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barrydeutsch · 8 months
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The Time Before Gender Ideology
By me and Becky Hawkins!
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MLK at 95.
January 15, 2024
ROBERT B. HUBBELL
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born 95 years ago on January 15, 1929. As a Baptist minister, he advocated non-violence while promoting civil rights. He spoke for the poor, the oppressed, and the disenfranchised. While he was imprisoned in a Birmingham jail for protesting segregation, he responded to eight white ministers who had criticized him for participating in protests that they described as “unwise and untimely.”
Dr. King’s famous reply to the white ministers explained why he traveled to Birmingham from Atlanta to protest:
I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.
While Dr. King was keenly aware of the racism that served as the understructure of the Christian church in the old South, he would be shocked by the virulent, mean-spirited, anti-Christian message that animates many (not all) evangelical congregations in America today. They form the backbone of Donald Trump's support in Iowa and beyond. They have adopted Trump's message that treats the poor, oppressed, and disenfranchised as “outsiders” and “others” who do not belong in America.
Over the last several days, we have learned that members of the Texas National Guard physically blocked federal Border Patrol agents from responding to reports of immigrants in distress in the Rio Grande. The bodies of a mother and two children were later recovered from the river in the area where immigrants were reported to be in distress.
Texas, of course, denies that its cruel actions caused the drownings—a denial that should be viewed skeptically from a state whose governor—Greg Abbott—recently commented Texas troopers could not shoot immigrants crossing the border because the troopers would be charged with murder by the Biden administration. Texas governor criticized after comment about shooting migrants | The Texas Tribune.
Similar animus underlies the recent comments of Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves, who withdrew Mississippi from a federal program to provide food to school children during summer breaks. Governor Reeves said Mississippi withdrew from the program to fight “attempts to expand the welfare state.”
Blocking efforts to rescue a drowning mother and her children? Regretting the inability to shoot immigrants because it would be murder? Denying food to poor children out of spite? Who are these people? How do they look at themselves in the mirror?
Ninety-five years after Dr. King’s birth and fifty-five years after his death, it is difficult to believe that people who identify as upstanding members of the Christian church can support such actions.
Another section from Dr. King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail is relevant to this moment in our nation’s history:
But the judgment of God is upon the church as never before. If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. I meet young people every day whose disappointment with the church has risen to outright disgust.
Dr. King’s words were prophetic. See Pew Research (10/17/19) In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace.
And, of course, as Dr. King recognized, “there are some notable exceptions” among church leaders who supported his work—just as there are exceptions today. Several readers have recommended Faithful America as an antidote to Christian nationalism. The organization’s helpful FAQ page explains why “Christian nationalism” is not Christian. See Resisting Christian Nationalism: FAQ + Resources | Faithful America.
On this day commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth, we can see how far we have come—and how much further we must go. He didn’t despair. Neither should we.
Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter
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mysharona1987 · 4 months
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Imagine getting fired for acknowledging what pretty much everyone knows already.
Shit, man. Even Piers Morgan knows he’s being fed propaganda and is angered by it.
PIERS MORGAN!
He’s basically if Rupert Murdoch said: “Give me a Fox News host…but less photogenic and British.”
And even he’s calling out Isreal’s nonsense on air and is horrified.
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vilkalizer · 1 year
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Fucking hell i actually like this one.
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wardsutton · 1 month
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My latest for today's Boston Globe.
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if-you-fan-a-fire · 9 months
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Unemployment relief delivered by the government in minuscule amounts, The Worker. July 3, 1933.
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canadianabroadvery · 16 days
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siryouarebeingmocked · 9 months
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...I don’t think the person who made this comic actually thought it through.
Imagine making a pro-trans comic so bad that a subreddit that’s mostly people on the right say you’re making trans people look bad. 
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profeminist · 2 years
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Photo ID: Political cartoon showing a façade (fake front) to the Supreme Court of the United States, and behind the façade is a Christian church.
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
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barrydeutsch · 9 days
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"Sex Is Real" Is A Euphemism
"Sex Is Real" Is A Euphemism
A #PoliCartoon by me and @nadinescholtes
CW: Transphobia
Transcript and discussion and receipts: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sex-is-real-is-99145990
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This political cartoon will be relevant as long as the US continues to exist.
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
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mysharona1987 · 5 months
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nemfrog · 1 year
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A hand with with wings holds a pen to write "socialism" on the sky. Light breaks through the clouds. The Masses. February 1912.
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