The war on abstinence and traditional morality hits a fever pitch--NOT
It's "war on Christmas" time again, folks. And, in that spirit, an off-his-rocker social conservative has once again manufactured "liberal hostility" to his belief system. A hostility that simply doesn't exist.
It turns out that a Princeton student and Anscombe Society member, Francisco Nava, sent anonymous "threats" to himself and fellow members of the pro-abstinence society. Nava then faked being beaten for his outspoken moral conservatism by two masked men. (Daily Prince, NYT)
Clearly, this poor dude is unbalanced. But it is significant how his mental issues manifested themselves. Nava's hoax reimagined the subtle, systemic, and indifferent forces of gradual social change as brazen, focused forces that mean harm.
It really reminds me of the fundamental group psychosis of the "war on Christmas" people: because many people don't want religious values and ceremonies imposed by the government or other public institutions, they imagine that those same people are out to get Christmas. Because society couldn't become more secular (pluralistic, in my view) all on its lonesome, could it?
As Princeton's current student president told the New York Times,
It turns out that a Princeton student and Anscombe Society member, Francisco Nava, sent anonymous "threats" to himself and fellow members of the pro-abstinence society. Nava then faked being beaten for his outspoken moral conservatism by two masked men. (Daily Prince, NYT)
Clearly, this poor dude is unbalanced. But it is significant how his mental issues manifested themselves. Nava's hoax reimagined the subtle, systemic, and indifferent forces of gradual social change as brazen, focused forces that mean harm.
It really reminds me of the fundamental group psychosis of the "war on Christmas" people: because many people don't want religious values and ceremonies imposed by the government or other public institutions, they imagine that those same people are out to get Christmas. Because society couldn't become more secular (pluralistic, in my view) all on its lonesome, could it?
As Princeton's current student president told the New York Times,
"I don't think Princeton is the kind of place where students would be threatened or physically harmed for what they believe...Something about it didn't seem quite right because I couldn't see a Princeton student being so vehemently opposed to something their classmate said as to be compelled to physical violence."By the way, here's what FOX news wrote before the hoax was revealed as such:
Little Outrage Over Student Beating at Princeton University
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
By Brit Hume
Conservative students and faculty at Princeton University are questioning the absence of campus and community outrage -- following the beating of a student leading a morality movement at the school. The New York Sun reports Francisco Nava was attacked by two men last week and told to shut up. The beating came two days after Nava received death threats by e-mail.
posted by Waage on Tuesday, December 18, 2007
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