What I'm reading: Heritage Americans and Bigots Don't Know Ball

Sean at Defector:

In all of the important ways, this quote and the authors’ broader project sucks. But in one specific way, it’s nice to get such a tidy mission statement: I don’t know anything about this issue, and the consequences don’t impact me anyway, but here’s What It Means About Gender. It’s a studied ignorance; a principled lack of principles. Bigots don’t know ball, and they can’t be bothered to learn.

Ned Resnikoff, The Great Retcon:

But we should be clear: when they engage in this project, they are the ones who are rejecting our heritage as Americans. It is the modern-day Calhounists who are repelled by everything that truly makes American identity distinctive: its pluralism, its privileging of a shared creed over a shared gene pool, its history of hard-fought struggles for recognition, freedom, and equality. They might call themselves “heritage Americans” based on their bloodlines and supposed connection to the soil, but they reject the aspects of American identity that really count.