Thank you, Bari, for your presentation 'The Silence of the Feminists'. I share your indignation, but not your surprise. You strike me as a woman of conscience, who knows that we all answer to a 'Moral Voice' that is much much bigger than ourselves, immovable, and exists apart from us, to whom we are (and forever will be) answerable. So m…
Thank you, Bari, for your presentation 'The Silence of the Feminists'. I share your indignation, but not your surprise. You strike me as a woman of conscience, who knows that we all answer to a 'Moral Voice' that is much much bigger than ourselves, immovable, and exists apart from us, to whom we are (and forever will be) answerable. So many people now deny that 'Voice' even exists, that ethics is always a moveable target, that moral indignation is simply a cudgel to be employed as necessary to achieve some goal somewhere.
I am drawn back to that fateful moment, when in reply to a simple question, Bill Clinton responded 'That depends upon what your definition of 'is' is.' When we all (or most of us, at least) shrugged the moment off -- 'That's just Bill' -- instead of speaking out against it, I think we turned some sort of ethical corner, in which it was decided that immutable truth simply does not exist.
And here we are--shrugging ever more horrific moments off.
Thank you, Bari Weiss, for standing up, for not backing down.
Thank you, Bari, for your presentation 'The Silence of the Feminists'. I share your indignation, but not your surprise. You strike me as a woman of conscience, who knows that we all answer to a 'Moral Voice' that is much much bigger than ourselves, immovable, and exists apart from us, to whom we are (and forever will be) answerable. So many people now deny that 'Voice' even exists, that ethics is always a moveable target, that moral indignation is simply a cudgel to be employed as necessary to achieve some goal somewhere.
I am drawn back to that fateful moment, when in reply to a simple question, Bill Clinton responded 'That depends upon what your definition of 'is' is.' When we all (or most of us, at least) shrugged the moment off -- 'That's just Bill' -- instead of speaking out against it, I think we turned some sort of ethical corner, in which it was decided that immutable truth simply does not exist.
And here we are--shrugging ever more horrific moments off.
Thank you, Bari Weiss, for standing up, for not backing down.