I mean, she is the woman who once tweeted (almost certainly since deleted) something about not knowing any Catholics until she went to college. She probably didn’t mean that literally, but it’s hard to be in Texas & not know a lot of Catholics Maybe she meant _white_ Catholics?
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What especially annoys me about that Bruenig bullshit. is that there _is_ a religious left in the US, & they’re putting themselves out there every day...off Twitter. They’re helping asylees at the border & protecting people in cities from ICE. They’re fighting for affordable...
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,,,housing & for enforcement of labor laws & against corporate polluters. They’re the backbone of any anti-war movement. They’re fighting for racial justice & against torture & against the carceral industry. And when I worked for the Detroit AFL-CIO they were literally...
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...putting their bodies on the line standing up to the paramilitaries brought in to break a strike. I had a “For Arrests” file for when we’d do civil disobedience & needed people of stature willing to take arrests; it was mostly ministers, rabbis, Imams, a Catholic Bishop...
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...(Tom Gumbleton) loathed by the right (within & outside the church)...& the guy who in 2003 began introducing Medicare for All. John Conyers was always ready to take an arrest for working people & their unions. In fact, by far the best speech I ever herd John Conyers...
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...give—I I heard him give many speech’s, most of them not very good—the best speech I heard Conyers give was in New Bethel Baptist Church. It was the church made famous by a close ally of Dr King, (& Aretha’s father), Reverend C.L. Franklin, who organized the Detroit march...
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...in 1963 where Dr King gave a speech that was essentially the draft of the I Have a Dream speech. Decades later that church & many other churches, synagogues, temples, mosques, & other religious communities committed to _and working for_ social, racial, legal...
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...political, & economic justice. There is a religious left in the United States. It’s just not what most white evangelicals & socially conservative white Catholics want it to be. But to say there is not & can not be a religious left in the United States is profane
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This woman is clearly bonkers.
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Of all the good writers out there how she managed to get an Op Ed job first at WaPo and then NYT is beyond me.
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