1/ The fear of cultural replacement has an unambiguous lineage that gives it specific content.
At the center of the “great replacement” logic, there is—and has always been—a desperate desire to preserve some version of western European Christendom.
@TIME
time.com/6179886/christ… @TIME 2/ Why are we seeing the rise in white supremacist violence over the last decade?
In short, in the U.S. context, the election, and re-election, of our first Black President coincided with the sun setting on America as a majority white Christian nation.
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1/ THREAD: Alito’s opinion, which looks likely to become the majority opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court, is the legal equivalent of a time machine that threatens to transport American jurisprudence back to the 1950s.
robertpjones.substack.com/p/alito-and-pu… 2/ support for the legality of abortion has remained fairly stable over time. Notably, while most Americans are in the support-leaning middle, at the poles, three times as many Americans say abortion should be legal in all cases than say it should be illegal in all cases.

THREAD:
1/ Great to be back on @thereidout w/ @JoyAnnReid. ICYMI, key points on the extremity of near-total bans on abortion in OK & other states.:
60% of Americans say abortion should be legal in all/most cases.
Consistent data across 5 decades
Via @PRRIpoll
#reiders @MSNBC 2/ Very few Americans say abortion should be ILLEGAL in ALL cases:
15% all Americans
15% Oklahomans
There is no state in which more than 1 in 4 support a total ban on abortion.
Via @PRRIpoll 2018 American Values Atlas.

THREAD
1/ My latest:
A Lenten reflection on the weight of white Christian Innocence.
#WhiteTooLong
robertpjones.substack.com/p/moving-light… 2/ The ruptures of the last 2 years hold deeper lessons. The 2021 backlash to the Black Lives Matter movement—w/ the elevation of “white discomfort” as the def of discrimination—has revealed the biggest encumbrance of all for white Christians: insistence on our own innocence.

BREAKING: Massive @PRRIpoll 50-state study brings into sharp focus the contradiction between increasing support for #LGBTQ rights and the proliferation of laws seeking to restrict or abolish those rights over the last year.
prri.org/research/ameri… @PRRIpoll 2/ For example, in Florida:
*80% FAVOR laws protecting LGBT people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing.
*68% FAVOR marriage equality
*66% OPPOSE allowing small businesses to refuse products/svcs to gay/lesbian people on religious grounds.

1/ On #MLKDay2022, we white Christians must get beyond the safe King highlight reel.
King uttered 1,052 words before the word “dream” crossed his lips. Those are much harder to hear.
Let’s hold King’s hard words for us up to the light this weekend.
robertpjones.substack.com/p/beyond-i-hav… 2/ King’s masterful “Letter from Birmingham Jail” ranks with Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address in the canon documenting America’s ongoing struggle to wrench its soul from the greedy clutches of white supremacy.
#MLKDay2022
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1/ THREAD: This year, Andy Williams's Christmas anthem might be more suited to the current mood of the country if the word “wonderful” were replaced with “anger-filled.”
My latest via substack.
robertpjones.substack.com/p/its-the-most… 2/ As 2021 closes, anger has become palpable across the great vaccination divide.
1 in 5 say that disagreements over COVID-19 vaccinations have caused “major conflict” & strained family relations "to the breaking point."
Via new @PRRIpoll @ifyc survey.
prri.org/research/relig…

1/ THREAD: The danger we're facing goes beyond a rogue killer. Among white Christians, a belief in America's divine mission doubles support for political violence.
I don’t say this glibly: God help us.
#RittenhouseVerdict
robertpjones.substack.com/p/free-as-f-ky… 2/ Despite his boyish white frat boy appearance, there was plenty of evidence of Rittenhouse’s deeper white supremacist orientation, both before and after the tragic events in Kenosha. Judge Bruce Schroeder ruled this evidence irrelevant and inadmissible.

White Christian opposition to “critical race theory” is an attempt to protect a counterfactual myth of white innocence.
Debates in SBC today cannot be understood apart from its history: Founded as a place where slavery could flourish alongside the gospel.
amazon.com/White-Too-Long… And I say this from experience as well as a scholar. Come from lineage with Baptist preachers, grew up active in SBC churches, went to SBC college and seminary. Not until my 20s did I have a professor who told me the truth about the founding of my childhood home denomination.

1/ Today is 100th anniversary of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre (5/31-6/1). The following Sunday, Methodist Bishop Ed Mouzon took to the pulpit of Tulsa’s prominent Boston Ave Church not to lament the loss of life but to denounce efforts toward racial equality.... 2/ Methodist Bishop Ed Mouzon in Tulsa 1921: "There never has been and there never will be such a thing [as racial equality]. It is divine ordained. This is something that the negroes should be told very plainly.

BREAKING: Former President Trump leaves office with lowest favorability ratings since his 2016 campaign.
Via @PRRIpoll final favorability numbers, just released today.
prri.org/research/more-… @PRRIpoll BREAKING: No sign of a white evangelical reckoning. To the end, white evangelicals stood by Trump. Even after Trump encouraged a violent riot at the Capitol, 62% hold a favorable view of the former president.

Via @PRRIpoll final favorability numbers.
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10 things to know on #ElectionDay about white evangelical Protestants.
1. @PRRIpoll finds white evangelical support for Trump is as strong as ever: Among likely voters, 79% say they’ll vote for Trump; 74% favorable. No gender gap.
@PRRIpoll
prri.org/research/what-… 2. White evangelicals are declining as a proportion of the U.S. population:
21% in 2008
20% in 2012
17% in 2016
15% today.
@PRRIpoll #ElectionDay
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