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Stephanie H's avatar

I have read the work of you and your fellow emancipatory maximalists. It seems to me that you are all being denigrated, insulted, dismissed, and called out because you are challenging the empire and it's policies (religious authority, white supremacy, patriarchy, radical exclusion, voter suppression). Jesus challenged Rome, the religious authorities, and their policies so they literally killed him. The religious authorities and political hacks are trying to damn all of you into silence because you are pointing out their violence, hypocrisy, and hatred.

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Karen Rose's avatar

I am wondering if this phenomenon of negative, misrepresentative and often downright slanderous labeling is a “strategy” in the Ephesians 6:11 sense; a strategy of what Charles W. Mills called White ignorance. He wrote that this is an “ignorance that resists…that fights back…an ignorance militant, aggressive, not to be intimidated…an ignorance that is active, dynamic, that refuses to go quietly--…” By God’s grace we have so many resources and teachers available to us to help us learn history more accurately and be discipled out of White supremacy. An often effective way to prevent learning is to misrepresent and denigrate the source of knowledge. That way one can easily dismiss that source as not worth their time and effort without any sense of possibly missing out on something important.

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