“Inclusion” according to the Anglican Unscripted team is a Marxist codeword, or at least a “cultural Marxist’ one.
Speaking as a Special Olympics parent can I beg to differ?
I spent last week in Abu Dhabi as a parent/supporter for the special Olympics World Games. With 7,500 athletes, 20,000 volunteers it was a large humanitarian and sporting event, and with the exception of ESPN possibly the most under reported sporting event of the year. Its aim is inclusion – with the aim of welcoming people living with an intellectual disability into Middle Eastern society.
The special Olympics has a track record in this. 12 years ago the games were held in shanghai, in deliberate attempt by the Chinese government to change the status of people living with an intellectual disability – now there are a million Special Olympics participants in China. Proclaiming 2019 “the year of tolerance”, the United Arab Emirates government want to achieve the same response. They know that especially in the area of employment they have real work to do. The USA deserves congratulations too. The Special Olympics, founded by Eunice Shriver, is one of their best exports.
For an Australian, it was a strange feeling hearing the news of the Christchurch massacre in a welcoming Islamic country. I confess things seemed back to front.
Mini-skirted Europeans and abaya-wearing Emiratis mixed easily at the games. The strangest thing about going to church was doing it on Friday. The Israeli team marched into the Zayed stadium just like the others. I was glad to see them there, but glad all the same that the Aussie men beat them in the basketball grand final. And allow me a further indulgence in pointing out that they and the Aussie women’s basketball team (including a certain Hannah Sandeman) won gold medals.
How did we feel? Well “included” among many other things. And there was a distinct shortage of cultural Marxists on the streets of Abu Dhabi during those games.
John Sandeman
It’s good to hear about this good experience in Abu Dhabi, and congratulations to Miss Sandeman and her team!
Nonetheless, “inclusion” is being used in the USA by leftists as a way to exclude people holding traditional Christian or traditional Jewish viewpoints about marriage, and to exclude people who hold that science determines whether an entity is alive and human, and that humans come with either XX or XY chromosomes. If “inclusion” is not yet being used in Australia to exclude people, I assure you it soon will be.
It is!
Awesome! Congratulations, Hannah and team (and Dad!).
Inclusion in the US most often means the affirmation and adulation of anal intercourse. Some of my female TEC friends are a little startled when I remind them that they too can participate. From there I quickly try to steer the conversation away from nasty sex to an inclusion with more appeal namely including mistresses, concubines, second wives, soul mates, sugar daughters, and hot chicks into our church life. Fight fire with fire. My friend’s grandmother had to be restrained in a separate room at his grandfather’s funeral when his second wife and secret family showed up to pay their respects. They being good Episcopalians should have invited grandpa’s concubine to sit with the family.
Most people easily recognize how different meanings are used linguistically in different contexts. It’s called polymorphism.
Jordan Peterson was EXcluded from Cambridge University because the University claimed it is INclusive. I think Anglican Unscripted can rest its case.
John Sandeman, bless your heart and congratulations for your daughter Hannah’s achievements in those Special Olympics.
Way back in my working life I had the opportunity to work with children and adults with special needs and even children with profound and multiple learning difficulties. I greatly enjoyed the experience, especially a few years of being involved with Jewish children and adults.
As a Christian it also helped shape my personal theology regarding God and human suffering through disability.
Personally I think it is wonderful that these events are held and that your daughter was skilled enough to represent her nation.