Tucker Carlson brings his #HateSpeech to Macomb County #Michigan ahead of 2024 election

Disgraced fmr #FauxNews host #TuckerCarlson criticized Gov #GretchenWhitmer & other (female) MI leaders… & promoted unfounded claims about the 2020 presidential election at an event Sun.

#WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #HeteroSexism
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2023/09/10/former-fox-host-tucker-carlson-rebukes-whitmer-nessel-in-michigan-speech/70796802007/

"Centuries of complicity in violence and oppression, followed by denial and repression, have taken their toll. Across the board, attendance is dramatically declining, seminaries are closing or merging, Christian colleges are struggling, and churches are facing widespread sexual abuse scandals."

#WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #churches #Christians #racism
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Joy Reid then puts on the screen a polling finding of Jones' PRRI, which asked (2023) Americans to respond to this statement:

"God intended American to be a promised land where European Christians could create a society that would be an example to the rest of the world."

Onlyn 30% of Americans agree. But 52% of Republicans and 56% of white evangelicals agree.

#WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #racism #RobertPJones
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Joy Reid interviews Robert P. Jones about his new book The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy. He states,

"One of the things I've really become convinced of one reason it's at the heart of this new book is that this idea that this country is intended by God to be a promised land for European Christians is very much still with us."

#WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #racism #RobertPJones
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https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/watch-my-conversation-about-the-hidden

Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons sounds the alarm about the theocratic aspirations of the well-funded right-wing Heritage Foundation and its Project 2025. The Project is a blueprint for right-wing Christian takeover of the government, and Graves-Fitzsimmons says that its theocratic agenda is getting insufficient media attention.

These folks claim to own "the" bible, and they want to impose their version of it on all of us.

#Republicans #WhiteChristianNationalism #theocracy

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/project-2025-heritage-foundation-christian-nationalism-rcna103510

#Greenblatt called #Musk’s threat of a #lawsuit “#frivolous” & said Musk’s behavior was #reckless & #dangerous, coming 2 weeks ahead of the #Jewish High Holidays.

The Forward, a daily Jewish publication, has since recently started a running list of Musk’s “disturbing comments.”

#Antisemitism #ADL #X #birdsite #WhiteChristianNationalism #privilege #StopHate4Profit

Enough! #Advertisers & #Governments Must Dump #ElonMusk.

I wholeheartedly agree w/ #DavidRothkopf, I’d only add #politicos & #journalists to the list. Sadly that includes @djrothkopf who still actively uses the #twitter #platform.

#birdsite #x #antisemitism #racism #WhiteSupremacy #Heterosexism #MaleSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.thedailybeast.com/enough-advertisers-and-governments-must-dump-elon-musk

#Florida Expected to Approve Classical Exam as a Competitor to the #SAT

The #ClassicLearningTest emphasizes the Western canon & #Christian thought. It’s the latest move by Gov. Ron #DeSantis to shake up the #education establishment.

#indoctrination #WhiteChristianNationalism #Heterosexism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #StudentDisservice
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/us/sat-alternative-florida-classical-learning-test.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Ned Blackhawk on Robert P. Jones' new book The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy:

"Less focused on racial disparities in income or educational attainment than on cultural forces of resistance, including 'white Christian nationalism,' Jones sees within contemporary America a pernicious refusal to accept 'remembrance' of the form that Biden has promoted."

#WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #RobertPJones #remembrance #history
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/books/review/the-hidden-roots-of-white-supremacy-robert-p-jones.html

Jason Stanley on the ideology (racist, and also anti-LGBTQ and antisemitic) underlying the mass shootings perpetrated by Payton Gendron and Ryan Palmeter — an ideology much more widespread than the term "extremist" applied to these mass shooters suggests.

#racism #fascism #LGBTQ #antisemitism #violence #MassShooting #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/30/florida-shooter-racist-ideology-manifesto

Chris Suellentrop reports on the exodus of millions of Americans, especially younger ones, from churches. These “nones” are reshaping US political life—and in many cases are reacting to the appalling spectacle of seeing huge numbers of US Christians and their churches idolize Donald Trump.

#Trump #WhiteChristians #churches #nones #idolatry #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=596bc4339bbc0f403f964601&s=64eb2cf493d388708a631b6c&linknum=5&linktot=81&linknum=5&linktot=81

"Are we a divinely ordained promised land for Christians of European descent in which all others have their subservient place, or are we a pluralist democracy in which everyone stands on equal footing as citizens?"

#democracy #racism #WhiteChristianNationalism
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On the eve of the anniversary of the March on Washington in 1963, Robert P. Jones uses the story of the murder of Emmett Till as a lens for viewing US history: he writes,

"The dramatic demographic changes the country has undergone over the last twenty years—from a majority white Christian nation to one with no single majority ethno-religious group—has resurfaced a fundamental question that has never fully been resolved:"

#democracy #racism #WhiteChristianNationalism /1

https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/the-story-of-emmett-till-is-the-story

"This not only fuels the Republicans’ mostly white, male, Christian, American-born base. It also reassures the fat cats bankrolling the GOP that working-class resentments are channeled away from economic populism — which could threaten the fat cats’ wealth."

#Trump #Republicans #populism #CultureWars #WhiteChristianNationalism #patriarchy #EconomicElites
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"For Republican politicians these days, the culture wars are the central struggle of American public life. Why? Because cultural populism’s underlying political agenda is white male Christian nationalism. It aims to resurrect the social and racial hierarchy that dominated American life before the 1960s."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #Republicans #populism #CultureWars #WhiteChristianNationalism #patriarchy
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/rich-men-north-of-richmond

"It’s always us versus them at the megachurches. So many white American Christians, arguably the best defended human beings on planet Earth, have been brainwashed into thinking of themselves as one election away from facing lions in the Roman colosseum.

Guns are practically sacramental in this worldview."

~ Nina Burleigh

#WhiteChristianNationalism #Republicans #guns #democracy #churches
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https://americanpoliticalfreakshow.substack.com/p/poison-pews

#LittleRock School Dist. in #Arkansas will continue to offer #AdvancedPlacement #AfricanAmericanStudies, over objections of Gov #SarahHuckabeeSanders’ admin, a #Republican who has limited instruction on #race.

The decision comes after the State Dept of #Education announced on Mon that the course’s content might violate a new #law banning “indoctrination” in #schools.

#Racism #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/us/little-rock-ap-african-american-studies.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Those of us who live in solidly red states controlled by white evangelicals know that what Dean Obeidallah is saying here is absolutely correct. We do not have the luxury of pretending that journalists living in protected, elite spaces afford themselves as they pretend the Republican party is something other than it actually is while they both-sides analysis of political issues — from protected, safe positions.

#Republicans #MAGA #democracy #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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2. The Gospel According to James Baldwin: What America's Great Prophet Can Teach Us about Life, Love, and Identity, by Greg Garrett

3. The Urgency of Indigenous Values, by Phillip Arnold

4. Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies, by David Gushee

5. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church, by Sarah McCammon

#WhiteSupremacy #Christians #churches #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals
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At his White Too Long site today, Robert P. Jones highlights books being released this fall that he recommends, in addition to his own The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future:

1. American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church, by Andrew Whitehead

#race #racism #WhiteSupremacy #Christians #churches #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/my-fall-nonfiction-reading-recommendations