I'm concerned with performative declarations of sincerity.
May 23, 2023
"Our community is concerned with performative allyship, but we believe this is very sincere."
Said Sister Unity, a co-founder of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, quoted in "Dodgers apologize and invite Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to Pride Night" (Yahoo).
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I'm concerned with performative declarations of sincerity.
That eliminates the Democrats.
How big of her/him.
As is typical of the Left, her/him is a victim. But shehe forgave the sinning Dodgers.
Bias and prejudice against Catholics is the last acceptable prejudice of the Left.
Here’s sone inside baseball. One of the owners of the Dodgers is a Creighton alum.
Things that start with D: Democrats. Deviants. Dick. Dodgers.
The controlling owner of the Dodgers is Mark Walter.
“ Walter has cited his Creighton education as a key contributor to his successful career. In a 2013 interview for Creighton Magazine, he said of his alma mater, "You really couldn't find a better place, and I couldn't have had a better experience."
Three years younger than me. We were on campus at the same time.
I’m amazed the Dodgers seem to be getting away with the backpedal. Normally, organizations that take a stand and then back down alienate both sides.
I was going to include the Mark Hemingway’s pitch-perfect tweet, but blogger won’t accept the link embed and, since it was on Instapundit, I’m sure someone else will do it.
Christians HAVE to accept anything the left does -- often now under penalty of law or loss of income. Yet, the left can attack Christians without consequence. Why? Because the left is more tolerant.
The Sisters of Perpetual Virtue Signaling. They'll be right at home (safe at home) with everyone else there.
Allyship is a stupid concept, performance or otherwise.
In a game that allows stealing, everything is performative.
Too, too, funny.
They could have avoided this whole megillah by just ignoring the sisters. Now, like tranheuiser-busch, they've got both sides pissed and are stuck in the middle with no way out.
I thought I remembered them from the 60s and that Paul krassner had something to do with them. Apparently not, according to Wikipedia. Founded in 79 in Iowa City.
John LGKTQ Henry
I think the Dodgers are going to be very, very surprised by the reaction this is going to provoke.
I’m concerned with the performative epithets against Catholics.
According to Wikipedia the sisters encourage "safer sex"
Good on them for recognizing the scam of "safe sex".
There was a "Realist nun", Margo st James associated with Paul krassner in the 60s but nothing to do with the sisters.
John LGKTQ Henry
I'm concerned with the use of the non-word zelennial neologism "allyship".
I hate my generation. They ruin everything.
Doesn’t allowing nuns to perform at a public event violate the strict wall between church and state?
Yes, Dodger Stadium is owned by the same group that owns the Dodgers. But the game will be put on by Major League Baseball, where most of its games are played in publicly owned stadiums. And MLB itself has a special exception to labor law.
As a thoughtful moderate who gets much of my news from the Times, I want to understand this.
I used my Encyclopedia of Ships to identify an 'allyship'. Couldn't find it. Must be a new design.
i DID like, that the Dodgers have put up a sign, that says:
FUCK ALL CATHOLICS!! GO TO HELL, YOU PAPIST SCUM!!!
Trans/socials and trans/genders celebrating under analog albinophobic symbols and rhetoric, with a parade of lions, lionesses, and their [unPlanned] cubs playing in gay revelry perchance on the island of Lesbos.
if you Have to choose, between upsetting a small minority, or insulting a LARGE majority..
The choice is simple! Just ASSUME that the majority won't notice.
Serious Question: How many Dodger fans were Hispanic Catholics?
That's nice. Bring back Bat Day and invite them again.
The Dodgers have the best home game attendance of any team in MLB, so this really should be a sell-out on two levels.
I will note that performative (the word) tag could apply. I will also note that the current, as in the last 5 years or so, use of the word performative is a strong sign that the left has detected and is upset with how much fakery goes on on their side of the cultural divide.
I see that Rubio made some anodyne complaint about this being an offense to Christians. No, it's an offense specifically to Catholics. We're the ones with nuns, and this group has been targeting us for decades on the fringe. Now, apparently, they're more mainstream to the Dodgers than the population of the largest Catholic diocese in America.
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are a hate group. What next, Hamas night.
Curious. Why don't gay men form a group to openly mock the most homophobic religion of all, Islam? The Ayatollahs of Rock 'N Rollahs or some such. No doubt the Dodgers would welcome them in open arms.
I like the blue beard.
I don't know what the Dodgers should do. They're in California so I suppose they should do as the Californians.
But having said that, I ask you to imagine there was a Christian group specifically dedicated to performative mocking and belittling of the people who had dedicated their lives to LGBT rights and it involved exaggerated stereotypes and elaborate costumes and the group felt entitled to be included in public events like this one. Would we indulge them? Of course not. So why is okay to mock and belittle sincere women who have dedicated their lives to self-sacrifice in the service of others. What happened to diversity and inclusion?
Sure, there has been plenty of performative public mocking and belittling of the LGBT community in the past and it still goes on in some places. Are we working to be better than that or just turn the tables? Do two wrongs make a right? Critical theory says yes.
I bet the NUN community isn't particularly bothered though. Perhaps they have something the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence do not.
This organization is engaged in hate speech, but it's hatred of the Catholic religion and traditional values, so it's all good.
I defend their right to express their hatred, but I condemn the Dodgers organization for supporting it. If I followed sport anymore, I would be dumping the Dodgers right now.
Isn't using the term "performative" pretty much saying the quiet part out loud?
I gifted an icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help to a friend who lost her oldest son in a motorcycle accident last October. She is pregnant w/their 11th child? Her 8th. They are young, homeschool, go to Mass… everything wholesome.
So, go ahead and glorify indulgence of the most evil, whatever it is you call yourselves: sisters?
You’ll never have the Grace this one woman has in her glorification of G*d.
Don’t expect us to watch.
Good. I've always despised the Dodgers and it gives me great pleasure to watch them descend into the depths of perversion.
Let's see the gays pretend to be Muslim Sisters, and see what happens.
The Sisters will come, but the team is going to have to take the field in special, pointy hats.
Nobody has a sense of humor anymore. If they did, they would go down to the docks and hire a few dozen enormous, hairy dock workers, dress them up in nun costumes, and then turn them loose on the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence right in the middle of seventh inning stretch. It would be more than glorious. Who would intervene? They'd be terrified of offending either the Sisters, or the Trans-Sisters, on Live TV.
So it's confirmed now. Major league baseball is gay.
The Cubs are going to have a "Dress like Mohammed" day. The first 100 fans that show up dressed like Mohammed get in the stadium for free.
The whole Detroit infield are going to do the season in heels.
I just liked it the only one group had to be labeled for their political leanings, and that was the conservative Catholic League . You see? Those darn conservatives! Everybody else loves this allyship!
This is the worst anti-Catholic bigotry imaginable.
Not a single one of these perverted cowards would ever mock Islam.
The Bishop of Los Angeles should issue a statement not only condemning this, but also recommending that practicing Catholics do not attend any future games until an apology is issued.
Last time I checked, there were a lot of Hispanic (Catholic) baseball fans in LA.
The problem is the Sisters’ reach is much too narrow. They need to be equal opportunity offenders.
I see from the picture next to the article that they perform in chalky white face paint. They should perform in blackface and call themselves the Brothers of Perpetual Indulgence.
'Bias and prejudice against Catholics is the last acceptable prejudice of the Left.'
You left out heterosexuals and white people.
Jesse Kelly makes the point that 'gay' is the official religion of the United States and he may just be right.
Kate @ 7:49
Exactly.
People who know nothing about Christianity or Catholicism think those groups (by doctrine) are supposed to just roll over and take all insults. Turn the other cheek and all that.
Not so. Christians in general and Catholics in particular need to get tougher. We are not obligated to tolerate evil.
Make the Crusades great again...
Temujin said...
"I used my Encyclopedia of Ships to identify an 'allyship'. Couldn't find it. Must be a new design."
Off topic, but since we are talking about Allies' ships...In World War II the British entertained a proposal to build ships out of wood pulp and ice. See Project Habakkuk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk
I'm concerned with performative declarations of sincerity
And about the malicious hate and mockery??
Crickets, huh?
As a counterpoint to the evil, fake nuns the story of a real nun, Sister Wilhemina of Missouri, is in the news. Her body was recently exhumed after four years to move her to another resting place and she was found incorrupted. It's an astonishing, uplifting report.
How can any self-respecting homosexual be 'proud' of this kind of caricature of homosexuals.
Mincing, flaming, flamboyant.
Is that what it is to be gay?
How about just being normal. Get a job. Work hard. Pay your taxes. Raise a family.
How about being proud of those things, and not sexual, performative perversion in public.
Why else would you want to be "allies" with people who hate you?
The Dodgers should apologize for not re-signing Corey Seager.
The MLB's actions over the past several years have converted me from a huge baseball fan to someone who never watches. I keep have the yearning to go back and watch again, and they keep finding new ways to tell me to **** off. Since you asked so politely....
As for sincerity, I assume that means the check had a sufficient number of zeroes.
I was raised during my formative years in Southern California. I had been a Dodger fan for over 50 years. Yesterday I canceled my MLB subscription that I had bought so I could watch Dodger games. I won’t be watching a team whose management supports a group who is so disrespectful of another group of people. Only the sexually emancipated are allowed to culturally appropriate for mocking purposes, I guess. Dodger fans are some of the most loyal. When the dodgers visit other team, park attendance goes up. It will be interesting to see if they go the way of Bud.
In even greater Catholic tradition, they make allowances for the sick.
wendybar said...
Let's see the gays pretend to be Muslim Sisters, and see what happens.
I'd pay money to see the result. Flying lessons off a 10 story building.
These creatures are symbolic of the craziness that is California.
It was only about equal rights, they said.
I voted for the amendment in California to allow gays to marry.
It seemed only fair.
Like someone once said, 'Why shouldn't they be just as miserable as us?'
And look where we are now...
@5:20 amDave Begley said...
The controlling owner of the Dodgers is Mark Walter.
“ Walter has cited his Creighton education as a key contributor to his successful career. In a 2013 interview for Creighton Magazine, he said of his alma mater, "You really couldn't find a better place, and I couldn't have had a better experience."
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It appears to me that while Walter enjoyed his time at Creighton, he promptly forgot what Creighton’s (then) values were once he got to the real world after graduation. If Walter had retained those values, he wouldn’t have invited these males in “Nun-face”; if he was a devout Catholic, he would be horrified at what this group’s values are and represent. Then again, our president claims he is a “devout” lifelong Catholic every chance he can and yet denounces the Church’s teachings every chance he gets and his DOJ considers Pro-life Catholics and Latin Mass Catholics as domestic terrorists and a threat to what his definition of democracy is (which appears to actually be a one-party - Democrat - dictatorship).
@Kate at 9:38am: I saw this reported late night - amazing!
Honestly, don't expect the Archbishop of LA to weigh in on this anytime soon. Or Bishop Barron either, who tends to be the media face of the Church these days. These are not fighting men. My own Archbishop Cordileone has enough battles to fight as it is.
I washed my hands of MLB in the spring of 2020 and have not looked back. The pandering made me sick to my stomach.
I still have a copy of the LA Herald Examiner sports section announcing the first game of the Dodgers in LA. I've spent many a day and evening, first in the Coliseum, and later in Chavez Ravine watching them.
They're now dead to me.
Addendum, Walter O'Malley could not be reached for comment:
As a devout Catholic, Walter O’Malley was gracious in his offer to assist the archdiocese when a public “Mary’s Hour” at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was scheduled on May 4, 1958. In reviewing the Dodger season schedule, their first in Los Angeles, O’Malley realized a conflict as the Dodgers were to play a doubleheader against the Philadelphia Phillies. Immediately, O’Malley wanted to ask the National League to change the schedule to accommodate the ceremony.
However, Cardinal J. Francis McIntyre, who was appreciative of O’Malley’s willingness to change the date, instead did so himself, to Sunday, May 11, which coincidentally was Mother’s Day. O’Malley then ordered a custom-designed 18-foot statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe for the annual Mary’s Hour devotion from Warner Brothers studio.
Following up on one of countless letters he received, a fan suggested that the Dodgers should host Catholic Sisters who were interested in baseball. After receiving chancery office approval to do so, O’Malley began the tradition of “Nuns Day” in 1961 once each summer on a Saturday. Each season, approximately 2,500 nuns were guests of the Dodgers, enjoyed free box seats, food and beverages, game programs, team yearbooks and tram service to the stadium escalators.
He and wife Kay were regular churchgoers and involved with numerous charitable organizations, Catholic and otherwise.
O’Malley was miffed when columnists used to write his middle initial as “J,” when in fact it is “F.”
“Why do newspapermen think every Irish Catholic must be named Joseph?” he asked. “Don’t they know the Church also recognizes several saints named Francis?”
https://www.walteromalley.com/en/biography/short-stops/Marys-Hour
Mark said...
"I'm concerned with performative declarations of sincerity
And about the malicious hate and mockery??
Crickets, huh?"
Mark, Mark, Mark. It isn't malicious. It is done with the utmost sincerity and concern. Not for you, but it's still sincerity and concern.
The mockery is a bonus.
The Sisters can be kind of humorous. I'm thinking that statement was intended somewhat tongue in cheek.
"Not so. Christians in general and Catholics in particular need to get tougher."
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2wezux
Isn't this a form of cultural appropriation?.....They should book a white choral group called The Happy Darkies. The Happy Darkies dress in field hand outfits and sing Negro spirituals. They don't wear blackface though. That would be offensive The Happy Darkies could belt out some happy spiritual songs before the game. That should reassure everyone that the Dodgers aren't hostile to religion.
I was a die-hard fan of MLB in general - and the Dodgers in particular - since 1974. When they shit BLM all over their pitchers mounds and started lecturing me on how we all need to be better, I gave them a hearty FOAD.
When they moved the All-star game over a bunch of horseshit lies about Georgia's voting laws? It just affirmed my decision.
Nothing they've done since has given me pause. They can rot.
A day to honor Jackie Robinson makes all the sense in the world. A day to honor "Pride" does not. MLB is just another business who lost track of what their purpose is.
Come let us mock at the great
That had such burdens on the mind
And toiled so hard and late
To leave some monument behind,
Nor thought of the levelling wind.
Come let us mock at the wise;
With all those calendars whereon
They fixed old aching eyes,
They never saw how seasons run,
And now but gape at the sun.
Come let us mock at the good
That fancied goodness might be gay,
And sick of solitude
Might proclaim a holiday:
Wind shrieked—and where are they?
Mock mockers after that
That would not lift a hand maybe
To help good, wise or great
To bar that foul storm out, for we
Traffic in mockery.
wBYeats
Courtesy of the Babylon Bee:
In an effort to further smooth things over following the controversial decision to re-invite LGBTQ+ activist group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the Los Angeles Dodgers have now summoned Satan himself to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at Pride Night.
"It fits perfectly with the spirit of the entire night," said Dodgers President & CEO Stan Kasten. "Who better to kick off Pride Night and throw out the first pitch than the Prince of Darkness himself? He has been one of the boldest advocates for transgender ideology over the last few years, so it's an honor to have him."
https://babylonbee.com/news/dodgers-summon-satan-to-throw-out-first-pitch-at-pride-night?fbclid=IwAR3f7xkbEjvTwHUQOrQe8QMN4lajMI2bAkGgEA7oFiQYQBFEg6CQMOVD8a8
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A parade of lions, lionesses, and their [unPlanned] cubs playing in gay revelry. Albinophobes are not welcome.
Gordon @12:24: Same. Coliseum in '58 w/my brother and our NY-transplant CATHOLIC pastor. Saw Duke, Hodges, Fairly, et al from deep-ass center. They were the size of my little finger.
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