#white nationalists

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“Weird” = deplorable authoritarian christofascists

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May you reap what you have sown.

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I don't want to get too political on this blog but it is about my life and I wanted to share how the current state of things in Springfield, Ohio have impacted me.

I attend one of the two universities based in Springfield (Which I won't name for privacy and personal safety reasons) and we are currently on remote learning thanks to the shooting and bomb threats leveled against us and other schools in the city. These threats were made out of the xenophobic hatred for the Haitians in our community. Thanks to lies spread by Republican politicians schools are going under lockdowns, being evacuated or going remote to protect students, mostly children. These include elementary schools, one of which was evacuated today.

Even though I don't live on campus my parents made me come home (they don't live in Springfield) for my own safety. I'm lucky to have the privilege of that option but many people in Springfield and many of my fellow university students don't have the option to flee. Let me be clear--The politicians promoting racist and false rumors that Haitian immigrants are eating people's pets don't care about anyone in Springfield. They are doing it for their own political gain and don't care about the consequences these lies have on the average person. They have given motivation to, let's be honest, domestic terrorists who are willing to scare and hurt Haitians and everyone else caught in the crossfire just to fulfill their xenophobic and racist desire to 'protect' an idealized white America. But people won't call them terrorists because they're white Americans.

As someone who spends about eight months out of the year living in Springfield I have never heard of a Haitian stealing and eating people's pets. They are not a threat to the security of our community. That would be the KKK, who are currently handing out fliers in town by the way, and the white nationalists threatening people.

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Palestinians and allies have been trying to warn people about the Stop Zionist Hate Twitter account. They followed white nationalists and although presented themselves as Muslim, Muslims were suspicious and skeptical. Today, they went mask off and tweeted "who killed Jesus?" at the Israel official account. The QTs immediately jumped on them faster than Zionists did. It was nearly all Muslims mass reporting them and spreading the word they were an antisemite, and arguing down other antisemites who said that the only thing that mattered was that they were against genocide.

Palestinians and Muslims have been terrorized by the charge of antisemitism all this time. It's been used to dehumanize and punish them. Now that more and more people are being turned off by Israel, they could take the opportunity to fuel the hate or simply do nothing and let the western Jewish community deal with the fallout of Israel's actions. Never mind that this wouldn't even be such an issue if people just followed them instead of always gravitating to loud-mouthed white and western grifters and Tankies. But they didn't.

It's impossible to control such a massive movement, but at every point, all I've personally seen is Palestinians and the Muslim allies they interact with trying to keep anyone trying to exploit it to harm Jews out. I'm so proud of them, and of us. We don't need to be accused or punished to care about people. We don't need to center an issue to care about it as well. And we don't need the support of predators and exploiters. Palestinians deserve better and they know it. If you want to protect Jews then start centering and listening to them. The oppressed have only ever wanted liberation, not revenge.

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This article is from 2018, but it’s extremely relevant today, because of how influential David Barton has been over the past five years since it was written. The change in tone from the right has shifted in that time as more and more of Barton’s followers have taken office and implemented his ideas.

One of the key elements of his phony mythology, for starters, is that the founders were divinely inspired evangelicals, and that they cannot be criticized whatsoever. From the article:

“It's also telling that so much of this revisionist American history is about blending Christianity with a very specific form of American (usually white) nationalism. Figures like Barton blend the idea that America is a "Christian country" with the idea that the only critiques of the Founding Fathers - that, say, they owned slaves or contributed to racial inequality - come from "politically correct" historians seeking to discredit America's great history for political ends.

“The founders double as hero-saints to Barton. Central to the idea that America was founded as a Christian nation is the idea that America was founded unproblematically; that only a return to this mythologized past will somehow solve perceived problems of structural inequality. "Real" America, in other words, is above criticism.”

This is the entire basis of DeSantis and others’ “anti-woke” and “anti-CRT” philosophy.

Further, watch out for any elected official claiming the US Constitution is divinely inspired. Whenever you hear it, you’re hearing a Barton-following Dominionist who should not hold political office.

And here the article explains just why so many Republicans are no longer hiding their complete & utter disdain for democracy itself:

“…Barton is among those who believe the ultimate goal for American government should be a Christian theocratic state, which is necessary to properly usher in the apocalyptic End Times. Dominionism takes many forms, …(n)evertheless, its fundamental principle is the same: Christians must work toward a theocratic state in which Christians are in control. Or, as current congressional candidate (and fellow Barton enthusiast) Rick Saccone said in an interview last year with Pastors Network of America, God wants Christians “who will rule with the fear of God in them, to rule over us.” ”

If you don’t recall, Saccone fortunately lost that election as well as the one after. (Thank you, Pennsylvania!) But others like him continue to win. Ron DeSantis and Ted Cruz are notable Dominionists, and even Donald Trump has publicly embraced these ideas. This worldview they share isn’t undermining their support; it’s why they have any. Republicans’ strongest supporters are with them because of these views, while so-called moderates like Mitt Romney, Adam Kinziger & others continue to lose party support. This is exactly why influential pastors like Robert Jeffress and David Jeremiah are such avid Trump campaigners, because they believe in Christian authoritarianism and believe that Trump can (and will) make it happen.

We need to be very clear about this. Today’s Republicans are mostly Barton-inspired fanatics at all levels, especially locally. This is why after Tennessee Republicans ejected Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, they were caught on tape claiming that they were personally at the forefront of a “war” for control of the nation.

Base Republicans believe this nonsense. That’s why the very next thing the Tennessee legislature did after that recording was made was vote to allow unlicensed concealed carry, because they want their soldiers armed if and when they are voted out of office. If you look at the collateral damage of their war—our now-daily mass murders—it’s easy to see what impact their belief is having. The fear and distrust these killings create serve their goals as well, as those are critical ingredients for any authoritarian regime.

If we don’t start paying attention to this poisonous religious & racist rhetoric, we will not be able to stop not only our daily violence, but the coming violence as well. January 6th is going to look like the tourist visit Republicans claim it was. This is urgent. The change in right-wing rhetoric from this 2018 article to today’s full-throated endorsement and implementation of its ideas should make that very clear.

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The "Right leaning" rebrand

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Republicans and religious cults go together like dogshit and flies

👉🏿 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/03/fbi-people-of-praise-amy-coney-barrett-faith-group-abuse-allegations

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republikkkans

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I'm white with like Greek features, my dad's whole side of the family has lived in TN so long there's a small unincorporated town there with my surname, and I honestly don't understand what features white nationalists use to select for their in group. While I have had several African-American gang members be open with me about their gang affiliations, and even get into some of the details of their organizational methods, I have yet to have a white nationalist admit to their gang affiliations with me, even though I have met some in and out of jail that were definitely associated with white nationalist groups. The most open I've had one of these dudes be with me was to talk to me about how he used to be an actor in bestiality and gay porn. The most one ever made me feel uncomfortable was when this skinhead asked to suck my dick. I just said no thanks and then he seemed more embarrassed about it than I was. This just tells me them and antifa should be fucking instead of fighting.

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“But this cowardice, this necessity of justifying a totally false identity and of justifying what must be called a genocidal history, has placed everyone now living into the hands of the most ignorant and powerful people the world has ever seen. And how did they get that way? By deciding that they were white. By opting for safety instead of life. By persuading themselves that a Black child’s life meant nothing compared with a white child’s life. By abandoning their children to the things white men could buy. By informing their children than Black women, Black men, and Black children had no human integrity that those who call themselves white were bound to respect. And in this debasement and definition of Black people, they debased and defined themselves. And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because they think they are white.” — James Baldwin, “On Being White and Other Lies” (1984)

"Because They Think They Are White"

Robert Jones, Jr.