{"id":1021,"date":"2008-05-10T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2008-05-10T18:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T18:55:00","slug":"pointy-hats-and-pacifism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1021","title":{"rendered":"Pointy Hats and Pacifism"},"content":{"rendered":"

My favorite Bay Area witchy bloggers seem curiously quiet about the appropriation of witchy imagery by the antiwar protesters at Code Pink<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I don’t normally get into politics on this blog, but whatthehell.<\/p>\n

From a rhetorical standpoint, I am not sure if anyone’s set political views have been changed by street theater — giant puppets<\/a> and all that stuff.<\/p>\n

You can see from the comments that the Code Pink women are not doing the Craft or the larger Pagan movement any good.<\/p>\n

Do you think they would have chosen to dress up as Catholic cardinals or Shiite mullahs? How about some big-nosed Jews?<\/p>\n

Or how about dressing in buckskins and feather headdresses, while waving rubber tomahawks in an “antiwar dance.” Oh no, they would never do that. It might be offensive.<\/p>\n

No, they pick the stereotype green-faced Halloween witch instead. They parody our religion for their futile cause. Somehow I don’t feel the compliment.<\/p>\n

One ex-military Pagan wrote to conservative columnist Michelle Malkin to say he was embarrassed by Code Pink too<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And that is the thing about today’s Pagans: for every lefty pacifist there is one (or probably more) military Pagan.<\/p>\n

I wrote a paper on this topic once<\/a>, during the flap over Wiccans at Fort Hood.<\/p>\n

UPDATE, 13 May:<\/span> One commenter suggests that the green faces may have been PhotoShopped in on Malkin’s page. He could be right; and if so, image manipulation hurts her credibility. However, a photo from the Berkeley Daily Planet<\/em>, certainly no right-wing source, does show pointy hats and cloaks<\/a>–but it is from an earlier Code Pink protest. Newer photos seem harder to come by–I suspect that the Berkeley news media by now regard Code Pink as just part of the weather and turn instead to stuff like fraternity stabbings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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