Friday, April 14, 2023

Code breakers

"White"--well, obvious white racist appeal 

“Male”-even women don’t count? (Males are normative.)

“Christian” is the interesting one. Not “how does she know?” (especially among younger people, religious beliefs cannot be assumed), but why does she include it? “White” and “male” are not surprising; but what’s “Christian” doing in here? If Obama was president, we could safely assume this was a slap at Jeremiah Wright. But the President is Joe Biden, a very public Catholic.

This is a dog whistle for rural Southerners who are more likely to consider Catholics to be Satanists than Christians. Not all Southerners at all; just those likely to listen to MTG. Biden hates white men (who feel most threatened), and Biden isn’t Christian. So he’s at war with those groups, the people MTG is protecting. And MTG’s appeal is very narrow; and very ugly. It’s based on bigotry in every way a person can be bigoted.  And, of course, you’ve got to have enemies.

Yes, it’s all bullshit:
But it’s very carefully coded bullshit. And not even all that coded.

“Ask yourself who is the real enemy.”

Turns out Teixeira is the “right” kind of Catholic:

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