Be not afraid
So yesterday this happened: I disagree. In their own time and place, Euro-Jesus statues were typically forms of inculturation, not racist propaganda. It’s a practice
Ol’ Maggie Sanger is a Real Equal Opportunity Nightmare for Left and Right
My friend Tom Sundaram, an American Catholic of Indian (as in India) descent makes everybody uncomfortable with some nasty truths about Margaret Sanger. She was
Hm. I never thought about it that way
Relatedly, here’s a little piece (Buzzfeed, so your mileage may vary) on what it took for people who once supported the Cult Leader to finally
Aunt Jemima and a Friday Examen
This week’s news tidbit: Aunt Jemima brand to change name, remove image that Quaker says is ‘based on a racial stereotype’ This is happening in
It’s not 1984 and This is the Opposite of Thought Control
Apropos our discussion this week, here is something I saw on Facebook last week in response to the news that HBO Max decided to stop
On Statues and Moving the Ball Down the Field
Yesterday, we talked about measuring figures from previous ages against their own times and mores and not against ours and used the image of “moving