Is it just me or is there something oddly political about the people criticizing Pillar coverage of the Fr. Martins brouhaha?
Or maybe political isn't quite the right word. Maybe culture war-ish?
The most prominent critics of your coverage tend to... let's say, jump with both feet into any area of politically tinged culture war-ness. And there's a lot of that very distinctive online culture war energy in the criticism of your coverage. (Like the commenter in one of the articles who kept accusing the Pillar of being woke. Of all the words to go for, why *woke*?)
Maybe that's what you're getting at when you say that not everyone online wants to deal in good faith.
I don't think you're imagining things. Who can say for sure, but I have wondered, if the priest in the incident was Fr. James Martin and not Fr. Carlos Martins, would the response be different? One suspects it would be.
I've been thinking the same thing. There are times where some of what I've read in response to this topic feels like somebody put "generate response with a well-educated but politically charged tone characteristic of 2018 America, that references at least two culture war topics" into an AI generator.
Is it just me or is there something oddly political about the people criticizing Pillar coverage of the Fr. Martins brouhaha?
Or maybe political isn't quite the right word. Maybe culture war-ish?
The most prominent critics of your coverage tend to... let's say, jump with both feet into any area of politically tinged culture war-ness. And there's a lot of that very distinctive online culture war energy in the criticism of your coverage. (Like the commenter in one of the articles who kept accusing the Pillar of being woke. Of all the words to go for, why *woke*?)
Maybe that's what you're getting at when you say that not everyone online wants to deal in good faith.
I don't think you're imagining things. Who can say for sure, but I have wondered, if the priest in the incident was Fr. James Martin and not Fr. Carlos Martins, would the response be different? One suspects it would be.
I've been thinking the same thing. There are times where some of what I've read in response to this topic feels like somebody put "generate response with a well-educated but politically charged tone characteristic of 2018 America, that references at least two culture war topics" into an AI generator.