{"id":291773,"date":"2021-07-06T02:58:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T23:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bidens-devout-catholic-faith-is-gaslighting-and-other-commentary\/"},"modified":"2021-07-06T02:58:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T23:58:08","slug":"bidens-devout-catholic-faith-is-gaslighting-and-other-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bidens-devout-catholic-faith-is-gaslighting-and-other-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"#Biden&#8217;s &#8216;devout&#8217; Catholic faith is gaslighting and other commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28278f028ff\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28278f028ff\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bidens-devout-catholic-faith-is-gaslighting-and-other-commentary\/#Media_watch_Gaslighting_Without_End_or_Shame\" >Media watch: Gaslighting Without End or Shame<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bidens-devout-catholic-faith-is-gaslighting-and-other-commentary\/#From_the_right_From_MAGA_to_Madness\" >From the right: From MAGA to Madness<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bidens-devout-catholic-faith-is-gaslighting-and-other-commentary\/#Conservative_Race-Theory_Bait-and-Switch\" >Conservative: Race-Theory Bait-and-Switch<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bidens-devout-catholic-faith-is-gaslighting-and-other-commentary\/#Iconoclast_Bezos_Wokeness_Masks_Exploitation\" >Iconoclast: Bezos\u2019 Wokeness Masks Exploitation<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bidens-devout-catholic-faith-is-gaslighting-and-other-commentary\/#Neocon_%E2%80%98Infrastructure_Language_Games_Failed\" >Neocon: \u2018Infrastructure\u2019 Language Games Failed<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Biden&#8217;s &#8216;devout&#8217; Catholic faith is gaslighting and other commentary<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/joe-biden-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Media_watch_Gaslighting_Without_End_or_Shame\"><\/span>Media watch: Gaslighting Without End or Shame<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>American <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> have descended to \u201cfull-blown gaslighting to facilitate whatever the left wants,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2021\/jul\/4\/democrats-gaslighting-of-america-read-or-watch-the\/\">rages Robert Knight in The Washington Times<\/a>. The lies include President Biden\u2019s \u201cdevout\u201d Catholic faith, the nonexistence of a border crisis and \u2014 most shameless of all \u2014 the notion that it was the GOP that sought to defund police. \u201cRead or watch at your own risk.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"From_the_right_From_MAGA_to_Madness\"><\/span>From the right: From MAGA to Madness<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>MAGA has become \u201ca racket for conspiracy theorists and the con artists who exploit them,\u201d and it \u201cis holding the Republican party hostage,\u201d even as \u201cthe Biden administration is lifting\u201d President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cpolicies and stealing the Republicans\u2019 thunder,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/spectatorworld.com\/topic\/time-end-maga-madness-trump-election\/\">Dominic Green warns at Spectator World<\/a>. Democrats won the White House after they \u201cstigmatized a vote for Trump as downwardly mobile\u201d and so \u201cpeeled off just enough aspirational white suburbanites, women especially.\u201d But the GOP base insists the \u201celection was stolen. Not bungled. .\u2009.\u2009. Not mismanaged or corrupted, as electoral processes tend to be everywhere \u2014 and especially in big cities. But stolen, in an organized and elaborate conspiracy to overthrow American democracy.\u201d If the party doesn\u2019t wake up, it faces disaster, \u00adbecause \u201cmoderates and swing voters won\u2019t\u201d buy it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conservative_Race-Theory_Bait-and-Switch\"><\/span>Conservative: Race-Theory Bait-and-Switch<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The authors of the many media pieces painting\u00a0critical race theory as\u00a0a \u201cbogeyman of the right\u201d must \u201cbe trying to drive readers mad\u201d by \u201cpresenting one vision of the world and then denying that it even exists,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2021\/07\/the-fightback-against-critical-race-theory\/\">fumes Douglas Murray at UnHerd<\/a>. CRT has been \u201copenly heralded within American academia and has now been forced upon the wider world,\u201d and yet its proponents now \u201cclaim that our understanding of CRT has become confused \u2014 as if an ideology that is willfully obscurantist ought, in fact, to be straightforward and agreed upon.\u201d As \u201cAmerican parents have finally woken up to what is being taught to their children,\u201d CRT advocates have taken a \u201csudden retreat into contradictory forms of self-defense.\u201d But it is ultimately the fault of CRT\u2019s creators \u201cthat their ideology\u2019s first mass encounter with the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> public is proving such a failure.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Iconoclast_Bezos_Wokeness_Masks_Exploitation\"><\/span>Iconoclast: Bezos\u2019 Wokeness Masks Exploitation<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The blue-check media warmly greeted Amazon Studios\u2019 new \u201cinclusion\u201d policy \u2014 but, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bariweiss.substack.com\/p\/amazons-woke-smokescreen\">scoffs Bari Weiss at her Substack<\/a>, it amounts to the retail giant \u201cturning the making of TV and film into the same woke numbers <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> played at every other elite institution.\u201d Under the policy, Amazon will strive to have \u201cwomen and people of color\u201d fill \u201c50 percent of creative roles in its <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> and shows\u201d by 2024. Plus, \u201cthe studio promises to try to cast actors whose identity . . . matches that of the characters they play. One wonders how Ariel from \u2018The Little Mermaid\u2019 or the sea monster from \u2018The Shape of Water\u2019 would be slotted.\u201d The goal of all this, the company says, is to achieve \u201clasting change.\u201d Is it though? Weiss wonders \u201chow the Amazon drivers afraid to take a bathroom break in order to keep up with their delivery quotas would feel about that. Or the workers in JFK8, the company\u2019s Staten Island warehouse, who labor under the all-seeing eye of Jeff Bezos.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Neocon_%E2%80%98Infrastructure_Language_Games_Failed\"><\/span>Neocon: \u2018Infrastructure\u2019 Language Games Failed<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/noah-rothman\/the-messaging-war-over-infrastructure-is-over-progressives-lost\/\">Commentary\u2019s Noah Rothman declares<\/a>: \u201cThe progressive gambit to redefine \u2018infrastructure\u2019 to include any and every left-wing policy priority is definitively over. Progressives lost.\u201d Team Biden and its media allies had for weeks attempted to reframe the full spectrum of \u201cDemocratic hobbyhorses, few of which had anything related to do with conventional infrastructure.\u201d But the very brazenness of the messaging effort \u201cprovided Republicans with an opportunity they skillfully exploited.\u201d Most notably, rebutting President Biden\u2019s address to Congress, Sen. Tim Scott made it clear that the GOP supports traditional infrastructure \u2014 \u201croads, bridges, ports, airports, waterways, high-speed broadband,\u201d as the South Carolina lawmaker put it. That has forced Dems and the political press to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>end the adjectives \u201chard\u201d or \u201cphysical\u201d to the word \u201cinfrastructure,\u201d making it clear that the bill that enjoys Republican support is just the one most people understand when they hear the word \u201cinfrastructure.\u201d The public gets it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Compiled by The Post Editorial Board<\/em>\n            <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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