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In reading this Atlantic article, I couldn’t help think of the emergent church:

More damning is the conclusion produced by a careful reading of this often fine-grained semi-sociological analysis: a good deal of the progressives’ attitudes, preferences, and sense of identity are ingrained in an unlovely disdain for those outside their charmed circle… [M]uch of their self-satisfaction derives from consumption—and much [it] is motivated by a desire to differentiate themselves from the benighted. Sushi, for instance, is ‘everything [White People] want: foreign culture, expensive, healthy, and hated by the “uneducated.” ’ And whatever its goals, the ACLU is beloved by White People, … because it protects them ‘from having to look at things they don’t like. At the top of this list is anything that has to do with Christianity’—an aversion … rooted not in religious enmity but in taste (Christianity is ‘a little trashy’), formed largely by class and education.

Anytime you need help understanding what a leftist, a “progressive”, an academic, a postmodern, or an emergent (but I really repeat myself) is really talking about, please refer to the Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense. It will help you break through the code to understand what they’re talking about.

Assertion
1. Essential technique, replacing the need for argument and evidence.
2. To be greeted with acceptance, rather than argument.