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Major Nikon

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3. All of this ignores a much simpler explanation

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Aug 22, 2019, 12:45 AM

Aug 2019

Consider slavery, Jim Crow, anti-miscegenation, white supremacy, anti-LGBT, misogyny, anti-worker, and xenophobia. If you look at all the bigoted movements in American history, the common theme is white evangelicals. All you have to do is fan the flames of those things and you have the piece-of-shit hearts and narrow minds of these people.

It’s called demagoguery, and until these people realize their religion is being used as the conduit between hate and politics they will continue to be easily manipulated by it.

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All of this ignores a much simpler explanation Major Nikon Aug 2019 #3