Thread by @JewhadiTM

Why Does The Left Suspend Their "Principles" For Christian Minorities? thefederalist.com/2019/01/22/lef…

Progressives make such a big deal out of hateful and culturally appropriative depictions in other contexts, but not when Christians are the victims.

The assumption that it’s okay to satirize and denigrate Christian symbolism and beliefs is widespread among cultural gatekeepers in the West.

Yet they otherwise emphasize the need to recognize hate in words and symbols, and often seek to censor anything seen as marginalizing people’s identities.

Surveys and news reports repeatedly indicate that Christians worldwide are victims of violent persecution more often than any members of any other major faith tradition worldwide.

Not only that, but it often seems acceptable to make Christianity the “other” and demonize and seek to effectively eliminate it. Welcome to the world of secular privilege, where intersectionality is selectively applied.

So it’s fine, for example, to make nasty and sometimes violent comments aimed at Christianity and Christians (and kids and whites in general, etc.),

as I’ve experienced among academics for years, and even to ostracize colleagues and their families who are practicing Christians, making cruel comments that encourage actual bullying.

But if someone tried to make such comments in such contexts about other faith traditions, or presented an exhibit denigrating their sacred forms and symbols in some way, that would be grounds for ostracism, at least, if not the equivalent of tarring, feathering, and execution.

Inevitably, any discussion of this will spark the “whataboutism” of “what about what those Christians did to those people in…” Try using that to justify Islamophobia and anti-Semitism.

The African-American historian Albert Raboteau has detailed the many Christian slaves in America who were killed because their owners did not want them practicing their faith. He has called them the first American Christian martyrs.

Many Christians in the United States came here because they or their families were persecuted abroad.

Some of the greatest mass killings in modern history have also targeted Christians.

Yet such history is erased often in the equivalent of social justice sermons about the alleged patriarchal oppression of Christianity, all lumped into one “other” by those who often seem to want to assert their own culture as universal and force it onto everyone else.