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First, something a little tangential but related through RaceFail '09: I've been thinking a lot about when one has a responsibility to speak up and when it's just no use to reply to someone saying horrible things. I've also been thinking about the "I can say what I want" defense, "it's just words," and "if you don't like it, don't read it". I found essay online. It's in an academic context, about teaching ethics to students, but it deals with questions of who should intervene and under what circumstances, and why words have real force and can be aggression:
James Porter, "The Exercise of Critical Rhetorical Ethics". This is on Google Books; I've never tried posting a link to a chapter there before, so I can't promise it will work.
Today Brilliant Husband got a book in the mail addressed to "Resident," which was already odd. It's called The Enemy Unmasked. Guess who the enemy is? The Catholic Church! And so soon after I'd said that real discrimination against Catholics had all but died out! It's kind of funny, really--until Chapter 2, "The Illuminati-Jewish Front." That is so not funny.
I'm posting partly to see if anyone else on my flist has received one. I also want to say a little bit about this outrageous book and how I was wrong to think anti-Catholicism nearly dead. (I knew anti-Semitism wasn't.) ( More about the book, and how old slanders die hard, if they die at all )
If you get the book, please let me know--yes, I suppose it's just vulgar curiosity. If you hear people repeating stuff from it and want some facts to reply, please let me know that too, and I'll see what I can do.
James Porter, "The Exercise of Critical Rhetorical Ethics". This is on Google Books; I've never tried posting a link to a chapter there before, so I can't promise it will work.
Today Brilliant Husband got a book in the mail addressed to "Resident," which was already odd. It's called The Enemy Unmasked. Guess who the enemy is? The Catholic Church! And so soon after I'd said that real discrimination against Catholics had all but died out! It's kind of funny, really--until Chapter 2, "The Illuminati-Jewish Front." That is so not funny.
I'm posting partly to see if anyone else on my flist has received one. I also want to say a little bit about this outrageous book and how I was wrong to think anti-Catholicism nearly dead. (I knew anti-Semitism wasn't.) ( More about the book, and how old slanders die hard, if they die at all )
If you get the book, please let me know--yes, I suppose it's just vulgar curiosity. If you hear people repeating stuff from it and want some facts to reply, please let me know that too, and I'll see what I can do.
First, something a little tangential but related through RaceFail '09: I've been thinking a lot about when one has a responsibility to speak up and when it's just no use to reply to someone saying horrible things. I've also been thinking about the "I can say what I want" defense, "it's just words," and "if you don't like it, don't read it". I found essay online. It's in an academic context, about teaching ethics to students, but it deals with questions of who should intervene and under what circumstances, and why words have real force and can be aggression:
James Porter, "The Exercise of Critical Rhetorical Ethics". This is on Google Books; I've never tried posting a link to a chapter there before, so I can't promise it will work.
Today Brilliant Husband got a book in the mail addressed to "Resident," which was already odd. It's called The Enemy Unmasked. Guess who the enemy is? The Catholic Church! And so soon after I'd said that real discrimination against Catholics had all but died out! It's kind of funny, really--until Chapter 2, "The Illuminati-Jewish Front." That is so not funny.
I'm posting partly to see if anyone else on my flist has received one. I also want to say a little bit about this outrageous book and how I was wrong to think anti-Catholicism nearly dead. (I knew anti-Semitism wasn't.) ( More about the book, and how old slanders die hard, if they die at all )
If you get the book, please let me know--yes, I suppose it's just vulgar curiosity. If you hear people repeating stuff from it and want some facts to reply, please let me know that too, and I'll see what I can do.
James Porter, "The Exercise of Critical Rhetorical Ethics". This is on Google Books; I've never tried posting a link to a chapter there before, so I can't promise it will work.
Today Brilliant Husband got a book in the mail addressed to "Resident," which was already odd. It's called The Enemy Unmasked. Guess who the enemy is? The Catholic Church! And so soon after I'd said that real discrimination against Catholics had all but died out! It's kind of funny, really--until Chapter 2, "The Illuminati-Jewish Front." That is so not funny.
I'm posting partly to see if anyone else on my flist has received one. I also want to say a little bit about this outrageous book and how I was wrong to think anti-Catholicism nearly dead. (I knew anti-Semitism wasn't.) ( More about the book, and how old slanders die hard, if they die at all )
If you get the book, please let me know--yes, I suppose it's just vulgar curiosity. If you hear people repeating stuff from it and want some facts to reply, please let me know that too, and I'll see what I can do.
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