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    That American Christianity is so deeply linked with white supremacy will no doubt affront many but the evidence has been presented and while many white Christians will publicly apologise for the history of slavery, condemn segregation, and reject the views and admissions of openly white supremacists, it is alarming that among many white Christians those underlying racist/supremacist tendencies still exist.

    https://www.newyorker.com/books/unde...remacy-problem

    Early on in “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” the first of three autobiographies Douglass wrote over his lifetime, he recounts what happened—or, perhaps more accurately, what didn’t happen—after his master, Thomas Auld, became a Christian believer at a Methodist camp meeting. Douglass had harbored the hope that Auld’s conversion, in August, 1832, might lead him to emancipate his slaves, or at least “make him more kind and humane.” Instead, Douglass writes, “If it had any effect on his character, it made him more cruel and hateful in all his ways.” Auld was ostentatious about his piety—praying “morning, noon, and night,” participating in revivals, and opening his home to travelling preachers—but he used his faith as license to inflict pain and suffering upon his slaves. “I have seen him tie up a lame young woman, and whip her with a heavy cowskin upon her naked shoulders, causing the warm red blood to drip; and, in justification of the bloody deed, he would quote this passage of Scripture—‘He that knoweth his master’s will, and doeth it not, shall be beaten with many stripes,’
    [...]

    Yet, a hundred twenty-five years after Douglass’s death, the American church is still struggling to eradicate the legacy of the slaveholding religion he loathed. In a 2019 nationwide survey, eighty-six per cent of white evangelical Protestants and seventy per cent of both white mainline Protestants and white Catholics said that the “Confederate flag is more a symbol of Southern pride than of racism”; nearly two-thirds of white Christians over all said that killings of African-American men by the police are isolated incidents rather than part of a broader pattern of mistreatment; and more than six in ten white Christians disagreed with the statement that “generations of slavery and discrimination have created conditions that make it difficult for blacks to work their way out of the lower class.” In his new book, “White Too Long” (Simon & Schuster), Robert P. Jones, the head of the Public Religion Research Institute, a nonpartisan polling and research organization, marshals this and other data to lay out a startling case that “the more racist attitudes a person holds, the more likely he or she is to identify as a white Christian.” The correlation is just as pronounced among white evangelical Protestants as it is among white mainline Protestants and white Catholics—and stands in stark contrast to the attitudes of religiously unaffiliated whites. Jones’s findings make for some wrenching inferences. “If you were recruiting for a white supremacist cause on a Sunday morning, you’d likely have more success hanging out in the parking lot of an average white Christian church—evangelical Protestant, mainline Protestant, or Catholic—than approaching whites sitting out services at the local coffee shop,” he writes.


    In his book Jones notes that the origin of the schism between Baptists in the South and their fellows in the North was precipitated over the request from Baptists in Alabama that would permit slave owners to act as missionaries. That group, led by Basil Manly, wrote a letter in 1844 to the Triennial Convention over this issue and received a blunt reply that stated under no circumstances could slave owners be appointed as missionaries. That rejection led, in 1845, to Manly and his fellows forming their own organisation, the Southern Baptist Convention [SBC] While Jones emphasises that the Baptist denominational division was not unique in American Christianity, and that virtually all the dominant white Protestant denominations were split over the issue of slavery; he does note that the SBC’s support for the south during the Civil War did little to impact adversely on it and, as he notes, it not only survived but flourished:

    Its powerful role as a religious institution that sacralized white supremacy allowed the Southern Baptist Convention to spread its roots during the nineteenth century to dominate southern culture. And by the mid-twentieth century, the SBC ultimately evolved into the single largest Christian denomination in the country, setting the tone for American Christianity overall, and Christianity’s influence on public life.”.

    Jones also points out that while the North had clashed with the South over slavery that did not translate into advocating for black equality and again writes” this tacit shared commitment to white superiority and black inferiority, was a central bridge that fostered the rather swift reconciliation between southern and northern whites overall, and southern and northern white Christians specifically.

    The New Yorker article continues:

    In some sense, Trump’s Presidency has merely given modern form to racist attitudes that have long festered in American Christianity. In his book “The Color of Compromise” (Zondervan), published last year, the historian Jemar Tisby traces the revivalist origins of evangelicalism in America, and notes how the movement’s emphasis on individual conversion and piety constrained its social vision. The evangelist George Whitefield, who was instrumental in the Great Awakening, in the early eighteenth century, condemned the cruelty of slaveowners but campaigned for slavery’s legalization in the colony of Georgia. The theologian Jonathan Edwards pressed for the evangelization of the enslaved but owned several slaves; he believed the practice could be countenanced as long as they were treated humanely. “Within this evangelical framework, one could adopt an evangelical expression of Christianity yet remain uncompelled to confront institutional injustice,” Tisby writes.

    In the early nineteenth century, the Second Great Awakening, which brought with it a moral fervor to perfect human society, helped spark abolitionism and other reform movements. Even outspoken critics of slavery, however, remained committed to the entrenched racial hierarchy. Charles Finney, an influential revivalist preacher and abolitionist, barred slaveholders from taking communion in his churches, but he opposed the intermingling of races and prohibited Black congregants from holding church office.[...]

    Jones’s research, along with additional work conducted by Emerson and another sociologist, Jason Shelton, examining attitudes on race of Black and white Protestants, suggest that white mainline Christians have been afflicted by similar blinders, even as their churches have traditionally placed greater emphasis on social concerns. The Roman Catholic Church in the United States has its own ugly history of promoting slavery and resisting integration. When Black people fleeing discrimination in the South streamed into Northern cities during the Great Migration, many white Catholics, in particular, fought to keep them out of their neighborhoods and parishes. “White Christian churches, both Protestant and Catholic, have served as institutional spaces for the preservation and transmission of white supremacist attitudes,” Jones writes.


    Certainly Jones’ new book is food for thought for any Christian who is sincerely concerned about the way the moral teachings of Jesus of Nazareth have been corrupted by white supremacy.
    "It ain't necessarily so
    The things that you're liable
    To read in the Bible
    It ain't necessarily so
    ."

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    Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin

  • #2
    Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post
    In his book Jones notes that the origin of the schism between Baptists in the South and their fellows in the North was precipitated over the request from Baptists in Alabama that would permit slave owners to act as missionaries. That group, led by Basil Manly, wrote a letter in 1844 to the Triennial Convention over this issue and received a blunt reply that stated under no circumstances could slave owners be appointed as missionaries. That rejection led, in 1845, to Manly and his fellows forming their own organisation, the Southern Baptist Convention [SBC]
    The good news is that, just over three years ago, the Southern Baptist Convention voted to denounce white supremacy and the alt-right movement. Baby steps, baby steps...

    https://www.wglt.org/post/southern-b...-past#stream/0

    Southern Baptist Pastor Confronts His Own, Church's Racial Past
    June 22, 2017

    The Southern Baptist Convention, one of the largest denominations in the country, voted recently to denounce white supremacy and the alt-right movement, but not without controversy.

    Initially, church leaders tried to table the resolution, which was proposed by a prominent African American pastor. The vote proceeded, however, following a backlash from members who condemned the alt-right movement as a "growing menace" to society and recalled the Southern Baptists' painful history of promoting and sustaining slavery.

    "Any 'church' that cannot denounce white supremacy without hesitancy and equivocation is a dead, Jesus-denying assembly," tweeted one African American Southern Baptist minister...
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    • #3
      Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post
      That American Christianity is so deeply linked with white supremacy will no doubt affront many but the evidence has been presented and while many white Christians will publicly apologise for the history of slavery,
      WHy should they have to apologize for something they were not involved in?

      Have you apologized for the Nazis? That happened a hell of a lot closer to current day than slavery in the US.

      Do people coming to the US from Africa have to apologize for the history of Africans selling other africans into slavery?

      Do Muslims have to apologize to white people for the history of Islamic enslavement of whites?


      condemn segregation,
      Oh we're condemning segregation now? Last I checked that (Segregation) is the new working policy of the far left. Over in Britain they're building a blacks only university IIRC. Here in the US on universities, they are setting up 'no whites' zones/rooms.

      Did that all suddenly change?
      Last edited by Gondwanaland; 09-06-2020, 08:25 PM.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post
        That American Christianity is so deeply linked with white supremacy will no doubt affront many but the evidence has been presented and while many white Christians will publicly apologise for the history of slavery, condemn segregation, and reject the views and admissions of openly white supremacists, it is alarming that among many white Christians those underlying racist/supremacist tendencies still exist.

        https://www.newyorker.com/books/unde...remacy-problem

        ...Christian who is sincerely concerned about the way the moral teachings of Jesus of Nazareth have been corrupted by white supremacy.
        "...American Christianity is so deeply linked with white supremacy..."---Could it be, historic "Christian supremacy" fosters/encourages other types of supremacy such as American exceptionalism, white supremacy,...etc...? From the very birth of Christianity, an us/them attitude was built into the religion with concepts of Deicide (the whole of the Jews past and present were held responsible) Original sin (the whole of humanity---with the exception of Christians---were held responsible for Adams sin) This type of manichean duality of us=good/them=bad seems to be the inherited paradigm of understanding the world, even among those today who are no longer Christian....
        ...Even American Democracy needed a bogeyman of Communism/Marxism in order to validate itself.

        Human nature is inclined towards tribalism because identity formation relies on degrees of exclusivity of relationships/ties to others. (Family, Community, Nation, Humanity...) Therefore tribalism is not necessarily an exclusively Christian problem.
        But if a paradigm is inherently built on supremacist "morality"---for example, Hinduism has a class structure called cast system which confers privileges to the superior caste and allows (morally) for the exploitation of the inferior class.----then one needs to disown/discard such paradigm?---I don't see how it can be reformed.....?......is plugging/integrating some of the inferior class into the class/power structure of the superiors, really going to solve the core problem of the supremacist based ideology? I have doubts because a paradigm/world-view informs all aspects of life from politics, economics, law, social interactions...etc (Intersectionality)

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        • #5
          "Any 'church' that cannot denounce white supremacy without hesitancy and equivocation is a dead, Jesus-denying assembly," tweeted one African American Southern Baptist minister...

          ---Calling out harmful/toxic ideas is commendable. It is important.
          But...can one create a comprehensive and consistent ethico-moral world-view without affirming all concepts of supremacy are potentially problematic? Can picking only some ideas of supremacy for condemnation while not examining others, provide wholistic solutions?

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          • #6
            “………Original sin (the whole of humanity---with the exception of Christians---were held responsible for Adams sin………”

            No. This is incorrect.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Reepicheep View Post
              The good news is that, just over three years ago, the Southern Baptist Convention voted to denounce white supremacy and the alt-right movement. Baby steps, baby steps...

              https://www.wglt.org/post/southern-b...-past#stream/0

              Southern Baptist Pastor Confronts His Own, Church's Racial Past
              June 22, 2017

              The Southern Baptist Convention, one of the largest denominations in the country, voted recently to denounce white supremacy and the alt-right movement, but not without controversy.

              Initially, church leaders tried to table the resolution, which was proposed by a prominent African American pastor. The vote proceeded, however, following a backlash from members who condemned the alt-right movement as a "growing menace" to society and recalled the Southern Baptists' painful history of promoting and sustaining slavery.

              "Any 'church' that cannot denounce white supremacy without hesitancy and equivocation is a dead, Jesus-denying assembly," tweeted one African American Southern Baptist minister...
              That is the positive note that also comes from Jones' book and two interviews he has given online. Of course not every single white Christian throughout US history was prejudiced but from the attitudes that remain among many White Christians today it is apparent that those prejudices still need to be addressed. He notes that despite the great efforts by white Christians and white denominations to distance themselves from, and condemn, slavery, the laws that enshrined segregation, and overtly racist attitudes, nonetheless among many white American Christian are still found “in survey after survey” negative attitudes towards “racial, ethnic, and religious minorities [especially Muslims], the unequal treatment of African Americans by the police and criminal justice system, their anxieties about the changing face of the country, and their longing for a past when white Protestantism was the undisputed cultural power”. He also notes that regardless of the public statements by both the white denominations and individual Christians the public opinion data show that “the historical legacy of white supremacy lives on in white Christianity today”.

              And we [you and I] have seen posts elsewhere that have on occasion quite flagrantly demonstrated those prejudices. I have even noted some here that appear [and I use that word cautiously] to echo some of the same.
              "It ain't necessarily so
              The things that you're liable
              To read in the Bible
              It ain't necessarily so
              ."

              Sportin' Life
              Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Gondwanaland View Post
                WHy should they have to apologize for something they were not involved in?

                Have you apologized for the Nazis? That happened a hell of a lot closer to current day than slavery in the US.

                Do people coming to the US from Africa have to apologize for the history of Africans selling other africans into slavery?

                Do Muslims have to apologize to white people for the history of Islamic enslavement of whites?


                Oh we're condemning segregation now? Last I checked that (Segregation) is the new working policy of the far left. Over in Britain they're building a blacks only university IIRC. Here in the US on universities, they are setting up 'no whites' zones/rooms.

                Did that all suddenly change?
                I think the point you have missed is that, within the structures of US white Christianity is inherent white supremacism. Christianity was used to enforce injustice and inequality and many white Christians today retain prejudices towards ethnic and racial minorities, and generalised negative attitudes towards Black Americans [including their treatment by the police and the justice system].

                The comparison between white American Christianity and Germany's Nazi past is very weak because Nazism was not a guiding principle that underpinned German society for over two hundred years, unlike white Christianity in the USA.
                "It ain't necessarily so
                The things that you're liable
                To read in the Bible
                It ain't necessarily so
                ."

                Sportin' Life
                Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Gondwanaland View Post
                  WHy should they have to apologize for something they were not involved in?

                  Have you apologized for the Nazis? That happened a hell of a lot closer to current day than slavery in the US.

                  Do people coming to the US from Africa have to apologize for the history of Africans selling other africans into slavery?

                  Do Muslims have to apologize to white people for the history of Islamic enslavement of whites?


                  Oh we're condemning segregation now? Last I checked that (Segregation) is the new working policy of the far left. Over in Britain they're building a blacks only university IIRC. Here in the US on universities, they are setting up 'no whites' zones/rooms.

                  Did that all suddenly change?
                  The problem is pandemic and continues to today more than just 19th century slavery. In fact penal servitude slavery continued up into the twentieth century. Hitler very much admired the destruction and burning of black neighborhoods in the 20th century. Anglo Saxon tribal White Supremacy and Nationalism is alive and well today.
                  Last edited by shunyadragon; 09-07-2020, 06:49 AM.
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                  • #10
                    The KKK did burn crosses after all.

                    And the US's biggest protestant denomination, the Southern Baptists, became the Southern Baptists when they split off from the other Baptists due to supporting slavery.

                    And the US's second-biggest protestant denomination, the Methodists, had George Whitefield as one of its founders, who successfully lobbied for the un-banning of slavery in Georgia, as he viewed the ban on him owning slaves as the cause of his financial woes.

                    Good times.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post
                      That American Christianity is so deeply linked with white supremacy will no doubt affront many but the evidence has been presented and while many white Christians will publicly apologise for the history of slavery, condemn segregation, and reject the views and admissions of openly white supremacists, it is alarming that among many white Christians those underlying racist/supremacist tendencies still exist.

                      https://www.newyorker.com/books/unde...remacy-problem

                      Early on in “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” the first of three autobiographies Douglass wrote over his lifetime, he recounts what happened—or, perhaps more accurately, what didn’t happen—after his master, Thomas Auld, became a Christian believer at a Methodist camp meeting. Douglass had harbored the hope that Auld’s conversion, in August, 1832, might lead him to emancipate his slaves, or at least “make him more kind and humane.” Instead, Douglass writes, “If it had any effect on his character, it made him more cruel and hateful in all his ways.” Auld was ostentatious about his piety—praying “morning, noon, and night,” participating in revivals, and opening his home to travelling preachers—but he used his faith as license to inflict pain and suffering upon his slaves. “I have seen him tie up a lame young woman, and whip her with a heavy cowskin upon her naked shoulders, causing the warm red blood to drip; and, in justification of the bloody deed, he would quote this passage of Scripture—‘He that knoweth his master’s will, and doeth it not, shall be beaten with many stripes,’
                      [...]

                      Yet, a hundred twenty-five years after Douglass’s death, the American church is still struggling to eradicate the legacy of the slaveholding religion he loathed. In a 2019 nationwide survey, eighty-six per cent of white evangelical Protestants and seventy per cent of both white mainline Protestants and white Catholics said that the “Confederate flag is more a symbol of Southern pride than of racism”; nearly two-thirds of white Christians over all said that killings of African-American men by the police are isolated incidents rather than part of a broader pattern of mistreatment; and more than six in ten white Christians disagreed with the statement that “generations of slavery and discrimination have created conditions that make it difficult for blacks to work their way out of the lower class.” In his new book, “White Too Long” (Simon & Schuster), Robert P. Jones, the head of the Public Religion Research Institute, a nonpartisan polling and research organization, marshals this and other data to lay out a startling case that “the more racist attitudes a person holds, the more likely he or she is to identify as a white Christian.” The correlation is just as pronounced among white evangelical Protestants as it is among white mainline Protestants and white Catholics—and stands in stark contrast to the attitudes of religiously unaffiliated whites. Jones’s findings make for some wrenching inferences. “If you were recruiting for a white supremacist cause on a Sunday morning, you’d likely have more success hanging out in the parking lot of an average white Christian church—evangelical Protestant, mainline Protestant, or Catholic—than approaching whites sitting out services at the local coffee shop,” he writes.


                      In his book Jones notes that the origin of the schism between Baptists in the South and their fellows in the North was precipitated over the request from Baptists in Alabama that would permit slave owners to act as missionaries. That group, led by Basil Manly, wrote a letter in 1844 to the Triennial Convention over this issue and received a blunt reply that stated under no circumstances could slave owners be appointed as missionaries. That rejection led, in 1845, to Manly and his fellows forming their own organisation, the Southern Baptist Convention [SBC] While Jones emphasises that the Baptist denominational division was not unique in American Christianity, and that virtually all the dominant white Protestant denominations were split over the issue of slavery; he does note that the SBC’s support for the south during the Civil War did little to impact adversely on it and, as he notes, it not only survived but flourished:

                      Its powerful role as a religious institution that sacralized white supremacy allowed the Southern Baptist Convention to spread its roots during the nineteenth century to dominate southern culture. And by the mid-twentieth century, the SBC ultimately evolved into the single largest Christian denomination in the country, setting the tone for American Christianity overall, and Christianity’s influence on public life.”.

                      Jones also points out that while the North had clashed with the South over slavery that did not translate into advocating for black equality and again writes” this tacit shared commitment to white superiority and black inferiority, was a central bridge that fostered the rather swift reconciliation between southern and northern whites overall, and southern and northern white Christians specifically.

                      The New Yorker article continues:

                      In some sense, Trump’s Presidency has merely given modern form to racist attitudes that have long festered in American Christianity. In his book “The Color of Compromise” (Zondervan), published last year, the historian Jemar Tisby traces the revivalist origins of evangelicalism in America, and notes how the movement’s emphasis on individual conversion and piety constrained its social vision. The evangelist George Whitefield, who was instrumental in the Great Awakening, in the early eighteenth century, condemned the cruelty of slaveowners but campaigned for slavery’s legalization in the colony of Georgia. The theologian Jonathan Edwards pressed for the evangelization of the enslaved but owned several slaves; he believed the practice could be countenanced as long as they were treated humanely. “Within this evangelical framework, one could adopt an evangelical expression of Christianity yet remain uncompelled to confront institutional injustice,” Tisby writes.

                      In the early nineteenth century, the Second Great Awakening, which brought with it a moral fervor to perfect human society, helped spark abolitionism and other reform movements. Even outspoken critics of slavery, however, remained committed to the entrenched racial hierarchy. Charles Finney, an influential revivalist preacher and abolitionist, barred slaveholders from taking communion in his churches, but he opposed the intermingling of races and prohibited Black congregants from holding church office.[...]

                      Jones’s research, along with additional work conducted by Emerson and another sociologist, Jason Shelton, examining attitudes on race of Black and white Protestants, suggest that white mainline Christians have been afflicted by similar blinders, even as their churches have traditionally placed greater emphasis on social concerns. The Roman Catholic Church in the United States has its own ugly history of promoting slavery and resisting integration. When Black people fleeing discrimination in the South streamed into Northern cities during the Great Migration, many white Catholics, in particular, fought to keep them out of their neighborhoods and parishes. “White Christian churches, both Protestant and Catholic, have served as institutional spaces for the preservation and transmission of white supremacist attitudes,” Jones writes.


                      Certainly Jones’ new book is food for thought for any Christian who is sincerely concerned about the way the moral teachings of Jesus of Nazareth have been corrupted by white supremacy.
                      Just because you reject Christ doesn't mean anyone thinks Christ's teachings are corrupted.

                      That is poor critical thinking.

                      For instance you and your family's belief the moon is made of cheese, has no effect upon it's actual state of being.

                      Therefore any man or woman who hates his brother, like a white supremacist, is made of cheese.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Maranatha View Post
                        Just because you reject Christ doesn't mean anyone thinks Christ's teachings are corrupted.

                        That is poor critical thinking.

                        For instance you and your family's belief the moon is made of cheese, has no effect upon it's actual state of being.

                        Therefore any man or woman who hates his brother, like a white supremacist, is made of cheese.
                        Do you actually read posts before you reply? Or do you just register the contributor's pseudonym and proceed to reply to what you think they have written?
                        "It ain't necessarily so
                        The things that you're liable
                        To read in the Bible
                        It ain't necessarily so
                        ."

                        Sportin' Life
                        Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post
                          I think the point you have missed is that, within the structures of US white Christianity is inherent white supremacism. Christianity was used to enforce injustice and inequality and many white Christians today retain prejudices towards ethnic and racial minorities, and generalised negative attitudes towards Black Americans [including their treatment by the police and the justice system].

                          The comparison between white American Christianity and Germany's Nazi past is very weak because Nazism was not a guiding principle that underpinned German society for over two hundred years, unlike white Christianity in the USA.
                          Ummm.....Duh?

                          The us is a majority christian country. It is currently 65% of the population, and was much higher not that long ago. It's no surprise that a country who was very religious when these groups formed would have that religion as part of it's beliefs. Is it any wonder that bad groups from muslim countries have an underpinning of Muslim in them?

                          Take any group, harmful, peaceful, tolerant, intolerant, in the US and there is a good chance that not too long ago, it held christianity as a part of it's beliefs.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by siam View Post
                            "Any 'church' that cannot denounce white supremacy without hesitancy and equivocation is a dead, Jesus-denying assembly," tweeted one African American Southern Baptist minister...

                            ---Calling out harmful/toxic ideas is commendable. It is important.
                            But...can one create a comprehensive and consistent ethico-moral world-view without affirming all concepts of supremacy are potentially problematic? Can picking only some ideas of supremacy for condemnation while not examining others, provide wholistic solutions?
                            I hereby denounce white supremacy without hesitancy and equivocation.

                            Next?
                            The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post
                              I think the point you have missed is that, within the structures of US white Christianity is inherent white supremacism. Christianity was used to enforce injustice and inequality and many white Christians today retain prejudices towards ethnic and racial minorities, and generalised negative attitudes towards Black Americans [including their treatment by the police and the justice system].

                              The comparison between white American Christianity and Germany's Nazi past is very weak because Nazism was not a guiding principle that underpinned German society for over two hundred years, unlike white Christianity in the USA.
                              I didn't miss any point. You brought up slavery of your own volition. Not a single person alive today had anything to do with slavery in the US. There ARE still people alive today that served in the Nazi regime.

                              If the former need to 'apologize' for slavery they had nothing to do with (hell, many likely only immigrated after slavery was ended), then Germans like yourself sure as hell need to be apologizing for your nation's actions. And as I noted, Africans need to apologize for their part in enslaving fellow africans and selling them to various countries, and muslims need to apologize to white people for mass-enslaving them in the past. I'm sorry you don't like your silly logic extended through reality.

                              And the kicker: I don't think a single one of those groups/people belonging to those groups need to apologize for anything other than anything they personally have done wrong. Not their ancestors, and sure as hell not things people they're not even related to did. That's a puerile liberal SJW load of nonsense.
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