all I've got for today is when political commentators lament that "no one" was covering the rise of Christian nationalism or conspiracy theories about "DEI" (read: non-existent discrimination against white men for being white men) they just mean "the three guys whose newsletters I read didn't" - ThreadSky

melissagiragrant.com • 28 days ago

all I've got for today is when political commentators lament that "no one" was covering the rise of Christian nationalism or conspiracy theories about "DEI" (read: non-existent discrimination against white men for being white men) they just mean "the three guys whose newsletters I read didn't"

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theladyred.bsky.social•28 days ago

kbixler.bsky.social•28 days ago

Exactly. Was working with a county party when our county ended up on Lance Wallnau's hit list. When I told people they were stunned but didn't know what to do about it or didn't believe it was a true danger.

kbixler.bsky.social•28 days ago

We gave it some social media/messaging attention but people didn't help spread the word because they weren't familiar with Wallnau or Christian Nationalism as a movement.

trixienorton.bsky.social•28 days ago

Several people wrote entire books about it! Tim Alberta and David French write about it and they're conservatives!

policyg.bsky.social•28 days ago

Isn't that because they adopted a girl from China and people at their church began saying nasty stuff to them right out in the open?

Funny how they only speak up when it affects them personally.

vwyeth.bsky.social•28 days ago

I think they mean “no one I didn’t find shrill and annoying”

brucewilson.bsky.social•28 days ago

In 2005, I co-founded a group website which covered Christian Nationalism. We ran over 6,000 posts and stories over the course of the next decade. Talk2action dot org.

melindamosheim.bsky.social•26 days ago

yep....they are really a political arm of GOP fascists...but GOP got their shit together on all possible levels to make this totalitarian takeover a reality...while lazy arse Dems did absolutely NOTHING to stop them...now americans don't even do constant protests! Effed up country!

melissagiragrant.com•28 days ago

!! Also infuriating—decades in which the Politics Guys would disregard that writing as "religion" and not "politics"

danifroom.bsky.social•28 days ago

Brett Stephens, Jesse Singal and Bari Weiss didn't tell me anything about this!

policyg.bsky.social•28 days ago

Those three are ON the racist / anti-dei train!

danifroom.bsky.social•28 days ago

they're just concerned free-thinking centrists with questions!

bethcokid.bsky.social•28 days ago

I won’t watch ON, or Fox or Newsmax for that matter because they are both liars and racist. I now also will add facists to those descriptors.

rowyourbot.bsky.social•28 days ago

As bad as substack is as a company, there’s a lot of stuff you find out. And not just from the writers but also from the nutso substacks they put in the notes feed where ultra-weirdos obsess about some words by the government that don’t mean anything remotely like what they’re saying they mean.

andylevy.net•28 days ago

i remember at one point asking my producer if i was doing too many interviews about christian nationalism - the point being not that i’m a hero but that there were a whole bunch of folks writing books and articles sounding the alarm for me to interview!

melindamosheim.bsky.social•26 days ago

For sure...i have not watched any american since 2016, but before that, i totally remember coverage of the evangelicals ie christian nationalists. We thought they were horrid and dangerous then. But Dems in USG did NOTHING to tamp down their onslaughts! 😠

melissagiragrant.com•28 days ago

that is wild lol (and yes there’s so many! it would take me years to read all their books)

eryq.bsky.social•28 days ago

Every single person who covered the rise of QAnon back in 2018 rang alarm bells about this.

danbad23.bsky.social•28 days ago

Because their focus has shifted away from investigative journalism toward “breaking news”. Gotta look for it though. It won’t be served up by internet-age major dailies.

delbertgseasons.bsky.social•28 days ago

DEI, formerly known as CRT, formerly known as Political Correctness, formerly known as The Abolition Movement

agninri.bsky.social•28 days ago

DEI means Civil Rights Movement. If reporters and journos used that framing, people would really see what's happening. Think about this: "the crash was caused by the gains of the civil rights movement" would land.

jesspish.bsky.social•28 days ago

Interesting interesting issue here

melissagiragrant.com•28 days ago

I used to keep track of whose newsletters I unsubscribed to because the authors rarely quoted or linked anyone but guys like them....

jesspish.bsky.social•28 days ago

No no we must support white guys bc it’s a post D.E.I. world and I heard the left is mean to men (who are a biological category)

reportbywilson.bsky.social•27 days ago

I always think, “What would Glenn Greenwald or Matt Taibbi write about this?”

majeff.bsky.social•27 days ago

Obligatory when he is mentioned

melissjpeltier.bsky.social•28 days ago

💯

susandespres.bsky.social•28 days ago

I was screaming at people to read Julie Ingersoll’s book on Christian Reconstruction in 2016
so much I think I embarrassed Julie Ingersoll.

If you’ve never read it, your jaw will drop to see how much of what she was hearing about thier plans is coming to pass before our eyes.
https://a.co/d/7Vzz6jz

shanelukas.bsky.social•27 days ago

Always grateful for your long history of journalistic integrity!

bjthehetheygay.ca•28 days ago

I do know a lot of journalists who tried to write about these things and were told by editors that they were overreacting, exaggerating, fear-mongering, etc.

melissagiragrant.com•28 days ago

which makes the erasure of the few of those who did get to do that work all the more infuriating tbh

inherentlyso.bsky.social•28 days ago

Are we reducing this movement to Christian nationalism though?

meander061.bsky.social•27 days ago

Not at all. Those freaks are using the Christian Nationalists as troops.

turpywurpy.bsky.social•27 days ago

These billionaires don't believe in anything except profit. They're not actively pushing the anti-DEI agenda, they're just happy to adopt it when it looks like doing so will earn them more money. Christian nationalists are who is in power in the USA, so that's where the money is.

carinachocano.bsky.social•28 days ago

How is that real???

goodnight-irene.bsky.social•28 days ago

nifferama.bsky.social•28 days ago

I’ve been reading about it since the late 80s. Where have these people been?

ecothought.bsky.social•27 days ago

In my professional circles, nearly everyone has been ringing every alarm they can find to warn about the dangers of Christian nationalism for a decade now. The only reason this hasn’t broken through to the mainstream is because corporate media has intentionally ignored it.

dvidsilva.bsky.social•28 days ago

We had all these cool initiatives and conferences and ERG groups and like no coverage, a few podcasts and YouTube and listicles - some that are no longer online

eoslh.bsky.social•27 days ago

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