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Red:https://www.foxnews.com/entertainme...king-opposition-research-on-christian-schools
So for some time, some of us have said that Christianity is being singled out for ridicule in America. Well here is some proof of that by a NYT reporter. I say it's far more widespread, but many naysayers will argue otherwise.
- Fox's web page seems to have no trouble accessing myriad tweets railing against Dan Levin, the reporter being discussed.
- Per the article, some critics have lambasted Levin for what they "are calling [his] slanted report on Christian schools in America." Has Levin's article even been published? The Fox article doesn't link to it....
- If Levin's article hasn't been published, the critics' acrimony is premature.
- "The article Levin hasn't yet written and published is slanted." Really? How would you know?
- If Levin's article hasn't been published, the critics' acrimony is premature.
- The Fox News article, in each instance where is supposed to appear Dan Levin's tweets, is found the following:
"Whoops! We couldn't access this Tweet."
Moreover, the Fox article doesn't so much as suggest Levin sought to ridicule Christianity. What it does say is Levin "took to Twitter in hopes to seek testimonials about people’s experiences while attending Christian schools." Indeed, Fox's sole first-person representation of Levin's intent includes a screenshot of one of Levin's tweets, and, echoing Fox's summary, that tweet doesn't so much as intimate that Levin is ridiculing Christianity:
If there were a movement to ridicule Christianity:
- The government being party to such a movement and targeting Christianity (or any other faith) for ridicule --> Problem/wrong/illegal.
- A journalist reporting on such a movement --> Neither problemenatic nor illegal nor wrong.
- A person or entity, journalist or otherwise, editorially ridiculing it --> Neither problemenatic nor illegal nor wrong.
Lastly, just how do you imagine a reporter can report on anything if s/he doesn't gather information on the topic about which s/he endeavors to report? I'm sure it's not hard to find youths who have positive experiences to relate about their experiences at a Christian school. Simply going to such a school and soliciting permission to interview the students there surely will turn up kids who have good things to say about their experiences there. (Maybe if one goes to a Catholic school, one'll find a kid or two whom a priest molested?) In contrast, it's considerably harder to find youths who've had particularly negative experiences at a Christian school; it's not as though such kids go about with a tattoo on their foreheads or something.