Comic treat writer suddenly learns that Americans can be bad
Comic treat writer suddenly learns that Americans can be bad
I like Waid as a writer but holy shit this woe is me she is disgusting
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Always funny to see white liberals come to terms with what their neighbors believe.
My girlfriend works with somebody who's personal email has 1488 in it. Whrn called on it the girl was like "yea its exactly what it looks like" Me explaining to her that person was a literal neo nazi, just like half the people she graduated with that she keeps insisting aren't that bad, has been frustrating.
One of her girlfriends is a pediatric nurse that tried to get a religious exemption for the vaccines (she is not religious at all)
I'm just hoping we get to the point she stops calling me a misogynist if I say kamala was a dog shit candidate and the dnc failed us.
I think I finally broke through last night when she was like "how could they vote for trump when they have daughters" and I just kept reiterating they hate minorities and the concept of trans people more than they care about their own children.
American Fash also tend to believe without any awareness that they're "Good people" and consequences only happen to "Bad people". They often express shock, confusion, and outrage when, for instance, they are denied an abortion because they think that as "good people" they deserve it. Is there anything resembling rational analysis here? No. But that's what they think and it goes a long way to explain why they'll vote for things that will harm them; They believe those things will only harm their enemies.
Obviously there's a long and integral dynamic of 'good in-group / bad out-group', but I'm convinced its further exacerbated in the US by the so thoroughly intertwined Christian aspect, particularly the WASPy say the right things, give the church money, and do what you like types to still be righteous.
Yeah. Fucking secular Calvinism is a huge obstacle. Catholics and I think Greek Orthodox both believe in good works whereas Calvinists think that good or bad is like a permanent thing you're born with, then they go on to be completely incoherent by believing that your material wealth reflects your spiritual condition. And Americans have no idea they do it, it's baked in to their racism and contempt for poor people and they have no idea it's a religious belief.
Like, historians always talk about how we can't understand the way that pre-secular society was completely organically integrated with religion, and we can't understand how peoiple made no distinction between daily life and religious life and it's like no, brah, you've got religious beliefs that you live every moment of the day just like 12th century peasants, but like 12th century peasants you just think those things are compeltely normal and mundane and don't even notice them.
Yes, exactly. Calvinism was the term I was reaching for, thank you. Now was he the tiger or the spikey haired lad? I kid, I kid.
Like so much about American Christianity I find it to be such a bizarre inversion of the dynamics of more traditional religiosity. Rather than living a moral (and largely uncomplaining, obidient) life for the promise of eternal happiness in the next life, the American religious or quasi-religious seems to basically say 'Live whatever hedonistic, selfish, piece of shit life you want! You're still going to heaven so long as your monthly subscription doesn't lapse!'
Maybe it just seems particularly bizarre to me as someone who partially grew up in a modern Quaker tradition (with guardians finding that after basically fleeing / drifting from other Christian faiths), which also has a loose, almost anarchist, interpretist approach to faith but does so in a way where the focus is upon thoughfulness, solidarity, and communication. The Calvinst streak seems like a bizarre inversion that screams, No requirements. Don't think about it. Money down.
They think by supporting the fasch they're part of the ingroup the law serves, not the outgroup criminals the law punishes.