My take on the Coretta Scott King funeral (I wanted to somehow work in great past funerals and also the flap over the Danish cartoons, but, well, 750 words...)
Los Angeles Times
When crass is called for
Rosa Brooks
February 10 2006
IT'S TIME TO TAKE a stand against civility, decency and appropriateness.
The complete article can be viewed here.
You do an excellent job of pointing out the absurdity of those who have complained, particularly about Rev. Lowery. (What happened to the importance of everything faith-based, I found myself wondering while reading such critiques.)
If you did not know, Peggy Noonan had a surprising piece in Friday's Wall Street Journal exhalting the proceedings. This is the first and perhaps only time I will ever recommend one of her articles:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/
Posted by: RCinProv | February 11, 2006 at 04:40 PM
"IT'S TIME TO TAKE a stand against civility, decency and appropriateness."
Republicans tell me that all the time. I disagree with them when they say it.
Posted by: Stephen M (Ethesis) | February 11, 2006 at 05:35 PM
Search Leiter Reports for for "civility" to view earlier contributions to this discussion. I think arguing "against civility," however, is throwing out the baby with the bath water. It's an impulsive response, largely because civility is undervalued, and so it's very easy to dispense with it. (Not only easy, but lucrative. Look at the virtuosic incivility of Howard Stern, for instance.) What does a Sean Hannity know or care about manners, decorum, or decency? Why should his ad hoc standard, postulated in a fit of name-calling, be tacitly accepted if only to refuse to satisfy it?
Posted by: Dean C. Rowan | February 12, 2006 at 05:00 PM
Don't worry, I am not really against being civil. Only when "civil" is code for "stop speaking truth to power," as it very often is!
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