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The phrase that popped into my head was: we raised an army to fight nothing
And when I say "we" I mean white Christian patriarchal American culture. The same kind of martial "manhood" culture that Kristen Kobes du Mez talks about in Jesus and John Wayne.
In that book she's talking about the specifically evangelical version of the culture, but one of the things that's happened there, is that mainstream patriarchal culture is often pretty much identical to evangelical patriarchal culture with the serial numbers (slightly) filed off
But that book helped clarify what the leaders of that movement thought they were doing, and they thought they were raising warriors, men who would fight for God and Country (& the honor of pure womanhood) in the coming war.
WHAT coming war? Never mind. THE war. You know.
THE war is against communism, or against terrorists, or against Muslims, or against Foreign Devils of Unspecified Origin.
It's against Urban Violence and Liberal Traitors and Lizard People, the apocalyptic fighting in the street which is surely coming.
I don't know how you look at what's happening in DC and not immediately understand white male rage as a national threat https://t.co/HKrUPhexn3
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) January 6, 2021
And when I say "we" I mean white Christian patriarchal American culture. The same kind of martial "manhood" culture that Kristen Kobes du Mez talks about in Jesus and John Wayne.
In that book she's talking about the specifically evangelical version of the culture, but one of the things that's happened there, is that mainstream patriarchal culture is often pretty much identical to evangelical patriarchal culture with the serial numbers (slightly) filed off
But that book helped clarify what the leaders of that movement thought they were doing, and they thought they were raising warriors, men who would fight for God and Country (& the honor of pure womanhood) in the coming war.
WHAT coming war? Never mind. THE war. You know.
THE war is against communism, or against terrorists, or against Muslims, or against Foreign Devils of Unspecified Origin.
It's against Urban Violence and Liberal Traitors and Lizard People, the apocalyptic fighting in the street which is surely coming.