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Apr 15 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
As I am not subject to the abuse of UK libel law as a SLAPP, and am also in a place with anti-SLAPP laws:
Yes, what JK Rowling did IS a form of Holocaust denial.
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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Mar 14 • 34 tweets • 9 min read
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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Mar 12 • 31 tweets • 8 min read
@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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Mar 11 • 58 tweets • 14 min read
@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
Mar 1 • 44 tweets • 10 min read
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
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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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Feb 29 • 52 tweets • 11 min read
As we are getting to a point where street protest (in conjunction with Voting To Prevent Theocracy) is going to be a Thing (and should be), I'm going to give younger folks some pointers in how to protest in such a way it won't endanger the movement (and reduces risk to you)
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The suggestions I am going to make are based on what long-established antiracist and anti-fascist groups have used for street protest, lessons learned in the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War (and onward) era, and from guides (which I'll refer to) on protest safety
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Feb 29 • 29 tweets • 7 min read
As I never exactly had trust in institutions to save us other than the ballot box, I'm going to educate folks on what they need to be doing between now and November 5th 2024
Because the only poll that counts at the end is the voting polls and we need to zerg rush the polls
So the first thing you need to do (if you are over 18 and legally eligible to vote--you're a US citizen, you're not in a state with felony disenfranchisement, presumably you're not in prison reading this on Xitter) is REGISTER.
Different states have different deadlines
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Feb 15 • 88 tweets • 17 min read
Today's mini-discussion about the history of the Second Amendment and unorganized militias (in light of a whole lot of folks getting *real* trigger-happy yesterday) that is GUARANTEED to get your uncle in the NRA or GOA very, very salty on main on Xitter, a thread:
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So, a lot is made out regarding the 2nd being about "being able to defend the US" etc.
What is almost *never* mentioned is that effectively the entire *HISTORY* of the US up to that point involved a WHOLE lot of nation-level PTSD over the concept of standing armies
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Jan 15 • 40 tweets • 8 min read
@zeta_flare3141 @HatokTalk People have been literally trying to find the provenance of that supposed Tetsuya Nomura quote for *years*, and the closest anyone's found is a Tumblr post (not even any sources on what JP mag/article or interview it was supposedly from)
So there's questions on authenticity
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@zeta_flare3141 @HatokTalk (I will gently note that the TWEWY Wiki has had occasional issues with unsourced data in past, though the present administrators are trying to clean up some of the material of questionable sourcing like the "bad at math" claim that can't be backed up elsewhere.)
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Jan 1 • 58 tweets • 11 min read
@carbonolk @zeta_flare3141 OK, so for the really long explanation I'll link you to two posts and those are going to be Long Reads
But I'll just kind of give the very brief summary which can be boiled down to "losers defending racists and sex pests"tinyurl.com/the-localizati… tinyurl.com/the-localizati…
@carbonolk @zeta_flare3141 So in the mid to late 2000s, there were two game writers for a popular game magazine who were a Couple, the couple broke up, the boyfriend took it very poorly, and accused his ex (and by extension, most females in the gaming industry) of fucking their way into their jobs
Dec 31, 2023 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
@mageknight14 And this is where I probably should note some points from a thread I wrote (for another audience) on the subject of "thought-terminating cliches", or (for the context of us TWEWY fans) thought-terminating memes
And this is going to be a bit of a heavier dive, so bear w/ me
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@mageknight14 So basically a lot of...toxic online communities, a lot of far-right spaces, and so on can have characteristics not too far from coercive religious groups, or even abusive relationships--it's a concept psychologists refer to as "undue influence"
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Dec 24, 2023 • 26 tweets • 6 min read
@mhairiforrest Speaking as someone who was raised in an early "patient zero" of NAR-lineage Christian Nationalism (church started out as MSoG, then went to Latter Rain, Third Wave, Joel's Army, and eventually NAR brandings):
You're literally seeing classical signs of a coercive group
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@mhairiforrest I recognized when I was a young adult (and leaving the group, and through happenstance having been involved in a survivor's community being attacked by a different coercive religious group) that the NAR-lineage group I was raised in fit every criteria $cient0logy did
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Dec 24, 2023 • 28 tweets • 5 min read
FWIW: Rebranding cycles are *very* common among coercive groups, particularly New Apostolic Reformation Christian Nationalists and MLM "business motivational orgs".
Typically a rebrand cycle gets triggered if a known branding gets TOO infamous in the public's eye
The NAR-lineage of Christian Nationalism, in and of itself, has had at least six major rebrands and three minor ones/attempted rebrands over the past 80 years after it became distinct from Lanhamism proper, and is a good case study on how these rebrands happen
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Dec 21, 2023 • 50 tweets • 11 min read
A non-negligible portion of the MAGAts calling for civil war have not only been marinated in literally generations of historic denial, but *also* are into sovcit claims that *every amendment* after the 12th is legally invalid
So firstly. Not even kidding about the "marinated in historical denial for generations".
Almost from the time that Reconstruction was ended (way too prematurely, and in part due to continuing insurgencies by the Night Riders and the first iteration of the KKK),
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Dec 5, 2023 • 30 tweets • 6 min read
@dcpetterson Good post on this, and I'd like to note that there's an additional third layer on this that most people are not grasping (because a lot of people are STILL in denial that the GOP, and especially MAGAtism, have become a party run by coercive religious groups)
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@dcpetterson And in fact, MAGAtism is considered a political cult of personality that extensively co-recruits with multiple coercive religious groups, including QAnonsense, NAR and "Independent Fundamentalist Baptist" Christian Nationalists, hate groups, etc.
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Nov 2, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
@rothschildmd Something to ask Johnson (that would make a LOT of people go "WTF" but there's a *specific* reason):
Ask him who Cain's daddy was.
Yes, I am being Perfectly Serious, and yes, there is a Teachable Moment Reason why if we're going Bible Quiz with Speaker Johnson to ask this
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@rothschildmd You see:
If Johnson says "Adam", ok, so just run of the mill Christian Nationalist.
But somehow my Spidey Sense, honed over living and spending far too much of my life with New Apostolic Reformation Christian Nationalist relatives, thinks that's not how he'd answer
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Sep 22, 2023 • 30 tweets • 6 min read
As apparently there's another Whisenant-style Rosh Hashanah Rapture Panic ongoing in what is apparently now a yearly tradition in "NAR-lineage" Christian Nationalist circles, here's my thread on last year's Rapture Panic
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And Rapture Panics are a phenomena that honestly has gone on since almost the time "Rapture Doctrine" became a Thing in Dispensationalist circles, and the original "Great Disappointment" that spawned Seventh Day Adventism
But today we'll focus on NAR-lineage flavor
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Sep 18, 2023 • 35 tweets • 7 min read
So I'm. Pleasantly surprised people are calling this out for the anti-Semitism that it is, but it also ultimately derives from the "hidden anti-Semitism" that has been part and parcel of Christian Nationalism, and esp. "NAR Lineage" Christian Nationalism, for decades
So. To defuse immediately how some folks already have tried to claim this is Not A Threat, it helps for some context that TFG is not *just* trying to threaten Jewish folks opposed to Christian Nationalism, but plays upon some incredibly anti-Semitic tropes not everyone gets
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Sep 5, 2023 • 91 tweets • 22 min read
@C_Stroop @SuzieQT11 @brucewilson @RightWingWatch @FredClarkson and literally claiming the whole collapse of the CIS, the whole "Berlin Wall coming down", was *entirely faked* and that The Antichrist was going to be Russian because *points to Map of Madness a la Scofield Reference Bible*.
Literally until mid-2000s, even
@C_Stroop @SuzieQT11 @brucewilson @RightWingWatch @FredClarkson Pretty much the point that things started swinging the other direction was when you got NAR-lineage Christian Nationalists who were part of *virulently* anti-LGBTQIA groups partnering with Russian expat anti-LGBTQIA hate groups
Let's talk about *actual* child trafficking, and the fact that the largest Christian Nationalist "homeschooling" lobby in the US actually encourages homeschooling to hide child abuse and even coaches guardians on *how to groom kids* to get out of investigations
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Jun 22, 2023 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
When I mention that Christian Nationalist curricula (which are, almost to a *one*, written by folks linked to historic "segregation academies" or neo-Confederates or both) actively engage in historical denial of the horrors of chattel slavery, this is what I mean
@awkwardlefty_cj And yes, there is a very specific historic reason I use *THAT* comparison.
Here's a little history I wrote on Christian Nationalism and its involvement in "segregation academies"; as it turns out, this includes "Christian homeschooling"
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