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vs. Dr. Edwin Woodruff Tait<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Klan\"<\/p>\n

Ku Klux Klan members burning a cross in Denver, Colorado: 1921<\/span> [public domain \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/a>]<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Edwin Tait <\/a>has been an online friend for about 18 or so years, and we have engaged in many debates which I enjoyed, and thought were helpful and constructive (so that I have posted them on my blog). He is an Anglican church historian who recently decided to enter the Catholic Church. The rhetoric concerning the campaign and election of Donald Trump has become so acid and toxic, that I think we see the effects of that in this rather remarkable exchange: even between longtime friends. Edwin takes a more liberal political view, while I am a distributist conservative and Trump voter. This occurred in a Facebook thread<\/a> of mine. His words will be in blue<\/span>.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

I\u2019m perfectly willing to be persuaded that [Trump chief strategist Steve] Bannon is a racist and KKK member [see my long paper\u00a0<\/a>about it]: just show me the evidence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0for same!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always followed truth wherever it leads. That\u2019s why I became a Catholic in 1990, and a pro-lifer in 1982, and an evangelical Protestant in 1977. But providing such damning evidence simply hasn\u2019t been done. Zero, zilch, nothing, nada.<\/p>\n

Who says he\u2019s a KKK member? The charge is that he has made Breitbart a forum for racist views. Yes, it\u2019s all done in a wink-wink nudge-nudge fashion under layers of postmodern ironic laughter. You cite Milo\u2019s piece on \u201chow to destroy the alt-right\u201d as if it refuted the charges, but actually it confirms them. Milo says that he disagrees with the alt-right on points that (except for support for Israel) have nothing to do with racism. He then says that most members of the alt-right aren\u2019t racists. But then he launches into an unhinged screed about how white European males built our civilization an are being unfairly discriminated against, and how this is the real racism prevalent in our society. He calls for the criminalization of the \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d movement based on the unfounded claim that they \u201ckill cops.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He\u2019s been accused of being a white supremacist, or a shill for same.<\/p>\n

So he wasn\u2019t actually accused of being a KKK member? I thought you were arguing for sticking to the facts, and here you are making up a straw-man accusation. (I cut Mark a lot of slack on that sort of thing, though it drives me nuts, so logically I have to cut you some slack too. But I do find you to be operating with a rather blatant double standard.)<\/span><\/p>\n

I think that a man who openly brags about making Breitbart the \u201cplatform for the alt-right\u201d is clearly a \u201cshill\u201d for white supremacy. I am willing to take Mr. Bannon at his word when he says that race, per se, is not what he\u2019s concerned with. But the line between \u201cculture\u201d and \u201crace\u201d is pretty thin, and he clearly has no problem making common cause with racists, because he thinks their racism gets \u201cwashed out\u201d in the end. That\u2019s the most charitable reading of him I can see. It\u2019s also possible that he\u2019s just being hypocritical when he claims not to be a racist, but I\u2019m not going to leap to that conclusion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Edwin, cut the crap! It was obviously rhetorical exaggeration. He\u2019s accused of being in bed with white supremacists [see, e.g., a Google search <\/a>about this] so instead of saying all that every time, I simply say \u201cKKK\u201d as a sarcastic rhetorical exaggeration. It\u2019s perfectly understood in context.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But as usual, those on the left have no sense of humor at all, and so often completely miss the humor we dreadful conservatives dare to use. It took liberals 20 years to figure out Rush Limbaugh\u2019s humor, which was perfectly obvious to me the first day I heard it (since I had loved the satire of National Lampoon<\/em>, Saturday Night Live<\/em>, and Monty Python<\/em> long since).<\/p>\n

Do any of these links actually say that he is a KKK member?\u00a0Now you\u2019re retrenching to \u201cliberals think it\u2019s his fault that the KKK likes him,\u201d which is quite different from \u201cliberals accuse him of being a KKK member.\u201d\u00a0Again, you don\u2019t get to brag about your adherence to facts while playing fast and loose with the facts yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you have the cheek to claim that you care about facts again, after just blowing off your own loose treatment of the facts, I will challenge you again until you block me. Your behavior here is disgraceful and hypocritical. All you needed to do was say, \u201cOops! I guess I did get a bit carried away.\u201d But no, you can\u2019t even do that.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t admit to something I didn\u2019t do. You can\u2019t figure out how language works. That\u2019s your<\/em>\u00a0problem, not mine.\u00a0At the very top of this thread, in my introduction, I stated, \u201cKKK-type<\/em><\/strong> white supremacist\u201d: this shows that I was not claiming that they literally<\/em> say he is in the KKK. It was a direct quote from my blog\u00a0paper <\/a>itself. Other instances in the paper were also clearly sarcastic and non-literal:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\nThe inquiring reader, will, of course, follow Mark\u2019s link, looking for some \u2014 any \u2014 evidence that Bannon is some terrible KKK Imperial Wizard.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

One simply has to listen to it, assume (with no evidence whatever) that Bannon is somehow associated with this abominable bilge, or would sanction it, and voila!: Bannon is the KKK Grand Imperial Wizard!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\nIn another instance, I used the KKK as an illustration of the fallacy of equivalence.\u00a0I\u2019m pretty sure it was the same in the combox, but I\u2019m not going through all that, to prove some point to you that is already established anyway.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The instance immediately above was also rhetorical exaggeration, as well as a hypothetical:\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m perfectly willing to be persuaded that Bannon is a racist and KKK member: just show me the evidence<\/em><\/strong> for same!\u201d<\/p>\n

If you keep acting like an insufferable ass in these political (and now linguistic) matters, I will assuredly block you, which would be a great shame.<\/p>\n

In fact, NPR came quite close<\/a> to saying that Bannon actually supported the KKK (which ain\u2019t much different from being a member, in the final analysis), in its farce-interview with the supremacist Spencer. Breitbart editor Joel Pollak commented upon it<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Listeners are left to conclude \u2014 deliberately, it seems \u2014 that Bannon supports \u201cwhite identity politics\u201d \u2014 as well as swastikas and the KKK, to which she refers in her interview with Spencer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Again you\u2019re using a blatant double standard. When Mark [Shea] uses loose rhetoric you accuse him of lying. When you do it, and are caught out, you double down and accuse me of \u201cnot understanding the nature of language.\u201d NPR did not say that he was a KKK member or that he supported the KKK. I can\u2019t see anything in the article in question<\/a>\u00a0that suggested anything of the sort. Yes, McIvers quizzed Spencer on what he<\/em>\u00a0thought about the KKK. But that was an entirely reasonable thing to do. That\u2019s not an accusation that Bannon supports the KKK\u2013it\u2019s an attempt to get clarity about just what this \u201calt-right\u201d thing is. Since Spencer is generally \u201ccredited\u201d with inventing the term (though according to Wikipedia the full term \u201calternative Right\u201d was first used by Paul Gottfried), he was a reasonable person to ask.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not acquitting them of bias\u2013sure they could have noted, for instance, that Milo Yiannopoulos claims that the \u201calt-right\u201d of which he\u2019s not quite a member is not truly represented by Spencer. Nobody\u2019s perfect. But again, if you want precision, be precise. Don\u2019t use weasel terms like \u201cthey came quite close to saying\u201d as a euphemism for \u201cthey didn\u2019t actually say but I want to insinuate that they said.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The interview did all it could to make the insinuation that Bannon is a racist and white supremacist, using the guilt-by-[very remote!] association method. The title was, \u201c\u2018We\u2019re Not Going Away\u2019: Alt-Right Leader On Voice In Trump Administration.\u201d The person interviewed was racist wacko \/ supremacist Richard Spencer, whom I have already quoted in my blog post, disavowing any<\/strong> connection whatever<\/em><\/a> to Trump, Bannon, or Breitbart News. The first paragraph is as follows:<\/p>\n

Stephen Bannon, Donald Trump\u2019s incoming White House chief strategist, used to run the website Breitbart, which he called \u201cthe platform for the alt-right.\u201d The alt-right has been associated with racism, anti-Semitism and misogyny. Its adherents believe they have a voice in the new administration. NPR\u2019s Kelly McEvers talks to Richard Spencer, a white nationalist who coined the term \u201calt-right.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bilge like: \u201cIt is fascinating to watch \u2018prolife\u2019 Trump supporters now wasting their days and nights striving with might and main to nuance, deny the existence of, excuse and defend the flaming obvious racism of the Alt Right Bannon champions\u201d [from Mark Shea] is hardly \u201cloose rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve explained myself. It\u2019s not good enough for you, and I believe that is because in political matters (as I have said before) you are beyond reason. You\u2019ve said the same about me, so we\u2019ll have to leave it at that. We can throw mud and grunt or wrestle now, or we could not (ain\u2019t interested).<\/p>\n

You say I am blatantly hypocritical with double standards; I say you misinterpreted literary genre in context, in part because of prior political bias. Which is worse? If you\u2019re right, I am a real ass and hypocrite (like the Pharisees: one of Jesus\u2019 chief enemies). If I\u2019m right about you, it is merely saying something that we all<\/em> fall into at times (including myself).<\/p>\n

We all misinterpret, as fallible humans. But then we all have to choose if we accept the clarifying word and interpretation of the person whose writing we are interpreting<\/em>, or if we will double down and stake out a position where we deny their own report<\/em> and in effect, say they are lying about their own\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>writing and meaning intended in it.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a bad place to go; doesn\u2019t do anyone any good. If you want to conclude that I am a liar and have no clue about my own words in my writing, I suppose you can do that, but it doesn\u2019t help our friendship or even advance this particular discussion at all.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

If we venture over to Edwin\u2019s Facebook page, we see him coddling the same obsession there as well. He favorably shares an article from [the utterly objective and fair-minded] New York Magazine<\/em>, entitled, \u201cDonald Trump Building Team of Racists\u201d<\/a> (11-18-16), It contains priceless gems like the following:<\/p>\n

That Bannon\u2019s ex-wife has testified to his hatred of Jews has attracted a great deal of attention, but this fact both over- and understates the racial nature of his beliefs. Bannon\u2019s journalistic work is centrally dedicated to the task of refashioning conservatism along white-identity lines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And so on and on it goes with liberals and race. They just can\u2019t stop it. Facts be damned! To hell with reputations! They\u2019re more obsessed with race (in all the wrong ways) than panda bears are with bamboo (i.e., their sole food).<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

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Formerly a campus missionary, as a Protestant, Dave was received into the Catholic Church in February 1991, by the late, well-known catechist and theologian, Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave\u2019s articles have appeared in many influential Catholic periodicals, including \"This Rock\" (now called \"Catholic Answers Magazine\"), \"Envoy Magazine\" (Patrick Madrid), \"The Catholic Answer,\" \"The Coming Home Journal,\" \"Gilbert Magazine\" (American Chesterton Society), and \"The Latin Mass.\" He also writes a featured column for every issue of \"The Michigan Catholic\": published by the archdiocese of Detroit, and was editor for most of the apologetics tracts published by the St. Paul Street Evangelization apostolate. Dave\u2019s apologetics and writing apostolate was the subject of a feature article in the May 2002 issue of \"Envoy Magazine.\" He served as the staff moderator at the Internet discussion forum for The Coming Home Network, from 2007-2010. Dave has been interviewed on many nationally syndicated Catholic radio shows, including \"Catholic Answers Live\" (twice), \"Faith and Family Live\" (Steve Wood), \"Kresta in the Afternoon,\" \"Son Rise Morning Show,\" \"Catholic Connection\" (Teresa Tomeo), and \"The Catholics Next Door.\" His large and popular website, \"Biblical Evidence for Catholicism,\" was online from March 1997 to March 2007, and received the 1998 Catholic Website of the Year award from \"Envoy Magazine.\" His blog of the same name (now transferred to Patheos), begun in February 2004, contains more than 1,500 papers, at least 500 debates or dialogues, and over 50 distinct \"index\" web pages. Unsolicited correspondence has indicated many hundreds of conversions (or returns) to the Catholic faith as a result, by God's grace, of these writings. Dave's conversion story was published in the bestselling book \"Surprised by Truth\" (edited by Patrick Madrid; San Diego: Basilica Press, 1994). Sophia Institute Press has published six of his books: \"A Biblical Defense of Catholicism\" (Foreword by Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J., 1996 \/ 2003), \"The Catholic Verses\" (2004), \"The One-Minute Apologist\" (2007), \"Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths\" (2009), \"The Quotable Newman\" (editor: 2012), and \"Proving the Catholic Faith is Biblical\" (2015). He is co-author (with Dr. Paul Thigpen) of the inserts for \"The New Catholic Answer Bible\" (Our Sunday Visitor: 2005), and editor for \"The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton: The Very Best Quotes, Quips, and Cracks from the Pen of G. K. Chesterton\" (Saint Benedict Press \/ TAN Books: 2009). \"100 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura\" was published by Catholic Answers in May 2012. His \"Quotable Wesley\" compilation was published by (Protestant \/ Wesleyan publisher) Beacon Hill Press in April 2014. Several of his 49 books are bestsellers in their field. Dave maintains a popular personal Facebook page, a Facebook author page, and has a Twitter account as well. He offers almost all of his books in e-book form on his own Biblical Catholicism site (http:\/\/biblicalcatholicism.com\/), at a permanent deep discount: only $2.99 for ePub, mobi, and AZW, and $1.99 for PDF. His writing has been enthusiastically endorsed or recommended by many leading Catholic apologists, authors, and priests, including Dr. Scott Hahn, Fr. Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Marcus Grodi, Patrick Madrid, Steve Ray, Tim Staples, Devin Rose, Mike Aquilina, Al Kresta, Karl Keating, Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Brandon Vogt, Marcellino D'Ambrosio, and Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave has been happily married to his wife Judy since October 1984. 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