In the face of the two critical Catholic crises now upon us, we should not be pretending to debate what Newman tells us about the church in the past.
"Should Democrats be preaching about being serious about the deficits?" asks Wallace, who also should not be pretending that he is serious about deficits.
"We should not be pretending that prisons are a substitute for shelters for battered women, for treatment centers, for accommodation for people who are homeless, or a substitute for supports for people who have been victimized or have other types of addiction or mental health issues, and increasingly it's always been the most vulnerable who are easiest to detect and detain and incarcerate".
Whether speaking softly or loudly, "New York, New York!" shouldn't be pretending otherwise.
"Texas should not be complicit in pretending that baby jails are licensed child care facilities," Astrid Dominguez, an immigration expert with the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, told the committee.
Perhaps the filmmakers were driven by the notion that since race should not be relevant, they should pretend it does not exist -- even if it's sitting there silently staring back at us.
We should not be Pollyannaish and think (or pretend) that all campus dissenters are such generous spirits or as constructive, but he was right, and Sally Frank exemplified his message.
"You guys can play and wrestle and play fantasy, but part of that should not be to kill each other and pretending to end someone's life," Ms. Watts said.
And culture should not be about parading around fund raising galas pretending to understand art one secretly finds meaningless just to appear intellectual or accomplished.
In brief: the painting should not be acceptable to anyone who cares or pretends to care about Black people because it is not acceptable for a white person to transmute Black suffering into profit and fun, though the practice has been normalized for a long time. .
