Cliff's main issue is the belief that everyone who holds a position different than his can be painted with the same brush. It's something many of us do, myself included, in some form or another, but it is funny to see someone so critical of identity politics and the same habitual generalizing in others constantly rely on it so heavily.
No, not every critic of Catholicism is a young, white, educated, progressive male.
No, not every person who believes we should rename a school is doing it for moral gratification or believes that will be enough.
Can we all just agree that Cliff has no intellectual standing to make these kind of claims, note his posts as ridiculous, and move on? It's been the same for years and this is a fairly stupid diversion focused on one silly person, in a topic that is relatively important and has plenty more of value that could actually be discussed.
Or continue. It's funny at least. Just I don't know how respectful or interesting it is for 20 of the last 25 posts to be us talking about each other. This one included.
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