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Crip Dyke's avatar

Entirely evidence free hypothesis, but after listening to this:

>> "KJ: I used to be a schoolteacher and I loved that, but I just felt burdened for so many people and I felt the calling to go back to school to become a Christian counselor." <<

I got the idea that maybe she was being a theocratic busybody at school, causing problems and getting informally disciplined. Then, when it was about to get more serious -- probably not firing, probably just a letter in her permanent file, but who knows? -- she "felt the calling" to leave school teaching.

Was she quizzing children on their sexual habits. Was she ordering kids to install her husband's creepy porn-monitoring software (which, as a paid promoter of the business, allowed him to collect a significant fee per download)? Was she beating children with a ruler for not pledging allegiance? Was it more subtle, say just asking a jewish student or two to watch out for blood in the Passover matzah?

I do not know.

However it would be absolutely and utterly irresponsible not to speculate.

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Look, I get it. I know a lot of people who were incredibly nice to me and my family when we went to their church.

They don't have a problem being sweet and nice and kind people... to people they consider "People".

Their moral and ethical failing comes from the fact that there are entire swaths of human beings whom they consider non-persons or defective persons or corrupted persons. And they think those people do not deserve the same human rights every human is entitled to.

I was a "nice" person as a white Evangelical. I was "nice" and "civil" to LGBTQ persons. And then I told them they were going to burn forever and ever in a lake of fire because they were defective sinner people. And then I voted for other "nice", "civil" Evangelical Republicans who would use the law to keep them from marrying the love of their life, or visiting their loved one in the hospital, or adopting children and starting a family, or a lot of other things I took for granted. I voted for people who wanted to keep families apart because of an arbitrary line on a map. I voted to break up families. I voted to kick children out of public schools because of their parents' nationality.

My niceness had boundaries. My kindness was a facade that crumbled the first moment I met someone not like me. And I didn't realize I was like that for soooooo long.

Until I had an epiphany and a spark of empathy and it led me to repentance.

So yeah, the Evangelical white Christian conservatives might be very sweet and civil and polite and "good" citizens, but they will still use the full force of the law against Not-Them. And they will claim to torture and torment people out of "love".

People are great at doing shit like that.

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