📧 to Kalantzis

I didn't ask for a reply within a given timeframe, so please take as much time as you deem appropriate. 

I did not ask you to delete my comment, I wrote "If there is a way to disagree without falling into the usual traps that conglomerates like Facebook set for us, I'd love the opportunity to do so." I unfriended you because I cannot be associated with anti-military bias; you demeaned a combat veteran and SecDef and directed your audience to a bunch of civilians as experts on "the topic of war and violence." 

If I need a direct ask, it is not for a deed, but an explanation - how am I different from Hegseth? How am I, by your account, owed a public lament, but not him? And if he and I are both owed some kind of public lament, which neither of us has received, how is it helping either of us to propagate toxic (civilian) theology which, by objective academic standards, is fundamentally flawed? 

I'll say again for clarity - I am not asking for an immediate response. I am asking you to search your... soul? mind? faith? and either answer me directly, as I take our shared political commitments require, or I will have to qualify that episode for my audience. Namely, by adding a warning that I trusted you by having you on my podcast but your actions since have betrayed that trust and, therefore, cannot ask my audience to trust you either. 

If you tell me how long you think you will need to respond substantively, I'm happy to wait. But, and I cannot stress this enough, I am contacted multiple times per year by veterans on the brink of suicide and I will not endanger the health of my community. They deserve the truth, and Christians deserve to be asked to speak it. If you need a week, take it, but if I dont hear back at some point I'll at least inform you when the trigger warning is live on the internet. 

Cordially, 

Logan