{"id":19594,"date":"2022-07-03T13:36:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T17:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=19594"},"modified":"2022-07-03T21:05:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T01:05:37","slug":"canon212-pre-emptively-blocked-by-more-catholic-names-than-personally-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=19594","title":{"rendered":"Canon212 Pre-Emptively Blocked By More Catholic Names Than Personally Blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past year or so, people have sent me more and more tweets that I can&#8217;t read directly because I&#8217;m blocked.\u00a0 The trouble is, these blockers are often people I&#8217;ve never interacted with on Twitter.\u00a0 Often, I don&#8217;t even know who they are.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really understand blocking, but I&#8217;m guessing these pre-emptive blockers are either &#8216;indignant&#8217; over Canon212 headlines, or they worry &#8211; or have been warned, they might become one themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Still, if the latter is the case, I don&#8217;t think it speaks well when you courageously profess your resistance to a host of evils,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/anneltte-jals.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19595\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/anneltte-jals.jpg?resize=580%2C494&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/anneltte-jals.jpg?w=590&amp;ssl=1 590w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/anneltte-jals.jpg?resize=300%2C256&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>but you grow sheepish when it comes to a vague chance of public criticism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tom-bombadil.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19596\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tom-bombadil.jpg?resize=580%2C538&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tom-bombadil.jpg?w=598&amp;ssl=1 598w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tom-bombadil.jpg?resize=300%2C278&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>I could almost understand if you&#8217;re a raging liberal with whom I&#8217;ve never communicated&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dawn-eden.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19599\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dawn-eden.jpg?resize=580%2C564&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dawn-eden.jpg?w=601&amp;ssl=1 601w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dawn-eden.jpg?resize=300%2C292&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>or even the more moderated, Bishop Barron sort&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/scalia.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19600\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/scalia.jpg?resize=580%2C565&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/scalia.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/scalia.jpg?resize=300%2C292&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>but if you purport to be a Catholic voice, and I&#8217;ve never tweeted a word to you at all, perhaps you might ask yourself, &#8220;Even in this small way, why am I acting the same as people who are truly enemies of the Church?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past year or so, people have sent me more and more tweets that I can&#8217;t read directly because I&#8217;m blocked.\u00a0 The trouble is, these blockers are often people I&#8217;ve never interacted with on Twitter.\u00a0 Often, I don&#8217;t even know who they are. I don&#8217;t really understand blocking, but I&#8217;m guessing these pre-emptive blockers <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=19594\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19594"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19616,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19594\/revisions\/19616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}