This is one of those threads that is so damn good that we don’t really have much to add … which of course, won’t stop us from wandering endlessly, but yes.
This is how the elite remain the elite, at least in their little minds.
It’s long but worth the read, so grab a snack.
Discussions:
When the evangelical elite speak of “persuasion” in the public sphere, they usually assume the following ethos:
1) Right fist; engage the left thoughtfully.
2) To attribute good faith to the left (despite many reasons for not doing so) and to attribute bad faith to the right.
– Stephen Wolfe (@PerfInjust) August 29, 2020
This.
To continue.
3) Attack the right to gain credibility with the left, especially when it comes to the “hypocrisy” of the right.
4) The “credibility” with the left is always the form that shapes the rhetoric.
– Stephen Wolfe (@PerfInjust) August 29, 2020
And they love to involve any Republican who has turned against their party.
See Liz Cheney.
See Adam Kinzinger.
See Mitt Romney.
5) Convince the left not of ideas, but of your dignity to tolerance and the will to be “respectable”.
6) Treat any moral accusation or condemnation of the left, however insane, as an opportunity for public self-criticism.
– Stephen Wolfe (@PerfInjust) August 29, 2020
It’s your fault if you don’t like their ideas, so you should be a better person or something.
7) Theologize any concept of the left to the extent that you can enlighten those who call it a concept of the left.
8) Never morally condemn the left; always morally condemn the law.
– Stephen Wolfe (@PerfInjust) August 29, 2020
!!!
9) Affirm a fantastic moral political theory that would magically appear without the use of civil power.
10) Affirm only those narratives of the story or events that CNN would broadcast.
– Stephen Wolfe (@PerfInjust) August 29, 2020
11) Never lead or initiate an indignant crowd; always join it and Christianize your wing. It condemns Christians who do not express indignation.
12) Hide cowardice and passivity with words like “prudence”, “wisdom” and “Christian witness”.
– Stephen Wolfe (@PerfInjust) August 29, 2020
13) To question the motives, the hypocrisy, the principles and the sympathy of any Christian who could act or speak politically for some purpose that annoys the left.
14) Act with confidence and determination only when you criticize the right or when you support something the left agrees with– Stephen Wolfe (@PerfInjust) August 29, 2020
15) Whenever you attack the left, always equate it morally with the right, which effectively redirects your criticisms from left to right or to your fellow Christians.
– Stephen Wolfe (@PerfInjust) August 29, 2020
All time.
16) Any condemnation of the left must include a condemnation of the right. And if you can’t do the latter, stay silent on the former.
(variation of 15)
– Stephen Wolfe (@PerfInjust) August 29, 2020
The right forced them to do it, you know!
17. Moral outrage directed at the Right includes specific names / institutions; the moral outrage to the left is not specific and contains only lament for the general social ills and the complicity / hypocrisy of the (Christian) right in it.
– Stephen Wolfe (@PerfInjust) September 10, 2020
Bingo.
18. Eliminate the right; place the left.
– Stephen Wolfe (@PerfInjust) 11 September 2020
This. So much this. ^ Friend nailed it.
19. Right sins are unique and specifically condemnable; the sins of the left show the general “fracture” of the world.
– Stephen Wolfe (@PerfInjust) September 16, 2020
It is the world’s fault when the left is wrong.
20. Right-wing critical analysis is dismissed as a “great conspiracy”; left-wing critical analysis deserves a charity hearing.
– Stephen Wolfe (@PerfInjust) December 30, 2020
Many of those big right-wing conspiracies seem to come to fruition. Crazy, we know.
21. Unconditionally validates all feelings from the left; validate the feelings of the right, if necessary, only in a highly qualified sense – in light of whatever statements the left makes regarding those feelings. Better yet, ignore them or reject them as racist, classist, or sexist.
– Stephen Wolfe (@PerfInjust) December 30, 2020
The”.
22. When the righteous abuse their power, in principle it is wrong (bad). When the left abuses its power, it is wrong (or worrying) only because it could empower or encourage the right.
– Stephen Wolfe (@PerfInjust) January 11, 2021
Guys, I told you it’s okay.
23. When someone on the left dies (eg RBG), say that you “strongly disagree with him, but respect him”. When someone on Right dies (eg Limbaugh), remain silent or express contempt (preferably indirectly, or with a retweet or passive assault).
– Stephen Wolfe (@PerfInjust) February 19, 2021
Does the oyster scholar ring any bells?
24. Complaint lasts right; “Good discussion” and “demonstration” for the left.
– Stephen Wolfe (@PerfInjust) June 24, 2021
25. When left for your friends, be silent. When the right comes for your friends, come quickly to their defense, praise them for their “courage” and mock and ridicule the right.
– Stephen Wolfe (@PerfInjust) September 23, 2021
26. Accusing fellow Christians of “complicity” in social ills to redirect criticism from the left towards the Christian right.
– Stephen Wolfe (@PerfInjust) January 27, 2022
27. Cursing prayers for the law. Comprehensive and empathic prayers for the left.
– Stephen Wolfe (@PerfInjust) May 5, 2022
tell you
Spot freakin ‘on.
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