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The “near collapse of civic friendship is a catastrophic threat to public life,” Robert P. George writes. “Restoring it depends on our capacity to practice civil discourse, which in turn requires us to acknowledge our fallibility.”

bit.lyThe Two Great Threats to TruthMoral relativism and fanaticism may seem to have nothing in common, but they lead to the same result.

9/8/26, 5:15 am11 reposts42 likes

Greg

@chicago-dogg.bsky.social

9 Aug

OK obviously The Atlantic has never talked to a Trumper. "Civil Discourse" LOL.

Louis Ingenthron

@louisingenthron.bsky.social

9 Aug

Or, counterpoint, people who normalize fascism and want to hurt those who are vulnerable can get fucked as they are not deserving of civil discourse. They should be shunned from society.

shutupdonnie

@pudgepudge.bsky.social

9 Aug

When moral relativism and fanaticism define one of the two major political parties in our country, civic friendship isn't the issue, you absolute tool who is too cowardly to tell it like it is

Warfare_Class

@johnywisc.bsky.social

9 Aug

The manliness, man-o-sphere world seems to feed into this self assured, straight talkin' infallibility stance.