Recommended Reading: Right-Wing School Curriculum & White Christian Nationalism
Recommended Reading: Right-Wing School Curriculum & White Christian Nationalism
The Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: How the right-wing promotes fascism through school curriculum, and is White Christian Nationalism 'real' Christianity?
The Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: How the right-wing promotes fascism through school curriculum, and is White Christian Nationalism 'real' Christianity?
Kristin Du Mez on whether or not white Christian nationalism real Christianity, or is it a distortion of true Christianity?
“As a historian of American Christianity, there’s an easy answer: Yes, this is American Christianity. White Christian privilege was woven into the very fabric of our nation from its very inception. Slaveholder Religion is real, and it has a powerful hold on how many American Christians understand and live out their faith. Moreover, before America came into existence, Christianity had been wedded to imperial power for well over a millennium.”
Luisa Marcela Ossa writes about how a new fascist curriculum hopes to teach (white) students "why their country deserves to be loved, and to learn what we owe to our ancestors—the heroes of the American past."
Right now, a web of far-right groups are attempting to overhaul K-12 public school curriculum. They present themselves as simply concerned parents and educators who are looking out for children and want the best education for them. However, a close reading of their curriculum proposals shows something very different. For example, one coalition is currently promoting a social studies curriculum entitled “American Birthright.” The name alone should give us pause, as it immediately signals not only the intended audience, but also who is and isn’t included in this curriculum. But as we continue to read we will quickly find echoes of Mussolini’s “The Doctrine of Fascism.”
Don Moynihan on how January 6th Committee ended Josh Hawley's national ambitions.
Looking ridiculous is bad. Looking like a ridiculous hypocrite is worse. Part of the knock on Hawley is that he faux populist, channeling dark energies in American politics that he knows are dangerous. Hawley is an elite, who attended Stanford and Yale Law School, and clerked with Chief Justice Roberts. At every turn in his charmed life he was helped by powerful men, including his political mentor Senator John Danforth, who described his support of Hawley as "the worst mistake I ever made in my life."
Aaron Rupar writes about how the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit was the “WrestleMania of crude misogyny.”
…regardless of whether the 2024 Republican nominee ends up being Trump, DeSantis, or someone else, the Student Action Summit served as a reminder that the conservative movement in the US is rotten to its core. If you think it’s a good idea for women-haters like Gaetz to be empowered to craft a national abortion ban, then vote Republican in November. I’d like to think most Americans can see why putting the GOP back in power would be a very bad thing for the country. But I’ve been disappointed before.
amazing!!!!