You know, something like 70% of the country is Christian. I have plenty of reasons to dislike and distrust organized religion, but you have to recognize that there are progressive Christians who don’t use their faith to oppress people. There are some Christians who take the “love one another” thing seriously and don’t suck.
Sure, but you can’t blame someone for assuming the worst until otherwise demonstrated. Most Christians are hypocritical shitheads, it’s safest to lead with that.
Putting your racism aside, one spouts unhinged religious conspiracy theories, the other promotes loving your neighbor and practicing acceptance. Not really the same thing.
It’s just a slightly dated sense of humour, the way I read it. I used to laugh with other pale dudes about cracker this and honky that. It was always in poor taste, but our hearts were in the right place. Most of us. It’s very late-00s, the kind of joke you’d only make as a super comfortable white guy who will never genuinely fear discrimination but wants to seem anti-racist while doing race jokes.
Talarico is a fascinating case study of how a totally mid cishet guy would be buckets hotter if I thought he was either a trans dude or a lesbian.
Yeah him being another bland white guy makes me suspicious, how do you tell which one is the facist? They both spout religious crap too.
You know, something like 70% of the country is Christian. I have plenty of reasons to dislike and distrust organized religion, but you have to recognize that there are progressive Christians who don’t use their faith to oppress people. There are some Christians who take the “love one another” thing seriously and don’t suck.
Sure, but you can’t blame someone for assuming the worst until otherwise demonstrated. Most Christians are hypocritical shitheads, it’s safest to lead with that.
Yeah, that’s fair. But I think it’s also fair to say that Talarico has quite publicly demonstrated that he isn’t one of those shitheads.
Putting your racism aside, one spouts unhinged religious conspiracy theories, the other promotes loving your neighbor and practicing acceptance. Not really the same thing.
White people can’t judge themselves? TIL. You’d think we’d be experts.
You’re not judging yourself. You’re saying white = probably fascist. Is Uncle Ruckus racist?
It’s just a slightly dated sense of humour, the way I read it. I used to laugh with other pale dudes about cracker this and honky that. It was always in poor taste, but our hearts were in the right place. Most of us. It’s very late-00s, the kind of joke you’d only make as a super comfortable white guy who will never genuinely fear discrimination but wants to seem anti-racist while doing race jokes.