Thread by @geekyguyjay

So...I saw a post earlier today from someone saying that they deleted a thread about the #Achord mess because there has already been 'enough damage done' to him and his career.

I disagree, and here's why. A thread:

This isn't about damaging Achord himself. I feel awful - & we all should - for his wife and children, as well as all the people at Sequitur Academy. Many of them are truly innocent victims of this. Some of them are not.

However, some of them had to be aware but said nothing.

Furthermore, Achord was on a podcast w/ Stephen Wolfe, who is being platformed & presented as THE major voice for the Christian Nationalist Movement. Canon Press has already said they won't bend to public pressure, nor should we expect them to. They knew this & published anyway.

The reason so many people are freaking out about Achord - people like Jeff Wright, Joel Ascol, Stephen Wolfe & William E. Wolfe among others - is b/c there is a whole network of friends and people who foster his worldview.

THOSE people need to be exposed as well.

And all of those people, plus more, pushed back hard alleging that there is no such thing as systemic injustice, that 'feminism' is akin to the reporting of criminal sexual assault, and that legitimate hostility to criminal actions done IN THE CHURCH is 'woke'.

Paul tells us in Ephesians that we are to 'expose' the evil deeds of darkness (5:11).

That means exposing ALL of the moral rot AND ALL of those who shelter or enable it.

This isn't about Achord. This is about their ideas & the way it is perpetuated in evang. circles.

And every single time Christians "let the matter drop" b/c they've "suffered so much", the network of these guys brush it quietly to the side, insist that there's nothing to see here, and that it's really no big deal. Doug Wilson has done this for literally decades.

These guys want to remake the nation into their image, and Achord was only one of many that actually, explicitly, clearly laid out what they want. The fact that Achord and Stephen Wolfe were close enough to host a podcast together is a problem.

The defensive strategy is to maintain Stephen Wolfe's credibility & influence but disassociate from Achord himself.

What they will do is quietly (or not so quietly - buy Wolfe's book!) support Achord, help him rehab his image, provide his family w/ funds, and perpetuate it.

So it is imperative that we put these people on the spot, make them defend their networks & then reject them from Christian circles if they refuse.

This is how churches, denominations & associations are corrupted by evil. But that only happens if we go along with it.

@JosiahHawthorne @johnandrewwords @zugzwanged @ExaminingMoscow - feel free to tag others, and keep up the good work.

Jeff Wright of SBC Underground:

Joel Ascol, son of failed SBC Presidential candidate Tom Ascol & close friend of members of the leadership team at CrossPolitic Studios.

CrossPolitic, of course, was the company that was contracted by Ascol's Founders Ministries for the By What Standard Cinedoc:

Stephen Wolfe (how much do you want?)

Wolfe's correspondence with his friend William E. Wolfe:
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And William's defense of Stephen's book:

This is an important observation as well. Thanks, @JayMallow3

https://twitter.com/JayMallow3/status/1596934987244531712?s=20&t=yFKRebj6VaNNHKALuT9Nng

Another important observation here:

https://twitter.com/AlethiaWrites/status/1596937115983835136?s=20&t=yFKRebj6VaNNHKALuT9Nng

Yet another observation - don't miss the correlation between sexual lust of a teacher towards a student in his charge. This angle isn't getting the publicity it should.

https://twitter.com/BecomingAdamCom/status/1596970651847315456?s=20&t=mvRiXdLRnWzpN7oHM2ibtg

It was six days ago that Wolfe brought Achord out into the open (link AND screenshot for the blocked):

https://twitter.com/PerfInjust/status/1594689039491555330?s=20&t=Gc0E1xqb6kTqGN_07dx6jQ

Noting this as well.

https://twitter.com/JoSLaughon/status/1597298882819477505?s=20&t=pUOqoEKTVXrPpT8GhieIVA