The New York Times morning news and opinion email advances an “Idea of
the Day” called “Cancel Culture” with both pro and con snippets. This
got me to thinking about how culture does influence a person’s
reputation and thus the ability of employment. I would express this
more with a simple ‘ABC’: ‘Always Bias in Culture’.
Consider racism. In the past, because of laws involving blacks unable
to be employed or buy homes in better parts of towns and suburbs, they
have been, and are in many places, “pushed” by culture to live in
cities, usually in subsidized housing where schools are poorer. This
resulted in many blacks with much lower education levels than other
races. Those blacks who were able to escape this situation, being
well educated and able to think, know this. Education is the most
significant variable related to incarceration. The US culture has
changed quickly recently in this area mostly as a result of the
ubiquitous George Floyd video snippet.
Consider the LGBT movement. US culture was biased against LGBT a
generation ago. Over time US culture has condoned it and recently
even legalized those within this camp. I would not be surprised if
some on the political right who continue to call LGBT activity ‘sin’
would find it harder to buy a home or land a job in some places. Bias
in US culture has made an about face within one generation.
Free speech has provided shovels to dig the trenches and bullets to
load guns in this ‘ABC’ warfare. The reason the New York Times and
media outlets like it are winning this war against those forces of
conservatism, e.g., Heritage Foundation and Hillsdale College’s
Imprimis, is because neither side refuses to surrender to the Supreme
Authority. Borrowing a recent popular book title, “A Higher Call” is
being ignored. Both sides have accepted and pushed (religious)
pluralism. The US culture has abandoned absolute Truth accepting an
evolution of morality itself instead.
In conclusion, I choose to take God’s cultural bias as Paul preached
to the philosophers in his day at Athens.
"The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead." [Acts 17:30&31]