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In reply to the discussion: The false link between Amy Coney Barrett and The Handmaid's Tale, explained: vox.com [View all]DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)41. Just to hopefully bring this to a close
This is what "The Handmaid's Tale" author Margaret Atwood just said about her inspiration for her novel:
The book is making headlines all over again, now that Amy Coney Barrett is favored to be President Trumps nominee to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Barrett is said to be a member of the People of Praise group, which is similar to a patriarchal church organization that was one of the inspirations for The Handmaids Tale.
Atwood emphasized that it was not, in fact, the People of Praise who inspired her book.
It wasnt them. It was a different one but the same idea, she said.
(emphasis added)
https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/09/atwood-feature-story-2030.html
I don't mean to flog a dead horse. But my point all along is precisely this: the inspiration for this novel and tv show is a nothing issue, and we need to be careful about the facts. What she believes and says, as demonstrated by her own spoken and written words is the big issue. Not some book.
Already, Fox, National Review, Washington Examiner and other RW media are calling this "fake news" by the liberal media. Why give them this irrelevant issue, when there is so much more in Barrett's record that is totally provable because it is her own words.
We cannot let Barrett be made into some kind of martyr. That would be the deepest disrespect to our beloved RBG.
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The false link between Amy Coney Barrett and The Handmaid's Tale, explained: vox.com [View all]
DonaldsRump
Sep 2020
OP
Both groups hold similar premises. Most of us realize this is a distinction without a difference
hlthe2b
Sep 2020
#5
Then YOU should post the difference in practice and philosophy of the two groups and Barrett--
hlthe2b
Sep 2020
#14
I think we all know what this is about. You claim you know inspiration for a book for which author
hlthe2b
Sep 2020
#17
And again. You claim the article is correct and agree with its conclusion, though provided NO proof
hlthe2b
Sep 2020
#20
They are repetetive, but I certainly have. You made your position absolutely clear
hlthe2b
Sep 2020
#26
It's Charismatic Catholicism: the adoption of Pentacostal and Evangelical pathologies by Catholics
Klaralven
Sep 2020
#21
Who cares if they call themselves People of Hope, People of Praise or People who Hate Women?
MrsCoffee
Sep 2020
#43
Fox, National Review, Washington Examiner are gonna say whatever the fuck they want.
MrsCoffee
Sep 2020
#48
Absolutely: that's exactly what they were called in her cult until the TV show come on the air
DonaldsRump
Sep 2020
#52
It feels like a difference between the People's Front of Judea and the Judean People's Front !!!
OnDoutside
Sep 2020
#51