What I think is really fascinating in the current CRT vs White Christian Nationalism culture war is, what I find to be, a crystal clear example of the Horseshoe Theory in real time. I try to listen to a lot of people on both sides of this current conversation and find that I can take many of the loudest voices and simply switch out the terms (CRT or WCN) and they are immediately making the other side's point. They are saying the exact same things. It's a pretty wild exercise. Typically, the loudest voices (or most magnified by our society) in the arena are closest to the extremes and, in turn, closest to each other.
Additionally, everyone's personal bias leads them to quickly dismiss the lies and danger on their side of battle line and accentuate the danger on the other side. So fickle we are.
What I think is really fascinating in the current CRT vs White Christian Nationalism culture war is, what I find to be, a crystal clear example of the Horseshoe Theory in real time. I try to listen to a lot of people on both sides of this current conversation and find that I can take many of the loudest voices and simply switch out the terms (CRT or WCN) and they are immediately making the other side's point. They are saying the exact same things. It's a pretty wild exercise. Typically, the loudest voices (or most magnified by our society) in the arena are closest to the extremes and, in turn, closest to each other.
Additionally, everyone's personal bias leads them to quickly dismiss the lies and danger on their side of battle line and accentuate the danger on the other side. So fickle we are.
Once I saw it, I cannot unsee it.