Difficult to emphasize just how much a generation of kids has been taught that being dishonest, superficial, and narcissistic is the pathway to attention and therefore success
Yeah we all know that Jonathan Greenblatt would love to see Khalil deported to Syria or Algeria because Greenblatt is a raging racist
Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.
of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most
new from now that’s what I call music, it’s the greatest hits of post-9/11 discourse remastered for today!
when I had mine in my hands
I realized how misogynistic, anti-child, and absolutely bullshit our system is
My whole official original document was blank, save bio mom’s last name
I was purchased before I was born, see
So the og document didn’t need to be accurate
Bc who would that be for
in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
who is the we in this sentence
ah the 1930s. famously springtime for Hitler and Germany, but winter for Poland and France.
you don’t hate rich people enough
The guy who voices Master Chief from the video game "Halo," who was featured in a White House meme video showing missiles blowing people up in Iran, calls it "disgusting and juvenile war porn" wapo.st/3NhffGm
“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside."
Read every word.
If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice
One, they wanted the content.
Two, they wanted to get rid of women and Black people.
Three, they wanted to install loyalists.
It’s not Ira! 🤪
Would love to hear your thoughts! Ira a macro view — but I am working on a book-length project on the same topics.
Yes! Such a good insight—thank you!
and of course
all of this, but esp ch 3 and 4
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757650...
My favorite nice white Christian saviors historical bit is about the post-emancipation use of slave markets and auction blocks to adopt racialized children into nice white Christian families
the labor they’d provide for free was the sell
therevealer.org/all-aboard-t...
cc @mpgphd.bsky.social and everything we’ve ever written together which is quite a lot
I am never going to trust, welcome, or want explicitly white Christian religious language
Because I am a good historian of religion
And this isn’t just religious language
It is the religious language of white liberal Christianity
which has not been good for religious minorities, typically
yes, even if zero progressive social movements have lacked religious and Christian leaders/influence
yes, even if Xtian supremacy isn’t Talarico’s vibe
yes, even if it appeals to moderate, liberal and progressive Xtians
recoiling from *explicitly white Christian* language is not a stupid move
it is one that recognizes that American and European & their imperial histories use both progressive & regressive Christian rhetoric to further their governmental, imperial, and (often) genocidal aims
This is about the penis too, isn’t it?
I think a lot of us who teach have also lost this, for various reasons, from cynicism, to burnout, to some not liking teaching, etc etc. Every semester, I try for this, to instil that joy for learning in my students. Im not sure the world allows for/wants it any more, though. Even if students do.
I just saw a TikTok video that referred to the band Bikini Kill as "Bikini Unalive," and it's like, what are we even doing at this point?
Attacks leave dead vs killed
