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Shunning is mostly performative and the left has usually opposed it
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Shunning is mostly performative and the left has usually opposed it

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Carl Beijer
Sep 25, 2016
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Growing up in an Anabaptist community, I occasionally found myself in the middle of debates over the politics of shunning. For those who are unfamiliar, shunning is an old practice shaming and exclusion based on a few lines written by the Apostle Paul:

I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people – not at all meaning the peop…

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