I first started following Kathy Kattenburg on Twitter after she showed kindness to me following an article about my sex abuse in the Washington Post, at a time when many of my supposedly like-minded conservatives had not. It seemed like a minor example of cross-the-aisle political civility. But it soon revealed itself to be a lesson in how elusive civility can be these days, especially online, in an age when we’re often told (or telling others) that we need more of it.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/what-civility-really-means

**Nancy French** @[email protected] · Oct 31, 2022, 02:39

**Nancy French** @[email protected] · Oct 31, 2022, 02:39

Oct 31, 2022, 02:39

Nancy French @[email protected]

#Kanakuk camper says she was told to apologize, denied call home after reporting abuse

https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2022/05/26/kanakuk-kamps-camper-reported-sexual-assault-denied-call-home-leave/9827342002/

**Nancy French** @[email protected] · Oct 31, 2022, 02:38

**Nancy French** @[email protected] · Oct 31, 2022, 02:38

Oct 31, 2022, 02:38

Nancy French @[email protected]

Survivors, ex-employees say #Kanakuk Christian camp 'ministered' to its sexual predators

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2022/05/27/sex-abuse-kanakuk-christian-camp-missouri-peter-newman/9907577002/

**Nancy French** @[email protected] · Oct 31, 2022, 02:37

**Nancy French** @[email protected] · Oct 31, 2022, 02:37

Oct 31, 2022, 02:37

Nancy French @[email protected]

‘It was just a thing at #Kanakuk’: Campers and staff say nudity was part of camp culture

https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2022/05/26/camp-kanakuk-nudity-culture-hid-abuse-grooming-pete-newman-branson/9654342002/

**Nancy French** @[email protected] · Oct 31, 2022, 02:36

**Nancy French** @[email protected] · Oct 31, 2022, 02:36

Oct 31, 2022, 02:36

Nancy French @[email protected]

‘They Aren’t Who You Think They Are’

The inside story of how Kanakuk—one of America’s largest Christian camps—enabled horrific abuse.

https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/frenchpress/they-arent-who-you-think-they-are/

**Nancy French** @[email protected] · Oct 31, 2022, 02:35

**Nancy French** @[email protected] · Oct 31, 2022, 02:35

Oct 31, 2022, 02:35

Nancy French @[email protected]

This is Elizabeth Phillips, a Kanakuk investigation source. For 2 years, we've mainly texted and called, but she came to Boston to hear me at The Moth. In spite of all she's experienced - the death of her brother who was victimized at the camp - there is joy in friendship and truth.

In 2019, her family had the courage to include his trauma suffered at Kanakuk in his obituary - the first time death was connected to the camp's covered up sex abuse. We now have heard of 9 other deaths.

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**Nancy French** @[email protected] · Oct 31, 2022, 02:29

**Nancy French** @[email protected] · Oct 31, 2022, 02:29

Oct 31, 2022, 02:29

Nancy French @[email protected]

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**Nancy French** · Oct 31, 2022, 02:27

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**TheSpamdalorian** @[email protected] · Oct 31, 2022, 02:27

Oct 31, 2022, 02:27

TheSpamdalorian @[email protected]

I taught my first college course in 2006. I used to walk into classrooms from 10 to 200 and students used to be talking with one another. Sometimes it took a moment or two for them to quiet down. No more. Since 2020, the opposite has been true. From tiny seminars to giant lectures, no one speaks anymore. They’re all glued to their phones. They don’t talk in the hallways. They don’t talk in the cafeterias. Neil Postman (and Jacques Ellul) was right — the technopoly won.