Further, as UPenn professor Peter Cappelli put it in a recent Harvard Business Review article, “Nothing about the minimum wage implies that it is morally ok as long as you pay at least that much. It simply says that the government will prosecute you if try to pay less than that level.”
The 68-percent white majority at Maryland’s Towson College supposedly feels threatened by “black predators”. In light of this, student Matthew Heimbach (whose room is draped in confederate flags and books about Jesus and Adolf Hitler) has created a “white student union”. As you might imagine, it’s minorities who still feel threatened.
“Santa Shrugged”.
The Article: From Jesus’ socialism to capitalistic Christianity by Gregory Paul in The Washington Post.
The Text: A truly strange thing has happened to American Christianity. A set of profound contradictions have developed within modern conservative Christianity, big and telling inconsistencies that have long slipped under the radar of public knowledge, and are only now beginning to be explicitly noted by critics of the religious and economic right.
Here is what is peculiar. Many conservative Christians, mostly Protestant but also a number of Catholics, have come to believe and proudly proclaim that the creator of the universe favors free wheeling, deregulated, union busting, minimal taxes especially for wealthy investors, plutocrat-boosting capitalism as the ideal earthly scheme for his human creations. And many of these Christian capitalists are ardent followers of Ayn Rand, who was one of – and many of whose followers are — the most hard-line anti-Christian atheist/s you can get. Meanwhile many Christians who support the capitalist policies associated with social Darwinistic strenuously denounce Darwin’s evolutionary science because it supposedly leads to, well, social Darwinism!
Just in time for Christmas: the two least giving fictional characters in the world (Scrooge and Trump’s hair, we mean).
