#Nationalism

I've been thinking a lot about this @JemarTisby tweet. A short thread . . .https://twitter.com/JemarTisby/status/1349095130582704133 It’s worth nothing that some of Jemar’s critics insist on linking his most controversial views
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1/ I've been watching politics for 50 years. Starmer's silence on the transition extension is profoundly abnormal. No opposition party has ever been pushed into tactical silence on a key
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For too long nationalism was allowed to creep into evangelicalism. It’s past time we root that out. It’s not Christian in the least. Read the Gospel of Luke, Acts, and
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a society that still1) thinks muslims should be shown their place2) gets abnormal pleasure by bashing pakistan, saudi arabia, and other muslim majority countries3) if they're a little 'woke', think
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I don’t feel the need to “celebrate” or ~remember~ 9/11 every. single. year. because my *entire* life is lived in the context of a “post-9/11 world.” Remembering 9/11 isn't necessary
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Boycotting Jews is as old as antisemitism. There is nothing new about BDS - which creates imaginary rules and hoops for Jews to jump through - threatening to punish them
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On the back of todays events in George Square and the following comment yesterday from one of my followers:'The idea that “my nationalism is better then yours” is a narcissistic
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Nice to see English politicians suddenly panicking about the Union after spending four years actively putting it in jeopardy. What did they think was going to happen? One if the
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Elites like to blame the public for war.It would be funny, if it weren't for the fact that it is elites and their projects that caused nearly every single blood-soaked
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My wife & I just returned from our 7month lockdown-cation in South Africa.Wanting to settle nearer to her family in rural Ohio, we had high hopes for the local college
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I've spent my adult life in a state of contented coexistence between the very different & potentially conflictual parts of my background and identity - almost a model child of
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Both sides of this debate is wrong and chauvinistichttps://twitter.com/Punished_Mansi/status/1360543400622235648 On the one hand, you have western chauvinism applying a blanket lens of nationalism, while ignoring all the actual national lib
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Things which are inseparable:- the Industrial Revolution & the profits of slavery;- mass education, the democratic franchise, & the height of imperialism;- the welfare state and incomplete decolonisation;- pretending none
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Let's be clear:Xenophobic blood & soil rhetoric is disgusting and degrading to be exposed to as a migrant. I've felt it, I loathe it. Yet it pales in comparison to
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Religious/conservative people in a modern first world society are extremely different, psychologically speaking, from people in traditional societies. Many do not realize this because they have never seen how a
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Thread on Identifying Christian Nationalism in its current form:This is by no means an exhaustive list of characteristics but the result of my own attempts to pin down a framework
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