Rod Dreher attacked Jason Stanley on social media in 2015 or 2016.
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Robinson's PodcastSep 23, 2026
Sources show Rod Dreher publicly attacked Jason Stanley in September 2016, in a post mocking Stanley's comment about Swinburne, which fits the claimed 2016 timeframe. The attack appeared on a blog rather than explicitly on social media, and the sources do not say whether 2015 was also involved, so the 'social media' detail is only loosely supported.
What was said
… engaged with it than I would like to be, but you mentioned a couple of times that you've been the subject of online attacks, and I think you said earlier for a little over a decade. I just wanted to ask what prompted those attacks and what were they like? Well, the first time was Rod Dreher went after me in 2015, I believe, 2016. I tweeted something i put something on a private Facebook chat about Richard Swinburne's talk, where he said a philosopher who said homosexuality was a disability, and I used some, you know, in unprofessional language to describe, ah, not Swinburne, but, you …
Robinson's Podcast · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. Rod Dreher's September 28, 2016 American Conservative post names Jason Stanley and mocks his public comment about Richard Swinburne's remarks, which is a public attack in 2016.[1]
Supports. Jason Stanley's 2016 statement says that a post of his was made public and taken out of context, followed by right-wing media articles about him, consistent with Dreher's public attack.[2]
Context. The claim's 'social media' framing is loose: the documented attack was a blog post, and the claimant's passage refers to attacks on social media generally. No source addresses a 2015 attack.[1][2]
Sources
2 sources: 1 tier 2, 1 not rated
- 1‘F–k You, A–holes,’ Argued the Yale Philosophertheamericanconservative.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports, context
- 2A Statement from Jason Stanley - Feminist Philosophersfeministphilosophers.wordpress.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
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