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"His brand of white male masculinity said yes, you could be conservative, Christian, follow Jesus, love America - and also use slurs, make jokes at women’s expense, and overall care less about Jesus’ less popular teachings like loving your neighbor, selling your possessions, or caring for the poor."
#CharlieKirk #ChristianNationalism #Minneapolis #media #ToxicMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #misogyny #homophobia #heterosexism #racism
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A few days after this, Star Tribune informed Angela Denker that they weren't renewing her contract. Three days ago, she shared the editorial that Star Tribune refused to publish. It speaks truth many of us, including media outlets, do not want spoken.
Denker says,
"Among others, Kirk was the progenitor of a new sort of young, white, male conservative.
#CharlieKirk #ChristianNationalism #Minneapolis #media #ToxicMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #misogyny #homophobia #heterosexism #racism
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"He loved snark and sh*t-posting. He laughed in the face of cruelty, violence, and hate. On Turning Point’s website advertising the speaking tour during which Kirk was shot, he’s wearing a black shirt with white letters that reads: 'Not Illegal.'
Kirk made it acceptable and maybe even cool to be an asshole."
#CharlieKirk #ChristianNationalism #Minneapolis #media #ToxicMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #misogyny #homophobia #heterosexism #racism
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"His brand of white male masculinity said yes, you could be conservative, Christian, follow Jesus, love America - and also use slurs, make jokes at women’s expense, and overall care less about Jesus’ less popular teachings like loving your neighbor, selling your possessions, or caring for the poor."
#CharlieKirk #ChristianNationalism #Minneapolis #media #ToxicMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #misogyny #homophobia #heterosexism #racism
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Christianity in the US is being rebranded now in a way that is deeply perverse, distorted, downright evil. And many of those pushing for the rebranding have no stake at all in Christianity, but want to use Christianity as a convenient tool to plant fascism firmly in our midst.
#CharlieKirk #ChristianNationalism #Minneapolis #media #ToxicMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #misogyny #homophobia #heterosexism #racism
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