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2/13/2003 01:55:00 AM | Jared Alessandroni Apparently Emmet Hogan is waiting with bated breath for my response for my response to his post. I'm sorry, Emmet, for the delay - I don't read your blog as avidly, it seems, as you do ours. Do I defend my statements? Well, you said statements, but you were refering to my ironic juxtoposition of KKK and CCC (a joke that only like three people got, but whatever), and my argument about the insidiousness of the CCC's tactics, I assume. If so, then yes, I do. You claimed that I was comparing the two right-wing Southern-based self-proclaimed Christian organizations whose work is based entirely on the salvation of their archaic and intolerant worldview? Well, no, Emmet, I'm sure the correlation is so outlandish that it didn't even occur to me. In fact, I didn't say the KKK and the CCC were similar; I compared, in response to Tim's earlier post, the arguments for their respective innocence. Tim said, well, they haven't hurt anyone as far as we know, and I said, well, neither has the KKK for awhile, but that doesn't make them any less disgusting. I was working on the assumption of concrete operational thought on the part of the reader, hoping that they could understand the abract notion of a judgment point - that a group doesn't have to actually go out and hurt people to be dangerous - by using an example of a group that doesn't hurt people, but that still can be very harmful to society. As for my other statement, maybe again I assumed too much on the part of the reader. The problem is, I write my posts for the FreeDartmouth, and I take for granted an articulate audience that understands nuance and context. When I said See, it's one thing to go in with swords and armor, clanging around about what you believe. But a crusade of thought, against other people's beliefs and ideals, this is in some ways even worse. I wasn't advocating violence. The irony of a Dartlogger accusing me of advocating violence has to have occured to you. Well, maybe not. But, anyway, no, I was again referencing my own and previous posts. The context was a defense of the Crusaders for the - hopefully - inapplicable assumptions that came with their name - Tim's post. My point was that many people, like him, don't see anything wrong with this kind of thought crusade because it's not manifest in violence. Well, I believe that it's not okay in any case, that the intolerance and judgment - ironic given, as Jon noted, the teachings of Christ - of people of other religions is disgusting in any case. Now, if they were flashing weapons around, at least then they're out there, openly on the attack. When it's subversive, when they ask Freshmen to fill out a little survey for candy, when they try to casually depose a Mormon from a leadership position, it's harder to trace, easier for them to deny. I thought that the simple image I'd attempted to create, a half-witted Knight-crusader "clanging around" was enough to explain this. It's about the transparency of that. Christianity and guile really don't belong together, but neither to most of the Right's hateful judgments. It's a shame that they, along with many similarly repugnant Catholics, give such a foul name to the Lord. In any case, I apologize for any confusion or lost sleep. perma link |
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