Catholic bishop fires back at AOC for disparaging Father Damien of Molokai who gave life serving people with leprosy. She said Father Damien an exampl

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I wonder what AOC thinks of the statue of Mother Joseph from Washington state. There are a lot of parallels wih Fr Damien, though she was a woman. Would a native woman be a better choice?
 
They still do. It has not been that long since a group in Nigeria kidnapped and sold 130 girls, children, as child brides. This is the stickiness you get into with seeing color an groups the way Ocacio-Cortez does.
 
Or maybe when you went to school. I learned of it in the 5th grade, in US history.
 
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“Colorblindness” is not preferred these days because the goal should be to recognize and celebrate differences, not ignore them.

We still ought to live in a society where those differences don’t matter for political or law-enforcement purposes. The problem there is that we don’t live in that society yet and thus acting as though we already do just covers up problems rather than actually fixing them.
 
Father Damien was a man of God, he transcended the race he was born into. Such things mean nothing to people like him who dedicate their lives to God and His ways. It’s too bad AOC does not think before opening her mouth
 
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I’d agree if AOC wasn’t an American elected official. It’s not like they invented them in 2016 around these parts. She proffers the guise of an smug, enlightened millenial, and what has a way of backfiring on you if you aren’t careful.

Regardless, she has said so many nonsensical, provocative things that frankly blot out her knowledge of disposals anyway.
 
Yes, once a politician shows themselves to simply say brainless, provocative things, they are best ignored. However, I get why some outlets want to tie her to the Democratic party. It makes the party as a whole look bad. We see media outlets trying desperately to tie the “alt-right” or “white supremacists” to the republican party as a whole in the same way.

Given, however, that Joe Biden has jumped onboard with her new green deal nonsense though, i’d say we have gone from her being an inconsequential member of Congress to someone who ideas have traction with the party as a whole and as such is to be considered dangerous.
 
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Sophomoric? I worry that our younger generations are gaining confidence faster than knowledge. To which, I will reply for them, “Okay, Boomer.”

I actually had my son “boomer” me today. I richly deserved it. So I will cut AOC some slack for this. We were all there once, to a more or less degree. I do hope she learned something of Fr. Damian through this debacle, whether she admits it or not.
 
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