Comments Which Conservatives Block From Their Blogs For March 24, 2021

Sometime on or after March 17

 To R. Scott Clark’s quote from the WP that the Equality Act’s allows the gov’t to act without having  to shows that it has a compelling interest and Religious  rights. This appeared in Heidelblog.

I can't read the WP article on the bill because I lack a subscription to the paper, but I read the headline. And what is missing from Clark's above quote is any reference to the rights of the LGBT community, something not missing from the Post's article title. And such implies that Christians should be privileged over the LGBT community even when, according to Clark,  the LGBT community receives some respect.

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March 24

To James Davenport and his article that tries to provide a conservative approach to cancel culture. This appeared in the Imaginative Conservative blog.

The fault that cancel culture has is not conceptual. Its fault is in its scope. Cancel culture has taken an all-or-nothing approach to addressing perceived  injustices. And in doing so, it has thrown the baby out with the bathwater. And it isn't just the "Left" that practices cancel culture, the "Right" does too. One only has to think of Trump's response to athletes who kneeled at the playing of the National Anthem to see that. Cancel culture was practiced by Rush Limbaugh's all-or-nothing tirades against non-conservatives. Cancel culture is about using marginalization as punishment in order to silence someone. And that is what Rush Limbaugh's show was all about.

Thus, to reject everything cancel culture practices and to deduce that it has no merit and must be opposed, let alone ignore, is to be a participant in cancel culture. After all, cancel culture is cancel culture no matter one's size or ideology.

The cancel culture being objected to  in the above article is the cancel culture practiced by the "Left." Why the objection? It is because the Left challenges Western Civilization which many conservatives strongly associate with Christianity. And thus those conservatives  see an attack on Western Civilization as an attack on Christianity. And that is seen in the above article by the predictions of future, and even present, persecution. In addition, those who are privileged are sensitive to significant criticisms of any context in which they have grown up.

If we can get by the sensitivities to criticism, we can both learn from and correct cancel culture as it is now. Otherwise, we will just become a unwitting member of it by rejecting everything it has to say.