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Culture War Roundup for the week of July 22, 2024

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I'm seeing a lot of rumblings in Catholic circles about the drag performance aping The Last Supper. A lot of "there's one religion in particular where they never would have engaged in this mockery."

Also for extra Culture War points they included a child.

Well sure, they don’t want to die. Meanwhile, what are the Catholics gonna do?

Meanwhile, what are the Catholics gonna do?

Discreetly hire organised crime to break some legs. That'd do it.

Do what? The message won't resonate if you don't take credit. People are afraid to badmouth Islam not just because you might get visited by people who might let it slip that they were hired by the Muslims as they break your legs. People are afraid to badmouth Islam because a very obvious jihadist might cut your head off and nothing will be done to curb the ideological programming young men like him get in their communities.

The message won't resonate if you don't take credit.

I don't think that's true. If high profile theater kids engaging in what's very stale (God has been dead for quite some time) but nevertheless tasteless public blasphemy met freak accidents, were found suffocated inside carrier bags or hanging alive head down in the woods with zero attribution, other nihilistic theater kids would take notice.

I don't even hate these performances because they're blasphemous, they're extremely cringe. If people want to be weird sex freaks, I don't want to see that in public or know about it.

There's also the obvious jihadi advantage that they're willing to die. So some rando can pick up a knife and stab people at a farmer's market or subway. This requires much less overhead or structure.

Organized crime would prefer to make money without being labeled as a terroristic enterprise and getting the full force of the government turned on it, no matter how much you offer. Rational people just aren't as scary.

When they go after people leaving skid marks on rainbow crossings, is it because LGBT activists are so violent?

That’s the ingroup. Islamists aren’t in-group for Western elites, they’re just scared.

The reaction of a large chunk of Western elites to Gaza can't be explained just by being scared.

Which reaction are you talking about? Most seem to be trying to thread the needle between various political factions.

There's a large chunk of the elites that are sympathetic to Gaza and oppose Israel, in ways that can't be explained by just being afraid.

Those people aren't really elites. They quite literally are just kids on college campuses, and we can tell this because they're routinely getting in trouble- slaps on the wrist but still trouble- for it.

I assume "elites" here refers to journalists, democratic party workers etc.

No; they're the ones organizing those literal kids on college campuses.

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