This is a depressing but wholly important read. Yesterday I heard an NPR story about the private prison system gearing up for, and getting rich off, Trumps promised deportations. I still have some hope (denial is a tool here) that the promised economic disaster may avert some of trumps plans, I am actually scared for this road we’re going down.
This is a really thought-provoking piece about the way racism feeds facism. Also reminded me of Rachel Maddow's "Ultra" podcast which was a fascinating look into fascism in the U.S. around WWII.
The thing that strikes me the most after reading this is that if you take any of the parts of this piece that point out that America has a long history of fascism so the precedent for it is there, you could swap "America" with "Christianity" in any one of them and it perfectly fits.
There's an entire PhD to be written on that thought, expanded outward (probably including something about how Rome never really fell, it just changed capitals and costumes), but I'm too tired and depressed to write it.
This is a depressing but wholly important read. Yesterday I heard an NPR story about the private prison system gearing up for, and getting rich off, Trumps promised deportations. I still have some hope (denial is a tool here) that the promised economic disaster may avert some of trumps plans, I am actually scared for this road we’re going down.
This is a really thought-provoking piece about the way racism feeds facism. Also reminded me of Rachel Maddow's "Ultra" podcast which was a fascinating look into fascism in the U.S. around WWII.
The thing that strikes me the most after reading this is that if you take any of the parts of this piece that point out that America has a long history of fascism so the precedent for it is there, you could swap "America" with "Christianity" in any one of them and it perfectly fits.
There's an entire PhD to be written on that thought, expanded outward (probably including something about how Rome never really fell, it just changed capitals and costumes), but I'm too tired and depressed to write it.
Yes, for sure, christofascism has an ugly legacy.