The Trap of Prejudice

The Pope song sets a trap and it is pretty hard to get out of. It offers up an unbelievably abusive opening, a crass, an unsophisticated, abusive, anti-papal stream of invective and abuse. And then it goes about unpacking how a person might feel hearing that abuse. At the end it just says, if you found it more offensive, this language, than the idea that the Pope has been covering up child abuse, then you are morally fucked. I'm not saying it's a perfect argument, but on its own terms it's a very well structured argument. Because that's the bit. because that's the part we love.