@HotepJesus Looks like self-defense to me, too. And under Florida’s Stand Your Ground law, she had no legal duty to retreat. He advanced toward her despite being warned to walk away.
@misfitpatriot_ It’s smoke and mirrors and it’s insulting to those same people. Look, here’s motorcycles and people fighting each other and a bald eagle, so don’t pay attention to what I’m doing to hard-working Americans at the gas pumps, and at the grocery stores. The Misinformed Patriot.
@DanHollaway Western civilization is a synthesis — Hebrew, Greek, Roman, Christian, English common law.
My only point was that “Judeo-Christian civilization” as a political identity is a 20th-century framing.
@DanHollaway The Founders quoting the Hebrews proves biblical influence.
It doesn’t prove they conceived of America as a “Judeo-Christian civilization.”
That’s the distinction.
@DanHollaway The Founders didn’t conceive of America as a ‘Judeo-Christian civilization’—that’s a 20th-century synthesis. New word vs. new framework aren’t the same thing.
@HotepJesus Criticism isn’t “puritanical” just because it isn’t applause.
And pretending every negative reaction is racially motivated is the intellectual version of unplugging the smoke alarm because you don’t like the noise.