Death of George Floyd and National Protests

“The Pope made it palpably clear that he is a friend of the Negro people, and asked me to tell the American Negroes that he is committed to the cause of civil rights in the United States.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after meeting Pope St. Paul VI, whose feast we celebrate today pic.twitter.com/a0WSTKuJDz

— Quang D. Tran, S.J. (@LeMeTellUSumtin) May 29, 2020