Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Alert! Alert! White-GOP-Christian-Conservative America is Persecuted and Abused

Please Help and Protect We Whites in America, Amen


A fine article is here. It is a bit dated (2014) but I also think it's more applicable than ever these days, here is the intro from that article:

Christian conservatives feel aggrieved and they want to be heard. The problem is that their specific grievance – that everyone else hurts their feelings by not admitting we’re inferior – kind of sounds, well, hard to sympathize with. They need something snappier, a reason to claim that they are being oppressed by “anti-Christian bigotry”. The only problem with that is that in a majority Christian nation, most people are actually pretty accepting and even admiring of Christianity. Even if they disagree with right wing Christianity, they don’t do so because it’s Christian but because it’s conservative.

Being a Christian is a privileged position in American society; that makes it really hard to claim you’re being oppressed.


The South Carolina Republican primary results present long-time observers of white evangelical Protestants’ political behavior with a conundrum. How did Donald Trump — a twice-divorced, casino-owning New Yorker, who curses during campaign speeches and is prone to church-related gaffes such as accidentally putting cash into the communion plate — win in this southern state where approximately seven in 10 GOP primary voters are white evangelicals?

Trump’s success has demonstrated that the conventional mode of thinking about white evangelical voters as “values voters” is no longer helpful, if it ever was. The Trump revelation is that white evangelicals have become “nostalgia voters:” a culturally and economically disaffected group that is anxious to hold onto a white, conservative Christian culture that is passing from the scene.

Both are good reads and lot more is on this subject… I wanted to post this for some time and now more so since I hear more and more about the topic here locally (Upstate NY) about this fear from whites, and yes, for the record I am white. Not native from this region but have lived here for 30 years – but I grew up in rural Southern Illinois.

I leave you with FDR’s words from his first inaugural address on March 4, 1933: “The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself.” 

Those words kind of reflects this “white fearful mood” that I hear so much about these days.  

Thus, I thought this would be a good time to introduce this topic, or should I say re-introduce this topic? Enjoy reading both articles and any further research, and as always, thanks for stopping by.

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