The Archives
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anti-racism, UU, white collarism, whiteness
UUs’ Real Problem: White Collarism
08.18.10 | Permalink | 17 CommentsContinuing the conversation about UU cultural identity, I want to suggest that what’s hurting us the most isn’t white privilege but what I call “white collarism.” What does white collarism look like? Here are two of it’s unspoken assumptions: The assumption that others would share my cultural or political views and interests if only they […]
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UU, whiteness
What We’re Doing Wrong
08.12.10 | Permalink | 5 CommentsVessel has already posted a great response to John Katz’ recent UU World article defending UU culture, so I’ll just focus on one sentence: If non-whites can meld so easily into our snob-culture that it becomes invisible even to them, then someone please tell me what we’re doing wrong. Really, you don’t see any barriers to […]
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ga, UU
Worst Case Scenario: Phoenix 2012 Boycott
06.14.10 | Permalink | 4 CommentsI don’t think anyone has asked yet who might take our place in Phoenix if we do decide to boycott. Just for the sake of argument, what if the Tea Party or some nativist organization took our spot and showed up with 4,000 conventioneers, 500 of whom turned out for a demonstration at the state capitol […]
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ga, UU
Rhetoric and reality: Phoenix 2012
06.12.10 | Permalink | 7 CommentsThe rhetoric is starting to get a little heated, and one blogger has already apologized for stepping over the line. There’s going to be more and more temptation to bring out weapons of rhetorical mass destruction as we get closer and closer to GA. I’m not a delegate, but if I were, I would be […]
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districts, regions, UU, uua
Who loses with regions?
02.23.10 | Permalink | 5 CommentsUU World put up a good article yesterday about the move from districts to regions. If you don’t know, the country is divided into 19 regions now, and it looks like we’re headed to merging them together to come up with five regions instead. What I’m wondering is who loses in the move from districts […]
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empire, religion, UU, zizek
Therapy, Criticism, and Heresy—Which Is UU?
01.28.10 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI just finished up The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity by Slavoj Zizek, the so-called wildman of philosophy. And I keep going back to a passage on the very first page of the intro. In it, Zizek says that religion in our current day of global empire is limited to two […]
