"While Erika Kirk’s private sorrow is no doubt very real, her public remarks are telling, said Jeff Sharlet, the author of several books on Christian nationalism and the far right. “That’s holy war, that’s accelerationism, and it’s incredibly powerful,” he said, particularly in the emotional context of a grieving widow."

@jeffsharlet inight so deep.

#CharlieKirk #whitenationalism #Whiterage #MAGA
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/20/charlie-kirk-martyr-christian-nationalist-movement

So I moved on from White Fragility and right into #WhiteRage by #CarolAnderson. I haven't even finished the first chapter and already it's shockingly eye opening. Anderson describes a *very* different history of the US civil war and the ideals of union leadership in the following years. It's no fucking wonder black people are still struggling so much for equality in this country when union leadership couldn't even admit the civil war was about slavery (I thought this was only a problem with our history books) and "punished" the confederacy by giving the land back to them and letting them rule the southern states without federal intervention. Most of them went immediately back to government supported slavery, minus the explicit term "slavery".

It's absolutely criminal that this isn't taught in grade school history classes.

#books #USHistory #reading

"To be different without fear."
T.W. Adorno, Minima Moralia

"The referendum, Mr Sivaraman said, had "mainstreamed a torrent of racism" and emboldened people to "immediately challenge" any small measure granting self-determination to Indigenous people. People feel like the defeat of the Voice has given them licence to espouse their racist views...Racism towards First Nations people within Australia had been a "constant" for 238 years that "escalated dramatically" when there was something to attach it to, like cultural heritage protections or the Voice referendum."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-20/mt-arapiles-plan-triggers-racism-towards-aboriginal-people/104604286

'Freedom is no fear.’ Nina Simone/ Nicholas Payton
https://visualizingabolition.ucsc.edu/exhibitions/music-for-abolition.html#sleepwalkers

#referendum #IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #voice #silence #CulturalLandscape #sacred #respect #SettlerSociety #WhiteRage #violence #racism #safety #discrimination #denial #backlash #tolerance for #ambiguity #AuthoritarianPersonality #fear #loss #mountains #climbing #industry #Australia #freedom

"One of my favorite descriptions of resentment is from Tolstoy: “I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible … except by getting off his back.”

The poor fellow being choked and burdened here isn’t “utterly corrupted” by the “besetting sin” of resentment. He may have some thoughts about turning the tables, or someday receiving some reparation for what is unjustly being done to him. But mainly, overwhelmingly, his concern is simply getting this guy off his back."
#RuralResentment #WhiteRage
#RootsOfFascism
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2024/04/18/rural-white-magas-and-what-woke-c-s-lewis-got-wrong/

This Salon interview from 2018 about the roots of white rage seems relevant even today.

https://www.salon.com/2018/06/19/roots-of-white-rage-americas-clash-of-class-and-race-from-the-civil-war-to-the-rise-of-trump/

#politics #sociology #whiteRage #GOP #Trump #Republicans #racism

#WhiteRage Author Dr. #CarolAnderson: #GOPAttack on “Election Fraud” Really an Attack on #BlackVoters

Many events marking the first anniversary of the deadly #January6 #insurrection at the #USCapitol are focusing on #votingrights, as false claims about voter...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTGLVdWnfCU

What happens there affects here. What happens here affects there. What happens in one country withh affect others