Reversing the "weaponization of Christianity": How "religous freedom" can be used to fight Trumpism - Salon.com

Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush on how some churches "created a permission structure for cruelty on a massive scale"

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⬆️ The #PermissionStructure has now been built, and it is permanent. Everyone gets to be who they really are, no matter how awful that is.

Or, another way to look at it:

𝙄𝙩 π™žπ™¨ π™©π™π™š π™šπ™£π™™ 𝙀𝙛 π™¨π™π™–π™’π™š.

I never liked #shame but now I miss it.

#TheEndOfShame

#Trump threatening to #jail political opposition repeatedly this weekend.

Setting up another #PermissionStructure for an American #authoritarian regime.

#HarrisWalz2024 #law #democracy #Constitution

@dotjayne @rooster

I've heard people say #Trump or #Biden makes no difference... for #white #men perhaps. On the other hand, Trump 2.0 will rain down hell on #immigrants, particularly #Muslims and #Latinos. Trump brags about #MassDeportations. Remember the #ICE raids? Many more #POC will be swept up in the next one. It's already hell for #women of #childbearing years in half the states. Trump 2.0 will make it nationwide. You already see what is happening to #lgbtq people in red states. Trump 2.0 will take #lgbtq persecution nationwide.

In addition to #StateViolence, #authoritarians establish a #PermissionStructure of #violence against disfavored groups. During the last Trump administration, #MassShootings of minorities and synagogues was rampant. I'm voting for #Biden2024 not because I'm a fan, but because I am thinking of all the people Trump will hurt in the US. #Voting one's #conscience in the #2024Election is a choice between a soiled conscience or a dead one.

@farbel Influencing #US #foreign_policy has always been a heavy lift. Back in 1968 #antiwar #protests forced #LBJ out only for us to end up with #Nixon and an even worse #Cambodia #bombing campaign. People say #Trump or #Biden makes no difference... for #white #people perhaps. On the other hand, Trump 2.0 will rain down hell on #immigrants, particularly #Muslims and #Latinos. Trump brags about #MassDeportations. Remember the #ICE raids? Many more #POC will be swept up in the next one.

In addition to #StateViolence #authoritarians establish a #PermissionStructure of #violence against disfavored groups. During the last Trump administration, #MassShootings of minorities and synagogues was rampant. I'm voting for #Biden2024 not because I'm a fan, but because I am thinking of all the people Trump will hurt in the US. #Voting one's #conscience in the #2024Election is a choice between a soiled conscience or a dead one.

β€œThreats against #PublicServants are not only #illegal, but also a #threat against our #democratic process,” said Keri Farley, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s #ATL office.

A rpt by the BDI at Princeton said #PublicOfficials across the #political spectrum & from different areas think twice before running for office due to #threats. Local ofcls are largely defenseless, & one respondent said there seems to be a β€œnew level of permission to be publicly vile.”

#Trump #PermissionStructure

Earlier in the day, around 15 members of a different #NeoNazi grp - #TheOrderOfTheBlackSun - gathered outside #Disney World & flown #swastika flags.

…The kind of #extremist sentiment that drove the #insurrection hasn't disappeared….

There is an open question around a continuing risk posed by the #FarRight, how that might evolve & from whom….

#Antisemitism #PermissionStructure #Extremism #Terrorism

It was billed as the March of the Red Shirts.

On a motorway overpass, on the edge of Orlando, there was a gathering of around 50 #NeoNazis.

They were members of two #antisemitic, #WhiteNationalist groups - #BloodTribe & the #GoyimDefenseLeague.

Those present, all #male, were dressed in red & black & most had their faces covered.

They gave the #Nazi salute, chanted #antiJewish #slurs & waved #swastika flags at passing motorists.

#Antisemitism #PermissionStructure #Extremism #Terrorism