And so, it would seem, Texas is trying to go for Massive Resistance 2.0, possibly in an attempt at undoing the Supreme Court rulings in the late 60s that led to the initial voucher programs in the US being ruled illegal and BJU losing their tax-exempt
I say "Massive Resistance 2.0", of note, because Christian Nationalism in its modern form arguably got its start via the fight against desegregation by unreconstructed Confederate-sympathisers, and the FIRST round of "private voucher programs".
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(Yes, this is going to be one of those little history lessons.)
So after Brown v BOE, and subsequent rulings that mandated schools be desegregated...a lot of Southern "Jim Crow" states were exceptionally Salty about this, and so basically set out a plan or three...
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To whit: First ordering schools to not desegregate, and to ignore orders to desegregate.
When the US government started sending in the National Guard to enforce these orders, the chuds in chief proceeded to double down by the equivalent of shooting themselves in the jimmy:
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Namely: "If we can't have segregated schools, then we just won't have schools at *all*".
On the cruder end, this involved chuds (including the KKK 2.0) blowing up schools that had the courage to integrate and threatening families that attended:
And on a legislative end, you had stuff like the Stanley Plan, which...ordered the defunding, and closure, of any school system that integrated in VA (similar mini-Stanleys were in place throughout the South) in what was called "Massive Resistance" segregationinamerica.eji.org/report/massive…
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And basically when schools were ordered to integrate, or when school boards decided to stop fighting the march of progress...the school systems would be shut down, and vouchers given to private, Protestant schools which coincidentially didn't admit African-Americans
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These "Segregation Academies" (as they got to be called) were founded by "Southern" branches of churches, many of which would later become part of Christian Nationalist and/or neo-Confederate movements (like the Southern Baptists and the PCA)
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and at least two of them (Pensacola Christian College and Bob Jones University) would become major players in Christian Nationalist curricula...and pretty much the shape of Christian Nationalist pro-Confederacy apology (including slavery revisionism) was formed there
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So basically when a school system would get shut down, white kids would get vouchers to go to the local Protestant "segregation academy" (and it was almost always Protestant); African-American kids got sweet FA as far as education in most cases.
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It was so bad, and went on for so long, that there are populations of African-Americans who grew up in the mid- to late-50s who almost never got to attend school unless they were in an area where the Society of Friends had set up "freedom schools"
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because the specific wording of these voucher laws generally prohibited giving vouchers to most integrated schools, but there was enough of a loophole for religious schools that the Quakers took advantage of it (and bless them for it).
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And this kept on until a series of court decisions starting in 1964, which ordered the desegregation of schools and the reopening of Prince Edward County's school system: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin_v…
Which led to...modern voucher programs (seriously).
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Because the NEXT end-run was "OK, fine, we'll desegregate...but we're still handing out vouchers for segregation academies. As part of 'school choice' programs" *wink wink*.
Which was even referred to as "passive resistance".
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And *this* eventually led to another Supreme Court ruling, this time in 1968, which pretty much Officially Called Them On Their Bullshit, told them to Stop That, and ruled that state tax dollars for segregation academies was unconstitutional en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_v._…
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And there were subsequent rulings after that (some of which led to the first school busing programs), and the IRS also came to a decision that "segregation academies" could no longer be recipients of tax-exempt status
This caused BJU to lose its tax exempt
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And right around the time of segregation academies getting their groove on, and right around the time that schools were ordered to integrate...that's when the Christian Nationalist movement started feeling its oats and lobbying against desegregation theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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And in fact a lot of the initial activism by Christian Nationalists was against Freedom Marches...and in support of segregation academies, many of which were now at risk of losing their tax exempt for being all racist on main slate.com/news-and-polit…
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In fact, the anti-reproductive-health stuff didn't heavily enter much of the Christian Nationalist movement until such time that "Traditionalist Catholics" (many of whom were salty over Vatican II) were recruited into the movement teenvogue.com/story/religiou…
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And that's why I've consistently been pointing out lately that the goal isn't them undoing *merely* Lawrence v Texas or Griswold v Connecticut, but *BROWN V BOARD OF EDUCATION* and pretty much EVERY decision from that point, and they're using the same playbook as with Roe
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And considering that the Christian Nationalist wing has been pretty much very mask off for the past four or five years (thereby confirming every word of what us #exvangelical folks have tried to warn you about for the past 50 years or so) one ignores this at one's peril
a) First off, we got some very recent signs that are about as clear a signal as exists from Square Enix that TWEWY is not getting killed off.
Namely: The #NTWEWY x #Reynatis collab is damn near this sign in the flesh--and I'll explain exactly why that is.
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So I've noted for three years that *every* bit of behaviour from SQEX re NEO:TWEWY does *not* indicate the franchise is dead, but quite the opposite (and yes, we're gonna get into some explicit examples and discussion on how game companies & IP licensing work)
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Specifically: There is a very specific sort of Holocaust denial that is common in anti-LGBTQIA Christian Nationalist spaces, which either claims LGBTQIA people were not killed (including transgender people) or that LGBTQIA people were its perpetrators or both
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Starting in the early 2010s, Christian Nationalist groups have also tried to infiltrate feminist spaces in the Commonwealth, especially those that already trended TERFy, and this specific Christian Nationalist Holocaust denial has followed them into TERF spaces
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In regards to The Harry Potter TERF having gone to The Holocaust Denial Step of hate, it's important to note that yes, this IS Holocaust denial, and a form that has origin (like so much other TERFy stuff) in New Apostolic Reformation Christian Nationalism
So. I've done a LOT of writing on how the "Manifest Sons of God-descendant" branch of Christian Nationalism is in fact descended from a highly racist, and anti-Semitic, cult (and ultimately from a church founded by two KKK members, including a co-founder of the KKK itself)
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And pretty much that stuff got VERY out of fashion after World War II, but a LOT of the same tropes effectively got recycled in MSoG-linked groups especially from the late 60s on--only this time targeting LGBTQIA people as the primary target of hate
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@T_i_B @happyhomemakerr Unfortunately, Christian Nationalism as a concept is NOT restricted to a single denomination or a single religious movement
Properly, it's an encompassing term for religio-fascism
A thread (from an OLD hat on this one, who's wrote on this for 20 years)
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@T_i_B @happyhomemakerr So there's actually been a real debate for the closer part of a half century as to WHAT to call Christian Nationalism, because you have multiple groups involved, some of whom cross-pollinate/cross-fertilize, some of which are occasionally at odds with each other
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@T_i_B @happyhomemakerr What is going on in the SBC is actually a mix of THREE different strains of Christian Nationalism--one being a group of older conservatives who opposed the church amending its pro-racist ways in the 60s-80s, and two separate groups attempting hostile takeovers
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@ellehardy @FredClarkson Absolutely, I never accuse without providing receipts
So his conversion is via Faith Church Hungary, which operates in a VERY similar manner to IHOP-KC, Hillsong, Yoido Full Gospel, and other NAR-linked churches using a "branding" paradenominational model en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Chu…
@ellehardy @FredClarkson Said church was established in 1979, at a particular point in time where NAR-linked groups were establishing "branded" churches and missions widely using the Yoido Full Gospel model
It also has had a history of VERY NAR-esque beliefs in "spiritual warfare" theology
@ellehardy @FredClarkson A Hungarian press magazine has noted, among other things, that Faith Church Hungary's main pastor Sándor Németh called yoga practice a form of "demonic summoning" (and also claimed it "opened doorways for Satan", a very NAR viewpoint)
As someone who is familiar with both the KKK *and* with the particular history of racism and anti-Semitism and KKK connections within the coercive movement I escaped from (and its ancestral and sister movements) SO much of this story is Redonkulous
And yeah, this is gonna involve some interesting discussions on the history of the NAR (or at least Manifest Sons of God-lineage groups including the NAR), the NAR's sister movement, the spiritual parent of BOTH, and the Ku Klux Klan
And MO GOP's covering of ass.
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So the KKK that most people are familiar with is the "Second KKK", which basically was a revival inspired by a LOT of Confederacy Denial/Confederacy Revisionism by groups like the United Daughters of the Confederacy and a certain film called "Birth of a Nation"
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