@page88 As a GENOCIDE Scholar I can tell you it doesn't!
Unlike J. Jones, Heavens Gate or CM this isn't a cult, unlike P. Hearst, it's not Stockholm Syndrome & unlike t/Pied Piper, nobody's hypnotized. Folks are free to leave w/o consequence or change the channel. No ones monitoring 1/x
Unlike J. Jones, Heavens Gate or CM this isn't a cult, unlike P. Hearst, it's not Stockholm Syndrome & unlike t/Pied Piper, nobody's hypnotized. Folks are free to leave w/o consequence or change the channel. No ones monitoring 1/x
@page88 their behavior, stalking them, holding a gun to their heads, keeping their children and kicking them out or any number of other cultish things.
Seriously, was the Holocaust perpetuated by a cult....?
Because I'm also a genocide scholar, I can't escape the real tone 2/x
Seriously, was the Holocaust perpetuated by a cult....?
Because I'm also a genocide scholar, I can't escape the real tone 2/x
@page88 here WHICH is not just being conned....
These folks aren't conned or hypnotized...
This is who they are loosed; and the more we struggle to find ways to deny it, the more we contribute to it by not recognizing this is the systemic foundational structural, 3/x
These folks aren't conned or hypnotized...
This is who they are loosed; and the more we struggle to find ways to deny it, the more we contribute to it by not recognizing this is the systemic foundational structural, 3/x
@page88 institutional and cultural racist & misogynistic hate that frankly emerges from sexual sadism that is pervasive throughout the founding of America & White Western Christianity. Did you know the age of consent for WW until 1880 was 10 yrs old in every state but 4/x
@page88 DE in which it was 7, YES 7!
& if you "spoilt" a girl/woman before then or before marriage, you paid restitution for damage of property, income and goods to the father and future husband. Af-Am womens virginity or person had no value, so no crime...5/x
& if you "spoilt" a girl/woman before then or before marriage, you paid restitution for damage of property, income and goods to the father and future husband. Af-Am womens virginity or person had no value, so no crime...5/x
@page88 Not to mention paedophilia IS RAMPANT IN W. CHRISTIANITY as is rape in our society. 1/4 women over the course of their lifetime, w/numbers even higher for collage students.
I don't need to tell you about our 2-tier system of justice and WM such as Brock Turner who by 6/x
I don't need to tell you about our 2-tier system of justice and WM such as Brock Turner who by 6/x
@page88 the way is typical of sentencing for WM vs 7-10-20 years for a Black man. Trump is the result of America's refusal to reckon with the inequities written right into the structures of our society, so codified at the beginning that the stain lives on 7/x
@page88 as Culturally Normative Sociopathy; after all the legal and moral crimes of racism and misogyny that are committed every day, in ways both large and small, ARE so widespread NO WOMAN, AF-AM OR PERSON OF COLOR'S LIVES ARE UNTOUCHED(& that's the majority of US population 8/x
@page88 dominated by the cultural sickness of "WHITENESS"). & we all work around it.
Why?
Because those crimes represent the norm and in fighting them, the norm seeks to annihilate you. 9/x
Why?
Because those crimes represent the norm and in fighting them, the norm seeks to annihilate you. 9/x
@page88 But if you insist on talking cult, lets talk about the CULT OF WHITENESS" as this might actually apply. 10/x END
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