How come, when reporting on "white nationalists", the media consistently fails to mention any religious affiliation? Because most of these guys (they are mostly guys) identify as Christians and use lots of Christian symbols and biblical references. Yet we never hear about this part of their ideology. Strange.
Interestingly, it is just the opposite when they do a story about Israel, for instance, the latest dust-up over Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib. Because in those cases, they ONLY use the religious identity- Jew and Jewish- never the political identity, Zionist. So yeah, racism is a convoluted discourse and how it is described and reported on seems to depend on the reporters sympathies or sensitivities.
It is funny that it wasn't so long ago liberals were celebrating the ascendancy of secular humanism as part of the "end of history". Guess they didn't foresee a backlash of the Believers but it is coming at us with a vengeance, in the Biblical sense.
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