perhaps a productive roil; certainly was for Hawthorne...
"The puritanical streak of shaming and stigmatizing and threatening runs deep. This is the country of extraordinary political and cultural freedom, but it is also the country of religious fanaticism, moral panics, and crusades against vice."https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/andrew-sullivan-is-there-still-room-for-debate.html …
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We have intermittent panics, not continuous ones; our shaming is phased; free speech is the counter-pressure, the inoculation to continuous puritanism in the US
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It’s easy to forget - but the United States banned ALCOHOL with a constitutional amendment
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*presses copy of The Metaphysical Club closer to bosom*
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The big problem is that too much of the “debate” still resolves to attacks on truths that Americans (supposedly) find self evident. It is unfair to expect nuanced discussion when questions of basic rights and humanity (for some people) are still in play.
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That white people want to debate that racism is the essential element of the American project, historically and today, is more proof that white people continue to slow human progress.
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Exactly.
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This is pure drivel.
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not an argument
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