Dude. I’m really not interested in arguing. The later part of the thread is going to get into infiltration - it’s in the numbered outline at the beginning.
But the vast majority of people don’t know what CI is and first they need to, to understand the broad threat and context.
Some people know about CI (I got to know them when I was 15 in the form of a kill list, it wasn’t enjoyable); I’m not here to try to be smart, I’m just trying to explain this stuff clearly for people who’ve never heard of it before, so we ALL can understand what’s happening.
FWIW:
I actually really really hate talking about this particular topic for very personal and not academic reasons. I’m doing it because people asked, and it’s very critical to know about - especially right now.
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Thankfully, Tom Metzger died in 2020. Great day at our house. He was one of the worst human beings imaginable.
Lest you think skinheads aren’t still a thing, to cite just one example: the perpetrator of the Oak Creek massacre at a Sikh temple was a Hammerskin (and a veteran).
Tom Metzger also - see the infiltration thread lower down on the timeline - was one of the white supremacist leaders who advocated infiltration as strategy.
He ordered boys to avoid tattoos, join law enforcement, the military, law, etc.
Got to finish up a think tank piece on white supremacist infiltration of law enforcement and the military (should run around Jan 20), but as soon as that’s finished, I’ll do the rest of those Christian Identity threads for you guys. Thanks for the patience.
After I take care of the infiltration piece, I’ll also try to compile the sources doc on Christian Identity you asked me for, too.
If you made other requests that slipped my mind, let me know, and I’ll put it on the running to-do list.
Meanwhile: if you want to know more about white supremacist infiltration of the military / police, here's:
If people want to double down on the Liberal QAnon and claim Bin Laden’s niece - that he never met - is MAGA as some kind of weird Russia influence op... be my guest, I suppose.
But history that actually happens sort of matters and stuff.
I cannot stand Trump. But if we want to oppose something we disagree with, we need to base our arguments on fondations that exist. And “Osama Bin Laden’s MAGA niece because Russia supported OBL” literally makes absolutely no sense.
Plus...don’t we have enough ACTUAL things?
Pretty good reminder not to let your antipathy for Trump lead gig into things like accidentally latching onto Islamophobic garbage conspiracy theory, though.
Set aside the ethics, guys. It’s terrible strategy, too.
That thread on abortion, Christianity & the White supremacy blind spot is going to take me a while today.
I'm feeling sick and need a clear head b/c it's complicated and I don't want it misinterpreted, so I'm pre-organizing it instead of usual stream-of-consciousness Tweets.
So here's the basic question we'll be taking on:
Why do we remember only “Christianity” in relation to anti-abortion political violence—and not the equally crucial role of white supremacy as a motivating factor?
And: how is this relevant to the Capitol Siege?
Obviously it's going to be simplistic, but here's a general outline of the basic areas:
1.Christian Identity vs. Christianity vs. evangelicalism
2.Abortion in CI theology 3.CI strategy of dissimulation & cooptation