You know the saying ‘Fascism will arrive in America wrapped in the flag’? This is the kind of thing that statement portends.
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Doesn’t make sense to us either. The state religion is an idiotic anachronism that nobody I know is in favour of. A whole church just so some moron could get an annulment (and not even a church that he personally cared much for)? And we’re still stuck with it 500 years later? The Lords Spiritual should have been out on their arses years ago.
Sunday trading laws? I don’t like the reason for them, although I’m actually happy with people getting guaranteed time off. It was a shock when I moved to GA and couldn’t buy alcohol on Sundays. Specific liquor stores in WA were weird enough.
But the people of the UK just generally aren’t religious, wheras USians seem to be.
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This being Montana I would expect that the Jewish residents of Whitefish have plenty of guns, themselves. This could get interesting. Can’t wait for the first Neo-Nazi to take a well-deserved bullet, piss himself and start crying.
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The story is more complex than that. The Christian bible’s story goes that Pontius Pilate holds a trial for Jesus, but wants to find him not-guilty. A bunch of Jewish Rabbis make an argument to Pilate that Jesus was trying to make a claim to the throne of King David and therefore was a threat to the Roman occupation which made it impossible to find him not-guilty by the letter of the law.
However, it was within Pilate’s power to let one person go free during Passover and he brings out Barabbas, a murderer and asks the crowd which person they should release: Jesus or Barabbas. The crowd (which I suppose are Jews) calls for Jesus to be crucified and Barabbas let go.
When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. ‘I am innocent of this man’s blood,’ he said. ‘It is your responsibility!’ All the people answered, ‘His blood is on us and on our children!’
The story is set up in a way that Rome is completely blameless (which is convenient considering Christianity’s rocky relationship with Rome at the time it was written).
That last line, “His blood is on us and on our children!” is what set up Jews for collective blame for Jesus’ death.
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It’s wielded like a club against persons experiencing racism today.
It involves a few topics-
“Be polite and compliant and you will be integrated into society, speaking out will only perpetuate the hostility against you”
“Stop whining, we know what true __victimhood is like”
and “I know what racism of my forefathers was, and these systemic problems are nothing!”
It doesn’t matter that they personally haven’t experienced any comparable racism against themselves, the myth allows them a position of false authority to dismiss complaints outright and demand “decency” and victim-blame because the person is “angry” or impolite in response to ill-treatment.
Your personal empathy may go up, but the people who choose parrot the myth use it to dehumanize themselves.
Edit: Technically others, I suppose empathy isn’t needed in a human.
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Neo-Nazis can’t wait for the race war to begin themselves. They’re hoping for it.
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Mostly back in the old country this was true, when Ireland was a colony of Britain. they assimilated rather quickly here and embraced whiteness because it granted privileges in the US.
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And they came back into power in the 1870s, actually, with a strangle hold on national politics regarding race relations. It’s why activist could never get an anti-lynching law passed.
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Looks like the censors are active in this topic. At least one comment I made has been unpersoned without notice. Ironic.
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Portland, Eugene, Corvallis, and Salem yes, rest of the state you can find a lot of Make America Great Again signs.
Our conservatives may be a bit less batshit but they’re definitely noticeable outside of the metro areas…
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There were some very familiar-sounding people against that assimilation later on:
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More like the dumbass party.
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Or the time of, really. That party was reacting to the immigration wave that included Irish famine refugees. The Know Nothings didn’t outlast the civil war. In the second half of the 19th century, the Irish really came into their own as political actors in some parts of the country. The democrats were especially keen to align with immigrants and their children in places like New York, Boston, and Chicago… By 1850, Tammany Hall was dominated by the Irish, for example.
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This topic? Replies get deleted regularly (esp. mine 
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That’s why I’m using/seeing it like the Comments function of the old pre-bbs-BB.
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Maybe it was vanished because of who you were replying to? they will do that sometimes, take an offending post and some of the responses, too? But I don’t know what of yours was removed?
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It might have contained a reply to someone who offended the group by stating the fact that Jews are unwanted.
Trouble is I think it was a case where I followed the rules and concentrated five replies into one comment so the whole thing is now lost.
Isn’t there a traditional belief that Pontius Pilate is Scottish?
If I was In the US I would be tempted to say I was an antinomian christian, and that the only biblical laws that I believe still apply are the ones in Luke 10:27
and that is why it is OK to be LGBTQ.
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“Antinomian” is liable to piss off hicks in certain areas because it has more than two syllables. But in most areas, you’re pretty safe if you just say “I’m a practicing ‘none of your business’”.
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Supposedly Billy Connolly tried to convince Bowie to use a Scottish accent when he played Pilate in Last Temptation.
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