I keep Lutheran in my bio mostly because it’s true but also a little bit because it helps ID people who are paid trolls who just grab random words out of your bio to use as pejoratives.
Lutherans do not have any meaningful political or ideological brand, globally or domestically. Indeed being milquetoast is practically the Lutheran political creed. And yet these trolls come out of the woodwork being like “WELL OF COURSE HE’S LUTHERAN”
If in your first interaction with a person on this hellsite you reference any part of their listed bio 99% of the time it means you’re the bad guy.
My favorite is the people replying to my Extremely Controversial view that using nuclear weapons on Japan was justified with like, “it’s always the Lutherans”
My theory in what’s actually going on here is there’s a script trolls use against Jews but when a person isn’t Jewish they just insert whatever random part of a bio seems to be the best grammatical fit.
And of course I sometimes get called a (((Lutheran))), and on a few occasions I have been attacked using anti-Semitic slurs, and on a few occasions people are like “hmmmm Lyman.... that’s a Jew name right”
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