For many, especially the young, discovering a new meaning in the midst of the fallen world is thrilling. And social-justice ideology does everything a religion should. It offers an account of the whole: that human life and society and any kind of truth must be seen entirely as a function of social power structures, in which various groups have spent all of human existence oppressing other groups. And it provides a set of practices to resist and reverse this interlocking web of oppression — from regulating the workplace and policing the classroom to checking your own sin and even seeking to control language itself. I think of non-PC gaffes as the equivalent of old swear words. Like the puritans who were agape when someone said “goddamn,” the new faithful are scandalized when someone says something “problematic.” Another commonality of the zealot then and now: humorlessness.
Quick Thought – Really? Didn’t know that was a job description for Melania. Just FABulous, Kate Andersen Brower!
I don’t know about you but I’ve never seen a job description or an S.O.P (Standard Operating Procedures) manual for the wife of the President. Sure, they have a staff for stuff but nowhere in the Constitution, in legal statue, or White House notes is there any description of what a First Lady is supposed … Read more
