The Washington Post yesterday had a well written column titled When Columnists Cry ‘Jihad’. In it, John McCandlish Phillips explains that he’s seen a lot of inflammatory language from columnists lately used against evangelicals and conservative Catholics. The article is subtle in its explanation of the problem and critiques the language used – not the writers who wrote it. This is hard skill to master, to be able separate the actions from the person and offer remedies for the actions without attacking the individual.
Of course, in the interest of equal time there is always Pat Robertson to abuse language on the right.
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