Hegseth's tattoos got a lot of attention, but of course he denied they were racist. What probably should have gotten more attention: He belongs to a church that teaches slavery was the pinnacle of race relations. dougwilsonbelieves.com/beliefs/sout... - ThreadSky

amandamarcotte.bsky.social • 14 hours ago

Hegseth's tattoos got a lot of attention, but of course he denied they were racist.

What probably should have gotten more attention: He belongs to a church that teaches slavery was the pinnacle of race relations.

https://dougwilsonbelieves.com/beliefs/southern-slavery-represented-the-pinnacle-of-ideal-race-relations/

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randomsurvivor.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Hegseth is full-on white supremacy and christofascism. It is the same ideology that fueled the Nazis in Germany.

sandy-o.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I'm sure he'd love some slaves for his plantation. https://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/pete-hegseths-house/

sandy-o.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Jesus fuck, that's bad.

poetdevotee.bsky.social•13 hours ago

This is a racist church? Gee that sounds antithetical, doesn't it?

amandamarcotte.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I watched most of Hegseth's hearing and I don't think a single Senator brought up that the leader of his denomination teaches that slavery was good and women's suffrage was bad.

https://www.salon.com/2024/12/03/pete-hegseths-mother-begged-him-to-get-some-help---he-joined-a-misogynist-church-instead/

upyernoz.bsky.social•14 hours ago

After the Amy Coney Barrett hearings the Dems seem to have concluded that making hay out of the nominees reactionary bigoted religion just gives the GOP the chance to cry foul for attacking the nominee’s faith.

matthewbudman.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Democrats are now so gun-shy re: religion that they even steered clear of asking Tulsi about her cult

amandamarcotte.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Yep, Christian conservatives want to have it both ways. They both claim their beliefs are too important to stay at the church door, but then also don't want any responsibility for when they act on them in the real world.

wendyc122.bsky.social•13 hours ago

We need a 1620 Project that does a deep dive into the obsession with religiosity in this country. Won't happen, of course.

amandamarcotte.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Hegseth's church leader also denies slave owners raped enslaved women, to get a sense of the intersection of misogyny and racism Hegseth wallows in.

Needless to say, we have literal DNA evidence to prove otherwise.

https://dougwilsonbelieves.com/beliefs/sexual-exploitation-did-not-occur-under-slavery-and-youre-racist-for-thinking-it-might-have/

hopelong.bsky.social•12 hours ago

A church in name only is a money laundering, political entity, and an abuse of power. Whether "over there" teaching fanatical fundamentalist ideology or here at home. It's Theocracy and cause of so much hatred and spilled blood.

m0zstuff.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Weak pathetic idiots

zvanjali.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Also, a slaveowner's family would remain intact if he raped slaves, and an overseer wouldn't be fired for it.

karibaumann.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Wilson also supports marital rape.

kateweb.bsky.social•14 hours ago

This is extraordinary stuff. Amazing that they do manage to mention racism, but only in saying it would be racist towards black men to believe they would be "indifferent to" the rape of black women and therefore those rapes didn't happen. As you say, plenty of DNA evidence contradicts that.