#reactionary — Public Fediverse posts

Teaching colleague Pat, looking like a hell of a lot of fun, in my first apartment, on Bridge Street in Mifflintown. 1977. #olddays #goodolddays #goodtimes #memory #memories #1970s #twentiethcentury #mifflintown #bridgestreet #smalltown #pennsylvania #centralpennsylvania #smalltownlife #livinginasmalltown #countrytown #hillbilly #hillbillies #juniatacounty #reactionary #conservative #apartment #apartmentlife #firstapartment #1970sfashion #vintagefashion #heirloomclothing

R.I.P. Mr #Kirk, social media and university debate preacher of #hate. Shooting him made him a #martyr for sure. So if they did it to stop his #reactionary poison be spread I don’t see a chance it worked. Thus they committed a #crime and became #guilty for nought. I mean, Kirk is guilty of #instigation, but a victim’s guilt is never an excuse nor a justification.

When Dietrich #Bonhoeffer gave his two cents in the discussion if assassinating Hitler was ethically permitted he said they were guilty either way: Let the #Nazis go on with their #Fascist agenda, murdering millions of human bodies and souls, or, kill the Fuehrer. So, he said, if killing one spared many humans’ lifes he would choose to kill the one. But, he continued, an isolated tyrannicide wasn’t wise politically, because killing the head alone wouldn’t stop the Fascist machine. (All paraphrased by me)

Kirk wasn’t as important as Hitler, of course, but the same weighing of the real political effect should have been done here.

#Glaad EXCLUSIVE: #AlphaPhiAlpha #Fraternity Considers #Politicized #Transgender #Ban.

“Their #decision to #alienate #trans and #nonbinary #people from #membership is #reactionary, #asinine, and #unbecoming of an #organization with a self-professed #commitment to #humanrights

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #HigherEducation #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews #BlackMastodon

https://glaad.org/glaad-exclusive-alpha-phi-alpha-fraternity-considers-transgender-ban/

"Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding. And soon,...with banners flying and with drums beating we'll be marching backward, BACKWARD, through the glorious ages of that Sixteenth Century when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind!" — Spencer Tracy as Henry Drummond in “Inherit the Wind”, 1960

#fearful #reactionary #conservative #fanaticism #ignorance #nothingnew #backward #quotation