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Erica Appel's avatar

I saw Bari Weiss on Bill Mayer a while back. She seemed smart and like a reasonable conservative with some ideas. I had no idea about this political movement of hers. Thanks for keeping us informed!

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C.M.'s avatar

I am also a staunch supporter of free speech. You wrote:

". . . a movement whose members believe that social change itself, and people who criticize them for their views, are threats to their free speech."

This belief and these movements are deeply rooted in religion. And yet very few among those fighting to save our democracy will directly, rather than obliquely, talk/write about this basic fact. Instead, they dance around the cause by focusing on the symptoms. Few are calling out the false claim of being silenced for what it really is: the social change itself you referenced that no longer conforms to a religious, fundamentalist world-view. And to rub salt into the wound, women are forced to subsidize their own subjugation via the tax-exempt status of religious groups.

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