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I Was Canceled. You’re Next in Line.
The American Mind ^ | 06/26/20 | Timothy J. Gordon

Posted on 07/01/2020 4:21:51 PM PDT by PoliticallyShort

On June 3, 2020, I was fired from my post as department chairman for publicly opposing and mocking the inherent terrorism of the Black Lives Matter movement. A doxxing-type petition arose against me early in the day; I was “canceled” before dinnertime.

Notably, unlike others who have faced similar forms of cancellation, I was not dismissed from a large secular state college or a public institution of secondary education, where capitulation to the mob is somewhat to be expected. This was a conservative, Catholic high school, whose theology department (which I chaired) rejects ab initio the ontological essentials of BLM .

In other words, most of the recent firings by openly Marxist employers—such as the Regents of the University of California—boil down to nondescript “dog bites man” ledes. But my narrative falls far closer to “man bites dog,” given the antipathy with which Roman Catholic theology has typically regarded the Marxist neo-terrorism that postconciliar parochial schools are lately endorsing or condoning.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blacklivesmatter; blm; cancelculture; culturalmarxism; freespeech; marxism
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To: Catholic and Conservative

There are peaceful protesters out there. There have also been a lot of vandals, rioters, and looters operating under the cover the former provide. Some of the former have turned into the latter.

That some people are unable to admit this is a sad statement on the state of the world.


21 posted on 07/01/2020 5:19:53 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Catholic and Conservative
People were offended that he referred to BLM “protestors” as terrorists.

There's a lot more to it than that.

He's a rabble rouser who intentionally pushes the envelope. Of course he has every legal right to but the Diocese has every right to get fed up.

Garces Memorial High School has apparently dismissed a theology teacher after more than 100 students, parents and alumni signed an online petition complaining that he’s been spreading “unacceptable messages of ignorance and hate” on social media and in the classroom.

22 posted on 07/01/2020 5:22:37 PM PDT by semimojo
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To: bboop

“She said ‘Some people complained that you hurt their feelings.”
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What a bunch of BS.
Looks like it doesn’t matter if your feelings got hurt.


23 posted on 07/01/2020 5:26:45 PM PDT by xenia ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell)
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To: PoliticallyShort

That’s the gun grabbers’ rationale to disarm us!

“Anyone can snap, therefore no one should own a gun.”

So glad I’m retired (uncancellable?) with a short lifespan left. These days it’s like being 85 years old in Berlin in 1945.

ONE ChiCom military laboratory did this to us!


24 posted on 07/01/2020 5:27:07 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Pres. Trump doesn't wear glasses. That's because he's got 2020.")
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To: PoliticallyShort
He’s in good company with this Catholic priest in Carmel IN.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/hamilton-county/carmel/2020/06/30/carmel-church-pastor-message-against-black-lives-matter-demonstrators/3284148001/

25 posted on 07/01/2020 5:34:09 PM PDT by Aliska (“Human debris slithering around the primordial soup of Twitter” - Rush Limbaugh, May 27, 2020)
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To: richardtavor

Read a letter by Margret Sanger who wanted birth control for the Negroes, Jews, and Italians (Catholics?)

Interesting article on Irish Catholic immigration in the 1840’s and 1850’s, how they were hated and “fundamental belief that Catholicism was incompatible with basic American values”

https://www.history.com/news/when-america-despised-the-irish-the-19th-centurys-refugee-crisis


26 posted on 07/01/2020 5:54:16 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: DesertRhino

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ_sEZxciWM


27 posted on 07/01/2020 5:55:59 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: xenia

How about the people who like me whose feelings were hurt? boy oh boy I’ve been madder than a hornet. (and relieved to be gone).


28 posted on 07/01/2020 6:35:24 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Alberta's Child

He’s totally credible, regardless of your standards.


29 posted on 07/01/2020 6:37:09 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Repeat Offender

This happened to a religion teacher a year ago at my daughters Catholic school- (K-8) not for posting something but because he taught controversial things like marriage is between a man and woman and that abortion is wrong. The lib kids told their parents and the diocese ran him out. We came to his defense as he was absolutely the basis for sending our daughter to a catholic school- but to no avail. I let my daughter attend the next year with mixed feelings because the alternative here in nova is horrible. The woman who picked up her kids in front of me had a hippies for Hillary bumper sticker need I say more about the state of the Catholic Church and catholic education. It mirrors the culture.


30 posted on 07/01/2020 6:39:58 PM PDT by TeddyRay
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To: iontheball
As Martin Niemöler in Hitler’s Germany proclaimed, “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”


I have to point out that Niemöler's quote has been often misrepresented over the years; interestingly, despite being held in a concentration camp himself, he actually made no mention of the Jews.

Here is his actual quote; I've put the key words in bold. (A "Gewerkschafter" translates roughly to a tradesman in a union.):

Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Kommunist.
Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.
Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten, habe ich geschwiegen, ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.
Als sie mich holten, gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte.

More here: www.gutzitiert.de

(Your point, however, is very well-stated.)

31 posted on 07/01/2020 7:05:22 PM PDT by Captain Walker
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To: PoliticallyShort

Is the author by the name of Dr. Taylor Marshall?

would be intwrestinf to find out he has a chan on yt by his very name.....a bit too rigid for my taste but do like to hear any side of the story


32 posted on 07/01/2020 7:53:33 PM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns
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To: PoliticallyShort

MAybe SOrros should cancel Sorros. THis story that a jew sending jews to NAzi death camps is fine is a psychosis that must end.


33 posted on 07/01/2020 11:23:38 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Nearly every teacher in this nation has been trained by godless Marxists in Marxist-run colleges and universities. This is true for private schools, too. SCARY!

I was very active on Free Republic on school issues but not very much in the past few years. I honestly feel it is too late to do much to change the direction that K-12 schooling is leading this country.


34 posted on 07/02/2020 4:13:56 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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