People generally want to be treated with respect and dignity so long as they play by society's basic rules (follow the law, don't engage in overtly anti-social behavior) and facing opprobrium for sincere beliefs that are core to their identity is very painful
March 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
i would be curious to know the period in american history where no one faced opprobrium for sincere beliefs
Pete Buttigieg says his family was effectively swatted — except, instead of calling the cops, someone called Child Protective Services, lied and said Buttigieg had admitted to 'committing unspeakably violent crimes' and that his kids were at risk.
Rand Paul and The Rs on Homeland Sec committee, which just voted on straight party lines to refer Fauci for contempt, are an absolute kangaroo court. The Hollywood 10 were convicted of contempt during McCarthy days; and this will go down in history as a similar moment of opprobrium and insanity.
August 6, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Rand Paul and The Rs on Homeland Sec committee, which just voted on straight party lines to refer Fauci for contempt, are an absolute kangaroo court. The Hollywood 10 were convicted of contempt during McCarthy days; and this will go down in history as a similar moment of opprobrium and insanity.
We had a couple decades decades where you faced opprobrium for being casually cruel in public, and a bunch of people decided it was their personal Vietnam.
We had a couple decades decades where you faced opprobrium for being casually cruel in public, and a bunch of people decided it was their personal Vietnam.
Trump's main contribution to our culture was showing other rich guys that they can be as odious as they want if they don't back down on their own volition. Much like a lot of laws, social opprobrium just doesn't apply to them
Any candidate who accepts Musk's money will be repeatedly asked if they think it's a political liability to partner with an open bigot—blatantly racist, unambiguously sexist, egregiously antisemitic, you can pick one of many, many available examples—and if they'll give the money back, right? Right?
Elon Musk is expected to spend upward of $100 million to boost Republicans in the the midterm elections.
September 3, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Trump's main contribution to our culture was showing other rich guys that they can be as odious as they want if they don't back down on their own volition. Much like a lot of laws, social opprobrium just doesn't apply to them
Justice Alito takes aim at marriage equality again, warning that Obergefell means "Americans who do not hide their adherence to traditional religious beliefs about homosexual conduct" are being "labeled as bigots and treated as such" by the state and "society." www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
February 20, 2024 at 2:42 PM
as always, your rights are less important than whatever mild social opprobrium Alito suffers while in his bubble of people who never disagree with him