The SPG Q Continuum Desk tracks references in the media to Quakers.


This week on Slate.com, the weekly political podcast is headlined "The Quaker Meeting Gabfest." The reference was interesting enough that we listened to the entire podcast to catch the reference which occurs about half way through. One of the casters - David Plotz, make reference to having not spoken up during a previous discussion and taking flak for it from listeners. His fellow casters defend him, state that they think they should speak up less when they have no opinions and that some silence wouldn't hurt them at all. They joke a bit about this for a moment and then Caster Emily says something like 'yeah, we could just be silent, have the Quaker Meeting Podcast."

The good thing about this is that they used the word Quaker correctly in a sentence. The bad thing is that once again, it was part of a joke.


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