Thread by @PnictogenHorses

the Duggar Family (@duggarfam) are an infamous family of Christian extremists who were superstars (with their own TV show!) of right-wing Christianity for a time. they're still stars; they still keep up their grifting activities, posing as ideals of Christian parenting.

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right-wing #Christian grifters, in general, have worked for *decades* at the pretense that they're ideal parents. @MattBruenig's terrifying wife, @ebruenig, is one such grifter; @MattWalshBlog exploits his family for his fascist propaganda; they are two among myriads.

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there's a lot of money in it, for one thing. right-wing Christianity and entrepreneurial money-grubbing are inseparable activities: just about *every* prominent American #Christian is someone dedicated to _worldly success_. they're politicians, pundits, business moguls.

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Christian church leaders are indistinguishable from mere media celebrities, hungry for money and fame. people like @pastorlocke and @RickWarren and @Franklin_Graham are "pastors" in some sense, but really they're TV and Internet stars—like the @duggarfam in that regard.

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the Duggars had a good thing going, selling themselves as ideal Christian parents. then @joshduggar happened. then THIS happened:

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Josh Duggar, one of the stars of this "Christian family", turned out to be a child rapist.

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right-wing #Christianity responded to news of @joshduggar in a variety of ways, but all of these people were united behind one central principle: somehow, this was someone else's fault. Josh Duggar wasn't to blame; he was the _injured party_.

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the Pnictogen Wing has been particularly keen to remind @MattWalshBlog (of @theblaze and @realDailyWire) of his loathsome defence of @joshduggar's child rape, in which "progressives" were apparently the true villain; but Walsh was not alone in taking Josh Duggar's side.

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one can see rather clearly why @MattWalshBlog and @erichovind and @GovMikeHuckabee, and many thousands of other right-wing Christian fanatics, came instinctively to the defence of child-raping @joshduggar: he was *idol* of theirs; they needed to keep him propped up.

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this is habitual of right-wing Christians like @MattWalshBlog—they are extremely and monomaniacally dedicated to preserving the integrity and good name of their faction (@mtaibbi would call it a "tribe" because he's a racist dunce). it's their prime moral directive.

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they saw @joshduggar's child rape not as a horrible crime that a "good Christian" should never have committed; they saw it as an *embarrassment*—one caused by "progressives" and "the media" and other diabolical forces trying to create a humiliation for God and Jesus.

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in typical doublethinkful Christian fashion, @MattWalshBlog &c. weren't quite sure whether @joshduggar's child molestation was even real or not. preacher Carrie Hurd (a "Quiverfull" cultist—put a pin in that) opined that maybe it was just *games*. maybe it was nothing.

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at best, @MattWalshBlog &c. could acknowledge @joshduggar's raping his own siblings as a vague abstraction. it was "sinfulness". and we're all sinners, right? this is typical of right-wing Christians: they treat all their own crimes as diffuse "sin", already forgiven.

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the *real* sin, to them, was that "progressives" and other devilish enemies were hurting #Christianity, using @joshduggar and his crimes as a weapon.

in general, this is how Christians in public life have dealt with habitual Christian child abuse and child rape.

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how have #Catholic fascists like @RealTXPolitics, @MattWalshBlog, and @DouthatNYT reacted to *ongoing* Catholic priests' child abuse and child molestation? as with @joshduggar's child rape they view such news chiefly as though it were some made-up thing, a leftist ploy.

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either it's all made up; or "everybody does it" and therefore it shouldn't be a big deal when priests rape children; or they blame the victims, or they blame society itself—as if drag queens or trans people were somehow the reason that Catholic priests rape children.

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it's never the Christian rapists' fault; it's always someone else's. "homosexualism" is why Catholic priests rape children; "men in dresses" are @MattWalshBlog is thirsty to impregnate underaged girls.

these people talk of "personal responsibility" a lot...

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...yet *personal responsibility* is never something that @MattWalshBlog &c. ever feel the need to exercise. @joshduggar certainly didn't; he merely slaked his own perverted lusts at the expense of his own siblings, then begged for a plenary indulgence of his crimes.

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I mentioned "Quiverfull" Carrie Hurd, earlier. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull

the "Quiverfull" movement is a reification of the Christian fascist social imperative: women, to Christian fascists, are supposed to be baby factories. @elonmusk believes roughly the same thing.

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(not that @elonmusk believes in anything certain, but he *does* believe that women need to make more babies.)

the very name "Quiverfull" suggests the dehumanized motivation behind this baby-making imperative: they view children as *weapons*, like arrows in a quiver.

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children aren't *persons* to @MattWalshBlog, @GovMikeHuckabee, &c.—they're *objects*, they're *property*, and they exist to satisfy adults' needs (and even adults' lusts.) fanatical Christian parents think of their children as inanimate *stuff* to be moulded into shape.

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it's all part of the war that right-wing Christians are constantly fighting: @MattWalshBlog &c. consider themselves to be soldiers for Jesus, and their children ought to be grateful for the chance to be tools in the hands of doughty Christian paladins like Matt Walsh.

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think about how the *children* must feel about being mere tools of their #Christian parents, and you'll perhaps understand just why @joshduggar could be such a catastrophically perverted screw-up—raping his own siblings was probably about as *powerful* as he ever felt.

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and @MattWalshBlog &c. want ALL children raised the way @joshduggar was.

think about that one for a minute, if you will.

~Mona Drafter of Pnictogen

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