#ChristianSupremacyIs the conflation of "Christian" with "good" in cultural assumptions and aphorisms.
#ChristianSupremacy is having every public interaction for 1/4 of the year involve strangers asking my kids what they want for Christmas or if they're excited about the Easter bunny.
#ChristianSupremacy is the fact that we need to have a big public legal debate about whether Christians can be expected to treat gay people as equals if it violates their religious beliefs, but non-Christians are expected to work on religiously mandated days of rest.
#ChristianSupremacy is the assumption that Christian values and traditions are inherently beneficent, and that adherents to other traditions find them neutral at worst and are not harmed in any way by being expected to participate in them.
#ChristianSupremacy is the assumption that a "melting pot" model of a diverse society is the highest good, and that the best way to achieve an egalitarian culture is for minority traditions to assimilate into and participate in the Christian traditions of the majority.
#ChristianSupremacy is the assumption that other traditions can be completely understood when expressed in languages that have been structured around Christian culture and traditions for over a thousand years.

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26 Apr
In honor of @RickSantorum , a collection of threads about why Judeo-Christian is a bullshit phrase, the only utility of which is to erase and speak over Jews. Here you go, Rick.
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"Translations are a very simple concept. You take a word and translate it DIRECTLY into another languages word."

Cool, let's go.

ברוך הבא! מה שלומך?
בסדר!

Totally normal greeting exchange in Hebrew.
Translated directly that's:

Blessed coming! What's your peace?
In order!

It makes no sense in English, because direct translation - especially between different linguistic families - is not a thing. All translation is interpretation, and it is far from simple.
An *equivalent* translation is:

Welcome! How are you?
Okay!

Not TOO complicated in this case. But you need to know that while "shalom" means peace, the concept of what "peace" means is pretty different, and how one is doing can be seen as a measure of their personal peace.
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Yesterday my Least Favorite Co-Worker was complaining in a meeting about how the vaccine is stupid because it doesn't even stop you from getting Covid, it just makes Covid less severe, and I just need to point out - that is literally how all immunizations work. All of them.
Immunizations don't, like, build an invisible wall around your body that stops viruses from getting into you. They teach your body *in advance* how to kill that virus so that when it DOES enter your body you can kill it off quickly and efficiently without feeling as sick.
If they work well enough, your body can kill off the virus before you build up enough of a viral load to transmit it to anyone else. Currently, it looks like the Covid vaccinations are indeed that good. Which is exactly what you want in a vaccine.
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A full quarter of American adults are Evangelical Protestants. It's the largest denomination of Christianity in the US. There is no way to frame pushing back against a massive, wealthy, politically powerful group like that as "punching down". That's not what "punching down" means
The pushback is not about "idiot rubes". The problem isn't that they hold "stupid, archaic beliefs". The pushback is against people actively seeking to institute a theocracy in order to cause harm to other people.
Some of the beliefs *are* stupid, but it's not their stupidity that gets attacked, it's that those beliefs are used to oppress and persecute minority populations - especially populations that have been *historically* persecuted, and are already disprivileged.
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Also Matt, have you considered that
Cops killing people is a problem
Cops being racist is a problem
The intersection of cops being racist and cops killing people is an exponential problem
Have you considered, Matt, that the issue is that the cops are a force in defense of white supremacy, and in addition to Black people there are white people who are victimized by white supremacy? Do we know how many white victims were queer, or disabled, or non-Christian?
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Let's do this better:
Self-motivated study can be HARD. Just because you fall of your streak on Duolingo, or miss a chunk of a tractate doesn't mean you've failed. It doesn't mean you aren't committed enough. It doesn't mean you aren't good at learning. It means you're human.
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