This essay reminds me of tourists who believe that they know a culture because they saw the countryside from the bus window. Who has never endured the person who doesn’t speak a foreign language telling them that he or she knows all about a place because they spoke to a waitress when they got off the cruise ship? She is probably not a local, but hey, all accents sound the same to an American.

The « I don’t know anything about this subject but I am going to opine about it anyway » routine is unconvincing. Amazingly, the essay proves that those being condescended upon are justified. The message that Christians are racist rubes afraid of losing their privilege, which is the entire point of the piece, is the commonplace chatter of the faculty lounge.