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Someone having a "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" experience over the "sieg heil" kerfuffle.
Anglican priest trying to get on good side of MAGA idiots does an "ironic" Nazi salute at right wing forum ---- and gets kicked out of his church for being an asshole.
Love it.
One of the speakers was a man of the cloth, a gentleman who bills himself as Fr. Calvin Robinson.² At the end of his remarks, Fr. Robinson did this:
Anglican priest trying to get on good side of MAGA idiots does an "ironic" Nazi salute at right wing forum ---- and gets kicked out of his church for being an asshole.
Love it.
1. Consequences
Saturday was the National Pro-Life Summit. It was filled with serious, committed intellectuals who are devoted to the dignity of the human person and the sanctity of life.¹One of the speakers was a man of the cloth, a gentleman who bills himself as Fr. Calvin Robinson.² At the end of his remarks, Fr. Robinson did this:
Moral Clarity on the Nazi Salute Finally, someone was able to say the true things and impose consequences.
1. ConsequencesSaturday was the National Pro-Life Summit. It was filled with serious, committed intellectuals who are devoted to the dignity of the human person and the sanctity of life.¹ One of the speakers was a man of the cloth, a gentleman who bills himself as Fr. Calvin Robinson.² At the end of his remarks, Fr. Robinson did this.  Things to note:
No reasonable person could doubt Robinson’s intention. He was doing a Hitler salute, but cloaked under the veil of irony, as a way of signaling to the audience that people who object to Hitler salutes are bad.
Or, to put it another way: He’s trying to use mainstream objections about Hitler salutes to launder the Hitler salute and make it an acceptable in-group identity marker. This would be morally reprehensible for anyone. But from a Christian minister? Lord have mercy. Yadda yadda yadda, there was more sieg-heil discourse. But then, last night, Fr. Robinson’s denomination decided to just say the true stuff, out loud. Here’s the statement put out by the Anglican Catholic Church: Hallelujah. He was doing a Nazi salute. He knew he was doing a Nazi salute. And the purpose of his Nazi salute was to make the audience laugh and cheer about how, man, don’t the shitlibs get so triggered by Nazi salutes these days? The ACC was willing to say these obvious truths out loud and then impose consequences. Someone who would do such a thing cannot be a Christian minister, whatever they might call themselves. So the ACC defrocked him. Making that statement and imposing that consequence was not a distraction. It did not give Robinson what he wanted. It was an act of moral clarity and a net good for society. There’s a lesson here for all of us: It’s okay to just say that stuff like this is wrong. But at the end of the day, it’s not really about Calvin Robinson. There will always be people like him in the world. The real issue is the people on either side of him: the audience who laughed and applauded his Nazi salute on and then his church which defrocked him for it. In a healthy society, both of those groups would have rejected Robinson. The audience would have turned its back on him. Students for Life (the organization that put on the National Pro-Life Summit) would have escorted him out of the building, told him to never come back, and apologized to the crowd for platforming him in the first place. At least some of the luminaries who wound up on the same card as Robinson would have made some sort of denial, saying, “Yeah, that’s forked up. Do not endorse.” I have not seen any such sentiments from the other speakers or Students for Life. but it’s possible I’m missing something. That neither the audience nor the people behind the National Pro-Life Summit had the same moral clarity and courage to act as the Anglican Catholic Church bishops did is not surprising, but it is disappointing. Especially since the ACC gave them cover. All they would have had to do was say, “I agree with the bishops of his church. What Robinson did was wrong.” Moral Clarity on the Nazi SaluteFinally, someone was able to say the true things and impose consequences.
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