{"id":113352,"date":"2019-09-04T00:47:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T07:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=113352"},"modified":"2019-08-30T08:59:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T15:59:51","slug":"its-not-just-anti-semitism-that-has-infected-conservative-catholicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2019\/09\/its-not-just-anti-semitism-that-has-infected-conservative-catholicism.html","title":{"rendered":"It’s not just anti-semitism that has infected conservative Catholicism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Here\u2019s an oldie but a goody:<\/p>\n

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I thought of that cartoon as the man who used to be Patrick Coffin, fresh from ginning up nutty conspiracy theories about the pope (which Dawn Eden Goldstein recently<\/a> chronicled<\/a>) decided to favor us with this deeply Catholic and definitely not racist observation that certainly has nothing to do with the trope about black people having lots of different baby daddies and certainly does not feed the nutty conspiracy theory that Michelle Obama is actually a man<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I have no idea where he gets this from since they both resemble their parents to me and I have never, till this second, heard anybody ever mutter that \u201cno one wants to admit\u201d otherwise.\u00a0 But then I lack the clear vision of the Conspiracy Theorist Who Is Also Just Asking Questions About Whether Francis is Really the Pope.\u00a0 His readers are quick to put 2+2 to together though:<\/p>\n

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Does Coffin rebuke this nuttiness?\u00a0 Of course not!\u00a0 He rebukes people calling him out for his skanky and racist weirdness:<\/p>\n

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Um, I dispute it and have no idea where you get this idea the girls don\u2019t look like their parents other than just pulling it out of your butt.\u00a0 I\u2019m particularly amused that you couch your ugly insinuation in the language of courage, as grave sinners always do<\/a>.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that (as he says below) \u201cno one is permitted\u201d to say such a vile dumbass thing.\u00a0 It\u2019s that decent people don\u2019t say vile dumbass things. But Coffin doubles down:<\/p>\n

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And when his racist fanboi chime in\u2026<\/p>\n

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pic.twitter.com\/FI7PzQvK0E<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 coopie1990 (@coopie1990mil) August 29, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n