{"id":18966,"date":"2024-05-17T12:09:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T18:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=18966"},"modified":"2024-05-17T12:09:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T18:09:07","slug":"if-the-internet-hasnt-labeled-me-a-homophobic-misogynistic-white-supremacist-yet-i-must-be-doing-something-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/if-the-internet-hasnt-labeled-me-a-homophobic-misogynistic-white-supremacist-yet-i-must-be-doing-something-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"If the internet hasn&#8217;t labeled me a homophobic, misogynistic, white supremacist yet, I must be doing something wrong."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>That is the lesson that I haven taken from the recent blow-up over Harrison Butker&#8217;s commencement speech at Benedictine College. Here&#8217;s a pretty good rundown of what actually happened, and the way the internet has reacted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O3dJ8Y3LHWI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If this is truly where our culture is right now\u2014where a thoughtful and measured statement of traditional conservative belief is sufficient to incite viral online outrage from those who call themselves progressive\u2014then I must be doing something wrong if the people who are piling up on this gentleman aren&#8217;t also piling up on me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t always this way. Granted, there have always been dark and hate-filled corners of the internet where people who despise traditional religious conservatism have spread their virulent views\u2014and to be fair, Twitter\/X has turned into such a toxic echo chamber that the outrage over this may be getting amplified more than it actually deserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But our culture has changed a lot in the last five years, and not for the better. And if the Overton window has truly moved so far that it&#8217;s considered beyond the pale to encourage women to find personal fulfillment as wives and mothers, then Harrison Butker is the man I want to stand with. They can call me every name in the book, and I will bear their vociferous outrage as a badge of honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is the lesson that I haven taken from the recent blow-up over Harrison Butker&#8217;s commencement speech at Benedictine College. Here&#8217;s a pretty good rundown of what actually happened, and the way the internet has reacted: If this is truly where our culture is right now\u2014where a thoughtful and measured statement of traditional conservative belief&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/if-the-internet-hasnt-labeled-me-a-homophobic-misogynistic-white-supremacist-yet-i-must-be-doing-something-wrong\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If the internet hasn&#8217;t labeled me a homophobic, misogynistic, white supremacist yet, I must be doing something wrong.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1204,316,599,1568],"class_list":["post-18966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-culture-wars","tag-feminism","tag-thoughts-reflections","tag-wokeism","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-4VU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18967,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18966\/revisions\/18967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}