“The thing a bigot most desires is the ability to express their bigotry in public and be applauded.”— ek hornbeck
Islam in Two Americas
By ROSS DOUTHAT, The New York Times
Published: August 15, 2010
There’s an America where it doesn’t matter what language you speak, what god you worship, or how deep your New World roots run. An America where allegiance to the Constitution trumps ethnic differences, language barriers and religious divides. An America where the newest arrival to our shores is no less American than the ever-so-great granddaughter of the Pilgrims.
But there’s another America as well, one that understands itself as a distinctive culture, rather than just a set of political propositions. This America speaks English, not Spanish or Chinese or Arabic. It looks back to a particular religious heritage: Protestantism originally, and then a Judeo-Christian consensus that accommodated Jews and Catholics as well. It draws its social norms from the mores of the Anglo-Saxon diaspora – and it expects new arrivals to assimilate themselves to these norms, and quickly.
Unmotherfucking believable.
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Read your Clemens.
Sorry Glenn. You’re a heretic at best.
Is your typical privileged, white, Christian (in his case) male that can’t see his own bigotry even when he puts it in print.